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by Latty 1y ago
It's always funny seeing Americans who have clearly got their news about the UK from questionable sources telling us how actually we live in a dystopian open-air prison. In the US, you have people being literally grabbed off the street
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by Latty 1y ago
Freedom of speech is a topic that is political, but also deeply tied to hacker culture, which generally views the ability to share ideas as a fundamental part of the ethos.
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by Latty 1y ago
Yeah, I cancelled my subscription when it became clear they just did not care about my custom any more. The core products had pain points just sat with open issues forever, and they just started doing nothing but trying to upsell me on stuf
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by Latty 1y ago
I'm not suggesting anyone give up on the elections: I'm saying prepare for the inevitable attempt to rig them. Voting alone is not enough, people must be ready for mass civil unrest when they throw out votes and claim victory.
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by Latty 1y ago
I'm British, but I think to expect free and fair election in the US in two years is to stick your head in the sand. I don't see them preventing elections, but just rejecting or altering results that don't support them: the
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by Latty 1y ago
I'm not saying people should not organise to vote, I'm objecting to the framing of "in four years this will be over" or "in four years we can fight this", if you are waiting for elections to solve this alone, t
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by Latty 1y ago
I find it a little incredible people are still talking about "four years". They tried to reject the election result and do a coup, and were rewarded for it by getting back into power. They are refusing to follow the law or the cou
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by Latty 1y ago
Which is, of course, deeply antisemitic of the people claiming antisemitism when they are talking about only criticism of Israel, to equate all Jewish people with the Israeli state.
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by Latty 1y ago
People keep saying this about everything the admin does before they do it. Pretending it won't happen won't stop it happening. The real question is, who is left to stop it? The man is saying he's not joking about it. It'
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by Latty 2y ago
> Business doesn't operate on the benefit of society. It's not a charity. Which is why we have legislation to force them to act in given ways. I'm not suggesting companies should choose to do it, I'm saying we should
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by Latty 2y ago
> i.e. the business was impossible? Then don't do it. That's like saying I can't do the exam reliably sir, so I cheated and you should accept. Sure, I think that's also a potential option, like I say we need to ask wh
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by Latty 2y ago
> MP3 was not created by dumping music somewhere to get back an algorithm. This wasn't what I was trying to suggest, clearly I wasn't clear enough given the context, but my point was to give a very distant example where humans
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by Latty 2y ago
Even if we accept it's wrong (which I suspect is me being unclear: I wasn't suggesting MP3 is some kind of trained algorithm, just that humans developed it while testing on a range of music—which is well documented, with Tom'
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by Latty 2y ago
I agree you can't just say it's learning and be done with it, but I think there is a discussion to be had about what training a model is. When they made the MP3 format, for example, they took a lot of music and used that to crea
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by Latty 2y ago
Generally a generator expression would be more idiomatic in Python than map/lambda. html(t"<ul>{(t"<li>{i}</li>" for i in items)}</ul>")
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by Latty 2y ago
Why? It's a feature you have to explicitly turn on when encoding, and I've not seen people using it for most stuff.
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by Latty 2y ago
Seems like a great way to ensure nothing gets declassified, as any tiny part that is still relevant then blocks the whole document.
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by Latty 2y ago
Sure, but the "redefinition" you talk of isn't consumers suddenly being unreasonable, it's the fact they've experienced so much gaslighting and unclear dark patterns they are (reasonably) assuming everything is susp
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by Latty 2y ago
Companies have intentionally bucketed those things together with invasive ad tracking so they can obfuscate what the user is agreeing to. As with GDPR, it's easy to offer a good user experience and do the right things by default, but
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by Latty 2y ago
My experience too, I found myself more and more annoyed because I'd run into something, find a years-old ticket that has never been addressed. I really liked JetBrains tooling in the past, but that and then they also started hitting me
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by Latty 2y ago
It was cheap, simple, did everything I wanted from a smart watch, and wasn't annoying to use (never had to worry about the battery). It wasn't a matter of a killer feature, more just the lack of the problems I see with all the alt
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by Latty 2y ago
I did wear my Pebble until it died, and then never found another smart watch worth it for me. Will keep an eye on this for sure.
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by Latty 2y ago
The WiFi/Bluetooth one was common on AM4, I think, I also had that issue.
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by Latty 2y ago
I think you vastly underestimate how common and strong the anger is, and how low belief in following the letter of the law is. It's unlikely, but not winning the lottery unlikely.
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by Latty 2y ago
In the UK a few years back a statue of a slave trader was thrown into the river in Bristol, and the people charged were acquitted in what is commonly considered to be a case of jury nullificaiton. Now, it's definitely true that getting
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by Latty 2y ago
I explained in my original post. The fact the UK government spends less than the US government on healthcare per-capita, despite the fact it gives everyone healthcare rather than just a subset of the population is pretty damning. How can an
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by Latty 2y ago
Yes, it's not opt-out, just additional coverage or the use of private facilities. Apparently about £1k per capita[1], I'd suspect a lot of that is probably dental due to a huge shortage of NHS dentists. Historically private health
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by Latty 2y ago
Even if that is true, how does that change anything about what I said? The government can evidently do this more effectively, fairly, and efficiently.
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by Latty 2y ago
The NHS is crumbling under a decade and a half of underfunding and intentional mismanagement to designed to prove it doesn't work by the Tories, and even then, it isn't as bad as you make out. There are 100% unacceptable wait time
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by Latty 2y ago
A strong recommendation for the excellent "Mr Bates vs The Post Office" to anyone who hasn't followed it, a short (four part) drama about it which is really worth a watch, and a good way to get a rough feel for what went on,

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