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by flir 3mo ago
Fishing tourism? Like... commercial fishing with a net? Not sport fishing?
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by flir 3mo ago
> most fish eaten in the UK has always been imported, e.g. Icelandic cod. Not always (Cod Wars). And our herring catch was once its own industry. > And the fact the UK fishermen were die-hard pro-Brexit is odd given they should have
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by flir 3mo ago
Fishing holds similar role in the UK and France (at least). Tiny components of the overall economy, giant patriotic feels. I still think some manufacturing is simply strategic, and you should maintain a capability even at a (financial) loss
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by flir 3mo ago
Can't find a good summary link. Maybe this one https://www.rpclegal.com/thinking/entertainment/court-of-app... is a good starting point. radio.garden feels like spinning an AM radio dial late at night (which
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by flir 3mo ago
radio.garden (and many others) got neutered in the UK courts by Sony. Offensive, short-sighted, Balkanizing decision. I haven't bought a Sony product since the rootkit debacle. My only regret is that there's not a "boycott++&
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by flir 3mo ago
If you rework a paragraph in a tight loop - you change a few words, the chatbot changes a few words, going round four or five times until you've got something you're happy with, I don't see how it's meaningful to assign
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by flir 3mo ago
It's a rock-paper-scissors deal. All warriors are beatable.
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by flir 3mo ago
Well the analogy isn't perfect. I realised I should have said "wishes". Not everyone votes based on self-interest. (And in a FPTP system you are, IMO, better off voting against the person who least represents your wishes).
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by flir 3mo ago
Nah, you elect the person who best represents your interests, not the person who best represents you . Look on it as a hiring process. Don't you want to select someone competent?
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by flir 3mo ago
"much of"?
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by flir 3mo ago
Well that sucks. Thanks for the update. I listened to a couple. The first (current?) run on Past Lives was about slavery, and was a bit too "misery porn" for me. The historical fiction component of the show was always my least fav
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by flir 3mo ago
I've been starting with "write three paragraphs about X" when I want to talk about X, as a form of "priming the pump" - getting closer to the useful point in the phase space. After all, it doesn't matter who in
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by flir 3mo ago
I'm really annoyed that Patrick gave up on that. I mean, I know he's been doing it a decade, and I can't chain him to a desk, and I'm being entitled, but...
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by flir 3mo ago
Doesn't have to be specific training, just has to consume simonw's blog. It's got lots of SVG pelicans, with helpful commentary on how good they are. I think there might be some kind of hill climbing going on here.
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by flir 3mo ago
ElectricSheep ( https://electricsheep.org/ ) is still around. Based on fractal flames ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_flame ). Freaks out corporate firewalls though, because it looks a lot like a f
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by flir 3mo ago
Chatbot expanded this into something that made sense, but I've no idea if it's what you meant . There's an irony there somewhere.
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by flir 3mo ago
Interesting idea. I think they're getting more wordy over time, personally, so I think it's more to do with the training than the raw data.
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by flir 3mo ago
Three months, tops.
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by flir 3mo ago
City-level reddit subs have a fair idea where to avoid, I find.
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by flir 3mo ago
I like SQL. I enjoy writing SQL. I find ORMs produce crap SQL. But the current shortcut du jour is pretty damn good at writing SQL.
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by flir 3mo ago
Does en-GB-Brummie cover the whole of the Black Country?
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by flir 3mo ago
> but the systems needs to be built now anyway. I question that premise.
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by flir 3mo ago
Ireland rejected. The treaty was modified to address the concerns of Irish voters. Ireland accepted. "Ireland rejected, the treaty was modified, and the Irish government said 'despite your changes, we refuse to allow our electorat
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by flir 3mo ago
> Impossible to leave now when you joined 20+ years ago, when the EU was something completely different, which now grew beyond what you signed up for, without fucking your economy. It's called a rug pull with a dead man's switc
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by flir 3mo ago
If anyone's interested in this: "From Counterculture to Cyberculture" by Fred Turner and "What the Dormouse Said" by John Markoff. Putting my nostalgia-tinted glasses on, it's sad how far we've strayed fro
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by flir 3mo ago
Great comment. Really interesting to see "scratch your own itch" described as an "aristocratic hobby". If the language barrier disappeared overnight, would the situation still be the same, do you think? What would an Eas
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by flir 3mo ago
> Medicine/education, that's the Greeks Egyptians, Shirley? (Although they're such abstract concepts, I'm sure everyone had them to some degree).
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by flir 3mo ago
Modern archaeologists are painfully aware that theirs is a destructive science, and do their best to mitigate that. The most extreme example is probably the tomb of the First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, where official policy on excavation can b
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by flir 4mo ago
If money is no object, you could have it play code golf. "Make this shorter, but still pass all the tests". This is not a serious suggestion.
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by flir 4mo ago
> "The code wasn't written by me. It was written by Claude/Chatgpt" Culturally (across all LLM use, not just programming) we need to nip that in the bud. If we don't it's going to be the new "someone ha

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