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badgersnake
4mo ago
This was literally the only reason vinyl made any sense.
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4mo ago
I don’t know about “Oh shit”. I’ve had many “It’s shit” moments.
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4mo ago
It pays to be suspicious of those who tell you you can’t make an honest living.
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4mo ago
If / when that arrives, I suspect it would be more welcome than what we have right now.
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5mo ago
Yeah, but then generally you pick the language your dev team are most familiar with. Or you hire a team of specialists for the language you want. Perhaps niche languages should have fine-tuned LLMs in the same way.
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5mo ago
That’s the second C-suite I’ve seen on here today posting about how your entitlement to things should be directly proportional to your wealth. Has a new memo gone out? Have we moved on from AI to ultracapitalism as the c-suite talking point
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5mo ago
Willingness to pay is not the same as ability to pay.
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5mo ago
Why bother if there’s no profit?
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5mo ago
LPEs are really not impressive enough to warrant names and websites.
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5mo ago
Make it illegal to sell tickets above face value.
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5mo ago
Tories, in particular Steve Barclay and Rishi Sunak
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5mo ago
They do what makes money, or what they think will make money.
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5mo ago
The UK government does whatever Meta tells them to do. We tax cigarettes because they’re bad for you. Let’s tax algorithmic news feeds.
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5mo ago
It isn’t fair, but few rackets are.
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5mo ago
No floppy disk. I guess they didn’t actually kill it with the iMac but they certainly facilitated its death.
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5mo ago
The powers that be decided to quietly drop it because they’re not willing to come out and publicly support it. The government could make time for this and they could tell the lords to do one. They just chose not to.
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5mo ago
So you don’t think any of this is down to not enough staff and poor training?
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5mo ago
How long until Macs come with preinstalled bloatware?
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badgersnake
5mo ago
Good luck with that. GitHub stars is literally a criteria VCs use for funding.
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5mo ago
Are you American? US cinema culture seems very different to the UK (the only other place I’ve been). In the US it seems much more the norm to react to the film, in the UK generally folks sit in silence.
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5mo ago
Becoming a joke is the one think that could end the GitHub monopoly.
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badgersnake
5mo ago
The point appears to have whizzed a couple of feet over your head.
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5mo ago
If it is, it’s not a good one. I just thought “You moron”.
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5mo ago
Amex uses 4 but sure it ain’t a lot. Enough to stop this attach though.
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badgersnake
5mo ago
Oh okay, so this is why Amex launched the online card in the app that changes the Cvv2 every few minutes.
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6mo ago
Correct. But why doesn’t the AI just say that.
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6mo ago
And it’s not the junior’s fault when they do it either. Have some controls in place. Don’t rely on nobody being dumb enough to do X. And that includes LLMs.
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6mo ago
Seems like they’ve already reached the point where they’ve forgotten how to think.
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6mo ago
When I did mine, it was mandatory to get BCS accreditation for the degree to teach some professional ethics. I don’t know if that is still the case though, I’m not sure how relevant BCS membership is these days, I don’t know anyone who has
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6mo ago
Why not? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_Corporation_(certification)
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