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by michaelt 1y ago
Do you believe these russian and chinese bots are walking the streets, where an 'impromptu check' by a policeman would stop them? Or are you saying this electronic ID card will be linked to people's twitter accounts, to bette
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by michaelt 1y ago
In the UK all cars have number plates front and rear, so that's covered already.
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by michaelt 1y ago
To the extent this is technically possible, if the gig economy companies wanted to do this, they could do it already. When the driver signs up, check their passport or driving license in the normal manner, and take a matching portrait you k
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Whose pockets are being filled when one transit agency is paying 2x what another one does for the same bus. I mean, that could just be normal, routine failure to negotiate effectively. If every bus vendor says "call for pricing&
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by michaelt 1y ago
> i've also accidentially fallen in the river a couple of times over the past two years, and i will confirm that the water is safe I believe for open water swimming, the definition of 'safety' they're aiming for inc
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by michaelt 1y ago
And by ~2000 there were also increasingly viable x86 offerings in CAD, 3D and video editing. You had AutoCAD, you had 3D Studio Max, you had After Effects, you had Adobe Premiere. And it was solid stuff - maybe not best-in-class, but good e
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by michaelt 1y ago
Many airlines offer different fare classes. For a return ticket half way around the world, I can pay $1100 for Economy, $2800 for Premium Economy, $3900 for Business Class and $6900 for First Class. It seems you have to charge a big, big pr
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by michaelt 1y ago
If we were still in the age of personal blogs and phpbb forums, where there were thousands of different venues - the fact the chess forum would ban you for discussing checkers was no problem at all. But these days, when you can count the fo
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by michaelt 1y ago
I can see how it would be in China's interest to make sure there was an LLM that produced cutting edge performance in Chinese-language conversations. And some uses of LLMs are intensely political; think of a student using an LLM to lea
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by michaelt 1y ago
To me, it sounds like both sides are communicating successfully. The group of friends is saying "you are invited" to someone probably disinterested - polite and inclusive to some, bothersome spam to others. The 'workaholic&#x
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by michaelt 1y ago
As I understand it, you can't apply to Oxford and Cambridge in the same year.
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by michaelt 1y ago
As I understand it, the only organisation that can block the streaming websites without collateral damage is Cloudflare, and they have not chosen to do so. The situation is a bit irregular, as the streaming providers set up a new website fo
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by michaelt 1y ago
> The question is, is it necessary? Many systems can live with processes performing a little bit poorly for some minutes and I wouldn't do it. The outage ain't resolved until things are back to operating normally. If things a
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by michaelt 1y ago
Then you should take a good hard look at older, much cheaper Raspberry Pis. Then look at Apple’s ARM offerings, and AWS Graviton if you need ARM with raw power. If you need embedded/GPIO you should consider an Arduino, or clone. If you
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by michaelt 1y ago
It's always surprised me, when talking to Americans online, how many people seem to feel they don't have access to the secondary car market. Perhaps it's because I grew up around people who were good with their hands, but in
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by michaelt 1y ago
Given that there's 600 entries anyway, you really want to use one of those dropdowns that also lets people search by substring. Or a clickable map. You can't really escape the fact Europe/ is going to be after Africa/ an
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by michaelt 1y ago
When it comes to fan art of Disney characters, the legal position is "Disney could sue you for that, but chooses not to as suing fans would be bad PR, don't do anything commercial with it though or they'll sue you for sure&qu
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by michaelt 1y ago
Nobody's distributing a free dataset of child abuse, animal torture and terror beheading images, for obvious reasons. There are some open-weights NSFW detectors [1] but even if your detector is 99.9% accurate, you still need an appeals
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by michaelt 1y ago
I know for certain it's whatever you care to contract for, but rotation between tasks is common. A lot of these suppliers provide on-demand workers - if you need 40 man-hours of work on a one-off task, they can put 8 people on it and g
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by michaelt 1y ago
> Are all of the LLMs trained using human labor that is sometimes exposed to extreme content? The business process outsourcing companies labelling things for AI training are often the same outsourcing companies providing moderation ser
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by michaelt 1y ago
Should an outgoing Republican legislature be allowed to deliberately introduce a gun control bill, vote not to pass it, and thereby block an incoming Democratic legislature from passing gun control for their entire term?
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by michaelt 1y ago
> What I don't understand is how a lot of people will state both parties are corrupt and then also be party loyal. Both teams are corrupt, but in different ways. On my team it’s rules being bent but not broken, a few bad apples,
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by michaelt 1y ago
I think a lot of people reach into their pocket and get their phone out if they need "interactivity, ability to respond to notifs, cellular, etc" But if you want to leave your smartphone at home, but you still want cellular and no
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by michaelt 1y ago
Sure thing! According to https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgleg70r7rno > When Thames was privatised in 1989, it had no debt. But over the years it borrowed heavily and its total debt - which includes all of
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by michaelt 1y ago
The thing is, if a water company is in good financial health, with low debt and lots of money to invest in infrastructure, it’s completely legal for private equity to buy the company, stop investing in infrastructure, take out loans until a
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by michaelt 1y ago
I've never stepped on a plug myself, so I agree it's not a major problem. However, some older houses in the UK have far fewer sockets than more modern properties - sometimes only one or two per room. And sure, if you need to use a
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by michaelt 1y ago
You make it sound like motorbike riders are practically unregulated, but in a sense it's the opposite. A few decades ago, 125cc bikes were mostly for learners practising before taking their test. But successive governments have made it
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by michaelt 1y ago
The "Dark Rock 5" marketing materials say it provides a 210 W TDP [1] and marketers seldom under-sell their products' capabilities. So if your CPU is drawing "more than 200W" you're pretty much at the limits of
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by michaelt 1y ago
> They're getting paid $6 an hour. [...] Why write software to micromanage minimum wage employees? Ironically, the less a job pays, the harsher and more demanding the bosses tend to be. Earning six figures as a software developer,
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by michaelt 1y ago
> The truth is, China’s really doing ‘007’ now—midnight to midnight, seven days a week This sounds like the new generation's equivalent of 1980s bosses exhorting people to "give 110%"

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