mattlondon

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by mattlondon 2y ago
Particularly good training data? You can't mean the bottom-of-the-barrel dross that people post on Reddit, so not sure what data you are referring to? Click-stream?
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Yeah I often think that I am addicted to food. They say men think about sex every 7 seconds - I think about eating every 7 seconds! If I start eating badly, it is very very very hard to stop. I will crash off the rails into a spiral of bing
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by mattlondon 2y ago
I found that sugar free hard sweets/candies helped to try and satiate some of the pangs. It's still hard, and you might end up "chain eating" like 5 or 6 of the things in a row, but I figure better that than bingeing ch
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Much to the same opening as the article I have a little saying I have to myself: Don't get into a battle of wills with a kid - they don't even know they're taking part.
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Exactly.
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by mattlondon 2y ago
> 4chan's design is early web 2.0, doesn't require you create an account, allows (pseudo) anonymous posting, content is mostly unfiltered, unmonetized, free & thought of as ephemeral, etc. That is hardly unique. There are
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by mattlondon 2y ago
I'd hardly call it the "old internet". It is very niche, and has not been around that long really - like what 2003 or something? Nothing compared to e.g. Geocities which was early-mid 90s IIRC which I'd argue had more
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Most UK health stuff starts with a GP appointment. Even for private health care, you usually see a GP first (could be a private GP or NHS, in-person or video) and they then refer you to the next thing whatever that may be. ( N.B. that a NHS
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by mattlondon 2y ago
YouTube is very well positioned - all these video generating models etc. I am sure they'll be loads of AI editors too
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by mattlondon 2y ago
+1 If anything I think their revenue is still growing by double figures (?) which is insane considering we're decades and billions of users into the business.
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by mattlondon 2y ago
The article is suggesting that they'd rather not have ads than not have guns? Because ads are tools of manipulation? WTF do they think guns are for?! Let's face it, it is incredibly simple to entirely avoid ads everywhere online
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Yes it's all the mandatory fees that you must pay to then make a purchase that I think are being banned. The mandatory booking fee, the mandatory service fee, mandatory transaction fee, mandatory technology fee etc just so you can chec
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Glad to see this. Booking fee, service fee, transaction fee, technology fee, banking fee, payment handling fee, convenience fee, venue fee, ticket handling fee, verification fee, administration fee etc etc etc. So underhanded - they're
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by mattlondon 2y ago
On the facts of the case yes. But they are not expected to become experts in case law or legal precedent and history and philosophy etc. When I have had to do jury service we have explicitly been told not to research anything about the
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by mattlondon 2y ago
> effectively raising the profit margin for local production This is the sad thing for US consumers. If there is now a tariff on Product X that means instead of costing 100 it will now cost 125, I will guarantee you that the price for a
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by mattlondon 2y ago
This paints a very binary picture. Either you are in or out. Part of this tribe, or this other tribe (ignorantly or not). The article seems to imply that people can't have opinions on political policies unless they are fully inform
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by mattlondon 2y ago
> $14b admin budget (2024) Let me introduce you to an IBM salesperson who knows you have no option apart from renew those contracts on the mainframe and COBOL consultants :)
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Yeah I agree. This was probably kicked off by someone with power seeing how much IBM were charging for support/consultants etc. "Whaaaa? IBM want how much ?" On the other hand while I think it is a bit of a stupid idea to m
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Might be more prosaic - could just be hard to find COBOL engineers, and the ones they do find might want extortionate rates. Rewriting in something where engineers are cheaper and that can use commodity/cloud servers probably looks qui
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by mattlondon 2y ago
It kinda works already without outright banning them: the mandatory insurance will get more and more expensive the more accidents they have. So they price themselves out. Of course, they may then decide not to have insurance at all. In mos
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by mattlondon 2y ago
I am not convinced that many people outside of tech circles knows about ChatGPT. "AI" sure, but ChatGPT I am unconvinced. Either way, I am pretty confident Google will "win" long term since Gemini will be the AI built in
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by mattlondon 2y ago
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by mattlondon 2y ago
If only a few engineers are using it out of their own volition that I don't think that justifies trying to imply that Google is a customer. Pretty misleading and underhanded I think.
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Agree - seems like the rumours and mutterings were true: This model is very, very good. Quite a few happy people at Google today I bet. Which leads me to wonder, it's not like the Gemini 2 models were terrible either - they consistentl
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by mattlondon 2y ago
You have the Google logo on your landing page above the fold - what's the connection?
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by mattlondon 2y ago
Yeah absolutely this. I think in "the old days" a decade or two ago that sort of thing would have been largely out of reach to all but the most determined/well-founded adversary (I'm thinking corporate espionage, magazi
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by mattlondon 2y ago
IIRC there was talk of that being a disaster because they wanted to avoid giving the contract to one single company and mandated it was split up with different companies doing different bits. So they deliberately sharded the contract and
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by mattlondon 2y ago
I think that is the gov.uk website, not any UK government software. I think it is quite normal for individual sites to enforce a tech stack for their own site. gov.uk is quite huge - all sorts of things from passport applications, tax retu
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by mattlondon 2y ago
I think they also sometimes wrap polystyrene blocks under the camouflage too, so that particular curves on e.g. the wings or nose etc are altered by virtue of the camouflage having to confirm over that too.
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by mattlondon 2y ago
standalone for us was piecemeal - just do it one by one line of code here or there when you are already in the component making other changes. Likewise signals it was trivial to just change @Input() to input (ok slight simplification but no

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