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by pjc50 5mo ago
We spent decades fighting teen pregnancy for this?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> was in too many meetings, where the CV of a young woman was critically evaluated for her propensity to get pregnant as soon as the probationary period was over When was this? In much of Europe that's been illegal employment discri
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by pjc50 5mo ago
People forget that there's been a multi generational messaging of preventing women from having kids without economic security; this used to be done by the parents rejecting marriages that didn't bring enough dowry and extreme pu
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> the Telegraph, the Mail, GB News, the Sun, the Times Indeed. These are pay-to-play propaganda and should not be accorded the dignity of "newspaper". Peter Oborne's resignation from the Telegraph is still worth reading:
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The quantity/quality tradeoff is horrific. And I speak as someone who's watched hundreds of low budget "B" movies. AI is going to allow churning out vastly more movies than anyone can ever watch. Even if some might be go
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Running into the problem that Americans are very bad at defining "socialism" here, meaning anything from social democrat to full Communism, but: there is a strong utilitarian streak in socialist societies that is also vulnerable t
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by pjc50 5mo ago
RAM price and electricity price increases are already inflation.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Supply is both already constrained and AI companies have pre-purchased enough HBM at enough of a premium that most of the wafers are allocated to them. All the intermediaries are jacking up their prices so their inventory doesn't emp
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Does it matter whether any of this is correct? (Mathematics at least has the potential for automated non-AI proof checking, although I don't think that's as widely used as you'd expect)
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Some of the old Sheffield toolmakers are still going: https://www.crownhandtools.ltd.uk/ The UK has mostly moved up the value chain. We make satellites and turbines now.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I think we're going to have to accept that the EV market and technology is moving fast enough that cars behave a lot more like smartphones, or buying a computer in the 90s: one that's ten years old is going to look ridiculously da
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Yes, sorry.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
It has been about 20 years since I worked on this (clock gating and clock buffering), but .. > distances are short I remember we had a catastrophic error for "wire longer than 2cm". > and buffers can be inserted at will to m
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by pjc50 5mo ago
X is itself a massive cash-in of trust by the new owner. But yes, a lot of the tech industry these days resembles people looking at a rainforest and thinking how much value could be derived from clear-cutting it. Massive one-time extraction
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The tabs are fine. Tabs in "cmd" are also good. The window handles, on the other hand .. this was correct in Windows 3.0 and there's basically no good reason to have changed it. There should be a title bar. Active window shou
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I would expect DLL parsing to be a one-off cost at assembly load time. Certainly that handles all the stuff detailed under "Assembly resolution". Assembly resolution is also recursive, so I would expect that to simplify "type
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> If they can use the AI and get to a point that they can submit a PR that they themselves understand, then technically speaking, what do I care? This is where my employer has ended up after extremely cautious AI adoption: _must_ be revi
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by pjc50 5mo ago
.. if you're trying to parse the assemblies by hand for some reason. If you're just trying to handle them with reflection none of this is an issue.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Links to MIT source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/three-sided-y-zipper-design-0504 I guess that means the patent has expired. Which is a common fate for these things: patenting a technology means that nobody else is going
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> There are some AI-driven autorouters out there now. Placement is probably the big issue that needs to be solved now. Interesting that within an IC this is basically "solved", or at least properly automated with classical nume
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is the London Review Of Books. They will be one of the last bastions of non-AI writing, because they actually care.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The national security and sovn. issues are when the US threatens to turn off the system, or starts sanctioning individual non-US nationals.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> You can't get any high value notes there, they just don't exist Yes, although this is mostly by capping the highest regularly circulating note at £50 after the war and then waiting for inflation. > And there's so much
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The absolute peak of that was, of course, during WW2 when vast amounts of stolen or looted money, gold, and other valuables ended up being laundered through Switzerland and kept in anonymous accounts. Mostly by Nazis, although not exclusive
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by pjc50 5mo ago
A good long explanation of the issues: https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/newsroom/can-i-walk-out-of-my... The flip side is that other employers understand that you can't fill a position immediately. There's not
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by pjc50 5mo ago
"He's out of line, but he's right": while Iran are an extremely bad actor, before Trump the situation was stable. And the start of conventional hostilities was clearly from the US+Israel side. (open question as to how mu
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Another "America vs Europe" (well, UK): I have my notice periods written in my contracts, whether that's one month or three months, and it is always bi-directional.
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Those have always offered career progression, though. Whether the industry is growing is a different variable to whether someone is growing in competence. Some environments require progression as a sort of anti-stasis measure. Famously incl
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by pjc50 5mo ago
There is something deeply stupid about assuming that naming your bluetooth device "bomb" is a real threat, let alone that it's going to be a real bomb. Reminds me of all those post Columbine "zero tolerance" policie
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> could write plausible-sounding baseball news articles (and later finance) from the stats Back in the day, baseball commentators sometimes did this for live games they couldn't see based on very limited information they were being

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