mattbee

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by mattbee 4y ago
The scope isn't revolutionary - I've used https://mailu.io/ for years for a few 10s of users, and I really like it. I've heard similar good stories from Mailcow users. On a quick skim I couldn't tell wha
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by mattbee 4y ago
I can't find this post from a physicist, but they had their bicycle stolen and the police had given up searching the CCTV log because it was taking them too long, despite the fact that it was pointed at the bicycle. He told them that e
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by mattbee 4y ago
You don't have to imagine, you can read in Dahl's autobiography that's nonsense. Pressure from NAACP jeopardised the production of the 1971 movie Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory , which turned into the first plank o
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by mattbee 4y ago
I'm sure a predictable contrarian like O'Neill would have found something to complain about in how it happened. Paraphrasing from Dahl's 2010 biography but worth reading in full https://www.google.com.au/books
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by mattbee 4y ago
I don't hear the author complaining about the loss of the first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. This is where Dahl bowed to early 70s wokery and erased the oompa-loompas' true identity as African slaves who would dri
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by mattbee 4y ago
I heard one similarly depressing story from someone who left a well-known and well-liked (here) company, but it's not my story to tell. So it would be lovely to hear from people who've taken maternity leave, been able to return to
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by mattbee 4y ago
Ha, surely someone who has driven a £20,000+ car to a surveilled remote location isn't going to bring ... what, a 4G radio jammer? Wire cutters? Risking electrocution? To save £5-20 on a top-up? While they wait 30-60 minutes for the c
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by mattbee 4y ago
The UK's motorway charging network lose their connections all the time, but they tend to fail open , i.e. charge for free as long as it's not an electrical fault. It seems like a very petty upside to change that.
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by mattbee 4y ago
The recent definition isn't vague (no punishment beatings), but it is situational. So a massive number in a standard contract will be seen as punitive to anyone but a mega merchant. Particularly as it also precedes cancellation of the
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by mattbee 4y ago
Only if 50 units of money is a reasonable estimate of the losses of the other party for failure to deliver. A judgment in 2015 clarified the test of a penalty clause: "[T]he true test is whether the impugned provision is a secondary ob
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by mattbee 4y ago
Not in the UK; contractual penalty clauses are illegal. You can only be held liable for damages caused by a breach of contract. I'm sure the card networks can do what they want and it'd be months before a court could catch up thou
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by mattbee 4y ago
If there were a legally sound way to trace inspiration from a copyrighted work through the brain into another work, lawyers would be all over it! They try often enough with music. The line will surely get a lot less fuzzy with AI models.
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by mattbee 4y ago
Haha, OK, not greatly in touch with the visual arts me, was just grasping for a monumentally successful modern painter. But I don't think it changes my point - I'm sure his estate would like to use copyright law to keep the excl
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by mattbee 4y ago
I like this because they are trying to show how AI is a copyright laundry. I can see other commenters picking apart its method of heuristically guessing at source images from training data. That obviously won't be accurate, or a full p
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by mattbee 4y ago
They're conflated because pg has an interest in paying young people low rates to work their butts off for a slim chance of success. He's a master of talking his book, and a lot of his blogs read like grist for the high-school to
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by mattbee 4y ago
To me it's the University of Cambridge's email server (RIP 1993-2021). I see a few alums keep use their hermes ID as they a username outside of Cambridge (like mjg59).
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by mattbee 4y ago
https://guestrevenue.com/ - an tool to integrate Airbnb bookings into Xero for short let owners who want really precise accounts. Built for myself, turned into a multi-tenant app because in 2019 it would definitely make me
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by mattbee 4y ago
Hetzner has been fine for me, only since 2018.
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by mattbee 4y ago
As ever with these discussions, I host my own email on a Hetzner VM with https://mailu.io/ and there was no special setup or precaution required to ensure delivery both ways. Still - if you self-host just assume at some poi
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by mattbee 4y ago
In the 90s I used 3 different desktop OSes where the UI followed a style guide, and that style guide evolved gradually over years, allowing you to glance at a control and be familiar with its possibilities. Now even on one device, the user
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by mattbee 4y ago
Yeah I agree people will wear headsets outside if it's compelling enough. How many people were being just as dorky with Pokemon Go when that first came out? There was a plague of arms-length-phone-holders in every park for a year.
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by mattbee 4y ago
If you had the prompt and the output, and you knew your work was in the training data, you _could_ retrain the whole model minus your work, and then feed the same prompt back in. Then if the output looked nothing like your work as it did fo
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by mattbee 4y ago
I had several holiday let stays improved by bringing my Nanopresso that I got last Christmas - it's £70 but the pressure gets you really good espresso.
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by mattbee 4y ago
Data from _Github_ is making this argument? Java is surely embedded in the kinds of enterprises that would never share a line of code publicly. I can believe Java is "in decline" for new open source projects, but that's not
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by mattbee 4y ago
Like with my example of The Beautiful South above, it feels like the prompt could use a reminder that songs are a work of art and may have a hidden meaning or another interpretation. It _almost_ gets there with that creepy DCFC song...
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by mattbee 4y ago
I gave it a spin on https://www.songtell.com/the-beautiful-south/song-for-whoeve... and nope, haha, not quite... https://genius.com/The-beautiful-south-song-for-whoever-lyri... Also hilarious for missi
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by mattbee 4y ago
My guess is that the data feed used to have two related shares that became one through a split or other corporate action? And just nobody has bothered to apply a manual correction to remove the dupe. Whatever the reason I suspect anyone rea
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by mattbee 4y ago
If a buzzy restaurant or show has a long queue outside you can usually skip it on your own. Feels very cool!
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by mattbee 4y ago
I'm sure there are lots of working Linux ports! I was just saying that when I _did_ have a problem with a game on my Deck, disabling the Linux port fixed it. Where are the compromises for a developer in using Proton? There's one
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by mattbee 4y ago
It really is. And I noticed quite early on: the Steam games which had problems were the ones with native Linux ports - wonky display settings, or controller not recognised or something like that. The fix is always to tell it to "for

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