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by bartread 3y ago
Indeed. These food delivery apps/services don't seem to be able to survive without screwing over outlets, drivers/riders, and customers... which says to me that they're not real businesses, they aren't a benefit to
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by bartread 3y ago
I’m already dreading the arguments with teachers over this when our girls go to secondary school. But I certainly will argue with them over it if coordination is poor and quantity is excessive.
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by bartread 3y ago
+1 I never did mine either. French aside it was an absolute waste of time. Playing around with silly computers did me vastly more good. I did have to do some work outside of class at A-level, but much of that is because they’d kick you out
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by bartread 3y ago
I like this although I'm going to stick my neck out and say the author is objectively wrong that sqrt is better than cubic for a toggle switch, and that cubic is in fact the better choice for this situation simply because of the way re
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by bartread 3y ago
All right, so just off the top of my head we have: - Netflix - Amazon Prime - Disney+ - HBO+ - Hulu - YouTube Premium - Apple TV - Whatever Sky's offering is called - At least a couple of others that I've forgotten - Plus some kid
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by bartread 3y ago
I think this must be a matter of preference. I absolutely hate Windows’ window management. I waste endless time fussing around getting windows where I want them to be. This happens every time I unplug my laptop from external monitors, or
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by bartread 3y ago
Do you understand that governments already abuse the data held by social media companies and that, by removing, limiting, or regulating young peoples' access to social media one of the outcomes would be that social media companies woul
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by bartread 3y ago
Possibly, but that alternative would have to fall outside the bounds of the relevant legislation for it to be something they could migrate to. Young people have always congregated and that, in itself, isn't a bad thing (quite the oppos
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by bartread 3y ago
I'm not trying to parent your children for you. Why would you think that? I'm looking out for the welfare of my own. Are you looking for a perfect solution?
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by bartread 3y ago
Except that the reality is that we can and do, and we do it all the time. Here’s an example of an institution that as a matter of both habit and statute does so consistently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ins
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by bartread 3y ago
I think the debate is a little more nuanced than this. Any action at scale in this area will deliver both benefits and downsides. What we need to do is look at what action will deliver the greatest net benefit to the most young people. As I
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by bartread 3y ago
I’m not usually a fan of broad brush solutions, and I can imagine there are plenty of special interest arguments against, but I sense the net benefit of blanket banning under-18s from social media may be greater than any harm caused.
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by bartread 3y ago
I realise naming is hard but, as a big fan of Sega's iconic 1980s arcade racing game and its sequels - and at willing risk of sounding a little bit gatekeepy - I must admit that I don't particularly appreciate this project's
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by bartread 3y ago
Ooh, now that's exciting. There's a Kawasaki dealership in Bergen where I'd been planning to get my bike serviced on the trip.
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by bartread 3y ago
Ferry routes have really taken a pounding in the UK over the past decade or two unfortunately. Combination of the channel tunnel and low cost airlines I would making former routes uneconomical to run is, I would imagine, where the majority
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by bartread 3y ago
It's quite subtle in many ways but just wrong enough to fall into an uncanny valley that's incredibly, as you say, distracting.
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by bartread 3y ago
Right, so, let me get this straight. This porn company makes films that are, presumably, distributed through licensed channels from which they earn revenue. The lawsuits they're filing are against individuals illegally[0] downloading t
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by bartread 3y ago
Possibly this would be more up your alley in that case: http://www.mkw.me.uk/beebem/ . I must admit, I feel somewhat similarly to you. I want to prod at the hardware and write some assembly code. Whereas if I wanted to
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by bartread 3y ago
Indeed. I think the dry valleys in Antarctica are one of the driest deserts on earth - not necessarily where you'd expect to find a desert at all, but an absolutely fascinating place with all those dessicated/mummified seals.
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by bartread 3y ago
Budbrain Megademo vibes on this. I quite like it.
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by bartread 3y ago
It's peak 2023 that you blame me for your poor reading comprehension. Which makes this acutely ironic: > You asking a Replika AI for evidence ... What are you actually talking about?
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by bartread 3y ago
I mean, the parent of the person you're responded to made what is an increasingly shaky claim that COVID-19 was due to "natural spillover". I don't necessarily think it's wrong that that comment shouldn't be al
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by bartread 3y ago
I read this article perhaps two or three years ago and it's one of the reasons I always had a slightly negative view of Sam Altman because he comes off as just slightly insufferable (that whole Bronze Age sword sequence, for example).
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by bartread 3y ago
Because people don't, that's why.
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by bartread 3y ago
In trashing the company's value? No, I'm not entirely sure it's fair to blame that one on him. I don't know the guy or have an opinion on him but, based on what I've seen since Friday, I don't think he's d
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by bartread 3y ago
> The employees want to get their big payday Many of them will have invested years of their life, during which they will have worked incredibly hard, and probably sacrificed life outside of work for their jobs in hopes of that payday to
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by bartread 3y ago
> Sam's independence is literally, currently, tanking the company? Honestly, I think they did that to themselves.
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by bartread 3y ago
> pressure Altman to limit his side-projects People keep talking about this. That was never going to happen. Look at Sam Altman's career: he's all about startups and building companies. Moreover, I can't imagine he would h
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by bartread 3y ago
> There must be some missing information. Or possibly some misinformation. It does seem very strange, and more than a little confusing. I have to keep reminding myself that information ultimately sourced from Twitter/X threads can&#
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by bartread 3y ago
> no human would be able to do. You say this but as a motorcyclist I've learned to have my eyes everywhere. I suspect many others would say the same. You acclimate to the vehicle you most often control: if that's some woolly ha

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