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youtu.be/uJaaCEH0Ptg?...
And a bunch of new Geophysics is informing an upcoming new episode.
Isn't that Peter Davison's TARDIS? Yet another thing hidden behind the roundels - two soups.
I'm amazed you've done as well as you have with general purpose copilot. That's testament to your prompting skills!
39% of the track is electrified, but 70% of the rolling stock is electric.
That's more or less exactly what I've been doing: trying to produce the really basic how-to/getting started docs for something I'm about to push to a public preview.
GH Copilot CLI, or one of the other ways of using Copilot?
Did you tell it you were trying to create examples that don't work? I have been doing that recently and prompting it with something like "I am trying to produce examples that show common mistakes"
It's also really hard if you have to supervise it. Run it in a container and let it operate in "autopilot" so you don't have to keep prompting it.
But don't let it do more in one go than you would be prepared to review.
That way it is basically doing the typing and I've told it what to do.
Which agent did you use? GitHub Copilot CLI 1.0.2 and Claude with either Sonnet or Opus 4.6 are basically "the point at which it works quite well" for me. Everything else is garbage.
I also *always* get it to /plan first, then guide it to iterate on the plan, then execute.
I am more of a grievening soul.
Extraordinary that the US president has entered into another illegal war that just *happens* to benefit Russia (on two fronts - it is draining resources from Ukraine, too.)
Comic panel of a muscular green figure lying on grass, wearing torn purple pants. Thought bubble expresses hope for change upon waking. Coastal background.
I feel you, Hulk.
The joys of the YouTube Algorithm in one comment:
"Wow, that was an awesome explanation. I am shocked it has just 89 views. I liked and subscribed. Great job, thanks a lot"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8yG...
📢 New Post from Jon George:
TL;DR: A queue‑of‑work pattern splits large API ingestion jobs into thousands of parallel tasks, cutting runtime from 15 hours to under 2 and providing automatic retries, fault tolerance, and lower cost than traditional orchestrators.
endjin.com/blog/2026/03...
regulating tech is too hard, let's go shopping
The way to decide something like this is to ask is there any chance I would change their minds? No. You would just lend your authority to a platform to give them some publicity. And WTF does Gove know about AI?! (obligatory @stephencollins.bsky.social I wrote 3 articles about fighter jets reference)
Black and white drawing of a large wooden gate with a happy Iron Age man standing to one side
And here's an excellent recreation of the Iron Age SW gate of South Cadbury hillfort © John Swogger from the 2020 article:
Hillfort gate-mechanisms by Pope, Mason, Hamilton, Rule and Swogger @royalarchinst.bsky.social
which is OPEN ACCESS 👇
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HillfortsWednesday
Goodoh. I like Slow Horses (and how well adapted they are from the books) and I like the Lovejoy books (as well as the original TV series). 'Lovejoy' Returning To TV From See-Saw Films 30 Years After BBC Show share.google/fIyRFH9tCbYK...
Coming soon: Shabana Mahmood and Wes Streeting, two of Labour's more prominent trans-haters, combine to proscribe protests against JK Rowling under the Terrorism Act.
I am watching The Americans. I bounced off it the first time round, but I am now on S3E1, and am enjoying it enough to carry on.
S1 was pretty good. S2 resorted to a higher proportion of naked bottoms and shooting and was less funny, but I carried on regardless.
The cast are all great.
I just keep reminding myself that the 12yo still loves it.
On the telly? I'm here for that.
I agree (but then I am also in the minority who didn't like One Foot In The Grave, of which that aspect has strong overtones for me.)
It didn't put me off, but I can see how it would.
It occurs to me that if the government did force UK writers to hand over their work to the big AI companies, that would now among other things mean contributing to the development of US advanced weapon systems.
Commissioning meant it had to be billed as a comedy.
And it also had things that were funny because life is like that.
I felt it wasn't a sitcom (in that it was not intended to be funny at all) but it was a longer "Play for Today" that was exploring the ideas of different kinds of fantasy/reality in fiction and what we are prepared to believe and not as readers, in these different forms.
That's really interesting. I felt like we had three worlds colliding: the "magical" world, the "real" world and the "sitcom" world and we were invited to ask ourselves which one we were inhabiting. 1/2