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by specproc 1y ago
Ach, very sad. Like Paxman on University Challenge, he was clearly finding it harder and harder towards the end. I hope he's alright, it'd be a tough one to let go of, I can't imagine a better show to present. Brilliant serie
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by specproc 1y ago
I'll respond to this one, as it's at the top and it started off unpleasantly personal. Do try and avoid making assumptions about the person you're speaking to, please. I live in a post-Soviet country taking an autocratic turn
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by specproc 1y ago
I'd like one that really nails Brummie.
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, this is it. I've lived under governments of a variety of different stripes in some very different parts of the world, I've lived in war zones. Day to day life has been more or less the same across all of them. You go shoppin
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by specproc 1y ago
I guess this is the thing, they're not our houses. I'm increasingly of the perspective that phones are just a tax, an entry requirement for a hostile society. Spent a week with it uncharged in my drawer recently, that was great, s
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by specproc 1y ago
> California approved high-speed rail in 2008 to link LA and San Francisco for $33 billion. Costs ballooned; there’s still no service. The U.K. canceled HS2’s northern leg after years of overruns. Berlin’s new airport opened almost a dec
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by specproc 1y ago
The most challenging thing I'm finding about working with LLM-based tools is the reduction in enjoyment. I'm in this business because I love it, and I'm worried about that going forward.
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by specproc 1y ago
Can we take a moment to appreciate how much better an answer that top answer was than if we'd typed it into our LLM of choice.
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by specproc 1y ago
Yeah, exactly. I'm saying the UK and America have democracies of equal quality to and poorer pedigree than Russia. Edit for clarity.
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by specproc 1y ago
You're going to have to explain yourself there, son.
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by specproc 1y ago
But a whole state-level legislative architecture meant that suffrage wasn't accessible nationwide till the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Modern voter registration laws, which are gathering pace today, are largely targeted at keeping minor
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by specproc 1y ago
Genocide is a process and intent, not an outcome. Are you saying it's not genocide because everyone's not dead or forced off their land yet? Considerably fewer civilians died in say, Srebrenica. Bosnian Muslims still live there. T
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by specproc 1y ago
I was thinking largely of Russia, but when it comes to internet freedoms we're absolutely heading in a China direction. Coming at it here from a broadly UK perspective. We have: - Very little difference between ruling parties on core i
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by specproc 1y ago
Russians of any gender or minority could vote for their representative in 1917. Women in the States only got full suffrage in 1920, African Americans in 1965. So no real pedigree there.
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by specproc 1y ago
The West aren't good guys and have never been the good guys. We talked a good talk about democracy when we had communism to compare it to, but without that to contrast with, we look increasingly like the managed democracies you see out
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by specproc 1y ago
Absolutely. The year of linux on the desktop was probably somewhere around 2020.
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by specproc 1y ago
The challenge is that datasets are just much bigger now. These tools grew up in a world where n=2000 was considered pretty solid. I do a lot of work with social science types, and that's still a decent sized survey. I'm regularly
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by specproc 1y ago
I did this for a project recently, using Firefox and Selenium. It totally worked, but was very heavy on the dependencies and felt very clumsy. This is exactly what I was looking for a few months ago. I might revisit that project with it.
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by specproc 1y ago
It was.
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by specproc 1y ago
He drew hard on his cigarette. Annoyance flickered across his face, like an artefact in the poorly-compressed bootleg movies he sold to his fellow low-lifes at The Pig and Drum. Some Corpo-type, no doubt. Can't help seeing something go
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by specproc 1y ago
Considerably fewer when regulated.
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by specproc 1y ago
Agreed. Too much negativity in the thread. I love seeing other people's offices, and having a blog that talks through the design decisions is great. I've very different aesthetics and gear, but took ideas from this for sure. Loved
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by specproc 1y ago
My rule of camera positioning is that I've got to have a load of my books as a backdrop.
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by specproc 1y ago
Fair point, see my response to the commenter above.
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by specproc 1y ago
Heh, I was musing on something I'd read recently that had Kodak as a case study. It was compared with Instagram which had about 10-15 staff when it was bought for USD 1bn. WhatsApp similarly small. I hear tech can be big employers, may
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by specproc 1y ago
Interesting to compare the tech companies of last century with those of this era. Kodak employed a whole town, and many more people besides. We're now waiting on a one-person unicorn. The number of people benefiting from an enterprise
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by specproc 1y ago
Like IBM in the forties.
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by specproc 1y ago
I don't consider myself particularly adept with linux. I've only been running it daily on the desktop for the last few years and, aside from mucking around with TWMs, I've not done much poking about with the internals. Despit
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by specproc 1y ago
Obligatory relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2055/
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by specproc 1y ago
I noticed BCG have pivoted to ethnic cleansing.

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