Rob Vaughan
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Rob Vaughan
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An engineer in Bristol, UK. I like cats and coffee
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Profile pic really is me

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(X=@coffeecatdotorg) - out of use, obv...
Admittedly it was on the insider preview thingy, but even so I am pretty sure that should not have happened? It's not been booted for a year, and I only turned it on to set up the free 12 months of extended Win10 support 😂
November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Yes! eg the recent localhost + meta pixel browsing tracking that they got caught doing...
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
😂🐈
October 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I mean, what could possibly go wrong? Just being paranoid, right...? I've left it on an old version of the dashboard software 'cos it sounds like the latest version has been de-featured.
October 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Yes! I pride myself in the number of my knee-jerk social media replies I have deleted without ever posting.

But then the amount of wasted time implied by that is not something to be proud of, really!
October 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
My cat is fed on a fairly regular schedule by humans. But she generally starts complaining about late food arrival about 2 hours before each meal time, pretty much every day.
October 20, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Part of me thinks that if a business could organise its data in a properly structured way (more suited to automation) they'd get most of the productivity benefits from that. I guess it depends what the true cost of the AI follow on step really was, to say if that part was worth it?
October 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
How does the LLM figure out whether to use policy.pptx, policy_2.pptx, policy_final.pptx, policy_final2.pptx, policy_final_2.pptx? Last saving date is not reliable.
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Aero engines have improved hugely over time (that was a mid-1990s design) driven by stricter rules. But airliners stay in service for decades. The physics of birds hitting fan blade tips (usually traveling around M=1 at takeoff) is a really hard problem, given weight & performance constraints.
October 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
When I wanted electricity supplied to an outbuilding on my property the electrician insisted I needed heavy duty cable that had a minimum bend radius of about 30cm, and then it had to be buried under about 10 miles deep of concrete. That installation appears to conform to neither.
September 18, 2025 at 7:31 AM