sam-cop-vimes

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by sam-cop-vimes 9mo ago
I'm no fan of Musk, but you've got to admit it was a clever way to achieve the goal. SemiAnalysis don't do fanboy articles - their research is pretty in-depth. So they are stating it as they see it. The problem ordinary peopl
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by sam-cop-vimes 9mo ago
Indeed. May I ask the GP, how did you produce those scrollable images of the Shinkansen?
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
ha ha - I had the same thought!
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Interesting that it included the trynia Launch HN which was on the front page yesterday!
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
The same people have been saying for ages that this stuff needs to be regulated. But all governments are wary of interfering too much in the market. Legislation takes time, due not in small part to the efforts of private businesses lobbying
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
I am fairly certain that Russia has some kompromat on Trump and to avoid that being disclosed he is destroying the world as we know it. Just being a misogynist racist doesn't quite explain all of his actions.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
The American Dream is all about money. Any society which enshrines money as its holy grail for people is bound to end up where America is today.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
And it also prioritises financial success over everything else, stoking the worst tendencies in human beings.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Spot on. There was a lot of sensible stuff in the National Security Strategy document published recently, but the attack on Europe was shocking, even though it is in line with recent events. It is time for Europe to chart its own course and
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
How would this work where children are hell bent on bypassing this control? Won't they be able to install browser plugins which will remove this header similar to how they are using free VPNs to bypass age checks?
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
I really like what is on offer here - thank you for building it. Re the private network it builds with Wireguard, how are services running within this private network supposed to access AWS services such as RDS securely? Tailscale has this:
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
My kids are millenials. They are fine too, but that is only because my wife and I worked really hard to regulate their access. We caught our 7 year old son searching for some offensive stuff on the internet and when asked, his answer was &q
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
> why cant you just stop your own kid going on the internet? May I ask if you are a parent? Because every parent knows that kids will try to cross any boundary set (which is how they learn, not a problem). If there is additional friction
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
How is this rushed though? This is the first attempt at regulating this after two decades of "anything goes".
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Yes they are, but human beings live in a society and we look out for each other. Sayings such as "it takes a village to raise a child" isn't just a pithy quote. Any parent will tell you from their lived experience that it is
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
I don't know if you are a parent, but this is a ridiculous question. The unrestricted Internet is a cesspool. For the same reason you wouldn't allow a child to go play in an open sewer, you cannot allow them access to the unrestri
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
> I think the implementors of this law either knew about these issues or are hopelessly naive. Or they decided that, on balance, there is still a net benefit to this starting point. Doing nothing is not an option - the unregulated Intern
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Everyone disagreeing with this poster, are you okay with living in a society where anything goes? Do we give up trying to minimise harms because it is hard to do? The effort to regulate this sort of access has to start in some shape or form
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Well, AI has certainly made it easier to make tailored propaganda. If an AI is given instructions about what messaging to spread, it can map out a path from where it perceives the user to where its overlords want them to be. Given how effec
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
I wasn't hearing the sound initially so I thought it wasn't working in Firefox. Put the sound all the way up and boinged again. Made me jump out of my seat. Hilarious :-)
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Not sure this needs any explanation! Most people don't give feedback to a weather site. 400K items of feedback is a tsunami of feedback.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
I don't understand how those kinds of numbers get accepted, approved and paid! We built a fairly complex web application for a customer. The total cost including design, development, QA, data migration from a legacy platform + independ
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Oh - that is interesting! Neither the article nor the new website help page [1] mentions that the old site still exists. [1] https://www.bom.gov.au/website-help
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
It doesn't matter. He knows enough to be able to harness it for realising his worldview - and that is the problem.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
It shouldn't matter whether the leaders are actual technical nerds. They are highly focused and motivated individuals who are harnessing tech for the stated purpose. Maybe this is by design and a coordinated movement - or maybe it is t
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Yeah - but how does a site which was initially projected to cost $4M AUD get to $96M! A 16x increase! The mind boggles.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Makes sense - and I have interacted with bureaucracy in a lot of countries. The FUD that US immigration seem to install in immigrants seems uncalled for.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Indeed - this should've been easily possible by having a beta subdomain pointing to the new implementation and let people comment on it to get early feedback.
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
Thanks, this is useful!
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by sam-cop-vimes 10mo ago
I can't book my grown up kids into the same room because of this reason. Utter stupidity or callousness, can't tell which.

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