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@devilgate Ah, listening to Connected at the moment, I realise they’re talking about the new Siri, with some early subset of ‘Apple Intelligence’. I guess my iPhone 13 Pro doesn’t have that.
@elaine1helen Thanks, Elaine.
@flylogical.bsky.social Yeah I know, but it seems to be on a slightly earlier date this year (usually 21st or 23rd, I thought, and obviously calendars are a human invention). And more to the point, how come everyone knows it’s on the 20th this year, and why are they all talking about it?
@manton I see Willison goes on to insist he won't do that:
We also need to read the code. My golden rule for production-quality AI-assisted programming is that I won’t commit any code to my repository if I couldn’t explain exactly what it does to somebody else.
But not everyone is going to be so careful.
@manton There's a quote in there that goes to the heart of one of my biggest fears about AI use by programmers:
The code grows beyond my usual comprehension
The idea of people building applications they don't understand both horrifies and terrifies me.
@yorrike it’s funny, I used that expression the other day, and even as I did, I had essentially this thought.
@aeryn Had to look up the 2014 film to see what you meant. Seems to be kind of a remix of Fire Walk With Me.
@alexwolfe Thanks! That's quite a story. I had never heard of the hijacking. I was 13 at the time, and you'd think it would've been on the TV news here in the UK.
@alexwolfe Bit of an anticlimax: your ‘This’ link is broken.
@JohnPhilpin You can also swipe back. I find that works more reliably than the button at the moment.
@gregmorris This looks great. I wonder if you could have it use Quotebacks (maybe optionally)? Especially since Micro.blog already supports that via its bookmarks.
@JohnPhilpin Only Vox members get to know how, though.
@JohnPhilpin Echoes of The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. Though not so much when you read the whole strip.
@JohnPhilpin You give what to me is quite a high star rating, but then quite a negative review, which is interesting.
Why would you rate it higher if it were on Netflix?
And you do know The Three Body Problem was a book (series) first, right?
@Annie That’s very interesting. I read book 5 in the series on my creative writing course a few years back. Bit strange to jump in at that point, but it worked well on its own.
I said then I’d like to read more in the series, but had sort of forgotten about it, so thanks for the reminder.
I think some of them have been adapted for TV, too.
@cstross @Julius_VD Certainly made Europe weaker. And Britain weaker.
@amerpie Ha! That’s not a problem here, though. My kids have grown up and left home.
@manton I've just updated, and I see it now says "40+ new posts", which makes more sense.
There's still something not quite right though. I was reading down the timeline, and it popped up "1 new post". Fair enough. But after a minute or two it changed to "40+". When I refreshed, there was one new post.
Not a big problem, though.
@manton @mtt Tagging you both because I don't know if this is core Micro.blog, or the Bayou theme, but replies to my post from yesterday aren't appearing on my blog page.
But this micropost from a few days ago is showing replies.
The differences I'm aware of are micro versus longform, and the replies that appear are from Mastodon.
I have the 'Include conversation on post page' option selected, I should add.
@Annie That was wonderful!
(A pedant's note: liters (or litres, as we spell them here) are inherently cubic, being a measure of volume. 'Cubic liters' would be, what, nine-dimensional? 😜)
@manton Aww, I’ll miss the 41 posts! Thought it was nearly the answer to life, the universe, and everything.
@manton Thanks, Manton.