Mike Taulty

Having a self-parking car has improved my (lacking) abilities in parallel parking. The car signals that it can park. It indicates, backs up, manoeuvres and then often gives up saying "sorry, I can't!". To save embarrassment, I then take over and that's why I have improved my ...

Troubleshooting (a PC) with AI seems to involve working through all the wrong steps before finally circling back to admit that it told you the wrong thing back at the start an hour ago.

Installed Visual Studio and wrote some code for a bit of home automation (heavily leaning on someone else's library). Gosh, it's been a while but I came out the other side with something that works - my muscle memory for various Visual Studio key combinations has pretty much gone.

Odd choice for Kemi Badenoch to spend a whole #r4Today interview talking about her newly invented "Iron Dome" given everything else that's going on.

Yeah, sure, I'll trust this technology to book my flights, sort out my finances, etc. 🤣

The number of times that companies mail me with a tracking link which...doesn't work. 🤷‍♂️

To learn how to spell? 😉

The other day, I asked the AI to explain how Passkeys work in a way that I could understand. It took me about 30 questions of increasing specificity to get to the point of getting coherent, consistent information. What always "puzzles" me is what happens when you don't know the questions to ask?

Spam(ish) caller rings up to offer me the "opportunity" to save money on my energy tariffs. I ask "ok, what are your rates on electricity per kWh?" "I don't know Sir, I'll just see if I can look them up". 🤷‍♂️

This is about his hair, right?

"Non Working Royals" would be a great name for a band.

At 08:06 on #r4Today the head of Centrica tells us that there isn't going to be a "material move" in energy prices due to any drilling in the North Sea. At 08:23 Richard Tice tells us that "Drill Britain Drill" ( what!? ) would reduce energy bills. So hard to know who to believe 🤣

Wishing I had one of these on the way home today as I watched the driver of the large Peugeot SUV who was managing to look up once in a while as they kept heading towards the back of my car while playing for mile after mile on their phone. ( the worst is when you switch lanes & they follow you! )

Keep hearing the term "sovereign data centre" and wondering what might be "sovereign" about it if the entire stack is owned and run from the USA.

Is Netflix turning into Channel 5? Can't remember the last time there was a "must watch" show or film on Netflix.

I don't use (free) Spotify much but it always makes me laugh when the ad comes on telling me that I could have better quality, downloadable, ad-free music for their fee. ( And then I just switch to playing my own MP3 collection ).

My car sends me a monthly report of all the places that it's been almost as though I hadn't been right there with it 🤣

Asked CoPilot to write some Powershell for me. It spits out ~400 lines of code quickly and refines it nicely under direction but a quick read of the code flags glaringly obvious runtime bugs. I know everyone knows this but this feels like juggling with razor blades -> juggling with chainsaws.

Such fun...

On a warm day, there's a subtle sign that I may have forgotten to add yeast to one of these 🤣

Made me laugh...

There's an irony in most of the adverts that I hear on Spotify seeming to be made by Spotify to sell the idea of how powerful and easy it is to, erm, advertise on Spotify! ( including running the same ad right after itself ) ( although I'm not a big user of it so maybe I'm just unlucky )

Everywhere I look, this chap pops up advertising everything from crisps to global banking solutions. Make. It. Stop. 🤣

I remember the first time I saw WhatsApp and decided that there was no way it could be successful without abstracting the user's phone number behind a username of some sort. Around 17 years and 3 billion users later it sounds like they're finally ready to listen to my advice 😉

Photos is moving to File Explorer where it will show you a different, out-of-date set of photos to the ones that it shows you here 🤷‍♂️

In the near future there'll be work for someone (maybe AI) to revisit agentic systems and replace the AI with regular logic that runs on a CPU with a view to reducing operating cost. 😉

This sounds about right for the SPCX market cap... 😉

Wait. You mean that I can run some of my compute and AI on the device that I have in my pocket or on my desk and I don't necessarily need to call a massive datacentre for all of it? ( I seem to have spent my life watching this pendulum swing ) 🤣

Breaking: South East Water rumoured to be rebranding to "South East Ltd" 😉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Listening to Tony Blair, expert on artificial intelligence on #r4Today 🤣

In the future, everyone will be Prime Minister for 15 seconds in a sequence that will repeat about once every 30 years.

we've done an FT deep dive on what a Reform government might look like and what their main policies - and policy disagreements - are right now: www.ft.com/content/93df...

Not sure how you'd use AI to learn a subject if you weren't the type of person who questions everything.

Is there a term for the algorithm lying to you or flattering you as a form of sales pitch?

"Random gun man in USA doesn't shoot president" - not sure we need ongoing multi day coverage for this type of story #r4today

Government doesn't know if it's pro or anti EVs - two stories side by side.

Night time electricity rates going up 32% for me and day time by 10%. Now, whose fault might that be?

Switched on the BBC News #bbcwato #wato where they are seeing if they can cause a food shortage by talking about a food shortage. 🤷‍♂️ (In the UK, you only have to say "shortage" to cause one - pasta, flour, petrol, loo roll etc).

It's hard not to be overwhelmed 😉

The news is nothing but lunar trips and lunatics.

Thinking back to the time when I thought that the Phone Link app acting as an extension into Windows Explorer would stop all the problems with content on my phone not showing up on the desktop app. But, no...the explorer extension seems to be constantly "syncing" and the content is out of sync.

Reminded of the classic "Some humans ain't human"...by this clip from today's FT. youtu.be/uIWotODqidE?...

@theguardian.com Piece of feedback - you do an amazingly poor job of promoting the existence of the digital edition of the paper to subscribers. (although based on the reviews, maybe it's not such a win). play.google.com/store/apps/d...