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by swores 3y ago
So it turns out that chucking in some AI nonsense doesn't make your original comment any less pointless?
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by swores 3y ago
Hey chx, in case you either have email notifications for replies to your comments or check the threads page to see them - FYI I just quoted the Revolut part of your comment to a Revolut person in a new Wise thread, and wondered if you had a
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by swores 3y ago
Two days ago I read a comment containing this mention of Revolut, might you be able to counter what was said? > " And please, do not recommend Revolut, look up their 2021 audit and the lack of 2022 accounts, so far. Not touching tha
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by swores 3y ago
Of course it's a failure, but the context was whether all transactions are equally important from a user point of view, not the business point of view. If a financial company fucks up and loses me $20 because of it, it could mean I nev
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by swores 3y ago
Obviously everyone wants 100%, but there's still a big difference between sending a friend $20 (if you're someone who, if something goes wrong, can afford to send a second $20 without really noticing your bank balance change) vs s
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by swores 3y ago
> "just /.+@.+\.{2,}/ is more than enough" Isn't that asking for 2x '.'s after the @, which isn't required? Should instead be /.+@.+\..+/ Which will allow foo@bar.com but not foo
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by swores 3y ago
Well the reason could be doing the police a favour because you like them just as easily as doing it because they've threatened you. I guess if the DA is worried about the police punishing them by not supplying you good cases, or whatev
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by swores 3y ago
Hopefully you've since grown up a bit and discovered some hobbies that don't involve being a dick to annoy strangers?
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by swores 3y ago
> "glaring flaw: you can’t register a Passkey you don’t physically have." I have Yubikeys and find this frustrating. Is there not a technical solution that should've happened by now, or is it not as simple as I'm im
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by swores 3y ago
I would guess it's not that people have "problems with questions", but are downvoting you for one or both of a) using multiple comments to ask the same question, and b) coming across as using a badgering tone, sounding entitl
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by swores 3y ago
That comes after this: > OpenIPC Firmware uses Buildroot to build its Linux distro, and utilizes either Majestic, Mini or Venc streamer. Which makes it sound like Majestic isn't required? Or is it the only good option, or somethin
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by swores 3y ago
Sounds like you support blaming the creators / users of algorithms, not the algorithms themselves? Even if the best solution were to make these types of algorithms & code illegal, it still wouldn't exactly be "blaming&quo
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by swores 3y ago
> "Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time..." - Winston Churchill (Since it's the second quote of his I've used
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by swores 3y ago
It's an interesting (and scary/depressing) subject to think about - what proportion of people would or wouldn't find that acceptable in even more extreme circumstance? Let's imagine a hypothetical political party and its
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by swores 3y ago
I believe it's not announced yet. I'll chuck out an unqualified estimate of €10k each, will find out next year (probably) if I'm anywhere close!
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by swores 3y ago
I wonder why they haven't open sourced their fork, over than vague worry it might get DMCA'd
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by swores 3y ago
Can you write them with iOS keyboard? Or when you say Apple Notes and chat apps you just mean from desktop? Edit ①: seems the answer is not with the default iOS keyboard, but possible to paste it and perhaps possible with a third party keyb
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by swores 3y ago
It can be simultaneously true that EVs are absolutely a big improvement over ICE vehicles, and that switching all vehicles to EVs doesn't solve 100% of the problems - therefore it's good to both continue pushing to move to EVs, an
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by swores 3y ago
Are horses actually environmentally friendly? I know that having a pet dog can be one of, if not the most, un-environmentally friendly things a person can do due to the amount they eat, so I could imagine horses having the same problem and
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by swores 3y ago
I'm sure there are many people for whom that is true, but there are also many people who would laugh at the idea of driving two miles instead of walking, or laugh at the idea of driving six miles instead of cycling (even with a bag or
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by swores 3y ago
So people in your type of neighbourhood maybe can't start walking everywhere right away, but you don't need to also think "walking is out forever" - you can start lobbying your local politicians, and voting for the ones
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by swores 3y ago
Is there any evidence that's a problem that actually happens often, as opposed to just being something you can easily imagine happening? I've known quite a lot of CEOs, of small and big for-profits and charities too, and anecdotal
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by swores 3y ago
> I guess it would make clones easier but I hear there’s already third party open source code for onewheels so they can’t prevent it. I suspect a lot of the fear of open source is driven by the uncertainty of how big the "easier&q
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by swores 3y ago
Disclaimer: I run a small European marketing agency (though our minimum monthly budget for clients is a few times bigger than discussed & recommended in the article). I think this is a really good article, and I definitely agree both wi
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by swores 3y ago
Existing thread with 52+ comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37698864
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by swores 3y ago
Related: this artist, Marina Abramović, has just become the first woman ever to have a solo exhibition hosted by the Royal Academy of Arts in London, which opened two days ago. I haven't been, and it's had mixed reviews (well I ha
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by swores 3y ago
Being worse than GPT-4 doesn't dispute GP's claim that it's in the top 3 with GPT-4. To disagree with them you need to name models other than GPT-4 and PaLM 2 which are also better than Claude 2.
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by swores 3y ago
I cancelled my prime subscription a few months ago (UK), and like others have commented it's really not a huge loss and it actually pushes me to think more about whether I want to buy something rather than just adding it to cart becaus
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by swores 3y ago
If you're going to be pedantic then clearly steak and tofu are both dead forms of protein so they don't care whether people eat them or not. When I said it's a problem for the food I obviously (I thought) meant that in wester
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by swores 3y ago
If you're so convinced you're right about this point (which is not the view of lawyers I've seen spend tens of thousands worth of billable hours around GDPR and ePrivacy Directive... though I'm not in the legal professio

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