barneybooroo

It's "orderly", don't you know!

Yeah, the section expanding on how they evaluated Mythos internally is a bit baffling considering how irrelevant it is.

Absolutely. I look forward to a time where we have on-device small models as an OS-level service you can rely on (a bit like what Apple's doing with Foundation Models). I was recently playing around with some game dev prototyping where I wish I could rely on a player having access to a local model for doing some classification tasks or generating small amounts of playthrough-specific copy without just populating the same few templates.

I think the enthusiasm for Codex coincided with the extended period of degraded quality CC was experiencing around a couple of months ago? During that time I cancelled my Claude sub and tried out Codex, which by comparison was feeling significantly better. I haven't tried them out side by side since Claude has been de-borked but even if Codex is objectively poorer I could believe that flattering comparison has stuck for people who switched?

I've always loved using a (simulated) Mellotron when making music, without being consciously clued in to which songs first got me hooked on it, but you've just made me realise it was Dinosaur Jr, not Strawberry Fields Forever. Thanks!

Yikes. I’m going to have to close my app that uses the Bing API, as this makes it completely unsustainable.

In my experience, it's not so much that the power user has disappeared, but their power user "surface" has been squeezed. I work in an environment where I see journalists using clunky Windows-based CMSs with 30 years+ of baggage that I assumed would be killing productivity through their awkwardness.

They might all hate the tool, but are able to navigate between entering and editing copy, editing layouts and running orders, searching wires then adapting it into stories etc. with great speed with shortcuts, saved workflows and yes, awkward cludges like always-open text files of boolean searches they frequently re-use.

The minute they need to leave their tool to do a peripheral task though, all of those gains are lost. The new web-based video subtitling tool might be better than their old workflow and something they use several times a week but there's an instant assumption that it's a mouse-only task, even if the tool is a11y-aware enough to not be. Lots of "oh is it ready? Ok now I...think I click this bit" because things like communicating status and progress aren't consistent or ubiquitous. It just doesn't have the efficiencies of their ugly old thing.

On the one hand they could learn how they could automate their browser to actually integrate these tools with their workflows better, but nothing about the browser environment seems to give the impression to this class of user that it can be used in this way.

I don't know if that's just about tools that each have their own look and feel, or that the browser metaphor is too overloaded (because that feels like a very 2003-era concern :p)

Is "the agenda" not a bit of a conspiratorial way of looking at it though?

It's been notoriously difficult for creators to find mainstream outlets to tell stories about, to use your examples, trans and black lives, that aren't watered down out of fear of alienating a white, heterosexual audience. It's politicised in so much as defending your right to exist in the public sphere is always political, but is that a problem?

I love that we're starting to see stories that show more perspectives. It doesn't mean every show or movie will be amazing, but when has that ever been true? I don't think it follows that doing this "takes away" from the quality of the writing. A badly written show is a badly written show.

Is your outrage that they’re commissioning content that reflects a diversity of experience?

I think this was an art choice rather than technical inexperience.

The proportions of the field models are more similar to the chibi sprites of the SNES games, so we’re seeing the gradual evolution of FF’s style with VII the first transition from 2D to 3D.

That VIII and IX used more realistic proportions is just a later stage of that stylistic transition.

Personally, I find them quite charming. There’s a fair bit of slapstick in the game that IMO works better with the low poly models.

I like the format! Something about organising your thinking into tweet-sized chunks lends itself to a nice pace for telling stories. Your TLDR certainly doesn’t retain any of the accessibility (to non-developers) or whimsy of the original.

It is amazing how what might seem like fairly routine engineering jobs become completely nightmarish once you do it underground.

I used to commute via Goodge Street every day. A few years ago they replaced the four lifts (in twos so that two were still in service) which ultimately took two years. I could never really fathom what it was that specifically slowed that down so much but hey the lift congestion every morning was fun

I once negatively reviewed a drone on Amazon. Their EMEA boss emailed me out of the blue wanting to set up a phone conversation to convince me otherwise. Really needy and gross! I reported this to Amazon who said that wasn’t “meant to happen”, but I doubt any sanction came from that.

I mostly rely on audio turn by turn walking directions (in London) and was surprised how bad Google Maps was. For example, it would give directions like “head south on High Street” as if I know which way south is?

Apple Maps isn’t perfect but I can just about rely on audio for navigating (and the occasional glance for everything else)

All this time I thought they were using an amazing heuristic to infer password requirements from the page

And in many cases the model Apple enforces is not particularly generalisable. For example, the Apple TV content search model only allows for TV shows to consist of x seasons of y episodes. The BBC hasn't been able to provide comprehensive metadata because many shows (such as soaps and current affairs, or un-numbered specials etc.) don't fit into this model.

And apparently can't use two adjacent USB ports! Non-issue indeed...

I agree there's not an elegant UI solution beyond "use master branch's licence unless current branch has one" but it doesn't seem like too much of an edge case to me, particularly if you're serving a GitHub pages site on a gh-pages branch, or docs, which will very possibly come under a different licence.

The Microsoft AutoUpdate client on OSX is a beautiful mess for this.

doing anything else

> Microsoft AutoUpdate starts bouncing in the dock

> Modal "There are no updates for your Microsoft software at this time." dialog appears.

Seeing as half of the updates it receives are FOR THE UPDATE CLIENT, it's incredible this behaviour hasn't been fixed in the last eight years.

I particularly like that in this case apparently a picture of a sunflower is a perfectly acceptable icon for "Photos"

1080i50 is a ubiquitous broadcast standard in the UK.

The whole "developer relations as Bigfoot" trope doesn't ring true when it comes to WebKit, in my experience. I've had Apple developers reach out to me when I've mentioned WebKit bugs on Twitter. They're very happy to talk about efforts towards standards, and I actually find it to be one of the least cynical parts of Apple's business.