Things that irritate you - Part 4

got a call from the "fraud department" saying they blocked a R4k payment for sportsbet something or other

i played along and after a while the dumb fork literally asks me for my 16 digit card number , cvv and expiry

the sad thing is people obviously fall for it
 
Creag said:
I have heard that the landlord of the building in which I work will make it a requirement that I install an/their app on my phone to get access to the building in future. Why, how, what I don't know, but I have real trust issues in installing apps like this.

If this happens, it makes me want to ask my employer to provide me a phone I can use for business purposes only. That or I buy (it'll hurt me mentally to do this) a cheap phone with limited data and dedicated account for this purpose.
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Just inform your landlord that the only phone you have was issued by your employer and you are forbidden to install any apps.

He will be forced to make provision for you as he cannot deny you access to your residence.
 
Writers block... I stopped on the one and moved over to another story that was bubbling in my brain, not sure if it's the ADHD that does that part. But now I'm kinda stuck on both, I'm not even sure if I finish these how you'd go about trying to get them out into the world either.
 
Lupus said:
Writers block... I stopped on the one and moved over to another story that was bubbling in my brain, not sure if it's the ADHD that does that part. But now I'm kinda stuck on both, I'm not even sure if I finish these how you'd go about trying to get them out into the world either.
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Just use AI.

I have a family member who writes books and make use of AI and publishing them in America. His one book was book of the month last month apparently.

Not my cup of tea but people seem to read anything.
 
RedViking said:
Just use AI.

I have a family member who writes books and make use of AI and publishing them in America. His one book was book of the month last month apparently.

Not my cup of tea but people seem to read anything.
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I've been trying to use it to see if it breaks the lock, but sometimes it really does spew out rubbish. So all I use it for is to bounce off ideas and maybe fix grammar here or there. AI seems to have this weird habit of comparing things in threes, old and new, trying to be all high and mighty. When I just want the sword hit the armour :-P or the laser struck the shield.
Using it for bouncing off ideas does seem to work, but even then it forgets things in the same thread, or it makes things up and carries on with that, it's like wtf are you on about. So yeah not sure using it for actual writing is a good idea.
 
Yesterday's irritation: people who hog the machines at gym. There was one teenage guy on the curl machine. He was there at least 20 min, and in that time he did two sets of three reps each with each arm. The rest of the time looking at his phone.
 
RedViking said:
Just use AI.

I have a family member who writes books and make use of AI and publishing them in America. His one book was book of the month last month apparently.

Not my cup of tea but people seem to read anything.
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Ok this is working out for spitballing ship layout and trying to see it in real life :-)
 
RedViking said:
You would want to approach it like any other project. Create a very good plan and structure files before you even start and then as you carry on and at the end of a session ask the AI to update it.
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I have :-P now I've got deck layouts, character bios, tracking the changes to character, growth but sometimes it just flubs up and adds things... It's like wtaf are you doing. It's like well you mentioned this here, it's like that was the other ship, then it goes maybe you should distinguish that and I am like I bloody did, he handed control over to the XO... Oh well maybe make that clearer.
It also likes to over explain things, like maybe you should tell the reader where you got that number from, it's like I did she mentioned she was going to explore further and she reports back the new number... Yeah but that's not clear for the reader.
 
People that insists on calling about something that could have been a two line whatsapp. Or sending long voice notes during the day when I'm busy. I've now just started ignoring people like that, even family.
 
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