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Does Claude Haiku 3.5 (or any other LLM) “intentionally” make errors when suggesting code? I was a software engineer for thirty years.  Retired before all these LLMs hit the streets.  My son, who is a “data engineer” now, said that he uses Claude Haiku to help him create code. So […]

I have used Fedora KDE for 13 years now and really love it, but for several years it has had some problems I’ve just become used to, until today when it got worse, and now I need to fix it. The problem is that occasionally the menus stop responding. Nothing […]

I have a Dell Optiplex 5040, 64 bit, Windows 11 Pro. I want to use an old program, I have the discs, its “Microsoft Picture! Digital Image Pro”. My computer won’t let me add it because it says either I don’t have enough room, which isn’t true. Or because I […]

I have multiple columns of dates. Col 1 Col 2 July 1 June 1 July 2 June 2 July 3 June 3 July 4 June 4 The goal is to combine both lists into a single list (order doesn’t matter) Goal July 1 June 1 July 2 June 2 July […]

I made the mistake of saying to use outlook when setting up a new test laptop. It started putting stuff on onedrive and outlook came up. I had to uninstall onedrive, close down the outlook, etc.. Since that point when I’m on my main computer and go to outlook.com and […]

I have a Dell XPS laptop. It connects to my WiFi network. So do all my other computers, phones and tablets. There are some websites on one domain – organise.earth – that I can’t access from the laptop browser. I can access it fine from all the other devices on […]

I’ve obtained a Yubikey 5, and I’ve successfully configured it to login into my Debian GNU/Linux 13 trixie, following this guide: https://support.yubico.com/s/article/Ubuntu-Linux-login-guide-U2F (Note that I successfully achieved both the YubiKey as second-factor; and I’ve also successfully achieved the YubiKey as sufficient for login – which is quite useful when I’m […]