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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
The statistic of £29bn was taken from this article https://fullfact.org/online/37-billion-test-and-trace-app-sc... I still think this is far higher than comparable countries and seems like a rip off. Any of the figures
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
The UK government want to write a cheque with our money for "Digital ID" whatever nebulous Tax + Services + Tracking that is... they can't even control costs on a tiny website, what is the cost of an everything site? Infinite
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
I read grandparent comment as saying people have been claiming that the sky is falling forever… AI will be both good for learning and development and bad. It’s always up to the individual if it benefits them or atrophies their minds.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
If I was the EU I'd provide capital for ASML to build a 18A fab in Europe, the way the world is going we need our own capacity here...
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
The secret sauce about having good understanding, taste and style (both for coding and writing) has always been in the fine tuning and RHLF steps. I'd be skeptical if the signals a few GitHub repos or blogs generate at the initial stag
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
The technology and vaccine design comes from BioNTech, a German company. Pfizer did the phase 2/3 clinical trials, worldwide regulatory expertise and manufacturing outside of Germany.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Thanks! I think it would be better if these types of events were fine grained and you could decide if you wanted to run them the first time but I can understand them being enabled now.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
They could ask and/or parse the tests for the information rather than run them to output it. I’m honestly still not seeing a killer feature here that makes the security implications worth it!
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
There’s no need to run that when opening a directory is there?
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Please see the reply to the other comment, obviously I wasn’t explicit enough in explaining I’m talking about code execution simply by opening a directory.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
The grand parent is talking about code execution can happen by just opening the directory, you’re imagining like I did (and the grandparent) that you have to run or execute something in VSC to get that to happen and I’m asking about what fe
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
What is the stated reasoning for arbitrary code execution as a feature? Seems pretty mad to me.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Yeah, I need to start accepting to some degree the world has changed - in the past when I want to understand a system I'd have read the tests, but with AI I can just ask cursor to explain what the code is doing and it's fairly goo
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Could Postgres provide a mechanism where delete works as you'd expect but you can add WITH DELETED keyword to a SELECT and it returns everything even deleted records? I guess migrations are still an issue if you want to change the stru
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
I honestly find AI quite poor at writing good well thought through tests, potentially because: 1. writing testable code is part of writing good tests 2. testing is actually poorly done in all the training data because humans are also bad at
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
They are envious of most dictatorships...
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Oh it'll be someone much worse than them I promise.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
I did some research and you are right there is some interesting stuff being developed but to say the whole stack will be available in the US soon - even 3-5 years is ridiculous. ASML is still going to be producing the best lithography machi
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Just a reminder that paid for gaming of the search results on Amazon is around a $60bn business for them.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
The point of taxing goods made elsewhere is to make building equivalent goods in your local economy competitive for locals to purchase. I am pretty sure they are not putting a tax on EUV Lithography machines from ASML or at least you can ha
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
You know the UK desperately needs to spend billions on a never ending software project with some awful agencies building the impossible.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
It’s likely the judgement is more complex that that…
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
I keep thinking that the lack of children’s faces in the blacked out rectangles make the files much less shocking. I wonder if AI could put back fake images to make clearer to people how sick all this is.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
I should be able to completely control my phone with voice and ask it to do anything it is capable of and it should just work: "Hi Siri, can you message Katrina on WhatsApp that Judy is staying 11-15th Feb and add it to the shared Cale
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Probably repeatability and privacy guarantees around infrastructure and training too. Google already have very defined splits for their Gemma and in house models with engineers and researchers rarely communicating directly.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Um if I ask an LLM about a fake band it literally say I couldn't find any songs by the fake band did you type is correctly and it's about a millions times more likely to guess correctly. Why do you say it doesn't solve loads
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
In other news Yahoo! picks Bing to become its new search engine... This is that stupid.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
I’ve updated my phone and now it can’t talk to MacOS and I don’t want to upgrade. I can’t imagine much about sharing internet or whatever has changed between these OS versions…
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
Yeah, rather than eating pizza and being unable to finish the incredibly delicious high calorie food you probably want to just eat quinoa and salmon bowl or equivalent healthy food.
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by andy_ppp 9mo ago
“And may tolerate a coupe instead.” I could tolerate a coupe but I’d prefer a sports car :-/

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