I followed Will for a bit, but just the hate ricocheting out of his replies was to much for me.

Must be really nasty to be in the firing line.

I don't think it works that way, at least not in my 2nd hand experience.

The US might say you have to give up Spanish citizenship, but in this case Spain would not.

In fact there's a process called "conservation of nationality" to make sure you retain Spanish citizenship in these cases.

I don't know anything about this sort of thing, but my feeling is that the rules that countries have around how foreign nationals become citizens would be wildly outside the remit of the ECHR.

Unfortunately this isn't the sort of thing you can script or do in a generic way or I'd have already done that.

It needs someone (or thing) to unpick millions of lines of code and transform them on a case by case basis.

If an LLM can do that, it's a huge time saving. 6 months of effort.

Addendum: after closer inspection, Claude can't tell the difference between static and instance methods.

The more I look, the worse it gets ☹️

Next week I'll try with more detailed prompts.

On the plus side, I think with Claude I could accomplish in a couple of days what would have been a couple of weeks very tedious work, but only because this code is extensively tested.

-ves are LLMs are crap at C++, and incapable of correctly handling project wide class context in large code bases.

There are only 86 errors and 65 warnings compiling it's output, probably take an hour or two to fix.

I have used 15% of my allowed monthly tokens so far... I reckon I can finish this project with the remaining tokens, and then next month, I can mine on to the second (of 17) project.

Then it ran a nonsense powershell script that failed and it got stuck.

Next up, Claude Opus 4.6

Gave up halfway through, but after giving it a nudge, it finished, ish, the job.

It doesn't understand that 'this' refers to a typed object, and it ran a powershell script on an unsaved file...

Just one problem, this is C++, which I've yet to see a convincing AI coding demo of...

First up GPT-5.2-codex.

Did a reasonable job at first, but then fell over completely. Tried to use the 'using' statement to convert one type into another and then wrote the rest of the code as if that has worked

Now hold on...

Originally when the repair man said "don't use descaler, use spirit vinegar", I thought that was fair enough, but now I've checked and the pH difference isn't massive, so I'd expect vinegar to eat the sensor as well.

Quooker's advice is to dry the tap after use, which would require dismantling it 😐

Although... The BBC for example films people without their permission and puts it on social media.

Maybe they should be blurring all the background people, but I can see why you might think that shouldn't be illegal.

Always amazed that a country that can produce such excellent films has such dire TV.

Honourable exception for Hot Spot, which doesn't follow the usual Japanese TV tropes.

Lol.

Absolutely top student moment was being yelled at by David Icke: "You'll be laughing on the other side of your face when the new age comes!"

And then he switched his talk from being about "Environmentalism" to "People from different vibrational states coming to save us / age of Aquarius".

English doesn't really have counters, but like you say, it has a few group nouns and measurements.

Japanese has those and counters that work like:

"Seven (small animal) dogs"
「7匹の犬」

"Two (thing) wolf packs"
「2つの狼の群れ」

Although like we're we came in pack/herd/flock is the same word 群れ.

I don't know, but I've been told that noun class systems seem start in animate / inanimate classification. At least that's the case for Indo European languages.

Japanese also has an animate / inanimate classification.

Lol. Very good.

This guy really did cost us £300 in replacement carpet after stealing a whole block of butter and then throwing it up an hour later.