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Then they supply govt. ID. The law does not mandate check via camera.
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The UK's Online Safety Act requires website owners to verify ages but it doesn't prescribe specific methods for doing so. It is the vendor supplying the website he is visiting that told him to do that.
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working fine here
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Meta is cutting roughly 600 jobs from its AI division, affecting teams including FAIR (Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research), AI infrastructure, and product-related AI positions, though the company is still hiring for its newer superin
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According to PEW that's about the same % that trust the BBC's reporting. https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/fact-sheet/news-media...
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aka Jevons Paradox. we strive to make machines more efficient to reduce energy usage. That makes $ per unit of work lower. But instead of reducing spending, people find more uses for the machines.
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We can't even use AI language translation because of compliance / liability - we translate food ingredients. "It says 'no shellfish', go ahead - eat it" Even with lots context the various services we tried woul
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Transmeta paid Linus to work on the Linux kernel for 6 years https://www.theregister.com/2003/06/17/linus_torvalds_leaves...
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That's what happening at our company. The owner lives in London and rarely visits but he has arranged for AI consultants to come in and workshop with us to see how "AI can help the business". Our operations mainly consist of
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The BBC Micro had / has a ROM so you can boot straight into it. https://www.acornelectron.co.uk/info/electron/acornsoft_adde... I still have mine
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As a bonus you can get Claude to create the SKILL.md file itself. Which kind of sounds pointless if Claude already knows what to do, why create a document? My examples - I interact with ElasticSearch and Claude keeps forgetting it is versio
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Yeah, I've done this just now. I installed ImageMagik on Windows. Created a ".claude/skills/Image Files/" folder Put an empty SKILLS.md file in it and told Claude Code to fill in the SKILLS.md file itself with
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When I was using Cursor and they got screwed by Anthropic and throttled Sonnet access I used Gemini-2.5-mini and it was a solid coding assistant in the Cursor style - writing functions one at a time, not one-shotting the whole app.
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Ignoring your snark, there has been more than one election under Dominion.
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No-one is truly neutral in this scenario. The previous owners Staple Street Capital are headed up by a bunch of guys from The Carlyle Group. Harvey Schwartz, CEO of the Carlyle Group was a big Biden guy.
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My 10 year old nephew calls groups of people "chat" face to face in real life.
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> estimated points of no return which is quite different from the assertion of "tipping points being crossed". these are numbers pulled from the models and, regardless of your opinion, the models are reductions of the truth. We
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Bernie is clearly not someone who would be considered a fascist or nazi but his positions from 2016 expressed now would label him as such by the section of the population who jump straight to that nomenclature.
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Bernie from 2016 was promoting the sort of immigration reform that today would get him called a Nazi.
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That the US accepts 50 weeks a year as the norm is also sad. I talk to Americans who think having holidays and maternity leave is terrible stain on Europe. We are a 100 person business with $50m turnover. And someone is almost always on mat
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"and my successors will all do the same"
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because the previous 30 times it didn't do it
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The incompetence only seems to provide benefits in one direction.
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Even claude Code does it. Be typing a prompt and get 1) Do Action 2) Always Do Action 3) Don't Do Action But if, like me, one looks at the keyboard while typing, you might not notice and be typing away and it has stolen your focus. Wor
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We gave ChatGPT advertising on bus-stops here in the UK. Two people in a cafe having a meet-up, they are both happy, one is holding a phone and they are both looking at it. And it has a big ChatGPT logo in the top right corner of the advert
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I am a single Dev in an SME. I have been programming for 45 years. I look after a mishmash of systems of 30 years of people coming and going. We have windows batch files, java, python, talend scripts, a delphi database with a subset of SQL
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Although one could say it is Numerical Control, the precursor to Computerised Numerical Control
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Like many an invention, he was standing on the shoulders of others Basile Bouchon (1725) created one of the earliest automated looms using perforated paper tape to control the weaving pattern. Jean-Baptiste Falcon (1728) improved on Bouchon