PaulRobinson

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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Logically, no, as they all neighbour non-pub locations. There's a coffee shop or restaurant within a minute or two of each of the top 5, from memory. There used to be some UK celebs (David Baddiel, Clive Anderson, others...), who used
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
The problem - and I can't understate this enough - is that these are all relatively close to each other (naturally), in one of the most miserable parts of London you could spend time in. More than 4 hours in that part of town and I sta
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
When I was a teenager, I was a big fan of the show (and books), Red Dwarf . One part of the story describes one of the characters, Rimmer, preparing for an exam. He spends so much time preparing his revision timetable and improving it iter
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
I've thought about this a few times over the years, and the protocol is broken in ways that lead to poor UX - the whole thing became over-ran with crap. I do think it's possible to fix this with better client software, but nobody
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Tony Sale saved Bletchley Park. He was the instigator of the foundation and basically ran it single handed for a while. He believed deeply in it being preserved for the nation. His main claim to fame before that was being Peter Wright’s rig
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Sure, but what you're not taking into account is that $1500/month is subsidised by VC money. If Uber were asked to pay full price, they'd either get the same value for significantly more outlay, or keep their outlay capped bu
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
I think both sides might be cherry picking the pieces that make their arguments the strongest - Pearkes has pulled out a few paragraphs, but there is a lot in Zitron's writing, so it's easy to select 6 bits you don't like&#
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
He's not wrong about the numbers, and you may be seeing what you want to see a little, here. Fable scoring OK on some benchmarks does not the mean the investment has financially paid off, because that's not how ROI works. You&#x27
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Can you provide evidence of where he's been wrong?
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
"We" tried this in the late 1990s. I remember writing an exim config to do this a couple of ways back in my ISP times: 1. "The recipient will not get this message until you authenticate yourself as a legitimate sender at this
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Devil's advocate argument: if they were giving you something in return, and that could be cash, but it might also be "you can have this content for free". In the UK a few news sites have changed cookie banners to "you ca
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
I think you'll find that's Google and Meta. Just step back and ask yourself what each side of that debate is trying to achieve and why. What is motivating them? Why are they motivated in that way? Don't just recite what you &
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
As a general rule, you should take the train to Gatwick if you can, but this is reasonably priced and next time I'm flying from Gatwick I'll probably drive and do this - the train route for me is a bit fiddly, and the worst bit of
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
> Or do they have to do that and eliminate their dependence on Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Intel, AMD, nvidia, Apple, Mastercard, Visa, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Facebook, Youtube, Netflix, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
US tech does not understand or comprehend the amount of damage they’ve self inflicted in the last couple of years. There will be a steady drip of this in years to come, I suspect.
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Allows you to move stuff from capex to opex while remaining in compliance and governance lines. They’re not idiots. A lot of thought went into it, and the idea it’s all just incompetent BS dreamt up on a golf course is madness.
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
The UK straddles the 55th parallel North. Due to the jet streams (and formerly, trade winds) carrying warm air from the Caribbean, it has often benefitted from a milder climate than other regions at similar latitudes: Alaska, Siberia, the B
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
I've been on loops for people with a PhD in ML and associated fields to work on R&D roles for the FAANG I work for, so I think I have more of a chance of deploying this view in reality than most.
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Yes.
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
I disagree. I'd immediately have a ton of questions for most ex-OpenAI and ex-Anthropic people as my default position would be "poor business/economics judgement in role, chose to ride a hype cycle, now sat in front of me for
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Well, that's not true, is it? I say this as somebody who is paternally British and maternally Irish. My great-grandfather was in the Royal Irish constabulary, but his eldest daughter (my great Aunt), married a leader of the IRA. Most o
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Headline could read: "RISC-V adoption is 'inevitable' according to RISC-V advocate at RISC-V conference to people who are invested in RISC-V who had come to hear about state of RISC-V adoption". I'm curious where th
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Not according to the people who live there. Or in fact, Spain, who ceded it to the UK hundreds of years ago. Or do you think Spain has a legal right based on geographic proximity to enforce a culture on those people despite existing treatie
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
The British government have a strong, well-established (since ~1950), and arguably inflexible attitude towards "right to self-determination". Meaning: the people who live in a place get to decide who governs them and their society
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
> If the unsubscribe button is hidden behind 3 screens and is in 3 point font that's pretty clearly a dark pattern. According to who? US law is established as heading into this absurd notion of subjectivity, so the interpreter and v
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
All games should have the option to have the timer turned off. I regularly do cryptic crosswords (so this sort of game is in my wheelhouse). My goal is to complete the puzzle, not do so in a particular time. Completing it is often hard (dep
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
Like XMPP? Or, perhaps the asynch chat thing is a distraction and we need something asynchronous that's well proven. Like... email? Slack should never have been a thing IMHO. I remember first using it at a startup I was CTO of at the b
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by PaulRobinson 4mo ago
Most of the World understands the difference between buying a product and buying a service. Games (and other digital media), are sold as products, not services, mostly. TFA is arguing this should persist and not be replaced as games as (sub
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by PaulRobinson 4mo ago
Donate your tokens then. LLMs are many things, but one thing they definitely are not is cheap/free to run at scale.
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by PaulRobinson 4mo ago
The mild alarm for me is that this won't be limited to just games. I've spent almost 30 years building applications for the web. I've been switching my attention to different models of distribution in part because I see a des

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