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.
This is a fundamental result of any natural language system. English is explicitly ambiguous, and explicitly a 1 dimensional medium.
Meanwhile using a screen, you can surface numerous easily discoverable options that a human being can quickly consume and choose, and the structure of the options can convey its own information, and you have lots of other signal channels like color.
I feel like people who insist that voice controlled computing is the future have never REALLY tried to voice control their computer with a voice, which has been eminently possible since at least Windows XP, and indeed is a way that disabled users have been interacting with computers for decades.
Similarly, stopping an alarm in another room/on another device doesn’t seem possible without Siri having to ask back about the device/room, and the user having to affirm it. That back and forth takes an unnerving couple of seconds. You can’t just say “Stop the alarm in $room/on $device”. It gets worse when the device you talk to is simultaneously playing back something, because then you first have to stop that playback in order for Siri to not misapply the “stop” command intended for the alarm.
I'm in the same boat. My phone keeps asking me if I want to update to Gemini, but I won't because Gemini just gives my typical LLM BS responses when I just want to do a basic Google search with my voice. Gemini just complicates my already complicated life, so I don't want it.
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.
> 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.
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.