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by gib444 4mo ago
> constantly driving your attention away from the road Absolutely agree! After a few minutes you realise you forgot to disable one of the 'features' and then get distracted trying to do that. Lane keep assist is broken and dang
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by gib444 4mo ago
Same story in the UK. Our politicians think the answer to everything is a new more specific law for something already illegal. They always co-opt the police into the announcement to back them up It’s nonsense. The police etc just need more
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by gib444 4mo ago
Tangential but IME those engineers do very very well, as they're good at marketing themselves, but more importantly they often align with the CTO/CEO who wants to present the company as the hottest thing since sliced bread – they
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by gib444 4mo ago
"Fin is clearly our future" by choosing a word which means "end" in Latin and Spanish ... LOL Almost like a pre-announcement about the acquisition?
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by gib444 4mo ago
Wow literally never heard of people taking 4 weeks off in the UK. Is this a new thing to deal with child care in the summer holidays? Is this at the executive level?
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by gib444 4mo ago
Sweden is fairly unique in allowing the employee to take a 4 week break. Is Australia the same? 2 weeks is the acceptable limit in the UK for example (where also has 20-35 holiday is common) though if you can convince your boss otherwise, y
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by gib444 4mo ago
4 hours since posting. Any news of this being breached yet? I assume it was just another market manipulation play? And if it does hold, what is his next move to cause even more massive price shocks? They won't let prices revert to wher
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by gib444 4mo ago
You mean Windows 11, or 10? I joke
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by gib444 4mo ago
Our governments seem to have just two tools for big issues in society (because they're quick and cheap): - Nudging, propaganda, posters and automated announcements - New legislation to ban something If something can't be fixed wit
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by gib444 4mo ago
It's supported by both major parties. Quite strongly by the Conservatives in fact
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by gib444 4mo ago
- It will somehow cost at least £1bn because everything costs £1bn these days (NB it'll start off at a lower figure)
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by gib444 4mo ago
Not beyond the realms of possibility that Meta etc has decided it wants government/photo ID and has convinced governments to implement it Big tech will act inconvenienced but they will in reality benefit Just like any attempt by a UK G
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by gib444 4mo ago
And those are some of the better named config options. Some are pretty opaque, as are their values (and often poorly documented). You can tell there isn't an edict to make config options highly accessible
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by gib444 4mo ago
The UK copy-pasted EU261 into "UK261", which of course covers intra UK flights. That UK law would apply, not EU261 (London and Belfast are both in the UK)
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by gib444 4mo ago
I am shocked that Ryanair stoop to such levels, because the Irish always come across as actually morally superior to many other people, and I thought that would extend to just implementing good and honest business practices at the expense o
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by gib444 4mo ago
Found a Frontier ticket next week BWI-MIA £42 ($56) [0] [0] https://www.google.com/travel/flights/booking?tfs=CBwQAhpFEg...
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by gib444 4mo ago
> basically took no action allowing the US to further extend its dominance. I love this. Do you think everything is in Europe's control? Do you know anything about the US has operated since WW2? Have you noticed the mismatch in econ
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by gib444 4mo ago
Well the history is more complex than that - let's not rewrite it. The US bossed around and bullied large parts of Europe for decades (and still does). Often we did not have a choice (or, siding with the US was the least-bad option)
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by gib444 4mo ago
The 'better' fixes are often for our (human) benefit. These messy fixes serve the AI companies' interests of creating messes that need even more tokens (money) later. Bad and self-serving developers also act the same, creatin
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by gib444 4mo ago
> but Claude is generating a ton of em. We’re talkin 300 lines of unit tests Of course - it is setting itself up for more token consumption later: when a small change is needed, it may have to parse/adjust 10,000s or 100,000s lines
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by gib444 4mo ago
Next up: a kit to wire up a developer's brain activity direct to the AI companies, so not a single part of their thought process remains in control of the developer, in order to feed the models. You must brainsignalmaxx 8 hours a day
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by gib444 4mo ago
As someone who's been there and let their skills atrophy and had his career slide backwards...act on that freaking-you-out feeling sooner rather than later.
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by gib444 4mo ago
Why is scaffolding a PaaS project beyond the current capabilities? Do LLMs not know about the PaaS offerings of GCP/Azure/AWS, Heroku etc? That stuff has been IaC for quite some time now > So what they are missing is a platform
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by gib444 5mo ago
A great way to provide cover for even more fraud
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by gib444 5mo ago
" Child sexual exploitation is horrendous whoever commits it, but there have been enough convictions across the country of groups of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds to have warranted closer examination ... Ethnicity is shied away fro
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by gib444 5mo ago
I already cited, the data is from the same source: the census. You're not engaging in good faith at all. "I want to zoom out until it matches my world view / provide more sources" is bad faith 101. Did you think I'm
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by gib444 5mo ago
Birmingham (2nd largest city): 1991: 78% 2001: 65% 2011: 57% 2021: 48% Manchester (3rd largest city): 2001: 74% 2011: 59% 2021: 48% I can keep going until you get tired
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by gib444 5mo ago
London, white British %, census data 2001: 59% 2011: 44% 2021: 36% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_London
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by gib444 5mo ago
> Why is it okay for one but not the other? Where does this double standard come from ? Because in Japan AIUI they haven't been infiltrated by people pushing narratives that being eg White British is inherently racist, that to not o
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by gib444 5mo ago
Right. It’s the loopholes that make them bad

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