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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
Dexory | Head of AI | Oxfordshire, UK | Hybrid / ONSITE We’re building the world’s most advanced, real-time warehouse intelligence platform powered by autonomous robots and AI that thinks spatially, reasons like a human, and drives log
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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
It's not, really; the Catholic Church (among most other religious orders) routinely prioritises self-preservation over the safety of children. If we were to use "was in proximity to allegations of child abuse and didn't act o
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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
Yes, but find a catholic priest who doesn’t share that responsibility.
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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
This is a good approach I think. Rails is outstanding at delivering a good CRUD experience and data model management - sir I find it powerful to build the data model and admin tools using it, and allow other frameworks to access either th
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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
They honestly really haven’t though. I’d’ve thought they would’ve by now, but I still find bringing up a backend with something like Go to be annoyingly tedious and feature-incomplete in comparison. Like yeah, I know you can do it. But it w
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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
Evidence suggests we can't really even do one thing at a time.
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by matthewmacleod 1y ago
Be specific - what restrictions are these and how do they affect building?
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This was something that came up during Brexit of course but it seems difficult when you start getting into the details. The idea is that (completely reasonably) if you have a “single market” as you describe, you need harmonised regulation s
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
This is a great point. The first question a great software engineer should ask is “how can we avoid using software to do this?”!
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Over my years of hiring and working with other software engineers, I’d say they fall into two key categories: - Engineers who know how to build apps with a specific set of tools or frameworks and focus on applying this knowledge - Engineers
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
I would imagine something like the London's Dial-a-Ride service would be ideal – public provision of bookable door-to-door trips by minibus for people with long-term disabilities that make it impractical to use public transport.
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Ultimately though this attitude is just "you shouldn't advocate for anything because the fascists might be emboldened". It's victim-blaming, and cowardly centrism. "This is really your fault; if you hadn't dema
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Why do you feel this way – as in, why is this "asinine"? Anecdotally, I work with many people who frequently travel to the US, as well as a fair few academics over there. There is a clear general consensus that people are signific
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
God you are both just awful at making a compelling argument.
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Yeah, but most of that is in practice nonsense.
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Well, this is clearly wrong – it's obvious, for example, that gender identity could have a significant impact on mental health. Regardless of that, you seem to agree that: - Sex assigned at birth is important medical information - Info
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
The GP literally said “giving any medical prominence to gender identity will result in people receiving wrong and potentially harmful treatment” which is categorically false for the reasons the comment you replied to outlined. Sex assigned
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Well, Excel has a lot of common use-cases around processing numeric (and particularly financial) data. Since some locales use commas as decimal separators, using a character that's frequently present as a piece of data as a delimiter i
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Albeit for fairly justifiable reasons
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Honestly I’m now even more confused
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America talks often about union corruption. In fact, it does this to the point of crowding out any productive discussion - because Americans are often quite resistant to looking at other countries and understanding what approaches they take
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Inactivated polio vaccines are widely available and do not cause the cases of polio that the attenuated vaccine does.
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
This example proves the exact opposite of the point you intended to make.
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Star Trek DS9 episode 6x05 “What could be better? An ally and an enemy both telling him the same thing; he'll have no other choice but to agree!” If both Dick Cheney and Bernie Sanders are allied against someone, they’re probably bad n
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
I agree those shallow analysis are pointless. We can observe that the far right is also rising in the US, which isn’t too hot on vacation days or a social safety net! I guess I’d just say that people don’t like when everything is shitty and
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Nah, that's reductive to the point of being useless. It's like saying "losing weight is simple: eat fewer calories than you burn". It's both completely correct and completely unhelpful. Broadly, everybody realises t
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
I'm sorry for being unkind, but lazy comments like this really frustrate me. I can't imagine you've done any real research or thinking on this, but still think others have to "face facts" which are coincidentally ju
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What message are you trying to communicate? Are you implying that this is too high? Too low? Poorly spent?
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
Vaccination campaigns are “crazy and bad” because they might be hijacked by the CIA? I think you’ve identified the wrong culprit there buddy.
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by matthewmacleod 2y ago
It sounds like you have made several unjustified assumptions. Can you explain to us why you think you will not be able to “run AI on your own computer”?

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