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by Nursie 1y ago
I’m have a very common first name and moderately common second name. The people who I have discovered that share my name have been nothing but a pain in the arse. There was the Guantanamo inmate who managed to get me flagged for extra check
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by Nursie 1y ago
> Think about what happens if the US decides it can enforce US law on UK soil against UK citizens. Yeah about that … Try looking up Gary McKinnon or Larry Love. The US has a history of this stuff, those are just a couple of examples. Hel
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by Nursie 1y ago
It was 'worldcoin'. And yes I used the term 'money' very loosely there. Apparently the token was only offered in some countries, and in some places where it was offered, that was considered enough of a bribe to render vo
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by Nursie 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_(blockchain) A Sam Altman project which seemingly popped up out of nowhere, and offered people free money in exchange for biometric registration on the network, in a lot of countries
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by Nursie 1y ago
'official' was the problem I think - I bought the addon from Vaillant Europe, but Vaillant UK seemed to disavow it, even though the boiler models and interfaces were the same. :sigh:
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by Nursie 1y ago
We replaced a boiler in our last house a few years back. We got a Vaillant, at least in part because I found that there was a Vaillant add-on board available which could do OpenTherm, and the nest controller could do that in theory too. Whe
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by Nursie 1y ago
This is very true, but it's a matter of degree.
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by Nursie 1y ago
That was my first thought when reading this. It sounds like the author doesn't understand the codebase, if you're brute-forcing bug detection by bisecting commit versions to figure out where the issue is, something's already
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by Nursie 1y ago
Abandoned homes in any great number would be a real surprise. I think those videos are likely quite carefully staged. I left the UK about four years ago but AFAICT the picture of housing over there hasn’t changed a lot - it keeps going up i
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by Nursie 1y ago
The hereditary peers are now a much smaller bunch, apparently there are 92, elected from the larger number of 800ish who are theoretically eligible. Before 1993 all of them could hold seats. The majority of the house these days is made up o
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by Nursie 1y ago
Huh, I didn’t know the song, but I guess that explains the 80s movie “Transylvania 6-5000”…
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by Nursie 1y ago
Thankfully those days are not with us any more. Java has moved on quite considerably in the last few years. I think people are still too ready to use massive, hulking frameworks for every little thing, of course, but the worst of the '
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by Nursie 1y ago
Good god no. If I can change my behaviour and achieve good health outcomes, relatively painlessly, why on earth would I not? This comes across to me like people who won't use painkillers - I should feel the pain, masking it is fake, th
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by Nursie 1y ago
I won't buy Sony TVs any more because of their software, because it started displaying ads on the home-screen. It's Google TV, and I don't mind ads for content on the home screen. I use a bunch of streaming services, I migh
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by Nursie 1y ago
I have a three-phase 'smeg'. We have that particular model because it was literally the only induction cooktop on the market that would fit the existing hole in our stone worktop. Quite a lot of them can be wired either one, two o
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by Nursie 1y ago
Chloride, New Mexico. Named for the silver salt found there.
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by Nursie 1y ago
This is often (far from always) available on kindle. A one or two chapter sample for free.
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by Nursie 1y ago
Surely both of them should have some sort of valid license to the work in that case?
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by Nursie 1y ago
> anytime their content is used So ... every time a model is used? Because it has been trained on these works so they have some influence on all its weights? > I see absolutely no reason why they can't do this They didn't ev
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by Nursie 1y ago
It seems to come up a lot in reference to laws like the UK one, the Australian social media ban for under 16s and all sorts of similar measures around and about. It’s the end of democracy in country X! The government’s taking away the peopl
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by Nursie 1y ago
> In which situation does the end user not pay for everything? In situations where the company needs to continue to compete, and factoring fines into prices would push it out of competitiveness, so it needs to find other ways to offset t
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by Nursie 1y ago
I think you missed the point. The point is not pretending to be functional for the sake of it, putting on a facade and calling everything great. It's that being functional often works to help in and of itself. Getting out of the hous
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by Nursie 1y ago
> I think there is a bit of a crowd that is pushing the idea that you can make events worse by telling people that they are forever scarred from them? There was certainly a fairly prominent British psychologist (IIRC) a handful of years
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by Nursie 1y ago
> would you not try them? Would I have to give up on my scepticism to do so? Why? If I was in distress, and if there was no well-proven treatment available, I'd probably have a go provided the therapy wasn't actually a scam or
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by Nursie 1y ago
I've spent a lot of time reading those. They are entertaining and terrifying. Erowid's a really good source of "Hey, you know, maybe I don't want to get involved in that" at times.
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by Nursie 1y ago
Back in the day (90s and before) the other substances that could fit on a blotter and still have an effect were very, very niche, and somehow LSD was very very cheap so if it worked at all it was probably the real thing. > The thought of
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by Nursie 1y ago
Gen X - those all suck.
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by Nursie 1y ago
In the UK you get a code based on last year’s earnings, which the company uses to set a flat rate of withholding on each paycheck. If there’s any discrepancy that usually just feeds into next year’s code. In Australia, you probably need to
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by Nursie 1y ago
In the UK, for example, if you are a simple case (PAYE employee, no other sources of income) they just do it, you never interact with HMRC at all in the ordinary procession of things. You may get a yearly summary form (P60) but that'
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by Nursie 1y ago
Eh, that’s companies rather than individuals, and while it’s still objectionable it’s not quite in the same league. If you’re running a company you probably already have an accountant, and they’re probably already using one of those pieces

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