440bx

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by 440bx 5mo ago
A huge number of them. It's not like we don't work with the EU on a ton of things. Brexit didn't just pull the plug on everything .
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by 440bx 5mo ago
I don't need a diagnosis of my point. Perhaps I should explain further. I'll say that it's more that the assertion that WhatsApp is a big issue is false. Civil servants know stuff is on the record, for example through screens
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Can the team please use that money on making thunderbird look like the nice UI mockups that were published that don't look anything like thunderbird.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Thought "hey this better not be AI". Yes it's AI. Just keep making a decent browser and stop getting distracted on shit.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
My life has mostly been making that as not true as possible :)
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Your employer is a fucking moron.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
I'm taking the radical approach of starting with the problem and finding a solution rather than start with a solution and hit all your problems with it. LLMs have yet to feature.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Well it wasn't really a teaching revolution. It was a marketing job around a YouTube channel that purported to be a teaching revolution. The thing is people want more than material. They want the material to be accredited and examined.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Promises are broken, policies are changed and political regimes vary. You need to make sure that you consider the future and not just now. And that means NEVER handing your data over in the first place.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
As someone who works on closed source software and has done for a couple of decades, most companies won't even know about that and of those who do only a fraction give enough of a shit about it to do anything until they are caught with
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Yes. I travel around the world looking for such things.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
This is the horseshoe theory of Agile. If you do Agile hard enough you end up at SAFe which is basically waterfall.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
As it appears to be hugged to death, archive link: https://archive.ph/qsdc3
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Not really. Offence is sometimes the best defence. But when people start rubbing their hands at the prospect of a war being their retirement plan I don't want to be around them.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Well it's not all bad. Some of the stuff we did was entirely defence and disaster support. I basically got to choose projects I worked on until I was told I couldn't.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Good on you. I quit my job in the defence sector over two decades ago for the same reasons. Best decision I ever made.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Boring mathematical reality here. This is nice and all that but as a (part time) corporate mathematician, I'd like an AI that organises conference trips, picks the best accommodation and food and gaslights the execs into approving it.
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by 440bx 5mo ago
Yeah I tend to agree. For me Mythos' principal risk in my mind is saturation through being able to do bad things faster. Vulnerabilities are found and fixed - that's life. What is a problem is identifying and prioritising vulnerab