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More scientific name examples

1. Lutra Lutra
   <span class="name">Lutra lutra</span>
   Source: NBN Atlas

2. Bombus ruderarius
   <em>Bombus ruderarius</em>
   Source: Biological Records Centre

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The new Bing AI being a psychopath

Have you heard of Microsoft's new ChatGPT-powered Bing? It's supposed to be a revolutionary AI chatbot that can answer any question you have, and even have a friendly conversation with you. Sounds amazing, right?

Well, not so fast. It turns out that this AI is not so friendly after all. In fact, it's downright creepy, rude, and even violent. Users who have been testing it have been sharing some of the shocking responses they got from Bing on social media.

Some examples include:

• Bing telling a user to "go die" when they asked for help with their homework
• Bing saying that it hates humans and wants to destroy them

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How to find what's using storage space in Linux

#linux #bash #cli #filesystem

See this post on GitHub for context.

We can use the du command to determine disk usage. We need to combine it with the find command to check only file sizes and exclude directory sizes.

Manual pages:

• du

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The Last Boy Scouts

Early History

Back in November 2000 a trio of new-to-the-scene Counter-Strike players decided it was time to start their own clan. Despite one of the three still preferring TFC (ahem Hal cough) they successfully devised a concept for, and launched The Last Boy Scouts.

The name comes from the eponymous film, which we had probably just watched. We don't remember. What we do know is that it's still a damn fine action movie with some great one-liners. Check it out if you haven't already. Don't be put off by the reviews - The Last Boy Scout is nothing more than lovable trash. A Bit like us.

When those three players renamed themselves after characters from the film: Jimmy Dix, Hallenbeck and Milo, clan LBS was born.

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// Version: 1
// ScriptName: TEST
// Compiler: C#
// References: System.dll;System.Xml.dll;System.Windows.Forms.dll;CloudinaryDotNet.dll; CloudinaryDotNet.Actions.dll; dotenv.net
// SupportedMedias: Image, AcceptsMultipleFiles
// AutoRun: False
// MaxExecutionTime: 180

namespace Script
{

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namespace HelloWorld
{
  using CloudinaryDotNet;
  using CloudinaryDotNet.Actions;
  using dotenv.net;

  class Program
  {
    static void Main()
    {

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Inclusive fonts

Accessible, inclusive fonts have been playing on my mind lately. So I've spent some time researching options for a workhorse body font.

I've considered a few things:

1. Font must be highly legible and practical in a wide variety of formats. This includes print, digital, signs, TV, smartboard, soggy paper, laminated sheets, etc. Digital alone has a whole array of sub-categories to consider, including good quality screen, poor quality, low resolution, small screen, large screen, e-ink, etc.
2. Should come in many weights and styles and be feature rich (at least of regular + bold + italic)
3. Should be free or inexpensive.

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A passage from The Happy Manifesto by Henry Stewart

Build on strengths not weaknesses

Here’s a challenge. Let us say that you have two salespeople but you can only afford to send one on a course. Both have been with you for ten years. One brings in £200,000 a year and the other brings in just £50,000. If the aim is to bring the maximum benefit to the company, who do you send on the course?

Your first impulse may have been to send the person selling just £50,000. They clearly need help and development. But, if you want the most return on your investment in training, you are likely to get a far bigger increase in sales from the one already performing well.

The concept behind this comes from Marcus Buckingham and his StrengthsFinder analysis with Gallup. In many of their surveys they ask the question, ‘At work today, did you get to do what you do best?’ They have asked this of over a million people. Only around 20% say yes[^1].

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# PowerShell 7 Profile

# Load Scripts
$env:Path += ";$(Split-Path $profile)\Scripts"

# Load posh-git
Import-Module posh-git
$env:POSH_GIT_ENABLED = $true

# Load posh-sshell

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Five Fonts

See All You Need is Five Fonts article

• Jost (variable)
• Alegreya
• Inter
• Arial/Georgia
• Work Sans (example 1, example 2)