graemep

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by graemep 5mo ago
> I do believe their incentives better align with mine than the marketing department of some app I was forced to download because I bought a ticket once or something like that. Align better for now. It will get enshittified. I try very h
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by graemep 5mo ago
There are large number of people in China learning English. While China might firewall some things, learning languages does not seem to be one of them. > Not even if the US and UK both sank into the ocean. Lots of English speakers in oth
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by graemep 5mo ago
I said a reason, not the reason. Both can be true.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I was thinking of rather earlier in history, but you are right. My grandfather was studied Latin (and Greek) in school in Sri Lanka.
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by graemep 5mo ago
Yes, agreed. That was intended to be a BTW and Latin is probably the best choice on your criteria.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I think that is a reason the catholic Church still uses it for things like papal encyclicals. It puts different groups on a more equal footing. Far more people understand it than things like Esperanto. Quite a lot of people know it a bit. I
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by graemep 5mo ago
Historically Latin was also a common international language. Educated people could understand Latin across much of Europe. Not so great for the majority of people, of course. The article seems to indicate that in some places it was pretty w
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by graemep 5mo ago
That in itself is reasonable. However governments choose to encourage it with tax systems that mean you pay less tax by increasing debt. This is the main thing that breaks capital structure irrelevance: https://moneyterms.co.uk&
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by graemep 5mo ago
Its called "free market capitalism". I have been in favour of it for decades: https://pietersz.co.uk/2009/11/fix-capitalism I am somewhat more inclined to some socialist policies now though.
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by graemep 5mo ago
What about the risk that talking to a machine as though its human leads to thinking of it has human? That leads down a lot of dangerous paths.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I think indentation is more intuitive. Even people using languages that use braces or similar usually use indentation to make code readable. If doing that you end up explaining both ideas (use braces and indent).
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by graemep 5mo ago
The title is inaccurate. Its a self-hosted transactional email gateway, not self hosted email
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by graemep 5mo ago
A VPS will not be cheaper - but you may get more for your money (more storage, unlimited accounts). For something simple try https://mailinabox.email/ > would love to switch to some VPS/root or anything where I can
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by graemep 5mo ago
Is it worth getting worse results for that reason? From the article: "Contrary to expectations, impolite prompts consistently outperformed polite ones, with accuracy ranging from 80.8% for Very Polite prompts to 84.8% for Very Rude pro
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by graemep 5mo ago
I just do not want to do async in Python. If you need async its questionable whether Python is a good choice at all, and if you use Python maybe look at another solution if at all possible (even using more processes and throwing hardware at
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by graemep 5mo ago
Its far safer to walk than it was in 70s despite more parents driving their kids around but we still have kids walking less. The feedback loop is possible, but its not what is happening. I think its linked to a general feeling of safety. I
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by graemep 5mo ago
A lot of what they have done is the reverse. They have used a lot of such publicly funded information (and a lot of other freely available information) to train LLMs that are proprietary.
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by graemep 5mo ago
I agree with you to an extent, but I think that when people profit from a work (e.g. by using it to train a proprietary AI that they charge people to use) they should share the profit with the author of the work. So I think Anna's Aarc
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by graemep 5mo ago
Surely people still use textbooks for formal education? This has to be something that happens later.
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by graemep 5mo ago
> It might also have something to do with cities here being generally safe. Is the difference in actual safety or the perception of safety? For example. Finland has a higher rate of traffic related deaths than the UK according to this:
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by graemep 5mo ago
This bit is not supported by the quoted studies: "We live in a culture of safetyism. And it’s largely an English speaking phenomenon." If you look at page 14 of this: https://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/sites/d
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by graemep 5mo ago
The article cites the huge drop in children's mobility in England since the 1970s. Planning here pays more attention to making it safer to walk than it did in the 70s. The numbers show it is far safer. We still have that decline. Does
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by graemep 5mo ago
Thanks, fixed.
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by graemep 5mo ago
its greater fool theory https://moneyterms.co.uk/greater-fool/
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Irrational philistine "education" has won(pietersz.co.uk)
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by graemep 5mo ago
True, but a US warrant. So if data is stored on a system in another country owned by an American company, they can be compelled to hand the information to the US government even if it is illegal to do so according to the law of the country
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by graemep 5mo ago
The problem with that argument is that you do not get bureaucrats instead of tech-bros, you get both
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by graemep 5mo ago
The European Coal and Steel Community was established over 74 years ago. The idea of Europe as a nation goes back to the early to mid 20th century, at least. One example i can find a citation for (but it was far from the first): https:&#x
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by graemep 5mo ago
> Trading blocks (like the European single market) are specifically designed to protect their members from shit that global corporations or other nations attempt to get away with. Most of those global corporations are in favour of these
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by graemep 5mo ago
its second biggest economy left a few years ago, a number of smaller economies which collectively are much smaller want to join. Negotiations with by far the biggest of those economies have been started over 20 years ago and have been froze

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