benj111

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by benj111 4mo ago
00:00:00? Surely 12:00:00 or 24:00:00?
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by benj111 4mo ago
Did they really have to use KILL as the word to delete a variable? Especially as it's used in hospitals? KILL patient....?
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by benj111 4mo ago
I like how -j fixed the stray j problem....
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by benj111 4mo ago
Don't say it too loudly. I'm sure HP would love to introduce 'Font as a service'
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by benj111 4mo ago
Tbf I think my view is it's about improvement over your own life. We expect our children will do better than us and that our lot will improve etc. That sets expectations. We are at a high base, but things aren't getting better thu
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by benj111 4mo ago
Sorry, Denarii. Barbar seems to refer to Denarii minted by barbarians? but the AI result didn't come up in English? Ps And don't call me Barbar.
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by benj111 4mo ago
True. But automation also pushes up wealth. Starbucks drivethrus aren't a thing because we need iced sweet nominally coffee stuff. It exists because we have the disposable income to pay someone else to make the coffee. Yes a doorman is
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by benj111 4mo ago
Ok. So is a french person more British than a 5th generation black person? Surely 'ethnic americans' are Native North Americans? This is the thing. Ethnicity gets wrapped up in a value judgement. We don't want to talk about e
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by benj111 4mo ago
Sci fi tends to be about extrapolation and or cool things/things that improve the story. I don't think humans have changed, I don't think a human could begin to image a world so far away from their own. Humans tend to image f
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by benj111 4mo ago
Define "good from afar". We romanticise the notion of the wild west, while ignoring the poverty death and disease. Would you rather live in the wild west or today, where the issue is AI which at this point is more a #SVproblem tha
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by benj111 4mo ago
I'm not really a Stallman fanboy but I do find the Free software / Open source distinction really stick out in situations like this. There isn't a call out for contributors. This is all done behind closed doors. It's the
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by benj111 4mo ago
Why should we be protecting hypocrisy though? Living in a nation where ones religion gives you protection under the law and allows you to do things others can't, I don't think you can defend covering up instances of people not liv
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by benj111 4mo ago
But doormen became a thing, so the value was understood. We have now lost that knowledge. I suppose it's like enshittification. It's presented as a progression to a new worse thing when it's more of a Dark Age of 'soft&
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by benj111 4mo ago
TBF it isn't really any of our business. Do we know what happened? This could have been going on for years. My best friend, had Parkinson's, so death was always on the cards, it was still sudden when it actually happened. And I ap
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by benj111 4mo ago
Have any useful algorithms emerged from these kinds of games? Like has someone invented a novel scheduler or sorting algorithm?
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by benj111 4mo ago
I kind of agree, but on the other hand many boring, meaningless things are gamified with the addition of points. Is Monopoly about skill? Chance? Or just scratching that itch of getting more tokens than the other person?
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by benj111 4mo ago
Interesting. As an unhappy user of the court system I have made these same points. Although I linked it back to the enlightenment. The law should be akin to the scientific method. Unfortunately like science it is full of humans, so reputati
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by benj111 4mo ago
Also lb for Pounds come directly from Rome And pre decimalisation. In the UK Pence was shortened to 'd' which I understood to refer to the Roman Dinari.
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by benj111 4mo ago
>Mars While not technically incorrect(?) I'm guessing you meant March?
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by benj111 4mo ago
>Don't know why this was down voted I have noticed a trend of challenges to unspoken assumptions being down voted. I don't know if it's being read as being argumentative/low effort. I agree with you and the parent. Ho
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by benj111 4mo ago
How so? Isn't dishonesty positively correlated with intelligence? And having a doctorate could imply a low paid job as much as a higher one. There's nothing about having a doctorate that makes you more morally upstanding. For the
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by benj111 4mo ago
Quite a lot. I remember my dad's SE(?) could be upgraded to 128mb ram or some ludicrous figure, compared to my 8mb 486.
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by benj111 4mo ago
There seems to be missing explanations here. The CPS are the ones to decide where to pursue a case, not the police. But then there's a major issue of the judiciary and police not really doing their jobs properly, so it doesn't sur
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by benj111 4mo ago
Is that relevant?
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by benj111 4mo ago
From a UK politics perspective I don't really get this. New labour certainly have an authoritarian streak. I remember when they tried to introduce ID cards but there was a load of push back. But they are also somewhat friendlier to &#x
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by benj111 4mo ago
Yes definitely. I had one MP for 4 years that would personally reply at all hours. I was getting replies at 10pm. I felt the need to tell him off and turn his phone off. But the other 2 I've interacted with were useless.
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by benj111 4mo ago
>Look around us, kids are talking to ChatGPT instead of running, playing, instead of being kids Isn't that a symptom of other things? I'm an elder 'millenial' playing out was already decreasing when all we had was a n
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by benj111 4mo ago
Well this food bank does. So it would be silly to claim otherwise :-p. I'm not saying all food banks should just do vouchers. I'm saying that if you're at the point of paying retail prices, you may as well give someone a vouc
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by benj111 4mo ago
No. They were paying full price, I specifically checked. I mean the junkies could just use the money they didn't spend buying food to buy drugs. I'm not entirely sure this isn't just an extension of people feeling like they&#
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by benj111 4mo ago
Wait. So to combat AI spam there's AI agents to prevent it? Why can the anti spam agents not just do the work directly???

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