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Great move. Congratulations to the Replicate team!

I used to be able to tell Siri "Turn off the lights."

Sometimes in 2017 or 2018 they "updated" it and now it replies "Which room?" Followed by slowly listing out the 6 or 7 options including "everywhere."

I haven't been able to reprogram myself to say "Turn off all the lights" which works as before. Hearing that reply is the equivalent of hitting your toe on a wardrobe.

This update didn't fix this. The functionality is the same as before.

Basic stuff, but no way to fix it.

https://github.com/alphagov/whitehall

They're probably referring to the new MacBook Pros with up to 128GB of unified memory.

It looks like it's the GOVUK Frontend JS. Most of it is probably not necessary.

That being said, the site feels instantaneous to me, and scores 95/100 on PageSpeed Insights, with the only oversight being the render-blocking Google font which adds 750ms to initial render, but should be cached on subsequent navigations. Perhaps your browser isn't caching it, which would explain the sluggishness.

200kB of JavaScript (50kB gzipped) is pretty lean for modern websites. React.js on its own is around 130kB, for just the library.

So do I, but on a flight 2 days ago, I forgot the name of a Ruby method, but knew what it does. I tried looking it up in Dash (offline rdocs) but didn’t find it.

On a whim, I asked Zephyr 7B (Mistral based) “what’s the name of that Ruby method that does <insert code>” and it gave me 3 different correct ways of doing what I wanted, including the one I couldn’t remember. That was a real “oh wow” moment.

So offline situations is the most likely use case for me.

What's the name of the app? It didn't say on mobile.

in the sense of evil hackers with baklava over their head

Balaclava is the headgear, though must admit imagining a bad actor with delicious pastry on their head was amusing.

Ah yes, the QWOP piano. An elegant instrument for a more civilised age.

I'd wager the people that are from the 386/486 era get this wrong a lot

I like the "Retrospective prime directive:"

Regardless of what we discover, we understand and truly believe that everyone did the best job they could, given what they knew at the time, their skills and abilities, the resources available, and the situation at hand.

Assume this attitude when you're looking at other people's work and questioning their decisions. Assume that others will do the same for your work.

"Everyone has JS, right?"

https://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/everyonehasjs.html

The Romanian for "to use" is "a utiliza." Bilingual speakers might find "utilize" more familiar and choose it as such. The same might be true of other languages, and a possible explanation for its popularity.

In every other respect, "use" is indeed better.

alphagov is GOV.UK and shared services which are part of the "Government as a Platform" service line. Things like GOV.UK Notify (Twilio), GOV.UK Design System (Bootstrap), GOV.UK Service Manual (Ops manual), GOV.UK PaaS (Heroku, now defunct), and so on.

Every major UK government department has their own GitHub orgs:

- Healthcare, NHS: https://github.com/nhsuk/

- Education, DFE: https://github.com/DFE-Digital

- Justice, MOJ: https://github.com/ministryofjustice

- Taxes, HMRC: https://github.com/hmrc

And on and on the list goes.

Many things are private, but the 10th UK Government Design Principle is "make things open: it makes things better" https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles#mak...

I'm a very happy Framework laptop daily user. I want to get so many upgrades now: AMD mainboard, 4kg hinge kit, New louder speakers, 61Wh battery, Blank ISO keyboard, WiFi 6E card.

The only downside is that's so many components, instead of upgrading, I'll probably buy a whole new one and donate the old one to friends or family. :)

Great work @nrp and team.

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.” “I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip. “You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug. From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door. “I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out. Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”

I've used the GOV.UK PaaS since the private beta. I was a user research subject and gave early feedback. I've used it on multiple projects since.

As with Notify, the Design System, and all the other great tools that GDS produces, the PaaS is an absolute joy to use. Think Heroku, but built on top of FOSS, and with everything you could want to help you build the long tail of cookie cutter form or API-based government services.

It's a damn shame GDS killed it.

It's even worse they did so without providing a clear migration path. That sends a very bad message to other departments: GDS will kill things you depend on. They will also leave you high and dry when they do so. So don't depend on or adopt their tools. "Not invented here" has always been a problem in the UK government, this news only makes it worse.

Colleagues of mine have staked their reputation on the line to convince legacy IT to let us use the PaaS instead of their own home-grown, poorly documented, and unsatisfactory solutions. Now, we look like fools.

I love working in government. I love building accessible, robust, and user-centred services.

I don't love: writing IAM policies, learning about what a "service principal" is, naming resource groups, having to open a support ticket to change an environment variable, having my password expire in the middle of an incident when I want to read logs, or spending more than £50 a month of taxpayer money for a monolith with a database and a Redis. I had to do none of those on the PaaS.

RIP.

I personally find it to be true.

Apple Music has a feature based on iTunes Match that will take your local files and attempt to match them based on their metadata and audio fingerprint.

The last time I used it, from my (then) ~5000 song library, it matched ~3600. That means that a good third of the music I listen to is not available in the same exact version on streaming services.

I dug into why, and reasons include:

- The LPs were never licensed properly. Such as Exmilitary by Death Grips, which is a bootleg release with copyright issues.

- The artist hasn't signed up for streaming, like it used to be the case with Tool. Or they only stream on one platform and not another. Dr. Dre and Jay-Z come to mind. All three artists I mentioned in this bullet are "really mainstream."

- The version I like is not the streaming release. I like the casette version of Ashes 2 Ashes, Dust 2 Dust by Tommy Wright III, but not the CD reissue.

- The artist is actually too niche. I have quite a few things in my collection from Bandcamp or Soundcloud that don't exist elsewhere.

- The release is "weird." Like the radio stations from the classic GTA games.

Great job Dominic and team! :)

Really neat that it has no dependencies and works with anything.

I played Guitar Hero for years before I picked up the real instrument. I still enjoy the game.

Let people have fun.

No chance buying a GPU at listing price today.

Buyer beware: for the Dan Case, it's only compatible with 2.25 slot (45mm) width cards at max. Most 3080s are 2.5 slot (50mm) wide. The EVGA 3080 XC3 Black is a notable exception, and is a very satisfying tight fit [0]. There's also a 3D printed GPU spacer to increase width of the case (sacrificing portability) [1].

Here's my hardware:

  CASE: Dan A4-SFX v4.1 7L
  PSU: Corsair SF750
  CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT 6C/12T 3.8GHz/4.5GHz
  FANS: Asetek 645LT 92mm AIO + Noctua NF-A9x14 x2
  MOTHERBOARD: Asus ROG STRIX B550-I GAMING mini-ITX
  LAN: Intel I225-V 2.5Gb Ethernet
  WLAN: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200
  AUDIO: Realtek S1220A
  RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 64GB DDR4 @ 3600MHz
  GPU: Powercolor AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT Red Dragon
  NVME0: Sabrent Rocket 1TB R/W 3400/3000
  NVME1: Crucial P1 1TB R/W 2000/1700
  SSD0: SanDisk Ultra II 1TB R/W 540/500

- [1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2771844

I have a custom built small form factor PC in a Dan Case A4 [0]. The case is a lot smaller than a Razer Core. And it's a whole PC, not just a GPU. Fits in a cabin bag or backpack and I have traveled with it.

You can go even smaller at 3.9L in a Velka 3 [1], if you use a single fan graphics card.

- [0] https://www.dan-cases.com/dana4.php

- [1] https://www.velkase.com/products/velka-3

I recall reading that it's 6 days of living in the EU until it "kicks in." I don't have a source or that and can't seem to find one, so take it with a pinch of salt.

Does Apple supply the repair stores with the programmers to change the screen serial?

Yes. Apple will loan you a special machine to pair screens, TouchID fingerprint sensors, and other things to logic boards. The machine is never your property, but theirs.

I’ve seen FAANGMULASS a couple of times.

I am surprised nobody in this comments section has mentioned "Re-Volt" (1999) yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Volt

I thought that was the point. It's a demonstration that "the end justifies the means" leads to a universe where the "good guys" are also very Evil.

This is so bloated and unnecessary.

Reading this post inside Newsblur. :)