u/Retty1

I was out with my two very small dogs yesterday.

We met a woman who was walking a friendly Malinois - she was very friendly even with my two small dogs.

The woman explained that it's a working police dog and that it lives with her (she's the handler) and her family.

There's no way I could own a young Malinois - they need to much exercise and with my work I couldn't give that.

But in future I could probably meet the needs of an older dog that doesn't require or want as much activity.

I'm surprised by how friendly this dog was especially for a working police dog which is trained to use aggression if need be to protect its handler.

She told me that when the dog retires she's going to keep it and that it will just switch to a permanent pet mode.

I'm thinking though that there's still a risk to such a dog being in the wrong hands if adopted by somebody who doesn't understand the working role training.

I've read that pre adoption vetting is strict and also that it's quite rare for a dog not to be kept on as a pet by the handler or by another officer.

Is it the case though that an older dog - about eight years old - will be less active and require less walking and running?

EE is offering 40% off new and upgrade mobile plans for students and NHS workers.

The problem is that the eligible upgrade plans are now very limited in number and scope.

There are only three eligible “Standard” plans with the unlimited data plan offering only 10Mbps 5g speeds.

This is a very cynical move by EE. Severely limiting coupon code upgrade pathways at the point of advertising a generous percentage reduction is a slimy business practice.

Just received an email from MS telling me that the original Copilot Pro is ending on 17 August and that my subscription will not be renewed after that date.

I have a family subscription to Office 365 so it would be silly to subscribe just for the new and reduced access Copilot.

It's a shame because Copilot Pro produced the best photos and media of any LLM I've tried.

So much for customer loyalty.

Just a cancelled subscription and not even a coupon code for my loyalty. Even Google usually offers that.

I'm a very average coder - mostly C++ and a bit of Objective C and Python.

I've been using Claude and Gemini to create mostly HTML apps for my own use and it's worked well because I just wouldn't have the time or skills to do it otherwise.

But I am noticing not great coding even with Fable - loops within loops where basic recursion (copy and paste routines from Github) would be much better and easier to debug.

When I point this out to Fable (or Opus or Gemini) it tells me I'm correct and offers to make the changes.

But I don't understand why somebody with skills as poor as mine can spot things that a highly trained LLM can't identify on its own.

I've noticed that it also seems to cost more in terms of session use to optimise the code with my suggestions that it does to create the code in the first place.

Is it the case that the LLMs are sensibly seeking a less costly way of generating code that doesn't require as much token use?

It's working again.

My count of reviews completed hasn't updated for a couple of days.

Is anybody else having this problem?

My RFY items contain volumes of vibrators - all colours, shapes, sizes and functions including free hand, strap-on, in-situ wearable and remote control. I've even seen a Bluetooth one.

I have no idea why my RFY has any let alone so many.

I've never ordered one and my mind boggles to think how it would be possible to review one with relevant media.

I'm guessing a wave tank with ripple pattern analysis could be a way forward.

It didn't used to be easily possible to send a Vine item to a different address book address.

It is now.

I sent an Amazon gift to a family member yesterday.

Today I ordered a Vine item and didn't notice that the default address selected was the address I used for the gift yesterday sent using my standard Amazon account.

I'm interested in learning how to do paintless dent repair as a hobby rather than for money.

I asked somebody to let me watch them carry out a repair.

It looked very complicated with the last hour to ninety minutes of the work looking more like subtle sculpture than traditional repair work.

I'm rubbish at artistic work of any sort - absolutely useless and always have been.

Is it worth me paying for a course to learn the skill as a hobby?

The person who showed me their work told me it probably wasn't worth it because a five day course wouldn't even scratch the surface. He told me I would need four to six months of practice after the course to develop skills to repair even a fairly small dent to a high standard.