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Comment · 3 years ago
I haven't tried it, but I saw people generating VBA script code with ChatGPT that can be then input into PowerPoint macro editor to automatically generate also the layout. I would be surprised if it made reasonable design choices though, and I expect you are still better off generating content and layout in two consequent steps.
Comment · 3 years ago
Good old paternalistic Italian policy-making. They do have a point, but a ban is not the answer. What do you think?
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, pretty impressive. ----- Write a Christmas card in a sarcastic tone ----- Dear family and friends,

Merry Christmas to you all! I hope this holiday season finds you well and ready to spend time with your loved ones, just like I am so excited to spend time with mine. Because nothing says "joy and cheer" like being forced to spend time with people you only see once a year and pretend to like.

I'm sure we'll all have a wonderful time reminiscing about the good old days and catching up on each other's lives, even though we all know deep down that we don't really care about what's going on in each other's lives. But hey, at least there will be eggnog.

Wishing you all the best this holiday season.

Sincerely, [Your Name] ----

Comment · 4 years ago
Curious timing of this article, possibly related to the plot of Enola Holmes 2, recently released on Netflix.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Just recently bumped into a podcast on the xbox hacker scene (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/45/) and was really fascinated by the dedication, ingenuity and talent of these people. I am also amazed that you don't hear often enough stories of them receiving job offers from the companies they targeted/"hacked".
Comment · 5 years ago
Please note the Word was at its latest version of the Microsoft 365 package. I definitely sympathize with your approach (as a nerdy engineer) but unfortunately I don't see my wife's profession compatible with such plain text acrobatics...
Comment · 5 years ago
Please note that the problem was not the lack of frequent saving per se, which was done. The problem was that it took just one corrupted save (the last one) to destroy the benefit of all previous saves. Unless you meant save in different files, which would become cumbersome very quickly.
Comment · 5 years ago
As a tennis enthusiast who only recently got interested in the TV pro tour competitions, I wanted to catch up on the historic efforts of the Big 3 (Federer, Nadal, Djokovic) in the last two decades of Grand Slams. Instead of manually searching on YouTube for each match, with high spoilers risks and possible poor results to navigate through, I thought: why not automatize the whole thing? A weekend of Python later, here I am.

Although it's nothing fancy, I'm sharing the outcome in case any other tennis enthusiasts might find it useful. One interesting experience for me was filtering the noise across the available Youtube videos. For example, I discovered a whole genre of (worthless to this project) videos of video-game matches with identical titles to legit videos of past matches. So I started blacklisting channels when coming across poorly rated videos, but then some videos of official channels were being blacklisted, so had to introduce whitelisting as well... For minimizing spoilers, I'm redacting titles and removing players names, but then aliases (e.g. Rafa) or channel names (e.g. RogerTV or Djoker Nole) might give it away, something to be improved upon.

In any case, hope you like it, and feel free to provide feedback to make this collection more useful!

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