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by frereubu 2mo ago
I'm almost as tired of complaints about people using AI to write things as I am about people using AI to write things.
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by frereubu 2mo ago
They deal with this in the discussion after stating in the abstract that 43.75% of people who offered their seat didn't consciously notice the person dressed as Batman: "Interestingly, while the data suggest that this perturbation
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Boeing 737 MAX operators told to check fuselages for cracks(theguardian.com)
9 points by frereubu 2mo ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 2mo ago
Fair - I have an iPhone 13 mini, which works well, but I can imagine anything bigger getting quite annoying.
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by frereubu 2mo ago
The number is too high, but dropping: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx4762znr6o
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by frereubu 2mo ago
You may have tried this, but I run with my phone in an elasticated belt that's just tight enough to keep the phone stable without being uncomfortable. I really don't want to fork out for another device just for running. (I also
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by frereubu 2mo ago
The solution is clear - an "I am a tweaker" toggle.
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by frereubu 2mo ago
But given the extremely low cost of switching, why wouldn't you use the cheaper one if they're comparable?
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by frereubu 3mo ago
For those in London who want to see one of these in the flesh, as it were, there's one in Tottenham: https://www.mbeam.org/
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by frereubu 3mo ago
This is good to know, but a bit of all-or-nothing. It's a shame that, for example, Google doesn't support the crawl-delay field so you can tailor their crawling to your setup: https://developers.google.com/crawling
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by frereubu 3mo ago
My daughter's primary teacher last year was leading an English language lesson where the main task was to write a poem about a hot air balloon. Instead of finding existing poems about hot air balloons, of which there must be a lot even
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by frereubu 3mo ago
Ooh, thanks! Will try that out. Edit: yes it does - perfect!
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by frereubu 3mo ago
I think it's a function of the endless tussle between browser-as-an-OS and the OS they run on. For example, I absolutely hate that there's no option in Firefox to only use the OS print dialog. Instead I am force to click print, th
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by frereubu 3mo ago
Yeah, I've taken both my iPhone and Airpods into an Apple Store a couple of times and they cleaned the lightning / internal charging ports for free when the charging started getting a bit shaky, and haven't had any issues sin
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by frereubu 3mo ago
They can't do that because it would make a mockery of the legal system. Parliament does outrank the Supreme Court, but they do that by passing legislation, not just having a vote and going "no, sorry, lol". The whole legal sy
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by frereubu 3mo ago
Fair point! I think it's a tic from being English and having lived in Scotland for quite a while so I autocorrect "English" to "British", but I've over-corrected here. (Also perhaps something to do with "B
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by frereubu 3mo ago
Not too far off what happened, although thankfully I wasn't actually trying to do anything other than test it. Going to take the opportunity afforded by Scottish TV comedy here, and make a very tenuous link to intercultural exchange so
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by frereubu 3mo ago
Reminds me of the time my neighbours must have wondered if I was having some kind of a breakdown when trying out really basic MacOS voice recognition back in the early 2000s. There was a keyboard shortcut and you could say something like &q
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by frereubu 3mo ago
> or they can say the court is wrong and the law stands Surely the way that parliament says the court is wrong is to re-legislate. They can't just have a vote and say "that interpretation is wrong" if, for example, the Sup
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by frereubu 3mo ago
Yeah, my query was an open-and-shut case, I know there are grey areas too. The Arctic Systems case in the UK was an interesting one for IT contractors.
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by frereubu 3mo ago
I'm co-owner of an agency that builds websites, and we have a phrase that "accessibility is for everyone". Like you say, there are so many accessibility settings that can make things easier to use for anyone, from simple thin
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by frereubu 3mo ago
That made me laugh, thanks. I remember talking to my accountant in the UK a long time ago when I was newly self-employed, asking if I could pass something off as a business expense that was sort-of-related, but I knew probably not really OK
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by frereubu 3mo ago
The issue is that currently it often gets those speed limits wrong - as one of the parent comments said, when using adaptive cruise control I would often find the car slowing down from 70 to 50 in the middle of the motorway which is really
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by frereubu 3mo ago
> Also, being constantly warned that I was speeding in rural areas where the car missed a speed limit sign caused me to start ignoring the speeding alarm within a few hours of driving the car. A lot of these features seem to assume that
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Tell HN: I managed to unsubscribe from Adobe CC without being charged
26 points by frereubu 3mo ago|4 comments
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by frereubu 3mo ago
This has been in the pipeline for a while now. This is an NYT article from 2012 talking about how Target were, well, targeting women they thought were pregnant based on their shopping habits because that's one of the few points in life
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by frereubu 3mo ago
> The idea is to reach hungry consumers by “knowing what is in their fridge without being too creepy,” said Carrie Drinkwater, chief investment officer at Carat. What she means is that they want to do it subtly enough so people aren&#x27
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by frereubu 4mo ago
You look around the world, including the rise of far-right parties across the Western world who talk about the "great replacement" conspiracy theory, and the first example you reach for is Islamic cultures?
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Andy Burnham could raise £15B – without a tax rise(taxpolicy.org.uk)
1 points by frereubu 4mo ago|0 comments
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Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers(blog.cloudflare.com)
10 points by frereubu 4mo ago|0 comments

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