UK here, I was definitely the last person renting in my circle, bought a house mid to late 30s. Feels like everyone else bought 10 years before.

and the fact it is “legal currency” but not officially legal tender (even in Scotland itself), it’s weird.

The legal tender argument/debate kinda annoys me as people seem to think it has something to do with legitimacy.

“Legal tender” in England and Wales is money that the English and Welsh courts will accept in payment for debt. So the Courts said we accept money issues by the Bank of England in the follow denominations, etc.

The Scottish Courts said “we’ll accept money, or whatever we deem is acceptable to repay a debt we’ve issued” - so the legal tender definition doesn’t even mean anything in Scotland.

Keep in mind, legal tender is really specific, so if you try to dick around and pay a £1000 fine in 2p coins - it will be rejected as that is not legal tender. You can only supply certain coins up to certain amounts.

But anyway, Scottish money, or Northern Irish money is valued exactly the same as BoE issued money.

A shopkeeper being unfamiliar is fine, they should be cautious. But until they do interact with it, they’re always going to be unfamiliar.

But, this is most likely to get worse as cash becomes less common anyway.

When they renamed 23c to 23ai I cringed so hard. You don’t install the DB and get an AI, you get an empty DB that has vectors.

And enabling employees to use AI more than the free tier is really expensive too.

The cost is upfront for training the LLM, then they have to sell the end product to us (to recuperate costs, start training the next 500B model, etc.), so giving their employees access to a higher tier of LLM is relatively minimal cost, inference isn’t exactly cheap, but I think they could afford to give their employees access to higher models.

But, this is Oracle I guess.

This sentence reads like Microsoft is the inventor of Javascript:

Electron apps are ruining the Windows 11 experience, and even the JavaScript creator has warned against ‘rushed web UX over native,’

So there’s 3 things, either they meant Typescript, they are very wrong or they’re quoting Brendan Eich and not attributing it to him.

Seeing a jar of Grey Poupon and saying “Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon?” and I had to ask if anyone had seen the film when no reaction and they said, no.