'These are marketing statements driven by profit-motive and ideology rather than empirical evidence and formal proof. In short, these tech CEOs claims concerning “super intelligence” and “AGI”are manifestly bound with their financial imperatives and not rigorous science.'
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The way to fix the issue if you experience it? 1. Change your default printer 2. If that doesn't work, remove the driver for the printer that is causing NVivo to crash.

Because this then calls your print driver, if your default printer - even if it's a print to PDF printer driver - is one that NVivo doesn't interact well with, it can crash when you try to open files, view your coding, etc.

Behind the scenes NVivo on Windows is largely built on top of Microsoft frameworks. That is why NVivo has always tended to be able to display Word documents more accurately than competitors. However, when displaying Word docs NVivo sometimes does so by effectively doing a print preview...

Always a warning sign when see terms like "deliver efficiency" used in relation to genAI.

"Knowledge is power". With a little coding knowledge - whilst there is an initial learning hurdle, which can be anxiety inducing for students - you can easily build skills that supercede dependence on LLMs. Giving up on teaching students how to code by ceding knowledge to LLMs disempowers students.

Snippets instead show students:
- Whenever you are doing anything remotely repetitive, you can likely automate the worst of it.
- You do not need to memorise code, only how to modify examples/templates, which snippets provide in readily accessible form.
- Snippets are easy to create and customise.

Promoting dependency on expensive and unreliable tools makes data analysis less accessible. If students don't learn how to code, how can they have a sense when LLMs are spewing out incorrect bullshit? The default response behaviour of LLMs is also dire, and risks promoting further dependence.

A similar idea - Agents-md file in tests folder with instructions that it can only add tests, which must include "LLM generated test" as a comment. Anything else - such as proposal to rewrite an existing user-written test - instead goes into the "slop" folder for manual user review.

Instead, any code by genAI going into the "slop" folder requires contributors to sieve through the slop to manually review and - hopefully - modify what genAI code they add to the actual code base. With the "slop" folder itself in the .gitignore, other contributors are spared from the raw slop.

Main rationale: Whilst LLMs can be useful, most genAI coding tools are designed around 'vibe coding' slop; resulting in low quality to outright bad code. A "slop" folder doesn't ban genAI use, but makes clear to contributors they should not use use genAI tools to directly edit/add to the code base.

OK NVivo for Windows requires installing Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable and to disable child-locks on macOS command+click and Open the app.

Ridiculous amount of faff, but I now have... hell in stereo vision...

How do people get anything done on Windows and macOS? NVivo crashes on launch without any error messages and looks like I have to figure out how to turn the child-locks off on macOS

Not even finished installing Windows and it's already installing "updates"...