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Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 27/11/2023

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

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Why do people sharing slides in online meetings not put powerpoint into presentation mode?
- Yeah, it's crazy how people seem to have so little understanding of how to use basic apps, like Office. I guess it's partially a failing of UX, etc. The vast majority of people I work with have no idea how styles in Word are supposed to work.... although that is definitely a case of poor UX.
  
  It's a failure in education. Companies just don't train staff in how to use Office. You're expected to just already know how.
  Office is incredibly complex and powerful, and most users probably only know of a hundredth of the feature available.
  
  I think in this case it's not that they don't know how. They can do it fine for in-peson presentations, but suddenly they are doing an online presentation and they don't feel the need to go into presentation mode anymore.
- Ah ha ha ha ha ha
  Omg is that still a thing? That was one of my pet hates like, 15 years ago. I thought it was because the tech was relatively new.
  And then instead of using the remote like a normal person they have to hunch over their laptop fussily looking to click onto the next slide....
  
  It seems to only be online meetings. Like everyone regressed, except they still do it properly when it's an in person presentation.
- A similar peeve of mine:
  I once watched my father watch a whole movie on his HTPC connected to his TV with the seek bar/controls and cursor on the screen. I waited to see if he would move the mouse to make it disappear, but nope. Watched the whole thing like that.
  
  Haha oh that's almost as annoying as watchlist the video without making it fullscreen.
- Yeah, that's my pet peeve as well. And it's just as worse when they're sharing a Word screen in edit mode (instead of going to fullscreen/reader mode), so half the screen is filled with the ribbon bar and everyone's like "you need to zoom in..." >_<
  
  Oh man you reminded me how much I hate being sent Word documents that should have been PDFs.

In other news, we've crossed 50 comments in the daily post! Must be a record of some sorts?
- Ok now it's a record
  
  What a historic moment!
- @Dave@lemmy.nz knows the record, but I think it's closer to 70....?
  
  67 on 22/8/2023.
  This post comes in 4th most comments on a daily thread (so far).

I'm not even from New Zealand, I just love reading these 😊. My best friend is a Kiwi and I visited him for a month last year.
- Nice to have you here!
  
  Thank you 😊

Got an email advertising cyber monday sales on firewood. Yup, logs of wood. For cyber monday.
- Are you gatekeeping cyber?
- Cyber wood. I feel there's a joke to be made about graphite or carbon here but I can't think of it.

Thought for the day
Do you run thought experiments?
I was discussing with a friend the other day about the bullshit around OpenAI. The fun kernel of the conversation was "what if the board was correct"; if we assume that they have an AI that can reason. We ran a thought experiment; what if an AI can reason, how long before AI can do every job?.... and we kept going.
I like running thought experiments; they can be a lot of fun.
- Definitely. I can relate so hard to the "middle out" scene in Silicon Valley.
  As far as I can see it's a good thing and part of intellectual curiousity. But some people seem to find thought experiments annoying, and it would be interesting to find out why.
- I do this. It's good to keep my brain occupied while I do mundane stuff. I have to keep it occupied or it runs into other stuff
- Well now you mention it, how come AI is so crap in Star Trek and most other TV set in the future? Other than Data and the occasional other AI cameo, everything is surprisingly manual.
  If it's possible to create an AI better than a person, and that AI creates an AI even better, and this repeats, are there still going to be jobs that only humans can do?
  
  What you are referring to is an AI superintelligence; the exponential growth is part of it.
  As for science fiction, AI superintelligence makes humans irrelevant.

After looking at them for a while, and waiting to see if they'd have some sales during Black Friday, went and pulled the trigger on a Weber Q.
Tried it for the first time yesterday, making some slow cooked lamb shanks. Never cooked lamb before, and tbh only have ever had lamb a handful of times. Came out better than expected!
- Yum!
- Nice! Glad it turns out you were a good cook after all.
  
  I've always told people that I don't think I'm a good cook (e.g., I don't yet quite understand how different ingredients work together to enhance certain things etc,) but I can usually follow instructions. The more detail the better haha.

Feeling quite good. I have a problem at this time of year where I want to go outside where there is sun but it's way more tiring than being inside. Thinking if I can get my hands on a second hand lawn chair that might help.
Taxes almost done, thanks to IRD and Dave. -)

Just finishing up a very nice 4 day break away to the Marlborough Sounds with the fam. My last chance to get away before the silly season starts for us. Good weather, good food, lots of fun and laughter
- That sounds lovely! I'm glad you got to recharge.

I don't know about anyone else but I had a full day with kids yesterday. Went to the market, then my wife took one kid to a play date while I took the others on trains and busses and up the cable car and to Te Papa, and ended at their Grandparents' for dinner before taking three grumpy kids home for an early bed time.
Also sorry for the down time on Saturday evening, this was an issue on the host's end and all the services run by them were down (mastodon.nz, bookworm.nz, etc).
- Thanks for keeping it all together! I am going kiwi spotting on Stewart Island tonight. Unfortunately the tour is fully booked, so we're just gonna go walk around at night and hope for the best.
  
  Good luck, that is so exciting!!! If you get there early, casually ask a local for some tips.
  
  Good luck!
- We had a crazy weekend, didn't get the last kid to bed till after 9 last night. Huge weekend.

Someone I was talking to in Wellington mentioned a plane flying low between buildings in the CBD with smoke coming out of it. Anyone know what that might have been?
- I heard the plane fly over around 2:50pm... didn't see it though. I guess it was nothing major, nothing on the news about it.
- Wasn't this by any chance? RNZAF farewell flight becomes most tracked in the world
  Apparently it was flying low going over Parliament on its way down south.
  
  It would have been near parliament, they said it flew over 50 metres about them but they may have been exaggerating. This is the best guess so far!
  Can you track the flight after the fact? (i.e. can I go and see the route closer in?)

Made gyoza for the first time tonight, turned out far better than I thought it would. Took a bit of prep work, but was far cheaper and tastier than the frozen stuff from the supermarket. Even got two thumbs up from the four year old, and the seven year old went back for seconds.
- We occasionally (because of all the work) make Chinese style pan fried dumplings (TBH I'm not too sure of the difference between them and gyoza but the recipe we follow says Chinese). We make the casings from scratch as well. The kids generally just eat the casings 🤷.
  Oh, except the 3yo that just wanted to drink the soy sauce on it's own.
  
  We do them with bought wrappers every now and then - my 12 year old is a big fan and has got the pleating down pat now. We've done them from scratch once before - never again lol

I got a rona jab and now my arm hurts. Small price to pay for not catching the rona again.

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