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BRIAN BLESSED has a great story about the time he met Pablo Picasso. It starts at 22:35 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH4cWoetw4s
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Everyone has their own explanations for why businesses do these things, and I see merit in many of them. Here's my contribution to the list. All these complaints about poorly-thought-out RTO policies come from big corporations. If you&
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If I have a problem and want to buy a solution to that problem, I'll use a search engine to find what solutions are available. I won't check a list of new solutions to problems on a daily basis in the hope that one day a solution
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Yeah, that's the thing about these self-aggrandising narratives: you have to read/watch/consume the narrative, and then find information from other sources, before you can decide whether they're nonsense.
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It's ironic that there's a link to a YouTube video praising James Dyson at the bottom of this post, because Dyson is an example of someone whose narrative is bullshit. The clever physics and engineering in Dyson's products do
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Large language models are a deeply impressive technology, but they're not artificial general intelligences, because you need to supervise them. Like everything else that has been called 'artificial intelligence' since the 195
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Testament to children's interest in construction equipment is the commercial success of the British theme park chain Diggerland[0]. I'm not affiliated with it, and I've never been, I just think it's an hilarious concept.
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The discussion was prompted by an article on sharehouses being banned in US cities, which prompted comparison to HMOs in the UK. One of those comparisons suggested that HMOs are a recent phenomenon and are a cause in the shortage of family
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None of this is relevant to the discussion you've replied to, which is about the United Kingdom.
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In the 1970s, it was usual for working class newlyweds would have to live with their parents until they were able to find housing. That's why second-rate comedians of the time like Les Dawson had so many mother-in-law jokes: there was
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The UK is pretty good at maintaining proportionality between regulation and what's being regulated. Given the nature of housing stock in the UK, it's unlikely that four people in an HMO will be overcrowded, but accommodating more
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In the UK, these are called Houses in Multiple Occupation. They are regulated, licensed and inspected to ensure that they're not dangerous. https://www.gov.uk/renting-out-a-property/houses-in-multiple...
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Also, one usually has other things to carry along with the laptop, and there's also the question of the environment in which the bag is to be carried. That bag wouldn't be great for carrying electronics in heavy rain.
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This is just another major crisis for Optus. It no longer has the technical capacity to operate a telecommunications network and its managerial class either doesn't know or doesn't care. As a corporation, Optus no longer serves an
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In practice, the system of government in the US most closely resembles the system of government in Britain prior to Robert Walpole becoming the first prime minister in 1721. American culture places too much emphasis on talking and not enoug
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I have a funny feeling that the sort of people who do these things don't read these sorts of blog posts.
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I live in the UK, so for me, 'middle class' means those large landowners and business elites who aren't part of the nobility. The US is very generous with its use of the labels of privilege.
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This essay attributes rather too much to literacy. The end of feudalism, for example, started with the Black Death, and the journey to modern democracies involved centuries of concessions by kings to the emerging middle classes. Sure, mass
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> I think if you walk into the bottom 80% of classrooms you would not see, interleaving, spaced repetition, recall-over-reread, or topic shuffling to avoid interference. Where have you taught? I taught in Australia and the United Kingdom
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I'm a former physics teacher, and while I'm impressed by the technology, I think this is a low efficacy innovation. The real challenge in teaching Newton's laws of motion to teenagers is that they struggle to deal with the id
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An important part of this announcement is that Andes Technology is a Taiwanese company. I'm aware that there are American companies producing RISC-V microcontrollers, but in terms of microprocessors, RISC-V was shaping up to be somethi
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It's still there - you can still do I/O in C, even if you have to call a library function. In WebAssembly, there's no mechanism for I/O of any sort.
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If you want to compare the situation to x86, direct DOM access for WebAssembly is more akin to the BIOS than C++ stdlib access. If it can't interact with the outside world, it's just a very special toy that you can only use to pla
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An investment opportunity with guaranteed returns is something I would definitely want if it actually existed.
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WASM is an abbreviation for WebAssembly . If it doesn't have DOM access, WebAssembly is as related to the Web as JavaScript is to Java. A language ecosystem with no I/O capability is as much use as a one-legged man at an arse-k
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Genocide is both extreme and labour-intensive. No one wakes up in the morning and decides to become an extremist; it takes an awful lot to turn someone into an extremist. That 'awful lot' has to happen to many people for a genocid
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> we also don't want to create these mechanisms at the government level only so the next authoritarian president can use them for their own personal agenda There's nothing stopping this hypothetical authoritarian president from
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No, YouTube will be expected to remove (or not serve to UK users) any video containing that song.
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In the UK, 'self-harm' is used specifically to refer to what used to be called cutting [one's] wrists . It's not intended to mean any action that has negative consequences for oneself. The quote about 'This governm
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Yes. Remember, the Online Safety Act has nothing to do with ISPs, and instead regulates website publishers. This change to legislation has just been announced; of course the Canadian Government hasn't had a chance to update its website

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