jpfromlondon

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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
When I see what passes for modern writing, be it genre fiction, non-fic for the general audience, or even the literary, I'm not sure I want to appeal to, convince, or share knowledge with them. Like casting pearls before swine.
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
Qwentai
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
The examples I gave, primarily post GFC, except in the case of Greece the caveat is that although initially caused by the GFC the sovereign debt crisis marks it as distinct from the other economies listed. HK under JJ Cowperthwaite (1961 to
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
that it was so perversely gatekept is what made the early internet so enjoyable though. I find it all the more appealing with that barrier to entry because I miss the internet that this community is nostalgically trying to replicate and rep
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
Some of these things are unforgivable (not repeated here in order to avoid spoiling for others), much worse than Jackson's omission of Tom Bombadil. How depressing.
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
Counter-cyclic fiscal policy and QE does work, absolutely, but it's likely dependent on size of economy because in most cases austerity works better...but in most cases the economies are much smaller than America's; Ireland, Est
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
>flabbergasted phatic mimicry.
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
>if you use PPP prices ... it was still on the uptrend until 2020 when switching off the economy squashed all growth and not just in Britain but other major continental economies too, Germany has actually been in and out of recession mul
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
>They want to turn LLMs into a commodity, and watch the US AI labs crash and burn. You can say that, but they are at least better at democratizing AI than the American labs, and on seeing the US labs crash and burn we are at least aligne
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
time dilation
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
it used to be, but it's been less and less perverse over the past ten to fifteen years.
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by jpfromlondon 3mo ago
Be creative, use ten simple words when one archaic or obscure one would suffice, sure, go ahead, use nonplussed synonymously with indifferent, what's most important is that you be creative in your artless murder of English.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
>I think it allows greater flexibility for humor and subtext than ever. It has more ambiguity because we had many similar words for similar things that are differential in some minor way. Now everything can mean anything, it is leaning m
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
Plenty of important things have been born of passion without necessity.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
I think it was tongue-in-cheek since back then security didn't have the high gloss corporate veneer it has today
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
I'd be surprised if the churn was as high as the subscription model. If I buy a product and like it as-is then I don't necessarily want it to change over time. Buy once is better, buy once with optional updates or periodic version
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
There was a Knoppix STD (security tools distro), I remember using that in the mid/early 00s.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
Both actually.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
Fender own Charvel so that's okay.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
take your pick, health, material, whatever you want.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
nonsense, the lowest strata of working society has never had it so good, unfortunately things are still going to be out of reach, perhaps what the comment above said was a little harsh but there is truth to it, if what you love about the sp
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
You don't really have relative perfect pitch because as you say, you can recognise the G-ness of a note I assume without reference. If anything I think this reinforces what I'm alluding to.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
I've seen nothing to convince me that " absolute pitch " is anything other than relative pitch with excellent recall or persistent observation of pitch.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
if that's your priority then bilberries exist.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
£3.85 in my nearest central-London Tesco, it even includes some premium energy drinks like Tenzing that alone would get close to the cost of the deal.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
it obviously knew your hn username
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
everyone is always in such a rush to name (and define) the next sociophilosophical zeitgeist, and always with some etymologically unsound term or phrase, interesting as the content may be, the tagline makes me cringe.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
Your comment makes it pretty clear that mine went over your head and that's fine, these tools are for people like you, godspeed.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
that isn't rational, rational is using the model that can best solve your current problem in the timeliest cost considered manner. I'm not working on the frontier problems, I don't need god-in-a-box for $600 per month.
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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
All models from the past two years are close in the general case. This is just another incremental improvement, rushed out to boost the ipo, AI has the capacity to aid an engineer but this minor bump in performance will have essentially zer

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