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ACC trial of copilot sees boost in quality, speed of work
  • Further info found from LinkedIn;

    Extensive foundation setting had occurred to ensure appropriate and safe use.

    With permission I use copilot/gpt4 for my master degree, and my goodness it helps significantly with getting started with an assignment. Yes, it requires polishing, fact checking etc. But I really resonate with the inertia or starting from scratch issue.

    Would love to see a cost benefit analysis though - obv. Microsoft is out to earn a profit, so wonder if this is a win win situation or not.

  • Public servants ordered back to the office, working from home ‘not an entitlement’
  • In the old days of 5 days a week in office, people would only grab a coffee or snack/lunch once or twice a week.

    In the new world, with people coming into the office twice/thrice a week, they now grab coffee/lunch every office day as a treat, with the extra costs being offset by less spent on transport.

    Also, this is just another step in the wrong direction climate wise. Aren't we meant to be reducing transport and our carbon footprint? Maybe first focus on improving public transport before making statements such as these that will inevitably lead to more vehicle traffic and congestion onto our roads.

  • Criminal proceeds recovery: Couple in legal battle with police to keep $232,000 found in roof space
  • Obviously we need a precedent setting ruling here. Personally I say we go 50/50, given the likely criminal link to the cash.

    Allowing the couple to keep 100% would open up a pathway to a new type of money laundering, and will enable drug money to be more easily passed on to others, either deliberately or by accident.

  • Eurovision has become an ugly mess
  • How is this one lady who's got amazing talent being held responsible for the wrong doings of her countries government?

    Like that's not how blame works, but I suppose this is their outlet?

    A big shame none the less.

  • OECD warns NZ Govt it shouldn’t borrow to pay for tax cuts
  • Well, the landlords got their tax cuts. Where are the working peoples tax cuts? It's been 6 months already.

    Maybe they'll wait until they've gutted more of the public sector so that there's less people on payroll to benefit from the tax cuts.

  • ‘Sleepy Don?’: Trump Nods Off During Trial of the Century
  • Watching from over here in New Zealand and if your reply to the thoughtful comment above you is - "he didn't raise minimum wage enough" - 1. You don't understand jack shit about economics, and 2. You forgot to adress all of the other points raised. But oh, your threatening to go vote against your own interests to spite this anonymous dude online.

    You are everything that is wrong with this world and I'm glad that I live far enough away that it won't affect me. Fuck you and do what you want.

  • Luxon claims $52k accommodation payment to live in own apartment
  • Like, it's great that this line of income exists for ministers/prime ministers that genuinely need it to be able to live in Wellington. For example if an average New Zealander got into parliament.

    However the hipocrisy from this man is unreal. This is using the electric car rebate but critising the hell out of it and scrapping it as soon as he could, but on a whole other level.

    If housing is an issue in Wellington (it is) actively work on fixing it as opposed to providing crazy subsidies to ministers.

    Luxon mentions people on the benefit needing a crackdown as there are people living on taxpaplyer money who shouldn't, what the fuck is he doing claiming all of these extras?

    Time to bring in means testing for the benefits our ministers can access.

  • How to contact an MP - email list and what it means

    I'm a bit peeved at some of the "surprises" that have popped up as part of the coalition. Whilst I don't necesarily fall on the left or right, I have reached my threshold with some of the things that are currently being prioritised, such as making changes to the smoke free plan.

    You can find emails of the ministers at the link above, but as the link above will tell you, there is a separate email for the MP themselves. To get that list you have to manually make changes, so to save anyone else some time I've gone ahead and done so for you:

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    Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 29/2/2024

    Whooo it is a Leap day.

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    How to get access to F1TV Pro in a country that doesnt have it?
  • I'd love to see an answer. I got F1 TV and will be visiting Aussie for the Grand Prix. Obv track view vs F1tv is different so was hoping to go home after the races and watch the replay.

    If Australia have F1tv blocked that's pretty shitty

  • Grant Robertson new Otago University vice-chancellor
  • Don't blame him for leaving politics behind. Such a tragic mess at the moment.

    I have a few mates who work at the university, hopefully he can do something about the lay-off cycle the uni continually experiences.

  • Government’s $3b landlord tax cut would be retrospective, trigger refunds
  • Can we just all agree that the majority of the actions the current gov is focusing their time and effort on are dragging this country backwards?

    Is there anyone who's able to say fuck yea to all actions the coalition are completing?

    Like my family is a bit more on the right then me, they definitely voted for one of the three parties, but even they are like "what the fuck" to half the shit that they are doing.

    I'd be surprised if they extend their reign at the next election.