The Silver Fern

Southland aren't going to win giving up easy tries like that on restarts.

Watching Love fail to catch McNicholl, how slow was he before he did all this specialist sprint work?

@MajorRage said in Aussie Community Rugby:

One for you @NTA https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cy0qg92de8vo

"In my experience, from what I see day to day, Australian rugby union is in fantastic health, when you are on the ground here and you experience the true reality of the [size of the] AFL and rugby league," he tells Rugby Union Weekly.

"The club game here is in rude health. You just have these two other sports that are thicker in the blood [of the Australian sporting public].

" If rugby league and AFL didn't exist in this country, I think the Wallabies would be hard pressed to ever lose a game."

Corey's a big boy isn't he? Can't imagine you'll lose much.

Finally got around to watching the first season of Severance

Too slow, too boring. What happens in episode nine should've happened way earlier and we'd have had an interesting program. Instead I'm concerned I'll invest 10 hours for the second season for something to happen in the last 15 mins.

tl;dr - boring and insufferably indulgent. Hook in the end to keep you interested. Avoid.

I've always loved sites of industrial decay and their history. This is a short drone video of a steel manufacturer heavily involved in the iconic history of America; Bethlehem Steel Plant.

@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:

I missed the Tech Grumping back in May, but I'm here to tell you: fuck the whole concept of "AI" being sold to Management Numpties at the moment.

Talk about Fool's Gold. We're on Google and so it is being hammered through everything at the moment and it is a real Emperor-Has-No-Clothes situation.

For the last few years I've been working on data feeds to produce reports for our teams managing field staff. This is real never-seen-before stuff in this area of the business, and they couldn't praise us enough at the time.

About 8 months ago, suddenly the dashboards that saved them literal hours per day weren't quick enough any more.

They wanted "insights" which was a conversation that usually went like this:

They: "So this is great how you've brought together dozens of data points, from multiple platforms, to look at the info in a way we never had in timeframes we could never achieve in our own."
Us: "Yeah cool we're pretty happy with wh-"
They: "But we need you to deliver some insights on this"
Us: "... right... insights on what?"
They: "You know... The data... ?"
Us: "Yes but what is it you need to know? What is the problem you're trying to solve?"
They: "Running the business better and more efficiently and meeting budgets. We need insights for that"
Us: " "
They: "... insights?"
Us: " "
They: "Can we just feed it into AI and get the answers we need?"
Me (internally screaming) : So you don't want to do your fucking job or don't know how?

I'm sure they probably believe if you create a chatbot pointed to a store of all company data they'll be able to ask it questions and get answers that make them look like geniuses in their weekly management calls.

Build it and let them stake their careers on not presenting an idea tainted by hallucination...

Bad miss by Clark. Pushed in too hard, then couldn't come across quick enough to chase an old man down.

Nice break by Sopoaga.

@Duluth said in Auckland v Waikato:

What position is Funaki now?

Loos like wing.

Terrible defence by Sullivan. Nice step by Spencer.

@Steven-Harris said in Auckland v Waikato:

Simpson getting sweet distance off the boot

Kicking for goal is good, but kicking for touch not so much.

LOL that's a Paul Williams refereeing special. Should've been a penalty the other way.

WTF is Auckland thinking there at the end? You're in front, kick the ball out and go into the shed for halftime.

Segner looking pretty good at 7 so far.

@sparky said in NPC Tipping 2025:

Entered. I'm fairly confident of finishing at the bottom of the tipping table.

You'll have some stiff competition. I tipped the first round before the teams were released.

@NTA said in Wallabies vs Lions III:

I'd say it's more to do with the second row bind and Wilson's failure to pull them in tight.

Look at the huge gap behind the hooker - Alaatoa's early hit is a consequence, not a cause IMHO

From the overhead it doesn't even look like Wilson has a shoulder driving through the arse of the locks.

Doesn't help that Porter still clearly drives through on the angle.

@brodean said in Auckland v Waikato:

I'd prefer to see Taele at 12 and Lam at 13.

I like it the other way as I don't believe Taele has the size to be effective at 12 now the game has moved on from a traditional second five-eight playmaker to a skilled bash merchant.

The club to be disbanded is obviously Collingwood.