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by gib444 7mo ago
He talks in the future tense about things already happening for some time. I've had phone systems lie about talking to a bot. > Companies are now trying to divert support requests into chats with LLMs More than trying they are doing
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by gib444 7mo ago
> and in the three years that followed everything possible was done to reverse the decision News to me (as a Brit). Maybe my memory is hazy. Got any detail?
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by gib444 7mo ago
> Munich tried a big-bang migration without enough internal expertise and caved under political pressure Almost sounds planned to fail...
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by gib444 7mo ago
Nor "Frenchie" while we're on the topic. It sounds really weird. It's also commonly used to refer to a french bulldog !
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by gib444 7mo ago
The price of everything and the value of nothing.
606.
by gib444 7mo ago
Autumn this season in the UK was (is) September to April. It's still cloudy, windy and chilly (2.5c below the average today). It feels like it's never going to end!
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by gib444 7mo ago
To help the FBI et al
608.
by gib444 7mo ago
It's been nice and sunny today. How's the weather where you all are?
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by gib444 7mo ago
Obligatory Mitchell and Webb https://youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0
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by gib444 7mo ago
> Iran has been the driving force behind a lot of instability in Middle East I'm loving the current stability that the USA has gifted the world and looking forward to many decades of peace and calm in the middle east. Thank you so m
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by gib444 7mo ago
> Who did the US bomb before 9/11? Who did the US bomb before Pearl Harbor? Right, they just hate the US because of their freedoms. /s
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by gib444 7mo ago
Oh man you yanks are so bad at insults haha > You mean Englandian Sounds fine lol > English is a language Yup, ours. The one thing you couldn't buy :)
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by gib444 7mo ago
As an Englishman, I don't need lectures on my language. English isn't controlled by a central authority. If a new word takes hold, it takes hold, that's it. The way the USA thinks it has an absolute right to decimate central
614.
by gib444 7mo ago
Efforts like this are good for people to realise there is a lot of talent in Europe that just gets overshadowed by USA's dominance. USAians tend think everything is less popular in Europe simply because it is inferior and fails purely
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by gib444 7mo ago
I installed Debian stable + i3 + x11 on a desktop today - what a breath of fresh air (not that I'm new to Linux) compared to MacOS. No bloat. No animations. No lag. A perfect tiling WM. No Secure Boot, no TPM, no SIP, no phoning home t
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by gib444 7mo ago
Team wool here too My carpets are 80% wool (with wool underlay). My base layers are wool. My jumpers are wool. My curtains are wool. Much of my mattress is wool. My next sofa will be wool. The only thing better than wool in a duvet (comfort
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by gib444 7mo ago
> synthetics (for anything active) are far better: lighter, warmer, better at dealing with moisture True. But I hate synthetics on my skin. Merino base layers and then layered synthetics/more wool works for me for low-activity cold
618.
by gib444 7mo ago
Will a US state get the same kind of criticism a European country gets about push-back against big tech? Maine will go bankrupt? Maine will turn into a barren backwater? There will be no jobs?
619.
by gib444 7mo ago
Exactly! :)
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by gib444 7mo ago
"We've delivered your item" I suspect is required from their point of view due to their annoying proclivity to deliver items on a door step instead of where they meant to which is to a person. CYA
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by gib444 7mo ago
Companies too lazy or unwilling to set a thread id.
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by gib444 7mo ago
The 3.57MB background PNG is hilarious [0] [0] https://railway.com/dots-oxipng.png
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by gib444 7mo ago
I don't think you were aware of code gen SQL tools before this conversation right
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by gib444 7mo ago
I meant code generators like sqlc
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by gib444 7mo ago
> EF Core being possibly the best ORM out there Is it good at the wrong thing? Eg compare to strongly-typed query generators
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by gib444 7mo ago
Yup, the commercial libraries. That's pretty big. It's nice the standard library has lots of goodies, but I doubt many projects in reality are zero-dependency (The amount of times I hear "the standard lib is great!" seem
627.
by gib444 7mo ago
Is C# a great language trapped in a terrible ecosystem? ie would masses use C# if it existed in another ecosystem? Or is it becoming a ball-of-mud/bad language compared to its contemporaries? (Honest questions. I have never used .NET m
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by gib444 7mo ago
Hah someone really looked at jq (?) and thought: "yes, more of this everywhere". I feel jq is like marmite (edit: aka vegemite, i.e. "you either love it or you hate it")
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by gib444 7mo ago
I've noticed some trains are playing extremely loud announcements (Elizabeth line for example) which makes me think they're trying to penetrate headphones and earphones Guess why I wear noise cancelling headphones on trains? Becau
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by gib444 7mo ago
Y'all need to form an alliance or something, get some press coverage (wireguard, veracrypt, libreoffice)

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