Mark Handley

@paulg You do need to review the PRs and iterate on them when you don’t like its approach. Codex wrote almost all the actual code, so obviously did a lot of the thinking, but the part that mattered most, I did that. Is there a similar principle for writing English?

@paulg Coding is thinking too. I’ve just used Codex to write a non-trivial distributed system. It’s very good - does the mechanical coding that I always found therapeutic very quickly and accurately, leaving me with all the big design decisions back to back. Which is pretty hard work.

If you care about money or power, stay close to AI, because for the foreseeable future this will be the big source of change in both.

@Dominos_UK Why do you accept delivery orders if you don't have enough drivers to deliver? 75 mins and still waiting. Kingston

@paulg @CcibChris Always loved the Victor (though as far as I know I'm not related to the company's founder). It's what you'd get if you asked an aircraft designer who grew up on 1930s Flash Gordon rockets to design a jet bomber.

The perfect combination of futuristic and retro. Is there such a thing as jetpunk yet? Because this is it. (image via @CcibChris)

@bigbadrabby @PeterGlas6 @TrentTelenko On the other hand, 15% of the F35 is made in the UK. If the US disrupted support for UK F35s, they'd have problems with support for their own too.

@PeterGlas6 @TrentTelenko The 2 British aircraft carriers were built around the F-35b. Nothing else I'm aware of can fly from them apart from helicopters. Makes them almost useless if thats true.

This is so damaging to the USA as a reputable arms supplier. Just kiss all future F-35 sales to Europe goodbye.

@paulg We've accumulated about 3000 books (the number stabilized about 10 years ago, when we started to donate books to keep things from getting out of control). It took me a long time to get over the feeling of guilt of buying books and not reading all of them.

If you can afford it and have the space, there's nothing wrong with buying books that seem interesting but that you don't intend to read immediately.

@NASASpaceflight He says "Again, not a case burn through." But that doesn't rule out a nozzle burn through, which is less likely to be catastrophic.

Fair play to Tory Bruno, who's been answering questions from anyone on X about the GEM 63XL nozzle deciding it didn't want to play ball today. A big note is he notes no burn-through. Also, fair play to the BE-4's for compensating. x.com/torybruno/with…

@americascup @ineosbritannia @LouisVuitton Great race! All came down to a few knots speed difference crossing the start line. I'm an @ineosbritannia fan, but I really feel for Luna Rossa. They sailed an excellent race but Ineos had the tactical advantage off the start, and didn't put a foot wrong.

🇬🇧 @ineosbritannia win the @louisvuitton Cup! #LVCFinal #Day7

When I became a wheelchair user, I thought coastline trails had become inaccessible to me. Fortunately, I was wrong! On a three day adventure in North Wales, I explored some of the accessible sections of @WalesCoastPath for @countrylivinguk: countryliving.com/uk/wildlife/co…

@paulg Surely the right way up is whichever way up you like best?

I sent this print to be framed. The framer couldn't tell which way was up, so he made two guesses, neither of which was right. (I couldn't tell either. I had to look it up.)

this is the alcohol / politics / statistics crossover we’ve all been waiting for

@SimonOKing @BBCBreakfast Aurora over the River Thames at Kingston in West London.

If you’re doing some #aurora watching tonight, send your pictures! Either here or via Weather Watchers. 📷🌌 Will look at them all and feature as many as I can on @BBCBreakfast in the morning 🤩

@garrett_wollman Generally, north america gets auroras further south than Europe because the geomagnetic pole is on your side of the actual north pole. I certainly never expected to see an aurora in London with the light polution here, but there you go!

One more - I like the banding on this one

Not often you see an aurora over the Thames

Aurora is getting even better!

Aurora over London!

@SW_Help you know you could just reduce your advertised departure times by a minute, so we know when we actually need to be there. But that would reduce your on-time stats, so I don't expect it to happen anytime soon. #customerhostile