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by bArray 3mo ago
Paying into the legal pot makes sense, as does paying into a medical pot. But its not clear to me that mixing politics and unions is a good idea, especially as their typical support base have politically drifted from them.
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by bArray 3mo ago
I understand why there is that relationship, but it appears the people that make the main membership and the leadership in the unions/Labour party have drifted apart. So now you have this weird situation where the unions and the Labour
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by bArray 3mo ago
The only real reason for me in the UK to join a union would be for legal representation, otherwise I can represent my own interests. At least here in the UK our unions are heavily involved in politics - which is a massive issue. Currently,
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by bArray 3mo ago
My view is still relatively classical, significant unsanctioned violence used for political means. I would also be interested to see how other people are now defining this.
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by bArray 3mo ago
This article is quite dishonest. > Let’s be clear: a few of the protesters were out of bounds. "out of bounds" is a nice way of putting it. Terrorism is an accurate description. > But these sentences far outstrip anything th
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by bArray 3mo ago
> This is certainly not the case in other product areas and for specifically for something that uses the Google name. Sure, but it's a slap on the wrists. It seems like an extreme reaction. > The OP also notes that they had a com
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by bArray 3mo ago
> In the name of “online safety”, the fundamental rights of both freedom of expression and privacy appear to be under imminent threat. The current UK government don't actually care about children, if they did then they would actuall
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by bArray 3mo ago
I'm in the middle of building my own based on LiquidAI/LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct [1]. I run it on the CPU locally and get reasonable performance. I'm currently using it to solve small problems - but expanding it daily. [1] https:
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by bArray 3mo ago
I agree. Yes, these are not foolproof, but damn does it make it harder. It means that a random lone wolf using some random AI is not going to find it easy. I would add a few more measures: * Keys are regenerated for each device in the charg
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by bArray 3mo ago
Yes it has been in practice for a long time, but it's now being used to push clear fail cases into passing grades just to meet quotas. Prior it was used to adjust for particularly difficult assessments, and was closely monitored.
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by bArray 3mo ago
> Less competition for me, and "educators" are being punished HARD for their abrogation of their actual responsibilities, which was to teach and give exams. Universities consist of a wide range of people with different incentiv
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by bArray 3mo ago
This article tackles the issue from a job opportunity perspective, but a bigger problem is the quality of students completing CS degrees is declining. UC Berkley are seeing it in their STEM departments [1] and I have seen the raw data for o
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by bArray 3mo ago
I think Google will win out in the end. They are concentrating on what matters, performance per watt, and performance per dollar. They are building their own inference hardware and are working towards edge-computing which removes latency an
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by bArray 3mo ago
Somewhat ionical.
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by bArray 3mo ago
I'm not making this political. I'm simply stating that they took an action, and they knew what the result of taking that action would be. They then can't get upset that the clear consequence of their protest was an entirely p
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by bArray 3mo ago
That wasn't the argument I made in 2024. If these people at ADA were now facing a legal battle where somebody was claiming $1bn in damages, and their assets were being sold off to a bidder controlled by Trump, then I would also be clai
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by bArray 3mo ago
I'm surprised nothing more serious happened. There was obviously a serious electrocution risk, but I think that is the easiest bit to deal with. 100kW of radio waves, whilst non-ironising, can still microwave you. With 100kW there coul
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by bArray 3mo ago
Putting aside there's a good chance that it was written by an LLM... Whilst I don't personally see myself in this story, I think I see others around me in it. Over the weekend there was some calculations that needed to be done, an
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by bArray 3mo ago
Why is that so insane? Would you be saying the same when the NHS was originally proposed? It's entirely possible, the fact that the UK government lacks imagination is at great cost to the tax payer. There is no serious long term invest
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by bArray 3mo ago
I understand, but it's why things are desperate to change. I refuse to believe that the UK is fundamentally unable to rise to these challenges, in which can I can only chalk it up to poor government structure and management. These peop
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by bArray 3mo ago
> Risk, time, complexity, mismatched skill-sets... "getting a new thing built" didn't work so well with (for example) Fujitsu and the Post Office, or the billions spent to little or no avail on NHS digitalisation. Seems to
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by bArray 3mo ago
> Adyen will take over GOV.UK Pay card payments for local authorities, police forces and armed forces units from Stripe, as well as pay by bank services, under a three-year contract worth up to £25.3 million. I would prefer they take thi
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by bArray 3mo ago
This is the right answer - if it goes wrong they are already placed in the escape vehicle, sitting in their space suits.
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by bArray 4mo ago
> Keyboard is terrible – it only registers keystrokes when you hit the exact center of each key. I wish laptop manufacturers would pay more attention to this. I'm stuck using older laptops because modern laptops can't reliably
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by bArray 4mo ago
Maybe it is typical only for me. I did question it and was told that we don't want to completely remove the incentive for educated guessing. We also usually have a scale of question difficulty, so getting people to a pass is not too di
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by bArray 4mo ago
Typically you have -1/N for incorrect selection, where N is the number of choices. For N=4, you would grade incorrect answers as -0.25. If you have a person taking an exam that is not confident in themselves or generally knows the subj
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by bArray 5mo ago
> Yes. The goal was to handle the maximum data rate of the used sensor, and stop there. Time was limited on both ends. I understand, and I understand that there were limits to what could be done with the resources there were. What irks m
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by bArray 5mo ago
I think you miss my point. I don't think that this conclusion can be reached with the (singular) experiments performed because there is a lack of data to draw it. If I ran an experiment where I gave a cancer patient bread, and then the
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by bArray 5mo ago
> It is concluded that Rust is a sound choice today for firmware development in this domain. This conclusion was reached with a single experiment. > Two teams concurrently developing the same functionality — one in C, one in Rust — ar
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by bArray 5mo ago
I almost purchased a mechanical keyboard (with the wrong layout) from a Bic Camera [1] just because they offered in-store access to the keyboards. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bic_Camera

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