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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
> The RFC approach has several advantages over verbal alignment. First of all, it is more precise. The need to write forces the author to clearly structure their thoughts into a coherent logical narrative. While writing, the author has t
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
CPAN was inspired by CTAN, the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network.
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by cjs_ac 10mo ago
When we write programs in a conventional programming language, what we're doing with the data is shown front and centre, and the data itself is sidelined or often not even present. In a spreadsheet, this is reversed: the data is priori
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Last week I bought my first iPhone, having been previously been only an Android user. The iOS gestures have this physicality to them; as described in TFA, it's clearly designed around a coherent metaphor for physical objects. In Androi
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
As I said, I agree with taking personal responsibility - I'm not sure why you're still trying to fight me on that. > You have two options. Continue to point fingers and complain and be broke, or start putting $100/mo in VO
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
I appreciate the point you're trying to make, and I agree taking responsibility for one's own life circumstances is the only way to improve them, but surely you understand that 'save and invest' is wholly unsuitable advi
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
It's not a slur, but naming them in an online discussion usually provokes an unproductive shitfight about whether they're as bad as their reputation.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
West Oxfordshire District Council is currently trying to find a way to stop a certain demographic from racing ponies and traps on the A40 dual carriageway.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Did we ever find out who is/was the hero of Clitheroe?
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Solving these problems requires going outside and talking to people to find out what their problems are. Most programmers aren't willing to do that.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Brexit was an economic policy decided on emotional terms: most Britons voted on the basis of I like Europe or I don't like foreigners , and economic forecasts about potential effects were just throwaway talking points to bolster tho
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Same - I think that's the end of the game (so far?)
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Presumably named after Associate Professor John Lions[0], of A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System [1] fame. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lions [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Co
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
I think the irony is that in 1911, Picasso was accused of the theft, whereas in 1986, one of Picasso's works was stolen.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
I really like the aesthetic of these, both the glasses themselves and the UI. However, I have the same problem with these as with smartwatches: the apps don't solve any of my problems.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
In the UK, a car with cloudy headlight lenses will fail its annual roadworthiness check, and the owner will have to pay for the lenses to be polished.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Part of AUKUS is this.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
I live in the UK; my postman walks up to my house and posts my letters through a flap in the door. I grew up in Australia, where our postman used to ride up to our letterbox on a postal-service-issued motorbike, because the suburban houses
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
You're not wrong, but making these sorts of arguments was the start of me being managed out of that company.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
The bull case is that when the venture capitalists stop subsidising LLM providers and expect them to turn a profit, the actual end-user costs exceeds the cost of employing a human. I don't know whether this is actually true, but it mig
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
For non-technical users, the user interface is the program. To them, there's nothing beneath the shell. My last boss didn't like Macs because his PowerPoint presentations rendered differently on them compared to Windows. There are
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
New Zealand also has an official Wizard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_New_Zealand
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Unlike most writing about politics, the article isn't arguing that 'those are the bad people over there'. The article describes a current aspect of reality and how it came about, and suggests a way of responding to that reali
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
The most striking thing about this exchange for me is how abstract it is: until the last email from Clegg, there's no reference to any of Facebook/Meta's products. It sounds more like political strategists trying to find out
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Desperation, and consequently, the extent of sensationalisation.
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Yes, but all the British newspapers are loss-making. You don't take ownership of one to make money, you buy one to buy political influence.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
Originally, newspapers were very profitable, because they were the only mass media other than books. As representative democracy emerged in the UK, they became very politically significant, and so politicians were eager to hand out viscount
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
I hope the Bundeswehr was given advance warning; this is the kind of situation that leads to violence like the Battle of Brisbane[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Brisbane
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
I don't find comments along the lines of 'those people over there are bad' to be interesting, especially when I agree with them. My comment is about why it'll go wrong for them.
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by cjs_ac 11mo ago
At some point, a publicly-listed company will go bankrupt due to some catastrophic AI-induced fuck-up. This is a massive reputational risk for AI platforms, because ego-defensive behaviour guarantees that the people involved will make as

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