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by flir 2y ago
I've found that writing, then asking the chatbot for suggestions and selecting the ones I'm happy with is a reasonable approach. Treat it as an editor or a proof reader or a thesaurus on steroids. Not a pattern that really works w
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by flir 2y ago
I'd be interested in counter-examples?
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by flir 2y ago
While not disagreeing with you, I don't think we've done a great job of maintaining fisheries.
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by flir 2y ago
Cross-Site Scripting. If a user injects a malicious script into the page, it doesn't get run.
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by flir 2y ago
Gotcha, thanks. I always thought it was "first 3-5 years". Could be an example of word meaning diluting as it goes mainstream - hacker being the ur-example. ("Semantic bleaching" is the jargon term, apparently). I was wo
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by flir 2y ago
It's possible to block both. If bsky would let you use starter packs as block lists, it would be a lot easier than it is. I block any account that is primarily politics-based (Hillary Clinton's social media team joined a month ago
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by flir 2y ago
You said this below, too. What's the difference? In my mind a startup is just a newly established business, but you seem to have a different vision?
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by flir 2y ago
An aside: I've never once heard the word "blessed" used where the subtext wasn't "fuck you". It's the American equivalent of Britain's "With all due respect..." I love it.
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by flir 2y ago
You just made an argument about government based on a comparison with the private sector, and now you're agreeing that government and the private secctor have fundamentally different goals. Got to admit, I'm a bit lost.
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by flir 2y ago
> Money is not the point of a government.
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by flir 2y ago
The rope has a mechanism for creating drag (a wooden board) at the end, and regularly spaced knots. You throw the board in the water, let the rope play out through your hands, and count the knots as they pass through your hands while watchi
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by flir 2y ago
Ticker tape timer. My class had the same thing for the same experiment.
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by flir 2y ago
> I think you should operate in good faith as well and talk about net natural population change. I did, right at the top when I used this link: https://www.statista.com/statistics/281296/uk-population/ The
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by flir 2y ago
There are always unintended consequences. (This isn't an argument for not having an inheritance tax, it's an argument for being clear-eyed about the trade offs). In the case of inheritance tax, it has resulted in a lot of Britis
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by flir 2y ago
980k in 1963, off a population of 53m. 775k in 2008, off a population of 62m. I feel like you're bending over backwards to pretend you don't understand the point.
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by flir 2y ago
No need to go any further - to be honest it's one of those problems I'b be too risk-averse to tackle. But thanks, it was very interesting to hear about your approach.
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by flir 2y ago
Those policies were popular with "people who voted", not just the rich. > I think if you look at Net Migration, the jump is very sudden: That's the composition of the growth, not the population growth itself. I'm sayi
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by flir 2y ago
That's a first rate response - and a very thoughtful way to preserve anonymity. Thanks, I appreciate it. Those decision trees sound interesting - are you, essentially, integrating an LLM and an expert system?
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by flir 2y ago
You're not wrong. Yes, the composition of our population growth has changed, but we've had constant population growth (more or less) for decades. Sometimes it runs a little ahead, sometimes it runs a little behind, but on the whol
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by flir 2y ago
> The new government has said they want to sort out the NIMBY stuff and get Britain building again, let's hope they do. There's decades of underbuilding to make up for, and the current government's house building targets a
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by flir 2y ago
How did you get people to agree to training a chatbot on their sessions? That strikes me as extremely intimate text. Is it a "it's in the T&Cs" deal, or did you seek a separate opt-in? I'm askng because the answer wi
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by flir 2y ago
Thanks. I'm torn on a response. On the one hand, HN was always bad at reading between the lines - even quite broad lines. On the other hand, maybe I'm just not as funny as I think I am, and that's what they're downvoti
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by flir 2y ago
I don't think "buy some car insurance if you're going to drive" is any more unreasonable than "buy a crash helmet if you're going to drive". But I can see how there would be a range of valid opinions on th
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by flir 2y ago
Timeshifting the load helps too.
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by flir 2y ago
"Obey the law" isn't part of the social contract? Hmm.
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by flir 2y ago
The decision to site a speed camera (and costs of maintaining the camera) and revenue from the camera end up at very different points in the system. The fixed cameras in my city have been off since 2012, because the local council won't
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by flir 2y ago
Those kids today. Have you tried telling them they're wrong? The idea that you might have actually learned things, rather than spending fifty years staring at a blank wall utterly passes them by. Cancel you as soon as look at you, most
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by flir 2y ago
"all work and no play makes jack a dull boy" x5 = 30 secs. x7500 = 12.5 hours. honestly, i don't see it. don't you stop to pee?
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by flir 2y ago
Galaxies, hurricanes, whirlpools. Black Spleenwort, Barnsley Fern. Power laws every bloody where. (My utterly uninformed knee-jerk reaction here, but even if I was a true believer I don't think I'd reach for "compelling"
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by flir 2y ago
Man, I hope those benchmarks actually measure something.

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