I'm again reminded that my parents used to transport a mixture of children, sheep and goats around in a Citroen 2cv.

Don't remember them moving a lot of 3ft pipes, but your average sheep is about 4ft long so I think they would have managed.

This is reminding me of an enlightening requirements story from my early career, which for some reason I chose to write up as this .... thing

blog.pitest.org/the-lair-of-...

To be fair, Neal wrote "The Baroque Cycle" longhand after a computer backup disaster ate the first five hundred pages or so.

Then he transcribed it himself in EMACS and formatted it for submission using a homebrew set of Elisp macros he wrote—

Yeah nope, that's just deranged.

Jade Leung worked for OpenAI from 2021 to 2023. You would expect her to have shares, worth a lot of money - which will get more valuable if OpenAI remains only lightly regulated.

Now she is the Prime Minister’s AI Adviser in No 10 - advising on AI regulation.

2/5

You greatly over-estimate my ability to identify industrial machinery, but commendable client confidentiality concern understood.

My side interest in lathes requires me to ask for a photo of the "big industrial machine".

Back in the 80s my parents used to transport sheep and goats around in the back of a Citroen 2cv.

It was a fetching yellow colour and we called it "Buttercup"

Don't think the roads have become remarkably steeper and more rugged since then.

Thank you. This was very handy well-timed pedantry. I'm currently editing a middle grade novel full of naval cannon. Clearly my research was a little lack-lustre.