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901.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Literally Stakhanovism.
902.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Lots of people reporting their "I had to use up my tokens, so I burned them on worthless stuff" stories. Incredible thing to do in a climate emergency. Push harder guys, maybe we can hit 3C warming? This reminds me of the story of
903.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> So, £100k/year = bad, £120k/year via an external consultancy = good. Ding ding ding. This is all driven by ideological mistrust of the public sector, as you've pointed out and people are even defending in the comments.
904.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> there is always the risk of bloat The fantasy lies in ignoring the same risk when it's happening in a private sector contractor, doing the same job for objectively much higher costs.
905.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> No-one really expected US president will align with Russia and a cult of pseudo-Christian white-supremacist nationalists will worship him as the second coming as an expectation. That the Senate, SC, and tech leaders have fallen in plac
906.
by pjc50 6mo ago
I did actually try looking for an "about" on the linked page and googling, neither of which was immediately helpful.
907.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Could we have a bit more "who and where" on this please? "Relax.ai by Civo", great, who are Civo? Where's the datacenter? What's the corporate structure? UK resident founders?
908.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> Users expect much more from today's UIs .. and get much less. Especially in accessibility. We've lost things like ubiquitous accelerator keys and even basics like "being able to tell where the edges of controls are or w
909.
by pjc50 6mo ago
That's done on the property's electricity smart meter.
910.
by pjc50 6mo ago
I think all of this is premature while Brexit hasn't been reversed. It would be an odd day when several Commonwealth countries have European free movement and the UK doesn't.
911.
by pjc50 6mo ago
See my comment on the AI replacing consultants story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133728
912.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Yes, and: often they're prevented from building it in house!
913.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Universities are struggling to prevent their students using AI, because it makes both learning and evaluation extremely difficult.
914.
by pjc50 6mo ago
What does that refer to?
915.
by pjc50 6mo ago
AI camera watching the students?
916.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> For the CarPlay use case at least some kind of ad hoc “party” entity that all the devices flow into might be interesting This feels like an under-explored space. I want to allow my guests to use <tech thing> for a period of time;
917.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> a million different versions of which will get them bad press: “Apple told me to go and pick up my dead child’s cancer medication!” This is a very tricky one. >> Know that my son has a test on Thursday and hasn’t opened the revis
918.
by pjc50 6mo ago
We currently have 0 people on the moon. The Antarctica population peaks at about 5,000, which is a paradise compared to Mars, with drinkable water and breathable air. It even has naturally occurring food! You can get there with a mere boat!
919.
by pjc50 6mo ago
You certainly can sue: "The ruling comes after Meta sued Italy’s national telecommunications regulatory agency (AGCOM) in Italian court in 2023"; that's the normal process for disputing regulatory rulings. Doesn't mean y
920.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Not at the top of a wall, no.
921.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> There is no alternative to carefully watching your suppliers Hence: inhouse.
922.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Static RAM is not DRAM. You certainly could do try a 20bn cell SRAM, in 155mm^2, if you could handle the routing, but the power consumption might surprise you.
923.
by pjc50 6mo ago
I deliberately undersold the claim because this is one of those things that's so big and yet so invisible in the news and discourse. If we had 100k people die in a city anywhere on the globe due to, say, an earthquake, it would be head
924.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> When you put a design contract out for bids they have to go big. They have to deliver for $54M even if things are harder. Yes - and they also have to deliver for $54m if things are much easier . The tender process often imposes an ove
925.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> they got a bunch of people to video every single process in the old systems, and then got Gemini to watch the video and write full specs for the new systems. Niiice. Ah, that's what the AI ingredient is. Seems reasonable, the kind
926.
by pjc50 6mo ago
Option 3: Elon takes over the Federal government, causes some major security incidents, and cuts off USAID stranding a number of Federal employees and cutting off short term food support for hundreds of thousands of people depending on it.
927.
by pjc50 6mo ago
An AI image signals that the author did not put time and energy of their own in, they had the AI make it up. It's a yellow flag.
928.
by pjc50 6mo ago
> where we identify public servants with strong technical aptitude across government, bring them into dedicated product teams > The team’s approach was straightforward. Build working software fast. Put it in front of real users early.
929.
by pjc50 6mo ago
The secret ingredient is money. Money makes everything possible. Money can materialize energy and water from nowhere. (well, it can't, but it allows you to buy them off poor people, who don't matter)
930.
by pjc50 6mo ago
They hire US-based technology companies who fail in the exact same way. (rare exception: Gov.uk government digital services; while they're not used for all projects, they are exactly the sort of committed and competent public servants

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