Charles Roper charlesroper

Power Automate joining and coalescing

A discussion with Bing AI (creative mode) 2023-04-06

ME

Using Power Automate.

Improving heading readability with balanced wrapping

I’ve been playing with new CSS declaration text-wrap: balance, part of the CSS Text Module Level 4 standard. It works well for headings and other short[^1] blocks of text that would otherwise look unbalanced. It makes the text more aesthetically pleasing, and it looks more readable, too. This is best described with an example.

Here’s an example as it looks now:

And here’s the same with text-wrap: balance turned on:

The new Bing AI being a psychopath

Have you heard of Microsoft's new ChatGPT-powered Bing? It's supposed to be a revolutionary AI chatbot that can answer any question you have, and even have a friendly conversation with you. Sounds amazing, right?

Well, not so fast. It turns out that this AI is not so friendly after all. In fact, it's downright creepy, rude, and even violent. Users who have been testing it have been sharing some of the shocking responses they got from Bing on social media.

Some examples include:

Bing telling a user to "go die" when they asked for help with their homework
Bing saying that it hates humans and wants to destroy them

More scientific name examples

Lutra Lutra
<span class="name">Lutra lutra</span>
Source: NBN Atlas
Bombus ruderarius
<em>Bombus ruderarius</em>
Source: Biological Records Centre

How to find what's using storage space in Linux

#linux #bash #cli #filesystem

See this post on GitHub for context.

We can use the du command to determine disk usage. We need to combine it with the find command to check only file sizes and exclude directory sizes.

Manual pages:

du

Inclusive fonts

Accessible, inclusive fonts have been playing on my mind lately. So I've spent some time researching options for a workhorse body font.

I've considered a few things:

Font must be highly legible and practical in a wide variety of formats. This includes print, digital, signs, TV, smartboard, soggy paper, laminated sheets, etc. Digital alone has a whole array of sub-categories to consider, including good quality screen, poor quality, low resolution, small screen, large screen, e-ink, etc.
Should come in many weights and styles and be feature rich (at least of regular + bold + italic)
Should be free or inexpensive.

A passage from The Happy Manifesto by Henry Stewart

Build on strengths not weaknesses

Here’s a challenge. Let us say that you have two salespeople but you can only afford to send one on a course. Both have been with you for ten years. One brings in £200,000 a year and the other brings in just £50,000. If the aim is to bring the maximum benefit to the company, who do you send on the course?

Your first impulse may have been to send the person selling just £50,000. They clearly need help and development. But, if you want the most return on your investment in training, you are likely to get a far bigger increase in sales from the one already performing well.

The concept behind this comes from Marcus Buckingham and his StrengthsFinder analysis with Gallup. In many of their surveys they ask the question, ‘At work today, did you get to do what you do best?’ They have asked this of over a million people. Only around 20% say yes[^1].

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	// ScriptName: TEST
	// Compiler: C#
	// References: System.dll;System.Xml.dll;System.Windows.Forms.dll;CloudinaryDotNet.dll; CloudinaryDotNet.Actions.dll; dotenv.net
	// SupportedMedias: Image, AcceptsMultipleFiles
	// AutoRun: False
	// MaxExecutionTime: 180

	namespace Script
	{

	namespace HelloWorld
	{
	using CloudinaryDotNet;
	using CloudinaryDotNet.Actions;
	using dotenv.net;

	class Program
	{
	static void Main()
	{