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[NickFitz]

Links are up

I expect a lot of people's clients' time to be wasted on the "Based on a true story?" one

[NickFitz]

Lunch has been leftover BBQ pulled pork in a wholemeal bap

[sadkingbilly]

oh dear.
I'm being dragged out of retirement yet again.
I've lost count now.

[WTFH]

eBay stuff all live, and a few watchers, but not many bids yet. ... I was going to give him the third body (1Dx) I brought back from Mallorca, but then we tried it out and the sensor needs replacing.

Replacement sensor is about £700 (Nick's mate Keith will know what I'm talking about), I was about to ditch the camera and then thought - put it on eBay as "for parts not working". 6 people watching it already, and it's up to £22. That's for something that was going in the bin.
Decided to put the 1DsIII on as well - it works, but is very worn and very old tech, going to put it on for 10 days from Wednesday, let's see if we get any bites.

[ladymuck]

Evening all

It's been a cloudy but dry and sunny day. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 21) and the high was 20. Barometer still at 1019 mBar.

Sunrise 04:45; Sunset 21:17 BST

Was up early to take HWMBO to the airport and to go into ClientCo's office for a monthly programme 'huddle' that never fails to be a waste of time. After that I was escorted airside and had another meeting in the ATC tower with a little tourist visit to the bit at the top.

Now packing for a few days in Bucharest, joining HWMBO. We'll be working at our respective jobs and then having Friday and Saturday to mooch about. Back home on Sunday.

[NickFitz]

Tea was curried mince and chips

I had been planning to make cottage pie, but I discovered I only had a few small potatoes left

I've been watching the Apple dev conference stuff. New design (translucent things) seems nice enough, but the insistence on shoving "intelligence" into everything is quite annoying

TBH the main thing I'm hoping for is improvements to SwiftData that mean I can do the thing I wasted loads of time trying to do before discovering it's not possible yet. It shouldn't be that hard to query a many-to-many relationship in a data API

[NickFitz]

Watched the second Apple thing, about developer tools and APIs. "You can use ChatGPT right from Xcode!" - WTF? Why the hell would I want to do that? As somebody said on Bluesky the other day, given how hard it is to debug code somebody else wrote, what must it be like debugging code nobody wrote?

I assume there'll be some way of turning it off, but it'll probably still sit there uselessly taking up space in the UI even when it's turned off

Ah well, I daresay it'll disappear again in a year or two, given that Apple's research group has only just published a paper saying, basically, that LLMs not only aren't reliable, they can by their very nature never be reliable

I had a rather rubbish night's sleep last night, so an early night for me

Goodnight all

[WTFH]

Morning all
Pleasant start, but the dark clouds on the horizon meant I put on a light coat. No sign of rain on our walk, but quite humid with a coat on.

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

Grey and rather breezy day after a windy and, I think, occasionally rainy night. There's a chance of some rain quite soon as well. Mild at 15°C, though that "feels like" 10°, with 19° expected this afternoon; the barometers are slinking back down to 1001/1009mB

[DoctorStrangelove]

I'm being dragged out of retirement yet again.

Glad to say it's never happened to me. . (Though, curiously, when I look at an old email address there's usually something there from Regressive/Computer Futures, normally for something I've never heard of like 3D injection moulding etc.).

Morning.

Tuesday apparently.

Damply wet (as is next door's washing which is either flat on the lawn or dangling down onto it).

Grey.

Sunless.

Chilly in here at 17.2 deg, 18 in the kitchen, 17 in the leanto.

1012 mBar, 29.884343 in Hg, 759.1 Torr, 14.6778 psi, (down from 1013 last night), 71% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 22nd of January 2020 LM had her donations picked up (Oooer, Mrs), whilst on the 23rd WTFH bagged a PALI, and I watched a tribute to Terry Jones. (This is odd since yesterday took me back to the page after this one. WTF is going on? It's even madder than usual).

Freecell score in the drizzle with a bad foot: 88%, running average: 82%.

Lunch: brunch.

Entertainment: Y&Y waffling on about giving money away. Are they real? <click>

Minor potching in the garage with the fitting of the hinges to the toolbox lid. Finally remembered that I did indeed have more G clamps than I'd found.

Minor potching in the front garden no mow May lawn: I'll be glad when the white clover has finished & then I can strim the lot & mow it properly. Stone me it's looking rough.

Tea: Tesco battered cod (I looked at the box). Nice enough. And that's the cooking done for this week. .

Entertainment: bit of the thing on PBS about the home front in WWII.

The thing about LA (part 2) on PBS.

Philomena Cunk investigating her avatar's family history. Found German Charlie in the end.

Judi Dench doing the same thing: her dad won two Military Crosses in WWI.

The rest of the home front WWII thing: the bits I missed earlier.