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by walthamstow 4mo ago
> Accrington Stanley! Who are they?!
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Baader Meinhof alert. I had never heard of this civilisation, and their foggara water system, until I listened to the In Our Time episode a couple of days ago, and now here they are on HN.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Unless you work for the bank, in which case your annual salary is divided by 12 and rounded up for a monthly figure.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Your spidey sense is failing you, you're making assumptions you've got no ground for. I've voted for left of centre parties all my life. I was born in the NHS and I'll probably die there too.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Libertarians can just flip it round and say how do socialists solve the free rider problem? Neither system resolves both problems. Extremist dogma is not a great way to run a society, but it does good numbers on social media, so here we are
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
It's a bad example because the last 5+ years in UK/US have seen an epidemic of child vaping and nicotine addiction when it was illegal for them to have it, while the Tobacco companies fight tooth and nail against regulation on fru
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Heroin is illegal for people of all ages, and those laws don't work either.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Nicotine is probably the worst example possible to argue that laws prevent children from using and becoming addicted to something.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
The only defense is parenting. And no, I'm not one of those childless people who tells parents to parent better.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
The most obvious British example is pub boards. Everyone was illiterate so they only knew pubs by the image on the board, e.g. Rose & Crown
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
I was saddened by just the headline and photo of the one last week. The BBC and UK news readers in general absolutely love stories about child abusers, so they get prominent placing (and even a live blog on the sentencing last week)
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
I'm not in the OSS world much so hopefully someone can help me understand: what does 700k buy you in OSS language development?
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Because you're a political appointee doing a political job (and they purged the last guy for being insufficiently loyal)
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Am I going mad or does the artist's concept look like the water is going downhill
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Rendezvous and cliche yes. Nuance, etiquette, RSVP no. It's instinctive so I can't explain but maybe because rendezvous and cliche require using French pronounciation. On this I think you could find more differing opinions than th
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Of course, the line is very blurry. I've used accoutrement(s) in English many times, but I've never considered myself to be speaking English when I use it. It's like joie de vivre or c'est la vie.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
76250, or 93/100. Native English speaker from London. Some of the last 10 words were seriously obscure. Are accoutrement and ziggurat really English words? Accoutrement is even pronounced as French!
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Claude kind of has this already in their Advisor feature. I don't think I've seen it elsewhere. Open harnesses could add this feature and call out to big boy models when required. It's a really great idea.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Mildly funny that Carmack is quote tweeting a slop biography of Bellard from a pure AI slop account
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
There's an env var you can set in Claude Code to bring the autocompact threshold down, effectively setting your own max context window. I have it at 400k.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
At least it stays in your GCP environment, AWS disclosure says that it will leave your data privacy and security boundary.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
Tottenham?
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
IMO, the old reddit UI wasn't, but the new one is, since they started the algo home page and showing stuff outside of your subreddits.
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by walthamstow 4mo ago
It doesn't matter which one. My mother mainlines BBC News which is state-owned, establishment-centrist, has no adverts or profits, but has the same effect of dialing up the viewer's fear of the outside world.
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by walthamstow 5mo ago
Go on then. Nobody's stopping you.
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by walthamstow 5mo ago
I think a lot of people are missing that this is $1500 _per tool_ which is still rather a lot of money.
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by walthamstow 5mo ago
The gpt-oss models are good but there's no evidence that OpenAI have ongoing development on open models. I'm 99% sure it was one-and-done, box ticked, and now they can be mentioned in comments like this.
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by walthamstow 5mo ago
> Your a scientific programming God! Jesus
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by walthamstow 5mo ago
Curtains open, telly blaring and the big light on. You could be on any street in Britain.
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by walthamstow 5mo ago
Movies are just as bad, animation and vfx shops get crunched to hell. Fashion houses ahead of fashion week too.

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