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by rorylawless 11mo ago
The average person in the real world is more likely to encounter documents made in Office, that would be a major barrier to adoption.
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by rorylawless 11mo ago
It seems like AI companies have grown skeptical too. The recent spate of browser releases and OpenAI launching a social network suggests to me that they’ve hit a dead end for now and are falling back on tried and true methods of monetizing
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How to make government work: Lessons from a rare British success story(samf.substack.com)
1 points by rorylawless 11mo ago|0 comments
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by rorylawless 1y ago
And people should have the technology to monitor this kind of overreach.
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You Aren't in the DSM(asteriskmag.com)
4 points by rorylawless 1y ago|1 comments
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by rorylawless 1y ago
This is a nice allegory that hits on a few of the key tensions we're seeing at the moment. The social and economic order is in constant flux, however, there has been tendency to totalize one preference over the alternatives. The abuse
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by rorylawless 1y ago
Punishment and rehabilitation aren’t mutually exclusive. Arguably, the punishment aspect is served by the removal of freedoms that being locked in prison entails. Rehabilitation can be any number of things that the prisoner does while in pr
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by rorylawless 1y ago
Presumably the "big names" are able to (or have already) implemented the requirements under the law and have an economic and reputational incentive to comply.
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by rorylawless 1y ago
Prefacing this with an acknowledgement that I'm a public sector data analyst by trade so my experience may not be universal. My view is that it isn't so much a lack of "self-respect and confidence" but an acknowledgment
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Kagi Is Down(status.kagi.com)
12 points by rorylawless 1y ago|6 comments
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by rorylawless 1y ago
Very unfortunate name collision with rv for R ( https://github.com/A2-ai/rv ).
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by rorylawless 1y ago
Who went on to train the lawyers and judges in the MBA/Friedman orthodoxy.
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by rorylawless 1y ago
If Apple still had “courage”, they’d give up on AI and release a truly revolutionary “average phone”. A phone stripped of social media apps and features, with only access to music, mapping and messaging apps.
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by rorylawless 1y ago
What’s due compensation? In this case people caught up in this failure were imprisoned or took their own lives. No amount of money can undo that.
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by rorylawless 1y ago
The M&M store is the only legit business in London.
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by rorylawless 1y ago
Ok, this is really promising. I've always found renv to be slightly frustrating to use and it ends up breaking in mysterious ways after a time. rv was a joy to use in a small personal repo.
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by rorylawless 2y ago
Had DOGE been more than 2 brain cells fighting for 3rd place, they would have spun out 18F as an independent organization. They could have taken inspiration from how the British government did something similar with the Behavioural Insights
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by rorylawless 2y ago
I don’t understand this. The monarchy hasn’t had influence over parliament and the government for over 300 years. You may be able to point to attempts at doing so (eg the Black Spider letter), however, parliament is fully sovereign.
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Government Analysis Function – Communicating statistics and analysis(analysisfunction.civilservice.gov.uk)
1 points by rorylawless 2y ago|0 comments
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'Reading is part of my identity': the woman taking on Goodreads owner Amazon(theguardian.com)
24 points by rorylawless 2y ago|2 comments
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Strengthening America Through Service: Announcing the Public Service Alliance(thepublicservicealliance.com)
2 points by rorylawless 2y ago|0 comments
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by rorylawless 2y ago
If pre-Musk twitter was in the hands of censorship, what is it now? By all accounts it is a bot-infested echo chamber for his own bizarre obsessions where dissent is quickly stamped out.
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by rorylawless 2y ago
At which point does this move from obsession to mental illness?
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by rorylawless 2y ago
The ones that didn’t do that tended to die before they could pass on their genes.
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Mistral announces a global partnership with the Agence France-Presse (AFP)(mistral.ai)
2 points by rorylawless 2y ago|0 comments
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Automattic cuts WordPress contribution hours, blames WP Engine(theverge.com)
8 points by rorylawless 2y ago|2 comments
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Man told he can't recover £598M of Bitcoin from tip(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by rorylawless 2y ago|4 comments
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by rorylawless 2y ago
Additionally, Legal Permanent Residents of the US can use it too.
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by rorylawless 2y ago
It is very much a fork of VS Code at the moment but I appreciate the massively reduced friction getting R up and running. While RStudio is still the best IDE for R, it is beginning to feel dated and this will likely overtake it as the main
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by rorylawless 2y ago
What's more, Evgeny Lebedev sits in the House of Lords. Despite the sanctions following the invasion of Ukraine, Britain is still lousy with Russian oligarchs with a worrying amount of influence.

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