sam-cop-vimes

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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
I get that, but the kind of white collar workers who are putting up with this have options all over the world. Why would even such people put up with it?
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
Not a user of this site but a lesson for all techies about changing something which is heavily in use. Don't expect people to take to it immediately and provide some way to allow people to gradually transition. The site itself looks cl
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$96M AUD revamp of Bom website bombs out on launch(bbc.com)
51 points by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago|65 comments
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
I am surprised people are willing to put up with this sort inhumane treatment. A person I know has been waiting for 16+ years for his green card. They've very rarely traveled out of the USA together as a family because they were afraid
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
I'm almost wishing for the next major outage just so I can see this working :-)
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
It's been sitting on my shelf for a few years now. I take it out and read a couple of pages each time and then put it back. Keep thinking I should buy a guide to reading this book but never got around to it.
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
This is exactly what we've decided we should do next time. Unfortunately we didn't generate an API token so we are sitting twiddling our thumbs. Edit: seems like we are back online!
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
What a well written article! Nothing complex is built overnight, so it is interesting to see how their defenses have evolved to their current state. Requires an engineering team which actually cares about all this and consistency of approac
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
I feel the same - a lot of negativity in these comments . At the same time, openai is following in the footsteps of previous American tech companies of making themselves indispensable to the extent that life becomes difficult without them,
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
It's a bit rich for openai to claim they are protecting user data from journalists. Laughable, at best.
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
I'll try and answer this. Expressiveness: I could express a solution to a problem with very few lines of code and without the clutter of housekeeping operations like memory management. Recursion: Erlang properly introduced me to recurs
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
I can totally relate to this. Programming in Erlang felt so natural compared to the knots I was twisting myself into writing C++. I was churning out C++ code, but wasn't having fun. Suddenly Erlang made it fun and programming became ad
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
https://cure-lang.org/examples/ gives a 404
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by sam-cop-vimes 11mo ago
Indeed - and break times don't seem to be very long. "fifteen minutes for coffee and then half an hour for lunch" - no time to waste on pleasantries when that is all the break you get! This guy is amazing - the dedication to
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Not really - if the market price for a crop is such that it depends on the greater volume which can be produced by GMO seeds, switching to non-GMO seeds becomes uneconomic. Let's say GMO crops gives you a grain yield of 1-ton/acre
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Erlang's runtime system, the BEAM, automatically takes care of scheduling the execution of lightweight erlang processes across many cpus/cores. So a well written Erlang program can be sped up almost linearly by adding more cpus&#x
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Cash is king - but security is an issue unless you are dealing with small amounts.
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Good riddance to bad rubbish
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Don't use it then. No need to shit on the effort someone has put into. Clearly it is a starting point which they seem keen to iterate on. If you can't say something kind, best not to say anything.
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Agreed - all I'm saying is we have to keep trying. There are benefits in just trying to achieve an almost impossible goal.
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Indeed - the UK needs to rely more on home grown solutions. No harm in using foreign components/expertise to make progress, but we have to constantly strive to achieve self-reliance. This may never happen, but the trajectory needs be i
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Maybe not impossible, but very hard indeed. Imagine this was the start of the search engine era. Everyone jumped on Google as it was hip and they promised not to be evil. We all know how that panned out. What we need is open source implemen
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Not OP, but the way self-checkouts are built does make one feel like they are being treated as a potential thief. There are cameras in each till recording you as you are scanning your items. The moment you scan your item, the thing keeps na
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Well said - all of this resonates with me. We have to try to ensure that these new tools do not create more dystopian nightmares as well based on our experience of the past couple of decades.
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Yes, and I feel stupid every time I have to do a task I am not specialised in, purely because I have to educate myself all over again from the basics to get the job done. Like fixing a leaking tap. I know theoretically where the issue might
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
I must have worded this wrong because you are the second person to interpret it this way. I am not criticising the kids of today. On the contrary I'm saying that the society we've built for them is actively harming them.
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Interesting point, I'll try and plot such a graph!
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
Not sure how you got the impression that I'm blaming the kids - that wasn't what I was trying to say at all. I'm blaming the society we have created for kids who are growing up today.
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
It comes down to what is "popular" culture. When I was young, society presented mostly people with intellectual achievements as role models which spurred a generation to strive. Hard work, humility, respect for others were activel
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by sam-cop-vimes 1y ago
I'm glad this study has been done. I haven't read the article in its entirety, but seems like a powerful argument for separating religion from state if a stable democracy is the goal.

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