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721.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
They're usually not good at hair, for whatever reason. There's Hitler, of course, but also look at just about any American far-right figure these days for some _truly_ unhinged facial hair. Offhand, the only totalitarian I can thi
722.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Huh. Even for him, this is unusually unhinged.
723.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
... I'm sorry, what? If this was a political drama, that would be written out on the basis that it wasn't believable.
724.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Oh, it was 100% marketing. It's not just fascists, either; totalitarian regimes _in general_ tend to be very keen on this sort of thing.
725.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> This discounts the value of user experience, which people will pay a premium for. Have you ever used jira? They are very much not selling that thing on the basis of UX.
726.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Does anyone ever actually pay that for them, tho? I've got the QC Ultras; looks like they cost me 331 euro _with VAT_. Apple's RRP is usually the actual sale price, but IME the RRP for Bose stuff at least is generally pure fantasy
727.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
AIUI, there is some confusion over whether this is actually the case. The pre-Julian calendar had 12 months, plus an optional intercalated month (they were aware that their ‘year’ had the wrong number of days, and periodically shoved in som
728.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
And, oddly, a terminal emulator.
729.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
"Work/Works" tended to be used for specifically integrated office suites (AppleWorks/ClarisWorks, and then Microsoft Works). Though iWork is _not_ one, granted. I think integrated office suites have now entirely died out
730.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
In the current climate, using MS Office is a business risk for European companies. Who knows what idea will pop into ol' minihands' head next time he has a bad day at the golf course? Like, it would _not_ be particularly shocking
731.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
That's a cloudflare anycast address; your traffic won't be routed through Texas unless you're in or near Texas. Cookiebot would appear to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usercentrics
732.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
... Wait, people are still using MS Access?! I didn't even realise that there was still a current version. > but for quick-and-dirty custom applications it's still the easiest platform out there. So I'm a big LLM sceptic.
733.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> I doubt this will stop the lawsuit. I mean, I think that ship has probably sailed. Borland Office showed up at about the same time as Microsoft Office, in the late 80s. Then StarOffice, Corel Office, Wordperfect Office, throughout the
734.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
> maybe don't name your product the exact same thing as the product you're replacing? "Office." They named it "Office." Surely you mean "Microsoft 365 Copilot"? (I am not making this up. That is wh
735.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
I'm not sure that posting deranged tweets at three in the morning _really_ qualifies as work.
736.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Ireland has both paper only voting, and a PR-STV voting system. Counting can take, literally, days (the most recent EU election took five days to fill all the seats). It is a spectator sport for a certain type of nerd.
737.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
This article is about Amazon.
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
> I can glance over code and know "if this compiles and the tests succeed, it will work", even if I didn't have the knowledge to write it myself. ... Errr... Yeah, that's not a great approach, unless you are defining
739.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
I mean, er, see Iraq, Afghanistan (multiple times), Ukraine, etc etc. Invading places tends to, in practice, be rather difficult.
740.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
If you’re a senior at Amazon and your whole job becomes reviewing slop, well, you can likely get another job which does not revolve around reviewing slop. The current market is not great, but it’s disproportionately painful for juniors.
741.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
It’s really not. McDonald’s’ whole thing is consistency. It’s never going to be good, but not is it going to be that terrible. That is, ah, very much not the case for AI slop.
742.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
I don’t totally buy this. If you’re Amazon, there’s only so buggy you can get before you start losing huge amounts of money.
743.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
I wonder what senior means here. Like, unless it’s fairly junior seniors, the ratios are going to make that impossible.
744.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Yeah, “you must use LLMs, but also pls don’t use them for important stuff” is a difficult circle to square.
745.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
It's definitely _alluded_ to in Player of Games, mostly as a method of emphasising how unpleasant the Azad society is, but I don't think we ever really _see_ any of it? (I may just be forgetting; it's probably at least a deca
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
Oh, yeah, I'm aware.
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
Well, the website is called lesswrong.com, and not correct.com.
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by rsynnott 8mo ago
This happened almost a year ago. Ireland has no normal oil generation capacity (ironically moneypoint has been retained as an emergency-only oil burning plant til 2030, but it would generally only be used in this capacity as an emergency me
749.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
Moneypoint was barely operating for about the last decade, and was closed almost a year ago (this is an old article).
750.
by rsynnott 8mo ago
AIUI it’s barely been operating for about a decade. Even before it closed (nearly a year ago; this is an old article), most days the eirgrid dashboard showed little or no coal in the mix.

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