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721.
by flir 2y ago
If I had to drag myself across a desert in order to press that Bing button, would it be art then? (I think, in that example, the act of pressing the button might be the art - a performance).
722.
by flir 2y ago
I think he's on the right lines with "surfacing the inner world", but that's why I see this as more wallpaper than art. He's not doing a deep dive into his own psychology and hauling up pearls; none of these images
723.
by flir 2y ago
The phrase "a sixer at conkers" is floating to the surface. Was it that once you reached six, you stopped counting? Or do you retire it, undefeated?
724.
by flir 2y ago
> I've never actually seen anyone play it. Inner-city kid, same age as you, and it was everywhere. Not universal, I guess.
725.
by flir 2y ago
Being of a geeky bent, I tried them all. It never worked. They go brittle and shatter, or they go soft and fall apart. (When I was a kid, conkers were so prized we chucked sticks at them to try to get them to drop. So it was a bit of a shoc
726.
by flir 2y ago
HMRC's guidance maps very imprecisely to legislation and case law. Eg the CEST tool asks "Will this work take up the majority of your available working time?" Guidance for that question is here: https://www.gov.uk&
727.
by flir 2y ago
> Low bar for your ethical framework Or highest. Puts overall species diversity ahead of the future of a single species (us).
728.
by flir 2y ago
When the tax liability for a "disguised employee" decision fell on the contractor, the clients were unconcerned. Now the tax liability falls on the end-client, they're extremely gun shy. IR35 is vague by design - its intenti
729.
by flir 2y ago
Love that first image - the ground movement has made it look like a piece of fabric. Busy, but still harmonious. If I "step back" (eg the last image in the article), I don't get a sense of visual clutter, I get a sense of a c
730.
by flir 2y ago
The nurdles mostly come from the manufacture of Nurgles.
731.
by flir 2y ago
That makes sense. I was trying to translate "A word is a group of letters with whitespace on either side" into regex. I was being facetious, obviously, but you've already identified a serious problem with that definition (is
732.
by flir 2y ago
\s\w+\s ;)
733.
by flir 2y ago
I'm just dipping my toe into the Typescript water, with a rehype plugin that helps me turn markdown into <figure><img><figcaption></figcaption></figure> HTML. The code's done, the yak shavin
734.
by flir 2y ago
#!/usr/bin/env dash I mean, if we're targeting portability...
735.
by flir 2y ago
Ownership? It was the personal computing revolution, after all.
736.
by flir 2y ago
There must have been some TVs with a page cache? (Not that I ever saw one, admittedly).
737.
by flir 2y ago
Well... I have to critique the critique, else how do I know which two thirds to reject? In theory I'm learning from the LLM during this process (much like a real code review). In practice, it's very rare that it teaches me somethi
738.
by flir 2y ago
Just for fun, give it a function you wrote, and ask it if it can make any improvements. I reckon I accept about a third of what it suggests.
739.
by flir 2y ago
> How do you propose we apply this solution for the masses in today's digital age? The social media algorithms are the content curators for the technically illiterate. Ok, they suck and they're actively user-hostile, but they s
740.
by flir 2y ago
> Your brain is about to be DDOSed by junk content. It's not the best analogy because there's already more junk out there than can fit through the limited bandwidth available to my brain, and yet I'm still (vaguely) functi
741.
by flir 2y ago
I doubt that's possible. I can always lend my identity to an AI. The best you can hope for is not "a human wrote this text", it's "a human vouched for this text".
742.
by flir 2y ago
I did. I write for myself mostly so I'm not so worried about one reader's trust - I guess I'm more worried that I might be contributing to the dead internet theory by generating AI-polluted text for the next generation of AIs
743.
by flir 2y ago
I've been using it in my personal writing (combination of GPT and Claude). I ask the AI to write something, maybe several times, and I edit it until I'm happy with it. I've always known I'm a better editor than I am an a
744.
by flir 2y ago
...E-Type... (who's up next?)
745.
by flir 2y ago
I dunno. If Cloudflare's protection doesn't work (and lets face it, it doesn't), why are you paying for it?
746.
by flir 2y ago
> The King isn't anywhere near being the richest person living in London. I think he's arguing that Charlie counts in the "native Londoner" bucket. BTW, don't trust the Sunday Times Rich List estimates of the Mon
747.
by flir 2y ago
I read it as "native Londoners" vs "everybody else". Eg "born within the sound of Bow Bells" vs. "graduated from UEA with a 2:1 in Accounting and Finance and moved into a flatshare just behind Upper St&quo
748.
by flir 2y ago
City of London only has 9k inhabitants. It's very atypical. That's not a good example to draw conslusions about London proper from.
749.
by flir 2y ago
> I suppose we had cloud long enough to allow for people that never had a datacenter think this is a good idea? Centralization vs. Decentralization. And the pendulum swings on.
750.
by flir 2y ago
I'm thinking about the people I know who got booted to the kerb due to the London Olympics redevelopment. I'm also thinking about Grenfell.

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