dijksterhuis

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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> The ruling stated that the supermarket chain founded in 1970 "cannot reasonably trademark the name of a country that has been around since the 9th century" amazing
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/ gitlab ultimate (minus support) for free, so long as licenses for all projects are OSI approved.
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
as the ml phd student who volunteered to be the admin for the gpu servers, that list is pretty accurate.
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Sainsbury's pauses AI cameras after shopper ousted(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by dijksterhuis 2mo ago|2 comments
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
OP wasn't asking how to ensure their team members have relationships that extend beyond the time they spent working in that team. it was about the trade-off between team happiness (getting to use tools how the team wants to ) versus t
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
not sure why you've equated the team's happiness is less important than the software to make the team unhappy . that's an incredibly binary perspective. there's usually more than two priorities. and i agree with you t
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> the goal is both a happy team and well functioning software. software first. team second. team happiness is important as a miserable team will hamper productivity and quality. but the team’s happiness is secondary to their overarching
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
Hell, I underestimate my own ADHD. Source: the post-it notes, ALL OF THEM .
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
aye, i've always thought tying an MP wages to the national average was a good call. but nurses makes sense too.
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
i like that he ironically hedges this one > A promise not to accept £5 million gifts from crypto billionaires (on Earth).
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
Some discussion about the manifesto pledges in this interview, which is utter binface gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRBh7uGwxmU some extras * apply nurses pay to MPs * bring back ceefax * rename london
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> Boris actually seemed to be a charismatic leader in the same class as Blair and Thatcher but seems to have been rather morally flawed which ended up bringing about his downfall. the charismatic bumbling idiot thing was always pure stag
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
nice
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
yep basic longtail effect. back in the day at a PRO (performing rights organization -- music copyright stuff) we would analyse the longtail to death because the ~10% artists would get ~90% of play time (=> apportioned funds). i guess in
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> The obvious solution here ... is to force more low quality AI generated slop down people's throats? sorry, have i misunderstood what you're proposing? (the ratio part of your comment was super confusing to read).
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
on a micro level there are always specific cases of individual in group did a thing . but we have a totally different approach to policing, which is what i was actually meaning https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canad
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> Abusive police officers in the US for example use Flock to stalk ex girlfriends. the UK is not the US ;)
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
honestly, i've found that it's usually better to not engage in these threads. the likelihood of a good faith discussion is very low. as you point out, it's mostly ideological kneejerk reactions rather than actual discussion
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
you do get to have a say. contact your local elected officials. the democratic process requires effort from the electorate :shrug:
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
living in a society with others involves compromises and tradeoffs. it’s rare anyone gets exactly what they want.
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> I need to remember this one, thanks! direct experience beats reasoning which beats testimony, if you want something else ponder. > While I agree, I also think there's a role in society to help parents on how to parent, via e.g.
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
reads like you’re espousing a theoretical position from a theoretical perspective https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205469 > you know, i feel like the "it's the parents' responsibility" comments
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
https://noai.duckduckgo.com is a thing fyi i don’t agree with the google has better results thing. sometimes it does. most of the time it’s just that google has the site i want higher in the ordering than DDG. personally i’m fin
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> Its a bit strange of a default assumption to me. It's not an assumption. People started using it for being creepy almost immediately. https://nypost.com/2026/04/14/business/metas-pervert-glasses
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Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week(bbc.com)
151 points by dijksterhuis 2mo ago|56 comments
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
yeah, but you and i can't do much about what some institution is doing on a daily basis. we can, however, do a lot more about what we're doing on a daily basis -- i.e. not engaging with or spreading speculative bullshit / FUD
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
> Don't worry - your job is way too dehumanizing for us to ever ask a robot to do it. :/
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Is the Internet Broken? [video](bbc.co.uk)
2 points by dijksterhuis 2mo ago|0 comments
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
the real problem you seem to be describing is a lack of faith or trust in the institutions, rather than the silence. if we had faith and/or trust in institution X, Y or Z then the silence wouldn’t be a problem. in my experience; specul
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by dijksterhuis 2mo ago
free speech is great, until something gets posted the invites flame wars, political shit flinging and conspiracy theories the net result of that is everyone ends up being upset and angry. negative sum game.

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