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by Silhouette 5mo ago
The GDS is one of the more credible parts of government IT in the UK and IME generally well respected. The government websites and online services have largely been well done. But there are limits on how much that organisation can take on w
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
Look at the salary on offer. This is for a dev/data job in Cambridge . The market rate for a senior developer here was around that level in the early 2000s . Today that would be a big pay cut for almost anyone with even the "ess
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
With an LLM you don’t have to try to predict a complex system in advance, experiments are so cheap to can just converge to a solution directly. We saw a similar philosophy in TDD advocacy many years ago. Search for something like "Su
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by Silhouette 5mo ago
Be careful about reading too much into that. Our elections yesterday were for local and sometimes regional representatives - not our central national government. The result might still prompt a change in our unpopular Prime Minister but th
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
The EU and Europe are different. 27/50ish (depending on who you ask) countries in Europe are EU member states and they collectively have about 3/5 of the European population. My own country - the UK - is (in)famously not a part of
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
"Europe" is about 750,000,000 people in about 50 countries. There are huge differences in both culture and economics between one country and another and often even among different parts of the same country. It's probably not
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
I often think the saddest part of all about the US VC culture is how many businesses that could have been successful by any normal standard - just making millions instead of billions - must have failed because they gave up a viable business
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
Are either privacy breaches or remote attacks really still in any way theoretical dangers? There have been numerous demonstrations of vehicles or their occupants being monitored, disrupted, or stolen as a direct result of the modern remote&
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
The arithmetic is a little different in every country because of local rates of pay and taxation but it's worth remembering that in most of the world except for the richer parts of the US developers do not get paid what those US develo
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
I have no financial or professional connection to Cloudflare as far as I know and that's partly because I'm not sure I like the way they operate and the level of control over everyone's access to the Web they now have. But if
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
Whatever was really happening in that incident it seems clear that it was not a simple matter of having registered some domains with Cloudflare and then getting a shakedown for $100k+ because of that. If anyone else chooses to read the post
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
Cloudflare will call you up one day demanding an immediate payment of $150k and holding your domains hostage if you don't comply. [citation very much needed]
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
I feel like a lot of the AI advocacy today is like the Cloud advocacy of a few years ago or the Agile advocacy before that. It's this season's silver bullet to make us all 10x more effective according to metrics that somehow never
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by Silhouette 6mo ago
I don't think it's fair to call AWS a scam. It's complicated and powerful and it charges a lot for many services compared to a DIY approach. But you can see the prices transparently on its site, it provides a free tier to try
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by Silhouette 7mo ago
If memory serves, this was not kept on NHS hardware or even NHS controlled compute. Does anyone have a verifiable source for that? It would be extremely controversial if true and even among the big civil liberties and privacy advocacy gro
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by Silhouette 7mo ago
That argument doesn't really hold when the barriers of entry are so high. Believing that one of the biggest tech firms in the world is doing something undesirable and having a better idea that many people would in fact pay for is not t
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by Silhouette 7mo ago
In the end this kind of thing always comes down to trust and choices. Microsoft has by its choices and actions lost the trust of many of its customers. Some of those customers did not have a viable alternative available and so had to accept
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by Silhouette 7mo ago
I am still trying to work out what Teams is "setting up for me" when it takes several seconds from opening the bookmark in my browser to having a UI where I can read the chats. It's running on a PC that can render complex gra
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
I hesitate to post this here but I'm not sure Stripe hasn't become most of those things as well now. It's obviously been very successful and I'm happy for the people who built such a useful service in the early years. Bu
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
Market forces have not been sufficient because the funny money moving around in the AI sector is starting to significantly damage other parts of the economy . I'm not sure how I can say this any more clearly. If the AI sector wants to
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
Why not? The point of regulation is to fix things when market forces haven't been sufficient. You keep talking about winners and losers but it's unclear to me who you think is actually winning in this situation.
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
The "scale might be different" matters quite a lot in this case. We're not just talking about demand slightly outpacing supply and resulting in prices going up 10%. We're talking about large parts of our societies and ec
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
It's not much of a stretch at all. There are already normal businesses that can't buy normal equipment at normal prices (or can't buy it at all) right now because the supply chain has been redirected to a small number of bu
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
What we're seeing is the natural conclusion of VC distortion in a market. There is so much money being pumped into AI speculatively now that it's hurting normal and sustainable businesses in other parts of the economy. The solutio
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by Silhouette 8mo ago
If you watch the popular streaming services on a Linux PC then you'll be lucky to get more than 720p and some only seem to provide SD anyway - even for content from the HD era. This despite obviously having access to more detailed vers
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by Silhouette 9mo ago
Social media, which everyone here is complaining about, is by far the most open and democratic form of mass media that has ever existed. It would be if it were actually social - if the messages people saw were written by authors those peo
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by Silhouette 10mo ago
If anyone wants an honest answer to that question it is fairly simple. Polling has suggested - very consistently and over a long period of time - that a majority of the British public (though often a fairly slim majority) tend to support au
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by Silhouette 10mo ago
Yes! The headline here is almost reversing the sense of what is being reported. This is the independent reviewer doing his job and pointing out how the legislation under review could have consequences we might not like. It's not a gove
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by Silhouette 10mo ago
I still think it was a mistake for Firefox to dump its old plugin model. The customisation was a USP for Firefox and many useful tweaks and minor features have never been replaced. Today the ability to run proper content blockers is still a
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by Silhouette 10mo ago
It doesn't require consent for cookies or similar data that are strictly necessary to do what the user has asked for - a token for logging in or the contents of a shopping cart are the two canonical examples. It certainly does require

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