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by cedws 1y ago
> If you were earning ¥3-4M a year (roughly the average salary in Japan), would you feel the same about Japan? I can’t answer that question since I haven’t experienced it, but I did qualify I said above by saying that I’m aware I wasn’t
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by cedws 1y ago
I have followed Japanese politics a bit and the rising anti-foreigner sentiment is something I took into account when considering whether I should stay longer term. I disagree that Japan’s problems are on the same scale as the UK’s. Quality
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by cedws 1y ago
Sure. I spent the last 6 months in Tokyo, needless to say it was great and I felt quite content there. I continued working for my London-based employer, which obviously means that I wasn’t fully integrating there and experienced all the pro
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by cedws 1y ago
No. I’m planning to leave. British born and raised. Probably best to exit before they introduce a massive exit tax like Germany’s, at the rate the UK is losing wealthy people it’s inevitable.
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by cedws 1y ago
I’d like to know what the average CPU utilisation is across all modern iPhones. What do people need so much power for, other than bloated new iOS UI effects? My phone is now three generations behind and it never struggles to do anything.
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by cedws 1y ago
I don’t know if it defeats the purpose but you could require an upfront, refundable deposit.
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by cedws 1y ago
Why does it need a moronic design? We’ve already spent 100 years perfecting car design for crash resistance. Why are there no crumple zones?
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by cedws 1y ago
Thanks Simon. FWIW I don’t think you’re spamming.
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by cedws 1y ago
IMO the way we need to be thinking about prompt injection is that any tool can call any other tool. When introducing a tool with untrusted output (that is to say, pretty much everything, given untrusted input) you’re exposing every other to
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by cedws 1y ago
Yeah this is like the opposite of what I want. I have a Barclays Premier card specifically because it’s the only card I could find that allows setting a global hard transaction limit including for Apple Pay. I don’t want my bank balance to
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by cedws 1y ago
Ok so it’s not a monopoly, it’s whatever you want to call it, the spirit of the comment was making the point that social media is the new social fabric.
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by cedws 1y ago
I have. I’m 24, I stepped out and realised everyone from my generation is dating on dating apps, arranging meet ups on Instagram, talking about things they saw on TikTok, getting jobs on LinkedIn.
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by cedws 1y ago
Meta has a monopoly on socialisation, if you delete these apps it does have a detrimental effect on your social network. I refused to use any Meta apps for the longest time but eventually caved on using Instagram and it has given me the abi
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by cedws 1y ago
I’m not aware of a single nation where the ratchet is loosening. It appears freedom is being eroded everywhere. The most disheartening thing is that nothing works to stop it. There are countries where millions of people have protested, but
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by cedws 1y ago
Games played a big role in introducing me to programming and I think it’s the same for many others in my generation.
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by cedws 1y ago
I mean the US also lost to the Taliban after trillions of dollars and 20 years.
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by cedws 1y ago
I’m sure they’ll deliver those revolutionary products just like they delivered on Dojo, Solar Roofs, Roadster, Semi, robotaxis…
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by cedws 1y ago
God yes please, literally anything would be better than that egotistical wasteland.
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by cedws 1y ago
I saw an ad[0] recently and was in disbelief it was an actual, official Coinbase ad. It’s making fun of the lower class and deprived areas of the UK with the implication people should gamble away their money on crypto in hopes of a better l
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by cedws 1y ago
That's unfortunate. I use Zed and I'm moving towards containerising my dev environment (using SSH remote dev to connect Zed to the container) because all this agentic stuff seems like a security nightmare. At the very least I want
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by cedws 1y ago
I never really found a reason to like George Hotz but all of his recent posts are bangers.
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by cedws 1y ago
I don’t think it was intended for production workloads.
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by cedws 1y ago
Why do these companies sound like cleaning chemicals?
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by cedws 1y ago
Some would say that the race to AGI is like the race to nuclear weapons and that the first to get there will hold all the cards (and be potentially able to stop others getting there.) It's a bit too sci-fi for me.
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by cedws 1y ago
A lot of C-suite people seem to have an idea that if they just throw enough compute at LLMs that AGI will eventually emerge, even though it's pretty clear at this point that LLMs are never going to lead to general intelligence. In thei
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by cedws 1y ago
I don’t disagree but “cores” is not a good measure of computational power.
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by cedws 1y ago
>Japan Unfortunately you can only work here up to 6 months as a digital nomad and it's not residency, it's basically just an extended tourist visa. Portugal's digital nomad visa seems good but their immigration system is a
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by cedws 1y ago
I spent 1000+ hours with Garry’s Mod/Wiremod/E2 and I definitely attribute some of my programming knowledge to it. It was in Gmod that I figured out how to draw a circle with sin/cos.
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by cedws 1y ago
But Meta’s connecting the world… by keeping them inside doomscrolling.
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by cedws 1y ago
The freedom of the internet has peaked. I firmly believe the future of the internet is balkanisation, we’ll have “state networks” like China’s with limited intercommunication. The future will suck. Archive everything.

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