louthy

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by louthy 7mo ago
And coal tar
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by louthy 7mo ago
Take their phones off them, turn them off, and place them in a faraday cage. It really is the only completely safe way of operating.
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by louthy 7mo ago
Loose lips sinks ships. So does uncontrolled mobile phone access. It just doesn’t rhyme as well.
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by louthy 7mo ago
> TB-303 owner here. If my TB-303 sounded this bad I'd set fire to it ;-) Fellow TB-303 owner here. I concur.
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by louthy 8mo ago
If HR says that they’re lying. It isn’t true.
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US threatens Anthropic with deadline in dispute on AI safeguards(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by louthy 8mo ago|0 comments
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by louthy 8mo ago
‘They’ literally didn’t.
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by louthy 8mo ago
> But the real crime with brutalism was the stuff that got demolished to make room for it The Barbican was a literal bomb site after the war [1]. Blame Hitler, not urban planning. [1] https://historicengland.org.uk/images
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by louthy 8mo ago
I mean it works as intended. It’s an art centre that succeeds in hosting art extremely well. Therefore, its functionally good architecture (if not visually appealing to everyone).
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by louthy 8mo ago
It’s a magnificent space. If you just judge it purely on the concrete you may have a different opinion, but if you’re there to consume the various forms of art performed on the Southbank, then the space really comes alive. I’m glad it’s lis
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by louthy 9mo ago
This is just phase one; phase two requires the law to be changed so that you must do what the AI tells you to do, or be immediately terminated (read in to the last word whatever you want)
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by louthy 9mo ago
This is so dystopian I can’t tell if it’s a joke or not.
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by louthy 9mo ago
Sure, but getting the right environment is a prerequisite. In my case it’s a Herman Miller Embody chair [1] that stops me getting into a bad position (it’s not impossible, it just encourages good posture). [1] https://www.hermanm
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by louthy 9mo ago
There’s a big glowy thing in the sky that they can use to extract energy also. They have a lot of that energy too
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by louthy 9mo ago
1/3rd voted for this, 1/3rd voted against, and 1/3rd are complicit. The fact that the US did this twice beggar belief. For those of us in the rest of the world who have no say but are bombarded by this shit daily, we hold you
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by louthy 9mo ago
Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea...
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by louthy 9mo ago
> Germany holds the world’s second-largest national gold reserves after the United States, with approximately $194B worth — 1,236 metric tons—currently stored at the Federal Reserve in New York Moving that much gold makes me think that’s
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by louthy 9mo ago
Whilst this might be symbolic, money managers don’t tend to do symbolism. Surely it’s more likely that they fear what’s to come: an economic war against the dollar as pushback for the threats from Trump. So selling before the price tanks ma
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by louthy 9mo ago
Every mushroom cloud has a silver lining?
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by louthy 9mo ago
It’s “these days”, because we’ve exited the period where the last world war was in living memory. Nobody who lived through a world war would be so crass. Unfortunately, that also means we’re likely due another one any time now.
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by louthy 9mo ago
And they have already retired.
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by louthy 9mo ago
True. This was how my first computer was [1] I didn’t call it dark mode though! [1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Hard_res...
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by louthy 9mo ago
> In Finland? Notably wage-compressed Finland? It's all relative.
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by louthy 9mo ago
> “absolutely everything” It isn’t absolutely everything, it’s for negligence. If you don’t have basics in place, like independent pen-tests, ISO 27001 audits — or some equivalent — when you’re handling clinical data, then that’s neglige
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by louthy 9mo ago
Good idea, I propose Brainfuck
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by louthy 9mo ago
Don't buy one then.
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by louthy 9mo ago
Nothing is quite as slick as Apple, but companies are popping up doing pretty sleek Linux-first laptops, I have a Starlabs notebook [1] and am waiting for their new Starfighter [2]... [1] https://starlabs.systems/pages/
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by louthy 9mo ago
TAOCP
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by louthy 9mo ago
> Most syntax highlighting adds too many color variations. Different strokes, for different folks. I personally use Monokai where each token type has and ‘extreme’ colour (like full red, full green, full yellow, etc.) — I absolutely love
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by louthy 10mo ago
It’s not about danger it’s about being declarative. That’s kinda the point of using these ‘result’ types: you’re fully declaring the codomain of the function — barring exceptions — and so if your codomain is augmented with Exception then it

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