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by Anthony-G 6mo ago
The complainants are missing the wood for the trees. The AI employee being depicted as feminine is incidental and the accusations of sexism – never mind misogyny – are a distraction from the bigger issue: this is an attack on all workers. T
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ChatGPT's latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and everywhere(theguardian.com)
9 points by Anthony-G 6mo ago|1 comments
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by Anthony-G 6mo ago
That would be the fabulous stage, screen and voice actor, Stephen Rea.
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by Anthony-G 6mo ago
As you say, Irish law is a “fork” of the jurisprudence system established by British rule. However, both Norwich Pharmacal and Anton Pillar orders are much more recent than Irish independence so it seems that we have since adopted both of t
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
True. The PSNI have had an excellent record – particularly given the difficult context they work in. I guess the above poster is thinking of the shoot-to-kill era of the 80s (still well within living memory): https://en.wikipedia
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
Occam’s razor would suggest that it’s the same group of active natalists who subsidise the teenagers’ housing, education and healthcare – none of which are any cheaper than lawyers.
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
I assumed it was an American thing. I've never heard anyone on this side of the Atlantic say it – even though Americanisms are being adopted more by the younger generations who are more influenced by online culture.
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
I make my own butter every now and again. The churning part is easy. The time-consuming part is squeezing out all the buttermilk from the butter. This isn’t mentioned at all in the article.
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
Your proposal makes complete sense and would allow artists the creative freedom to use samples in unusual and novel ways that the original artist might never have envisioned – or agreed to. I’m a big fan of the KLF (Kopyright Liberation Fro
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
Huh! I didn’t know any of that. I presumed that Stormont elections had always been FPTP and that gerrymandering – particularly in Derry – was the worst abuse of the democratic process in Northern Ireland. That’s really interesting that the
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
Also, one of the reasons for choosing proportional representation with a single transferable vote (PR-STV) was to ensure that the substantial unionist minority (who wanted to maintain the link with the UK/Britain) would still have ha
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
Ah, OK. That’s very cool. I hadn’t realise that was possible. I might have to borrow that technique. Thanks!
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
One of the reasons I like mutt is that I can easily edit the “From:” header (I have Postfix configured with multiple email aliases for my primary email account). In my experience, most mail user agents allow editing the Subject header. Even
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
I’m still waiting for Netflix to start streaming Les Cousins Dangereux , the classic (2003?) and critically lauded masterpiece of French eroticism: https://www.netflix.com/title/70261973 If only Nestflix was available
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
Thanks for that bit of background. That make sense. I used to think that MS were probably happy with a certain amount of “piracy” (students, voluntary groups, people starting off as self-employed contractors, etc.) because it kept people in
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by Anthony-G 7mo ago
I find it interesting to go back in time so I read the accompanying article and came across this snippet: > despite the computing apocalypse that Windows XP's Product Activation features were supposed to ignite, I've never had
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Open source package repositories face sustainability crisis(theregister.com)
4 points by Anthony-G 7mo ago|1 comments
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by Anthony-G 8mo ago
I already take psyllium husk to mitigate problems with hard stools but I dislike the taste and consistency. It’s much more palatable if I add it to natural (I tend to prefer “live”) yoghurt with some soft fruit, e.g., bananas, strawberries.
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by Anthony-G 8mo ago
This was one of the most depressing articles I’ve read online in a long time. As a middle-aged man who has never used Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Tik Tok or any other social media, I was shocked to find out this is what young wo
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I am a 15-year-old girl: the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media(theguardian.com)
21 points by Anthony-G 8mo ago|9 comments
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by Anthony-G 8mo ago
The Western half of the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century but the Eastern half continued for another thousand years until the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453. A sibling commentator points out that the Catholic churc
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by Anthony-G 8mo ago
This comment reminds me of one of my favourite scenes from The Wire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgrO_rAaiq0 “Americans are stupid people, by and large. We pretty much believe whatever we’re told”. “The bigger the lie,
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by Anthony-G 8mo ago
Jobs might have had a good eye for typography but he seems to have had a blind spot when it came to grocers’ apostrophes. :)
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by Anthony-G 9mo ago
On my side of the Atlantic using en-dashes with spaces on either side of the dash is acceptable writing style so that’s what I use (instead of em-dashes). However, many people can’t tell the difference between the two so some might confuse
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by Anthony-G 9mo ago
I hadn’t heard of Grokipedia so based on the positive comments in this thread, I thought I’d try it out – only to discover that its search feature sucks. I’ve just finished watching a HBO TV show on Blu-Ray called “The Night of” so I tried
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by Anthony-G 9mo ago
Logitech are my go-to example of a company that does the right thing and deserves recognition for it. They kept their squeezebox.com servers going for a decade after they discontinued their Squeezebox hardware audio players. At the same tim
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by Anthony-G 9mo ago
I’m fairly certain that the “odd” behaviour is that of the extremists who hijacked the original concept to promote the idea that being fat is good. I’d consider calling it “odd” to be an understatement. I always thought such extreme positio
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by Anthony-G 9mo ago
As a life-long hater of ads (before the Internet, I would mute the TV during ad breaks), I must agree. Before AdSense, animated GIFs for advertising were obnoxious. When the “Don’t be evil” Google started doing advertising, I was so impress
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by Anthony-G 10mo ago
A friend’s daughter (young adult) told me about five years ago that cassette tapes are “cool” again. I was surprised because I always considered them to be the worst physical medium for music. I still have the cassette deck that I bought in
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by Anthony-G 10mo ago
Ethereal, Ephemeral? I know what you mean but I can't think of any word that describes the concept (without requiring further elaboration).

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