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by ajdlinux 2mo ago
Given the US Government's recent habit of sudden announcements on export controls or new executive orders with 'voluntary' review programs that are perhaps not entirely voluntary - do you think the White House and the Departm
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by ajdlinux 4mo ago
My CS degree started first semester with Haskell, with a few weeks of Java tacked on the end. It was interesting to see some of the students who had prior programming experience have to work a bit to adapt their way of thinking to Haskell,
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The Economics of Human Extinction(andrewleigh.com)
3 points by ajdlinux 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 8mo ago
Assuming it's the US we're talking about, the federal minimum wage is $7.25, which means that if every worker involved is paid at the minimum wage, you incur a cent of labour costs every 4.97 person-seconds. AFAICT, most Amazon wo
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Australia establishes new institute to strengthen AI safety(industry.gov.au)
3 points by ajdlinux 10mo ago|0 comments
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Australia to establish AI safety institute(innovationaus.com)
2 points by ajdlinux 10mo ago|0 comments
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by ajdlinux 10mo ago
In Australia, if a company fails to pay its Goods and Services Tax, or its withholding payments for its employees' income tax, or Superannuation Guarantee (retirement fund contributions), each and every director is personally liable -
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by ajdlinux 11mo ago
My initial reactions: - I hope they succeed and eventually deliver a solid version of this product - verifiable photography is going to become important, and it's good to see startups working on this - While I'm sure some artists
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by ajdlinux 11mo ago
I'd be shocked if the major sensor vendors don't already have engineers working on exactly that, though.
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by ajdlinux 11mo ago
It's bizarre to me, an Australian, how the pardon power is used in the US. Our federal, state and territory executive governments all have a pardon power, inherited from English law, that is, formally, unlimited (like the US federally
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by ajdlinux 1y ago
Yeah, you're wrong - a court simply isn't going to consider a lawnmower's translation of throttle input to motor power as "inference". The principles of statutory interpretation require courts to consider the contex
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by ajdlinux 1y ago
A relative of mine had to go back to their paper-only specialist a couple of months ago to get a prescription reissued because the specialist had omitted a mandatory detail from the (handwritten) prescription form and the pharmacist couldn&
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by ajdlinux 1y ago
This is true, but the general advice one gives through, for example, publishing a style guide, should focus on producing reliable outcomes over great outcomes. I'd happily lose most of the great documentation I've read in the cour
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by ajdlinux 1y ago
Can't speak for the US National Archives, but I do occasionally head to the National Archives of Australia to look at things that pique my interest, and I can confirm that yes, you can just ask for entire folders full of documents and
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by ajdlinux 1y ago
Give them the credit after the sponsor actually finalises the updated contract.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
There are also a few businesses e.g. Collabora that pay LibreOffice developers today.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
> Do you know that our voter registration, which is organized by state and ultimately administered at the county level, does include that information? If you're a citizen, and you're correctly registered to vote. Additionally,
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
I quite like the kiosk system for ordering McDonald's. You can see the entire available menu, along with all possible options for adding or removing ingredients, sides, sizes, combo deals, etc. You can always see the current state of y
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
This company isn't the only one running autonomous shuttle buses - what makes theirs different from their competitors?
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
Here's a few more: https://www.oaic.gov.au/privacy/privacy-assessments-and-deci...
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Settlement for Australian users impacted by Cambridge Analytica incident(oaic.gov.au)
76 points by ajdlinux 2y ago|37 comments
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
If you're making a brochure to go out to the whole population of a country, keep it simple and straightforward even if that means oversimplifying the advice a bit.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
Sure, but institutions and regulators care about this issue, and at least making some attempt to address it will make them slightly happier.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
Using LLMs to write your essays and reports for school or uni, in a way that could get you punished if caught, is a reasonably big use case.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
An interesting aspect of ACWST is that it has no legal status - it's observed purely by local convention, though it's still managed to make it into tzdata.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
> This one appears to have been published in the summer of 2024. "Summer" in certain parts of the world, at least.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
The author of this blog post is German.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
"I was under the naive assumption that it's individual developers who work together, and their employers do not really matter." This assumption is not just naive but completely oblivious under normal circumstances, let alone
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
I have just lost an hour of my workday. A good longform profile of a single controversial character will do that to me.
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by ajdlinux 2y ago
That was my first thought - the Australian Consumer Law statutory guarantees would almost certainly come into play here, and this would be worth requesting assistance from the relevant state/territory Fair Trading.

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