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by VBprogrammer 10d ago
Even looking for companies which supply services is now far better on AI chats than Google. For me being visible in AI training is going to be more important than search in the next year or two. If I was a big AI company I'd certainly
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by VBprogrammer 10d ago
I think the main problem in England is that there is just too much traffic for too little road. I don't think there is a simple infrastructure solution to that problem. For example I was going to point out that roundabout completely fa
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by VBprogrammer 10d ago
It's purely conjecture at this point but my gut feeling is most companies are in high spirits about the costs they can save and the benefits it can bring to their own business. I don't think enough time has passed to see really hi
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by VBprogrammer 10d ago
In the 90s aircraft manufacturers basically stopped whole segments of the market (anything smaller than a piston twin) due to litigation. I wouldn't be horribly surprised to find we spend the next 10 years fighting about this stuff in
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by VBprogrammer 11d ago
That scenario would be annoying but it's not what we have. The agent joins the PR leaves a few comments and responds (with mixed success) to comments. Personally I'd go back to 2020 and never see an LLM again quite happily but tha
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by VBprogrammer 12d ago
> You wouldn't ask an agent to review a PR then just copy/paste the output int PR would you? Hasn't everyone already got agents directly adding themselves to PRs and leaving comments (occasionally useful)?
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by VBprogrammer 15d ago
> If you have never actually been behind the controls of an aircraft, please just stop trying to confidently assert things about this subject. That's a lot of assumptions.
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by VBprogrammer 15d ago
Our 2nd year CS maths course the answer sheets were all uploaded to the server with sequential numbers so it was trivial to grab them all.
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by VBprogrammer 15d ago
The power dynamic in training is obviously very different during training where the instructor is pilot in command. Making the assumption the PM could have taken control cleanly if the power dynamic was so poor that they weren't able t
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by VBprogrammer 15d ago
There are a lot of things which are drilled and trained which have gone wrong in this incident.
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by VBprogrammer 15d ago
Having pilots fighting over the controls is not a situation anyone wants. The pilot monitoring saying go around should have caused an immediate reaction, the human factors behind why it didn't will probably feature prominently in the
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by VBprogrammer 17d ago
This is a completely pointless debate, because even if it's true the people who currently be benefit from copyright have far more money, power and influence than any rational argument against it.
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by VBprogrammer 18d ago
Cloudflare interstitial pages are becoming the new cookie / GDPR pop-up for me. Remember when the internet used to be good?
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by VBprogrammer 20d ago
I remember back in the days a Car Insurance website which only allowed you to use it during working hours. Never understood the mechanism, surely they weren't getting quotes live from actuaries or anything.
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by VBprogrammer 22d ago
In my experience I've seen plenty of failures caused by user behaviour in these type of cases. Biggest competitor goes down and all of a sudden you have a lot more traffic...
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by VBprogrammer 23d ago
On holiday in the Florida we walked to the gated entrance to the community to ask whether delivery drivers got access or we needed to pick it up at the gate. The way they looked at us, you would think we had two heads for arriving on foot.
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by VBprogrammer 23d ago
You should check out a Japanese show called "Old Enough!". I have a 7 year old and a 4 year old. The 7 year old started back at school after the summer holidays and some of her friends had to be taken into class early, showed sign
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by VBprogrammer 24d ago
> In my experience hydraulic disc brakes require less maintenance than rim brakes. Cable operated disc brakes seem to be a sweet spot IMHO.
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by VBprogrammer 26d ago
> Oh, noe, I feel so sorry for him. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! In reality he now has the most popular show on Amazon. Even his brewer is probably a bigger contributor to his income than the "farming" side of hi
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by VBprogrammer 27d ago
I'm not sure if Clarkson's farm has much of a following outside of the UK. Last year they had several crops fail due to the drought over summer and honestly this year was far worse. I believe he may not have even bothered planting
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
I don't think I do the second brain thing well but keeping some detailed notes (using a daily note at a scratch pad for one off queries, small scripts etc) and occasionally branching them off into dedicated markdown files like "Da
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
Aviation is a relatively small amount of global carbon dioxide emissions (2.5% or so). However, there is some evidence that their emissions are much worse than they seem on paper due to NOx and water vapour emissions high in the troposphere
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
Alas, they are not so keen on long walks!
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
As much as I sometimes wonder what life would have been like as DINKs, the feeling of my 7 year old girl sneaking up behind me to give me a cuddle outweighs all of the fast cars and long walks on the beach I personally could ever have.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
The thing with government is the good ones always disappoint you and the bad ones never fail to be worse than you expect. Regardless of your feelings about the present administration you need to make sure the framework is there to protect a
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
This is why I get bad vibes any time I hit a cloudflare interstitial page. If you ever piss them off it would be trivial to cut you off from most of the internet.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
Mass automated data collection and automated analysis are probably the biggest threat to freedom in the present day.
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by VBprogrammer 1mo ago
> Barry Marshall's story is so iconic that I read it every time despite As someone who suffered badly with ulcers in my teens I'm particularly grateful for his work. One course of antibiotics and I never had that problem again.
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by VBprogrammer 2mo ago
The splodge on the ground when one of them fails is generally the downside.

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