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@flylogical.bsky.social That Y-axis is a bit misleading, though.
@help I don’t use the AI myself, but I regularly get broken quotes and apostrophes when I use them in titles. Looks like they get URL-encoded and never decoded.
@bradbarrish I don’t really understand what it is — kind of a bookmarking app? — but I do know it has an annoying name clash with Sublime Text, one of the best multiplatform text editors around.
@KimberlyHirsh Ah, those are great. We watched them all last year.
@canion Ha! I went looking for it on Friday, remembered I had deleted it. Didn’t bother reinstalling.
@danielpunkass 100% true. It’s an attitude, but mostly it’s about the music. It was never about fashion.
Well, except when it was: Malcolm and Vivienne ran a clothes shop. But for most of us the music was and is the thing.
@manton Ah: ‘Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.’
@manton Never trust a something that talks if you can’t see where it keeps its brain, as Mr Weasley almost said.
She loses me here. The press, or at least every journalist I know, is not on the side of the elite.
I haven’t read it, but I’d guess when she says ‘The press’, there she means the owners, not the journalists. The Murdochs, Kochs, and so on.
@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.