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by scott_w 2y ago
Boris Johnson is not the President of Ukraine. He has no power to force or prevent a negotiation with Russia. Just in case you're confused, here's a link describing who the current President of Ukraine is: https://en.wi
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> Remember that more than half of Ukrainians are not technically supporting zelensky. This is normal in any political system, even during times of war. The UK during WWII still had many Labour MPs, meaning a significant portion of the Br
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Say he violates voting laws and becomes president as a result. Do you get a situation like in the USA where the police just say “well, you won so all crimes are effectively expunged,” or do you have the even more insane situation of the pre
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That’s not what was said
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Lawyers can already be sanctioned for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqSYljRYDEM&pp=ygUObGVnYWwgZ...
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by scott_w 2y ago
> We do see people try to take it too far though and have literally only these four categories on their docs page, which never works well imo. Are you seeing experienced people cargo-culting or simply beginners to the framework being rel
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by scott_w 2y ago
Tractors and combine harvesters replaced humans wholesale. Would you rather we go back to a world where all farming must be done by humans manually operating equipment? Countless advancements in manufacturing replaced humans wholesale in fa
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by scott_w 2y ago
Would you say the same of any automated or mechanised process that massively reduces necessary human input for the above reasons?
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As someone who worked on a bookkeeping system without being an accountant (or bookkeeper in any sense), I'd say your challenge is that it's very possible to learn enough to build a decent system, assuming your engineering knowledg
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That’s great until you cross cultural boundaries. Different cultures interpret these things completely differently so, for officials who have to interact with many cultures. What I consider respectful is different to what you would. Protoco
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by scott_w 2y ago
Small countries are ignored on most metrics because they heavily skew to extremes, so aren’t useful. I saw Russia being slightly higher but figured it was marginal and “we emit slightly less than a petrostate in the middle of bombing the fu
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The USA is the biggest greenhouse gas emitter per capita on earth.
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Not in the standard language functions. If you wanted to achieve this, you have to write your own parser. That parser is, by definition, not the language parser, adding a level of difficulty to proving any correctness of your program. There
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by scott_w 2y ago
After reading the article, it’s clear the author approves of the fact Rust has these rules (and prefers it over C++). They’re highlighting the natural challenges that brings so future iterations or competitors can see what needs to be impro
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by scott_w 2y ago
You’re asking children to have full understanding of their rights and how to enforce them. Also, investigations into this started in 2020: over a decade after I left. Do you think nobody had reported this in all that time? Looks like the sy
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Given Man Utd under Ferguson used to be THE football team, you could say they were always Man Utd and still are ;-)
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Can’t speak for every place but that’s not always an option. As a teenager, I worked at Sports Direct where the management would regularly work us after our allotted hours and bar us putting the extra time onto our timesheet. If I recall co
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by scott_w 2y ago
If you mean “uses bin/python to run Python code it wrote” then that’s a bit different to “recognises chess moves and feeds them to Stockfish.” If a human said they could code, you don’t expect them to somehow turn into a Python interpr
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by scott_w 2y ago
A few things help me: Get used to the idea that someone isn’t necessarily there when you message. Try to predict when you’ll need to talk to someone and send the message with the info you need. Document. Everything. Confluence needs to beco
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No, I don’t have proof and I never suggested I did. Yes, it’s 100% hypothetical but I assumed everyone engaging with me understood that.
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If I was sold a general AI problem solving system, I’d feel ripped off if I learned that I needed to build my own problem solver and hook it up after I’d paid my money…
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If I was sold a product that can generically solve problems I’d feel a bit ripped off if I’m told after purchase that I need to build my own problem solver and way to recognise it…
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If this was part of the offering: “we can recognise requests and delegate them to appropriate systems,” I’d understand and be somewhat impressed but the marketing hype is missing this out. Most likely because they want people to think the s
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I suspect the same thing. Rather than LLMs “learning to play chess,” they “learnt” to recognise a chess game and hand over instructions to a chess engine. If that’s the case, I don’t feel impressed at all.
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I don’t think this is strictly true. There are documented cases where, for better or worse, apolitical civil servants undermined politicians. Rory Stewart’s book has some great examples.
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> My entire point is that nobody is beyond the reach of elected representatives That’s just stating the obvious. > that is by design No, it’s not. It’s just a fact of life that governments can control every aspect of a person’s life i
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But now we’re in reducto ad absurdum territory because elected officials can pass laws to force private companies to fire specific employees, too. And before you say “constitution,” that can also be amended.
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> It’s as if the industry has forgotten that building software is about... This really isn't new. A look at Slashdot will give you similar complaints as far back as at least the 2000s. I'm sure someone older than me will dig up
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by scott_w 2y ago
> Simply claiming this does not make it true. The people "claiming" this actually worked on it. I read a post from HN just yesterday talking about the complexities of billing. Look it up. > If you don't have any actual

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