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by specproc 3mo ago
What it has to do with social media bans, is that the incident was propagated on social media. The author is arguing that the ability to shame others on the internet, should not be restricted to the old and powerful. In answer to your first
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'This looks rubbish': Palantir and the NHS(lrb.co.uk)
11 points by specproc 3mo ago|0 comments
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by specproc 3mo ago
I am increasingly finding my consulting work to be orientated around clearing up after people who outsourced their thinking to AI. I'm seeing some incredibly dumb stuff: researchers spending months on Claude trying to do insane dedupli
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by specproc 3mo ago
It becomes much harder to go back to school after a while. Responsibilities pile up, you fall out of eligibility for funding. I loved doing a masters as a mature student, but I was very lucky to be able to do so. School won't always be
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by specproc 3mo ago
I think it would be absolutely insane to hand over a serious-sized company's books to an LLM. As a small consultancy though, looking forward to my next filing, and having just moved to a new and better-specced jurisdiction, I'm so
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by specproc 3mo ago
I love them! It's a really nice, fun way to explore a corpus. Cosmograph for this sort of thing is great, it supports graphs as well as 2D projections, and is blazing fast. That said, I've never had a client or stakeholder show an
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by specproc 3mo ago
I was around fourteen when I read A Clockwork Orange and worked it out fine. I think the author's point stands.
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by specproc 3mo ago
42 and frayed. Lifelong reader who really has to remind himself constantly to read. It's my greatest pleasure and a great source of pride, but God, do my electronic devices interfere.
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by specproc 3mo ago
Danger, danger. Cannabis detected in the vehicle.
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by specproc 3mo ago
I'm not even clear if it requires Windows. Say if one had a Surface running Arch, would that still be traceable? Asking for a friend.
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by specproc 3mo ago
Just because I have a car doesn't mean I should stop walking.
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by specproc 3mo ago
It was never sustainable, just regulatory capture by large IP owners. Spotify, Netflix, Amazon etc provided OK value for a while, but now enshitification is biting, this is due a massive comeback.
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by specproc 3mo ago
Piracy remains the best way to consume films at home. If you don't have it on your hard drive in an open format, you don't own it.
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by specproc 3mo ago
I know Droitwich, this made me laugh
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by specproc 3mo ago
In the 51st state.
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by specproc 3mo ago
Number one issue of our times. I'm eternally frustrated discussion of this basic fact of our political lives is near zero in public discourse.
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by specproc 3mo ago
In which case, they route it all through some subsidiary in the Cayman Islands and it magically disappears. No, this is a deterrent against anti-consumer behaviour, and it should be meaningful.
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by specproc 3mo ago
It's the staring at a screen I hate. I do it for work, I do it when I'm not working. Best is being out with family, friends, dog. Creating things. Computer saps my life.
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by specproc 4mo ago
I'm not sure about these new dumb phones. Just not having social media in the first place has worked alright for me. I hate my phone, and my relationship with it, but sometimes you just need to use one. My preferred strategy is having
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by specproc 4mo ago
Just moved back to the UK after many years away, and it's creepy here. Doing the elderly under terror legislation, some crazy kangaroo court antics, a frankly sinister approach to "online safety". VPNs? The even more concerni
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by specproc 4mo ago
You're making the right call there. I've felt it, seen it around me personally. That study is terrifying. I'm no code ninja at the best of times. It's scary to hear that's happening to top engineers. I need an exit
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by specproc 4mo ago
Variable intermittent reward. Pull the lever, get something nice or something bad. I've had far too much bad today and I'm furious.
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by specproc 4mo ago
Snake oil is something not medicine sold as medicine. AI is something not a colleague (a slot machine), sold as a colleague.
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by specproc 4mo ago
Good for you, son. I've just spent the whole f*king day screaming at an agent on a deadline.
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by specproc 4mo ago
AI is snake oil. It sells you a slot machine in the guise of a colleague. Oh, not using it right? Not the right model? Insert coin to continue. Snake oil, total snake oil.
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by specproc 4mo ago
There will be no peace till Bibi is dead or behind bars.
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by specproc 4mo ago
It's horrifying how many people I see here being threatened into using AI. I guess I'm fortunate in that I have a choice. I've used it plenty, more recently than ever before, but I'm coming more and more to the conclusio
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by specproc 4mo ago
I can't believe "prioritise context switching" is now advice being doled out on HN.
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by specproc 4mo ago
My experience has been that I can't. I've just started up a new gig where I'm swearing off any agents, I'm even not looking up answers with an LLM. There's nothing so crazy I'm doing SO still doesn't have
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by specproc 4mo ago
A strange game.

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