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by ktallett 5mo ago
I said in the name of children which is always how it is sold to the public. At the end of the day it is eroding freedom. A VPN ban won't stop people using vpns; it most certainly won't stop those who are trying to hold companies
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by ktallett 5mo ago
I am not sure whether I will order one yet (who am I kidding I probably will) but the products I have ordered, the ploopy knob and the trackball have both been great quality and very usable. The knob in particular is very handy size to use
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Smart products always have been the dumb choice. Simple outweighs complex with minimal feature improvements every time.
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by ktallett 5mo ago
This fight against the right to use a VPN or to privacy online needs to be fought. It's a shocking how much privacy is eroded in the name of the children. When really it's clearly fighting against dissidence.
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by ktallett 5mo ago
I understand how it is supposed to work, but myself and many other academics do consider wanting to write a certain point and then look for a paper that backs that up. I am not saying for the main subject matter that should be done; that sh
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Agreed! Far too many companies selling software as lifetime license and their renegade on that deal. A refund should be allowed. Or simply make the software offline without drm
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by ktallett 5mo ago
A command line of any form is the biggest positive of Rhapsody and eventually Mac OS X
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Mac OS was a step in a different direction, however development was far less compelling for OSX than classic. Think C was far more enjoyable and created far smaller and less power hungry apps, which allowed for a greater range of possibilit
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by ktallett 5mo ago
They are hardly forgotten considering the OS was a key influence of Mac OS X and you can see clear features of it today. It was hugely important in the mid 90's graphics and 3d animation era too. Such a fabulous piece of design, both s
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Even coming from poverty (which I did) every first world country is a vast improvement as you say on wages to those coming from poverty. However, living standards in the US in many ways are vastly lower than other first world countries. Hea
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by ktallett 5mo ago
They are still purposely writing a paper, whether that is with the help of an LLM or not. They are instructing the LLM to do the task of finding citations. It's no difference to googling for a paper that explains a specific point. You
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Academia is the place with the least coherent policy. In the few institutions I'm aware of the AI rules for, the guide is usually 3 lines long and it is basically we don't promote usage of it, which is a meaningless phrase. Theref
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by ktallett 5mo ago
How are you suggesting the fake citation came about? Why are you writing papers and not having actually read the source you took the material from?
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Well most sexual assaults are committed by Swedish people in Sweden.
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Pay is only one of tens of factors. Pay is higher, but outgoings are far higher too so it is relative. Pay also is not the only factor in a good life.
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Who is still choosing to move to the US for work or study in this climate? The benefits do not outweigh the negatives in any industry.
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Whilst not viable in every business, I do this a lot in my research, scripts I create, custom software I make for the lab, I have been fortunate to be able to plop online. It is extremely niche software (power meter, and in the pipeline, al
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Yes, as nowadays we have the ability to simulate or experiment theories at a great speed. A century ago it was a lot harder so scepticism made sense as you couldn't easily prove your theory. You feel we should be able to take more risk
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by ktallett 5mo ago
A nobel prize was very rarely given for theory, especially one that hadn't been stringently experimented on until the 50's to the -70's. The photoelectric effect definitely was more solid to give out the prize on. Saying this
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Disruptive work nowadays is not very popular with institutions and doesn't win you grants. What does win grants is plodding along on a same path usually towards some end goal that is the latest buzzword. Those who stay in academia all
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by ktallett 5mo ago
So we do know that all the tiny interactions like charge of particles etc must work side by side with all the big interactions like gravity as otherwise how would anything as we know it work. However it could as easily be neither are the ri
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Whilst I feel all creative passions should be appropriately rewarded, I would say musicians are the best rewarded out of all the ones that can be done in your bedroom. Authors and artists earn far less but still do it. Surely at the end of
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by ktallett 5mo ago
On the day I have deleted all social network accounts bar Mastodon, as I have realised I just don't care anymore. Any one I want in my life, I have the phone number of, any one I can take or leave I don't. Mastodon is more than en
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by ktallett 5mo ago
Even in Japan it depends on specifics. Things get stolen there too.
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by ktallett 5mo ago
It's a tricky one as I've left my laptop in Glasgow, London, Tokyo, Seoul, and Berlin. I would say ancedotally they are all of varying levels of safety on the whole as a city, but it depends on the situation and judging it correct
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by ktallett 6mo ago
Do you mean it's not tolerated as long as you ignore the following? -The rampant sexual assaults -Child pornography still be prevelant -Tens of Millions overworked -Millions paid a wage that can't provide anything other than a sla
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by ktallett 6mo ago
There is nothing about Japan that suggests otherwise. One example being whether you agree with capital punishment or not, their method of never giving you advance notice is torture, for both the prisoner and their family.
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by ktallett 6mo ago
EU didn't state this for one. The paper they wrote quoted someone else stating this.
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by ktallett 6mo ago
Google Reader was shut for the same reason many things was shut by Google. However, once a piece of software works and is fully featured which Reader was, you don't need endless updates, just security and to work with the latest versio
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by ktallett 6mo ago
How did they do it the rest of the time before inaccurate facial recognition came into fruition?

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