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by throw46365 2y ago
> this reduces the elected MEP’s role to basically gatekeeping, allowing or denying legislative proposals formulated by th Commission, MEPs are pretty much just like MPs in the British parliament. They are not just rubber-stamp voters of
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by throw46365 2y ago
> So should the government be reading every piece of mail too? Essentially all governments have some mechanism to make it legal and possible for them to read any post in transit. US postal inspectors need a warrant, which they can easily
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by throw46365 2y ago
> but a petition signed by all 50 of them would have zero legal force in terms of requiring Congress to take anything up. Well it's not an exact analogy as I say; I edited a bit for clarity earlier too. But as it goes, I'm not
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by throw46365 2y ago
Right -- states are very often ahead of the EU on all sorts of legislation, though. It was always amusing to see Brits complain that the EU imposed GDPR on us, when it was pretty much our own existing legislation (the Data Protection Act of
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by throw46365 2y ago
This is better understood for Americans in terms like "Grouping of State governors submits plan". The European Commission doesn't pass laws. It represents the heads of state of the EU nations, and it can propose legislation,
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by throw46365 2y ago
> oh my point was that somebody has to strike the fear of god in them first before they start trusting the llm blindly. We agree on that :-)
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by throw46365 2y ago
> We need both humans and AI. Genuine question: Why do we need both humans and AI? What's the evidence base for this statement? I feel this is another thing that proponents state as if it's unchallengeable fact, an all-progre
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by throw46365 2y ago
Right. So can an LLM convey that paranoia? The way a formal methods lecturer explained to me his concerns about the Y2K problem by talking about the embedded systems in the automated medication pumps treating his sick partner, and how witho
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by throw46365 2y ago
> The same goes with human TAs that are extensively used in undergrad introductory programming classes. They can also be unreliable in many cases. Ehh. Those TAs, if they feel they might be wrong, can consult the lecturer/professor.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Ehh. You should be constantly resizing your browser (as well as testing reloads at those sizes), while developing a design. Not least because people do resize browsers on already-loaded pages, do tile views on their iPads, etc., and it is
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by throw46365 2y ago
Print news is dying because of the internet; this isn't news. But we're talking about the most fundamental questions of journalistic ethics here. The Murdoch media -- in particular the News Of The World -- hacked people's p
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by throw46365 2y ago
5. You can’t eat it if you don’t buy it. It’s easier to just not walk down that aisle in the supermarket, to not start looking at certain displays etc., than it is to not eat food that you’ve bought. It’s easier to not go to KFC than to eat
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by throw46365 2y ago
> Don't forget parents making their kids eat everything on their plate so they don't waste food. It was so normal and common in the 90s (and maybe earlier) it became a stereotype. Normal much earlier than the 90s. In the 80s th
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by throw46365 2y ago
I am not sure then why you draw a distinction between graphic and print design, when they are in your definitions essentially identical. But stipulating this definition, and getting back to my original point, I don’t believe there are reall
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by throw46365 2y ago
I remember my Dad, in his last day conscious, with a fluid line in that kicked off some sort of pressure alert every time he raised his hand to his face… which he did compulsively because of his confusion on top of his dementia. The nurses
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by throw46365 2y ago
Ehh. I rarely drank before the pandemic and now I essentially never drink. I don’t miss it at all. Wasn’t out at social events so I wasn’t drinking at all. I have probably drunk five, maybe ten units a year since. I consider it obvious th
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by throw46365 2y ago
> why is that not possible now? Well we don't have massive communal dining halls or poorhouses. I think you underestimate the extreme poverty of food even for people in 1924 who had access to a communal kitchen. Average nutrition in
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by throw46365 2y ago
I agree with all of this, though I think it's a little unfair to the achievements of Inkscape, which is in its own way an utterly remarkable project and could one day be the only vector graphics package that we have that really runs
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by throw46365 2y ago
Right -- you have to know something that people don't ever tell you: Photoshop is a medium as much as it is an application. As a medium it has fundamentals, and once you know those fundamentals, you're not really chained to Phot
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by throw46365 2y ago
Clearly InDesign is used for print design. DTP is print design. Madness to imply it is not. And both print and graphic designers use vector art pretty extensively. Large amounts of print/printed work is done with scalable designs for
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by throw46365 2y ago
It does not go for all British papers at all. Not even all of the nationals. Probably most of the tabloids though. The Guardian, The Observer, the FT, the Independent, and some of the significant regionals (Manchester Evening News, Bright
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by throw46365 2y ago
Oh I don't -- see my footnote about the Mail and the Mirror. It's specifically unwise to hire anyone who worked for News International in that period, but if one is going to take a risk on hiring really any tabloid exec from that
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by throw46365 2y ago
> It's evident that you come from insane levels of privilege and comfort if you think food prep is a burden. First off, no it isn't evident, and second, this is rude.
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by throw46365 2y ago
What exactly is the relevance of this question to people living in 2024? I mean, I cook 90-95% of my meals from scratch with the odd canned ingredient and for the rest, rely on healthy-option microwave meals or a sandwich to stop me slippin
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by throw46365 2y ago
This only scales if everyone you are cooking for is prepared to eat the same thing. And it doesn't apply to lunch for most of the non-WFH world. And takeout delivers these days.
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by throw46365 2y ago
There's plenty of really tasty fast food out there. The problem is if it's the tasty the right way it is expensive, and if it is the bad kind of tasty it's unhealthy.
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by throw46365 2y ago
Then the question becomes: what else are the people who don't have time to cook actually eating? It's possible to make that tasty, healthy, or relatively inexpensive. But it's not easy to do all three. My fear would be that
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by throw46365 2y ago
This sort of illustrates the point I am making, because to US eyes in particular, and anyone with understanding of corporate scandal in general, Will Lewis looks like a minor player in News International with clean hands; he worked for the
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by throw46365 2y ago
A guiding principle for the world's media should be this: do not hire anyone who was in a senior position at any UK-based Murdoch newspaper*, from the early 80s to the late 2000s. Unfortunately too many of these profoundly corrupted pe
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by throw46365 2y ago
Capture One is head and shoulders above Lightroom. But then so is its price, and it's a subscription model or a perpetual-and-no-updates model, which is an uncomfortable choice. I like DxO PhotoLab a lot -- it's my preferred tool

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