RegW

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by RegW 2mo ago
Where as I'm stuck in a big team with a legacy codebase and lots of business rules, performing small incremental changes. So I spend my days banging the Esc key and shouting "Shut the f**k up!". Luckily I work remote. I&#x2
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by RegW 2mo ago
It would seem that the officer was searching for evidence of a crime, not to prevent importation. However, did that evidence really exist? And if it did, was it for something else? Perhaps, the guy just worried about something far more mu
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by RegW 2mo ago
> In the hands of great researchers, AI will accelerate and propel human knowledge far beyond what we could achieve with pencil and paper alone. Who needs researchers when you have great AI. Soon we will all be Wall-E fat people with AI
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by RegW 2mo ago
Reading the comments here - I can't help feeling I've missed this bubble.
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by RegW 3mo ago
I don't have a mandatory bank or gov id app. Where are you living?
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by RegW 3mo ago
Also didn't ask about docker and "docker system prune".
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by RegW 3mo ago
... when we find that it also affects us - sat on our fat backsides in our air conditioned gold plated ballrooms.
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by RegW 3mo ago
> I yet have to see someone actually argue that you don’t need to understand SQL and ORM will suffice Well that's because decades of bitter experience has told us all that object graphs rarely map cleanly to sets of relationships. H
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by RegW 3mo ago
If it is conscious then perhaps it will human like. If the consciousness is human like perhaps it will have a conscience. If it has a conscience then may be it can be trusted. But then again, perhaps that conscience will convince it that
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by RegW 4mo ago
May be search is not the golden goose, perhaps more the carrot that brings the user into range of the shitty stick of ads and data leeching. I'm a bit afraid that although AI is being presented as part of the carrot, it may actually b
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by RegW 4mo ago
Because they don't know (that they are an ad company (and they don't know what the implication is)).
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by RegW 5mo ago
What exactly is the example? Sorry, I'm in the UK so I haven't read the article that the author has decided to block my access to.
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by RegW 6mo ago
> Note: This PDF only works in Chromium-based browsers. I thought that PDF was some sort of open standard.
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by RegW 6mo ago
I don't know how I feel about this. I started programming in 1979. I went for a job in AI in the late 1980s and realised from the bonkers spin of the company founders that it really wasn't the 5 to 10 years away as I was being to
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by RegW 7mo ago
Right now as I eat my lunch, I'm listening to The Rest is Classified.
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by RegW 7mo ago
Productivity is a moveable feast and tricky to compare with the past. The productivity business talk about is the ratio of cost to profit. As tech become available to help reduce your costs and drive up your profit, the same tech also redu
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by RegW 7mo ago
> Follow the law. As a guest in a country, treat your host with respect. Do not support terrorist groups. The article describes Thomas-Johnson as a "student activist and journalist" and "whose work has appeared in outlets
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by RegW 7mo ago
Did you take a copy of that flyer? I would be interested to see it.
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by RegW 8mo ago
Is it just me that sees "Windows Recall" and thinks "Total Recall -> Arnold Schwarzenegger -> Terminator"?
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by RegW 8mo ago
Feels like a Wiremock for Rust.
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by RegW 8mo ago
Hey dude. That's a thought. Get your AI to expand it into a full report and send it to my AI to summarize!
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by RegW 8mo ago
I really enjoyed unchecking all those cookie controls. Of the 1668 partner companies who are so interested in me, a good third have a "legitimate interest". With each wanting to drop several cookies, it seems odd that Privacy Ba
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by RegW 8mo ago
I'm a bit confused about if it does calls. It doesn't mention it for most of the page, but then says: > DIY Phone > Use the Comet and the Linux stack for calling*, messaging and mobile data as an alternate to your walled an
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by RegW 8mo ago
It is sad. It's now happening west of us. In Europe we have been trying to protect ourselves by not saying too much and attracting the attention/wrath of the bosses. I don't think it will work. If you are in Iran - keep yo
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by RegW 8mo ago
10+ years ago I had a job which involved developing/testing geo-restricted software in another country. Eventually each VPN exit point would get marked up as such, and I would have to switch to another. So if posts were marked with th
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by RegW 8mo ago
Apparently X is entirely blocked in Iran unless using a VPN. Perhaps they mean to influence Iranians who activity circumvent internet restrictions :-)
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by RegW 9mo ago
I used to find when listening to a good many podcasts with VLC there would be: > ... See you after the break. brief pause > And we're back ... Unfortunately, most ads are now burnt in. The 10 second advance will skip through the
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by RegW 10mo ago
In my first job out of university in the 80s, I spent all one night playing Knight Lore on the Spectrum with friends. I failed to get up the next morning. My boss drove across Leeds and to bang on the door to see if I was alright. I neede
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by RegW 10mo ago
Is this some obscure hint that there will be well paid skilled jobs to replace those taken away by AI? I'm sure I've previously heard it implied that all the grooms who lost their jobs to motor cars became mechanics and chauffeurs
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by RegW 11mo ago
> But that’s not what Brenda was hired for. Are you suggesting that Brenda should stay in her box?

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