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by crinkly 1y ago
Windows is basically spyware at this point. The only way to win is to not play.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah. Our senior leadership just ask ChatGPT what to do. Might as well skip the middle man.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Going through that now. I’m part of the Chernobyl clean up team already. Mostly because my part of the org is the only one with a positive ROI and isn’t a fucked up mess still so I’ve got plenty of time to deal with everyone else’s problems
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by crinkly 1y ago
I think we broke it. Even archive.ph is just the error page :)
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by crinkly 1y ago
The WCML is perfectly adequate for that. HS2 is a vanity project for business and general passenger travel, none of which is certain or impossible on the WCML already.
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by crinkly 1y ago
When this one comes up I always point out it would be better to not bother with HS2 and spend the money on making it easier for people not to have to travel around.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I think you're overcomplicating it. Having actually worked for UK gov directly with politicians, they are mostly either trying not to look bad but way out of their depth in stuff and being propped up by civil service. In that circumsta
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by crinkly 1y ago
Let's extrapolate on a simple point because it's not so simple... A sign for a proscribed terrorist organisation, which its members are backed by a Russian plant (Fergie Chambers - now hiding in North Africa) and have damaged mili
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by crinkly 1y ago
The US constitution is only valuable if enforced, which is clearly not the case at the moment.
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by crinkly 1y ago
If it was a police state, JD Vance wouldn’t be getting it on his holiday here from protesters and video vans driving around and being refused service in a pub. It could end up that way but we’re not there yet. If we do get there we tend to
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by crinkly 1y ago
I'll add I was saved from serious head injuries by a bike helmet. Twice. Neither were my fault. I know someone who wasn't. She had serious concussion. It's not something you want. 2 years off work. Petrochemical engineer - no
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by crinkly 1y ago
Screw streaming. I bought a smart TV a few years back. Services discontinued within 3 years. No external commercial streaming boxes work because of HDCP issues. Back to piracy until the TV gives up. Streamers and smart TV people, you had y
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by crinkly 1y ago
About 80% of the code in our repos is language or framework baggage, delivers fuck all ROI and the LLM leverage is making about 25% of what is left go away, badly and without any determinism. Whether or not this is the solution, I don'
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by crinkly 1y ago
I finished it when I was 47 and have a full time job, 3 kids and a care responsibility for a sick parent. Planning is the word :)
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by crinkly 1y ago
Correct but you know the material is good.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Did that a number of years back. Was worth it.
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by crinkly 1y ago
It matters who as well as that . OU are accredited by Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Institute of Physics and Royal Statistical Society for example (I am a member of two of these).
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by crinkly 1y ago
It worked until the people who manipulated elections worked out how to manipulate elections and started forming parties. Breaking it down to policy level makes it far harder to manipulate an election. A good example is the UK Labour party.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Oh another monthly subscription with no accredited learning. If you want to actually learn mathematics, buy Open University book sets and work through them. MU123 -> MST124 -> MST125 -> M208 -> MST224. Diversion of M140 if you
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by crinkly 1y ago
It's representative democracy so we can choose which party who will misrepresent us. Then choose another one which will misrepresent us. It's about time that idea was crushed and we moved to voting on policies rather than parties
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah that. The company I work for has an annual revenue of about 6x the valuation of Netlify. We're busy sucking Gartner off at every possible corner and learning it's a mistake over and over again. Everyone we know is as well.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Why tech CEOs love LLMs. Ultimate yes man.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Having sat in a policy meeting many years ago, as the resident "numbers guy", where they come up with that short of shit, this is clearly the usual design by committee advisory note. Some postgrad intern, getting mugged off by wor
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by crinkly 1y ago
Agreed. The trick I've always used in these circumstances is the cynical approach. That is assume nothing changes. If it does change, adopt late, rather than burn all your time, money and energy on churn and experimentation. In the las
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by crinkly 1y ago
Like fuck that's happening. Human dev will spend entire day gaslighting an electronic moron rather than an an outsourced team. The only argument we have so far is wild extrapolation and faith. The burden of proof is on the proclaimer.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yeah that. HN has a short memory. About 10 years ago everyone was all over Satya like he was Jesus' second coming. Look where we are now.
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by crinkly 1y ago
> Then there is the issue they seem to be shoting into all directions, with GUI frameworks, Web, Blazor, Aspire, to see what sticks. This is Microsoft's primary strategy. There are a lot of victims out there. ... he says after spe
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by crinkly 1y ago
Other side of Al Jazeera is not particularly pretty. No one reads that. One of their "journalist" reports on 7th October who was actually, well, there: https://www.aljazeera.net/politics/2023/10/7&#x
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by crinkly 1y ago
The other side of the propaganda fence is this https://www.fdd.org/analysis/policy_briefs/2024/10/29/captur... The truth is likely somewhere in the middle.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Not really. 20 years of PTSD and mental health issues. He's doing much better now but it's still there.

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