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I used to be baffled by the "if Adam delved and Eve span" riddle because I assumed that the answer had to be one of the two and that it was about gender rather than class. Now that I know the answer is "there was no class division in those days" it makes much more sense.

Mystified as to why the background colour on the webpages I had uploaded today was missing, I tried to manually compare the html to a page that was working and detected no difference. In despair I asked Copilot which pointed out that bgcolor had been misspelled bgcolour.

I had just added a bunch of -or to -our corrections to my post-dictate macro.

I have now added a step to flip bgcolour back to bgcolor.

I am fascinated by the fact that a common ad hominem attack on reddit is to accuse the other person of being a redditor, of all things.

The other day I asked CoPilot to identify duplicates in a list in Excel. It toiled fruitlessly for a few minutes while I did something else. When I came back it explained that it had been trying to use Python and had made no progress.

It offered me three options, in this order:
A) It could wait until Python was working.
B) I could make the list shorter for it so that Python wouldn't have such a hard time.
C) It could explain an Excel formula using countif to me.

C was all I had ever wanted.

I hit "Listen to this page" in Chrome on my phone by mistake recently. I had assumed that it would just read the text aloud to me. But no -- it generates a little natural-sounding chatty conversation between a man and a woman about what they claim the page says. They marvel at something they think is unusual and then make a few vague and inane comments about some things they may or may not have understood. It's astonishing how much effort they put into sounding natural over being accurate.