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Alexa is also still very specific though. You can say “turn on bedroom” if the lights are named such, but “turn on the bedroom [lights]” will fail. I’ve always found that frustrating, but it does have the advantage that it’s very reliable if you use the right phrasing.

The Beeb has run this a couple of times.

> Mrs Fry also says Winston Churchill was outraged when he learned the generals had been bussed into the lavish Simpson's-in-the-Strand in central London for lunch. He ordered what he called "the pampering of the generals" to be stopped.

> But spoiling the generals and boosting their egos was providing so much useful information that the British intelligence officers decided to carry on, and simply stopped telling Churchill about it.

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260811-the-uk-stately-...

I think your idea is pretty sound if you connect all but one of the boards in a ring and use a jumper for the control section.

A trick that poor hobbyists learn early on is to make pads a little larger than necessary for SMT parts so you've got somewhere to wick solder onto. Neopixels (5050 LEDs) are reasonable to hand-solder since the pads extend up the sides of the package, but you can also do QFNs with a bit of practice by placing a big via to get to the central pad from underneath.

I believe the only place you can watch them as originally produced is iPlayer, but at least the BBC has copies somewhere.

But anthropomorphic interfaces have been around for a while, from Clippy to the Windows 10+ installers that refer to the royal We during setup.

https://wiki.factorio.com/Blueprint_string_format

(Also unrelated, I think by clearance they mean tolerance?)

Also for creatives, some sort of aesthetic control? Most of the examples on this page look like templates you’d see in an office suite that appear swish, but are ultimately bland.

> There's no read-modify-write and no truncation of the dirty period, so a write that lands during a job can't be swallowed.

32GB is still not that much. I would rather get a Spark and have the RAM to experiment with larger LLMs, even if it was slow.

https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Secret-Life-of...

But are you trying to ship out of the UK? Amazon UK also says they will ship in October and not November.

Approach it differently as a salaried adult. You can pay for better tuition on your own schedule.

But you can find time. I listen to Michel Thomas or other courses while I’m walking to work. Put on headphones and ignore other people, they aren’t listening to you anyway. Other things like flash cards you can do any time you’ve got 10-15 mins.

I don’t agree with this one. Writing technical documentation can be a slog, but quite often you will discover very annoying design decisions in the process. Like you’ll write a tutorial for a CLI and realize that actually some flag makes no sense, or some default should be changed.

This also goes for dogfooding. If you’re using AI to write and run the tools, try to use them yourself and see how nice they are. AI will happily run whatever jank it’s working with.

Docstrings perhaps, but even then I find myself editing heavily to avoid cruft sneaking in.

A lot of electronic books struggle to find balance between super easy projects, very specific cookbook recipes or a laundry list of components.

One of three things tends to happen. Often it's something that is resolved in a matter of minutes, in which case it was laziness. Or, it's something that will take more time, say up to an hour, but the act of starting has conferred a sense of ownership that I don't want to give up to an LLM. Else, it looks like a much more complex problem and worth re-assessing, and potentially brainstorming with a model.

There are other terminal specific shortcuts for removing last word (ctrl+w) but they don't seem to be as portable.

I would be concerned as an examiner if this came across my desk, more so if I read the colophon where the author comments that they intended to write their own typesetting system, before reading Knuth and wisely concluding that they were unlikely to do anything better than TeX. Top tier yak shaving there.

The current discussion around alignment seems quite relevant. Culture Minds are so intellectually superior to the humanoid population that it's not even a debate, but their goal appears to be a content and healthy civilization with a strong focus on individualism. Somewhere I think Banks implies that Minds see it as a sort of badge of honor that their citizens like them. They certainly have no need for subservience.