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by specproc 6d ago
Similarly UK cities built their own housing, up until Thatcher and Right to Buy. Costs spiralled out of control after that. Most urgent intervention required in the UK, IMO. We're choking to death on the cost of housing.
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by specproc 6d ago
Yeah, it's this "we continue fighting until Putin eventually dies" line of thinking which horrifies me. Is that our war strategy? That's a recipe for permanent war. It's based on several flawed assumptions: that Put
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by specproc 7d ago
I've not heard a plausible scenario for how this ends. We've had this stagnant wound festering in the middle of Europe for a decade. No one is winning. No one can win, except those who are benefiting from it.
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by specproc 7d ago
Something horrible I've noticed with a lot of AI-generated design is the size of the typeface. There's a menu for a place in my town and it's completely illegible. They printed the same thing in three sizes, and you need a ma
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by specproc 7d ago
Hot war in Europe. We're doing incursions well into Russia. Attempts have been made on the life of Putin and Zelensky, a drone was dangerously close to a bunch of very senior Europeans the other day. It's dangerously out of contro
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by specproc 7d ago
Yeah, that's precisely the attitude.
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by specproc 8d ago
We've been in one war or another for most of my adult life. We are in a perilous position right now in Europe, very close to a major escalation of the Ukraine conflict. This would entail direct conflict between nuclear-armed powers. I
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by specproc 10d ago
"Endeladyze", "Endelaydsze". Painful to read this poor kartveli gogo's gvari being butchered like that. Get a proof-reader, people.
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by specproc 11d ago
I just did a little sick
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by specproc 11d ago
Yeah, clicked from my mobile network without thinking and nearly jumped out my skin.
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by specproc 12d ago
Lichess.org is an internet gem. No ads, no subs, incredible performance, low-toxicity, fully featured, free API, European. Far superior to chess.com in all regards. If you're still on chess.com, make this your opportunity to switch. Yo
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by specproc 13d ago
US military personnel get off with a slap on the wrist for rape in the UK. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jul/29/why-us-milit... A US diplomat's wife got flown home after killing a motorcy
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by specproc 13d ago
Now that's what I call programming.
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by specproc 13d ago
> feel sympathy for moms who kill their kids That's a bit of a weird jump, where's that come from?
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by specproc 13d ago
In fairness, I wasn't doing this for Americans. I would say the Anglo-American model of schooling, which treats students like customers, is very much to blame. The industry wouldn't exist if students were result expelled for cheat
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by specproc 15d ago
I spent a lot of my life outside the English-speaking world, and this was a small sideline for a while. I get it wasn't the nicest way to earn a living. My day job was loftier but poorly-paid. Still, I've got respect for anyone wh
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by specproc 16d ago
> I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up
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by specproc 18d ago
That's our moat, right there. I'm starting doing clean-up jobs now, advising non-technical users on where they're going wrong. I had a guy recently who'd spent well over a month on Claude, running up the wrong tree on a
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by specproc 18d ago
I worked in PR for a bit. I'm confident in saying most of our information ecosystem is the product of numerous competing (or cooperating) PR agencies pushing their clients' products, policies, narratives, and national agendas. If
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by specproc 19d ago
Yeah, this is my use case for skills. Even with good documentation, it feels better to have things local and easy to tweak. I'd add to that I've also used them as a style guide. The project involved taking in unstructured inputs a
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by specproc 20d ago
Give us time, we've had less than a century of nukes, and only need to screw up once.
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by specproc 20d ago
This is the correct approach. If these American companies want to operate in our countries, and maintain their positions as our primary information channels, then they need to obey laws. We need open APIs, transparent algorithms, and above
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by specproc 20d ago
Aye, but it's also possible to waste an incredible amount of time on HN. I'd call it my main internet vice after lichess. Both are outwardly better than say, TikTok or Reddit, but if you're spending hours a day flitting unstr
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by specproc 22d ago
As part of a military industrial complex which spans the Five Eyes and Israel, yes.
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by specproc 22d ago
It's hard to reach any other conclusion about where this is heading. I don't think we're long off a major breakout event. These things are weapons. Imagine a government, pointing their data centers at another, and instructing
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by specproc 22d ago
I read Nowhere to Hide recently, really worth it if you can get past Greenwald sticking himself in the middle (start halfway through). The stuff in there is horrifying, and incredibly cute compared to what's possible now. The bottlenec
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by specproc 24d ago
None of this has ever worked for me. I still struggle. What does help is understanding that the problem is often me. Not that the internet isn't a hellscape of addicting design, or that I've not been flex to screens of some sort o
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by specproc 24d ago
People are misreading the author's case as annoyance, that they simply don't like apps or the way society is foisting apps on them. What I read was what they really hate is being forced to have an account with a handful of America
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by specproc 26d ago
Seeing as folks are sharing in the thread here's some of mine. I moved on from Warhammer to 6mm cyberpunk city dioramas. Models mainly from LazyForger. https://specialprocedures.github.io/
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by specproc 26d ago
Been painting for years and not come across that one. Thank you kindly.

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