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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Exactly so. A legal case is ongoing, not yet judged, so there is no genocide in law. And on your second point, it has already been widely debunked as Hamas propaganda; in any case, the evidence adduced would not constitute evidence of genoc
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
I will simply point out that there is no genocide, in fact or in law, and that to smear the Israelis for that is particularly nasty. And on the other hand, support for an immediate ceasefire ( the central demand of these denos) is indubita
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Thanks for the reminder! Will do!
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by montgomery_r 2y ago
Not sure this is appropriate to HN? I come here to get away from Hamas supporters, not to find them.
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
+1 on these questions. Can I run a local llm that will, for example - visit specified URLs and collect tabular data into csv format? - ingest a series of documents on a topic and answer questions about it - ingest all my PDF/MD/Wo
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
Was it this one? https://reasonablypolymorphic.com/book/preface - it does what you describe, at least! All the best for your search….
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
This site is midwittery at its finest. 'Oo - I've invented a situation where someone may hypothetically be offended!'. To take the first two specific examples, the US flag is perfectly appropriate for English and furthermore
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
C21 fiction - The Wolf Hall trilogy, Hillary Mantell; by some margin the best prose I’ve seen this century. C20 fiction - Pale Fire, Nabokov, a book to return to; Pop science - Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, a book that radically
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
Oh dear. I suppose I should have guessed from the title - but there is no explanation or coherent argument here, just a series of unfounded assertions. (And, I might add, a remarkably un-self-aware demonstration that pricing policies are ch
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
I read the article and remembered why I cancelled my sub to The Economist. This was written by an intern who had half read the research paper with 15 minutes to filing deadline. LI/virtual and physical networking aren't the same,
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
This is one of the lowest-value articles I've seen linked on HN. It's a weak tea defence of descriptivism and a failed attack on prescriptivism. The only substantive points made, albeit without evidence, are that prescriptivism &#
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
Thanks for these tips! But - I suspect there’s something of a tension in your advice between ‘wanting to treat people like humans’ and ‘wanting to scale communications to achieve business goals’- that you haven’t resolved. I’m not going to
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by montgomery_r 3y ago
- I have been using a 12.9” iPad since march 2018 for exactly these purposes. It has worked very well. - the better notes apps ( I use goodnotes ) are functionally much better than paper, in that they make it easy to move areas of writing a
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
Without wishing to be a Reddit archetype (whatever that is)I might (smugly?) point out that if we’re on a ship that needs turning around we’re at least unlikely to go down hill…
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
Fair enough, but the couple of hours it takes to learn to do Word level stuff in Emacs will be many times repaid by the time you don’t spend swearing at Word….
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
Word < emacs
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
- Russia is waging an (illegal) war of aggression -its war aims are almost certainly not limited to annexing Ukraine - it is therefore sensible for the West to stop Russia in its tracks now, and force Russia to withdraw its troops from all
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Cellebrite Hacked by Whistleblowers(insicurezzadigitale.com)
5 points by montgomery_r 4y ago|1 comments
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
Cellebrite (mobile phone digital forensics) software and manuals available to all… from disgruntled whistleblowers annoyed they sell to shady governments
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
Prices may vary by region but here in UK Family O365 gets you 6Tb of cloud storage at a considerable discount to any other service Ive seen. My cloud storage is the emergency third backup for eg when the house has burned down destroying bo
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
The Spectator has - generally high quality writing - a quirky (but data driven) approach - a longer history than any other magazine - a UK focus - a right wing bent, but with plenty of left wing ( or apolitical) writers for balance. Might b
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by montgomery_r 4y ago
I have a bookshelf that contains only ‘books I have read this year or have acquired to read’. On New Years day or thereabouts, I photograph them and store them in the correct places on my shelves, and start filling the current year shelf ag