Delphiza

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by Delphiza 23d ago
I get the privacy concerns, and we are right to expect Microsoft to say that this is what their tool may be doing. However, I fear that one day we will look back and wonder why we didn't do more to sign and preserve human authenticity.
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by Delphiza 1mo ago
The paper refers to "indirect water use in electricity generation, and water-intensive semiconductor manufacturing". Water use in electricity generation is significant. In the England we are in the middle of a drought and it is su
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by Delphiza 1mo ago
"AI automating jobs", which is the narrative from tech bros to raise funding translates into "AI is going to take your job", for the average Joe. If you are a graphic designer that is now struggling to find work, why wou
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by Delphiza 2mo ago
Somewhere along the way, consoles lost where they fit into the 'living room space'. The biggest thing (for me) was when games stopped with local co-op. Having two controllers and being able to play together was a good way to spend
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
Yes, what we remember is interesting, especially while reflecting on posts such as OPs. The Internet that I grew up with didn't have bots, neighbourhood gossipers, weaponised propaganda... we spurned people trying to sell stuff. My tee
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
I had the same weird feeling reading the post. Where OP was 'living there' in 2007, I was building sophisticated apps with big teams to do things build commercial insurance systems. I don't know whether I built the things tha
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
I had to do an age check in the UK recently. There were various options (credit card, face scan, etc). The one that I chose was email address. My email address has been around long enough to vote, so I am that old. It seems like a good he
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
Social media platforms are offloading detection of harmful content and algorithms to UK parents.
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
What kind of class teaches 'tech-illiterate' parents to help their children not succumb to a multi-trillion dollar industry pushing out addictive and damaging content? It should be easy to develop such classes right? Maybe dust of
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
If the only benefit of space-based datacentres is a hedge against infrastructure attacks in a world war then we are in an awful place. I'm not disagreeing with you but peace is far more prosperous for humanity than blowing the worlds&#
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by Delphiza 3mo ago
An curious example where an academic at full-time at Harvard is obviously less qualified than millions of people that live in 15-minute cities all around the world. Maybe he should spend less time researching urban planning, and more time d
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by Delphiza 4mo ago
It was only really the US that was left with the legacy of installed fibre. The 2000 crash left a lot of broken economies worldwide. Many non-US stock markets benefitted from the tech stock feeding frenzy without the investment actually bei
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by Delphiza 5mo ago
https://minireference.com/ "The No Bullshit Guide to Math and Physics"
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by Delphiza 5mo ago
Oh the sad irony! I have to work with ISO-purchased pdf documents that are heavily DRM-controlled. I can only open them on two PCs with a plugin that only works in Acrobat reader. It is so closed and unusable.
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by Delphiza 6mo ago
I am surprised that people are surprised by this finding, and support your position. Anecdotally, doctors get things wrong quite frequently. Almost everybody has a bad medical diagnosis/advice story. The amount of reference material th
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by Delphiza 6mo ago
Our company made a 'bet' that energy management, sustainability, clean energy and whatnot would become a big thing. This was around the time of COP26 (2021) where there seemed to be a societal drive for reducing carbon emissions a
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Mahmood has no confidence in police chief after Israeli fan ban(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Delphiza 8mo ago|1 comments
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by Delphiza 8mo ago
There is a little bit of a political kerfuffle underway in the UK regarding police being overcautious in banning a group of supporters for a football (soccer) match. The political focus has brought some awkward evidence gathering to light t
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by Delphiza 9mo ago
Money, mostly
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by Delphiza 9mo ago
In my experience, marketers wanted quick and catchy copy to post on linked-in and copywriters obliged. It reached a point where the content was irrelevant. You just had to get something posted on linked-in and get engagement. It was all slo
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by Delphiza 10mo ago
This is how the world ends. Administrators on both sides being replaced by AI and consuming all the worlds available compute arguing with each other about healthcare bills.
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by Delphiza 10mo ago
The 'unrestricted web' from your youth did not have you uploading 8k video of you performing sexual acts that both landed up on pedo sites and was used for blackmail (the threat sending to the whole school). Children are getting r
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by Delphiza 10mo ago
We would expect the 'city' to police the illegal cigarette sellers, and vote them out if they didn't.
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by Delphiza 10mo ago
I try to comment on Roblox whenever it comes up as my daughter was pulled into a grooming pedo gang through Roblox. Read some of the comments from a HN thread from 3 years ago where HN parents insist that they are able to properly educate a
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by Delphiza 10mo ago
I think that a lot of people will still support Brexit. Leaving the EU allows a (future) government to do a lot of stupid things. Throwing out good fiscal policy, eroding human rights, aggressively stopping boats or changing migration rules
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by Delphiza 11mo ago
It is the financial risk that is obvious. The big players are struggling to show meaningful revenue from the investment. Because the investment is so high, the revenue numbers need to be equally high, and growing fast. The 'correction&
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by Delphiza 11mo ago
Also reported in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/bank-of-eng... For non-brits, Bank of England the UKs central bank and is a lot like the US Fed. Their comments carry a lot
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by Delphiza 1y ago
I agree. You have to be a certain age to remember that a big part of Microsoft "Longhorn" was WinFS (Windows File System), which was intended to completely rework storage into a relational file system (or object-oriented depending
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by Delphiza 1y ago
Putting in roundabouts as a default so many years ago (as described in the article) makes a huge difference the the road infrastructure in the UK. They take up a lot more space, but the lack of stop-start traffic light intersections makes a
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by Delphiza 1y ago
Upvoted. I would assume so, because male politicians like buying guns and stuff. They need data to know where to point them.

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