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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I work with someone whose job involves writing design documents. They have Copilot write it and then send it out for other people to review, and you can tell they haven’t even read it themselves.

    Then in meetings they talk with confidence about things, you think it doesn’t sound right and ask for a link to learn more, and they admit they just asked Copilot.

    Like I am not sure what this person does themselves because they seem to be farming out the entire core part of their job.







  • Ah right. Yeah we don’t have a lot those, we have a hub and spoke system of commuter trains, with gaps filled with busses.

    Wellington is services by a couple of weekday trains from neighbouring cities, that are each approx 2 hours away (slow ones, travelling around 150km distance in that time). Of those trains, one only runs once a day and not at all on weekend, and the other is only like 4 a day and 2 on weekends. Intercity rail is not that good here. You can get Wellington<->Auckland (two biggest cities) but it’s priced for tourists not commuters (goes pasts mountains etc). Plus is a whole day’s travel, we don’t have fast trains.




  • Interesting! I know if you look back at changes in my country you can see where someone has done a massive automated load of buildings (addresses as well as the actual shape of buildings) from data published by a government department, so I guess I’m quite privileged to have such good data. I’ve corrected some but it’s been at the level of it tagging a garage instead of the house, it’s always close to correct. The main issue I have is searching up a business by name, they are only in there 2/3 of the time, but I go and add them if they aren’t.

    I feel very lucky!


  • When I put in an address it directs me straight to the right building. Sometimes I have to go on a place’s website to find that address but most of the time I can search by name.

    Does your area need better Open Street Map data? Might need to contribute 🙂. I tend to write down anything that didn’t work so I can go and update it, but it’s clear there are many people in my area contributing.