doingtheiroming

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by doingtheiroming 11mo ago
Yet Another Sale Abroad. Not a criticism of the YASA team. It’s hard to scale a company in the UK and foreign investment is a good thing in general. But still frustrating that the UK was unable to offer the kind of investment that Mercedes
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by doingtheiroming 11mo ago
An oily Stephen Maturin.
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by doingtheiroming 1y ago
I was hoping this was going to be a malicious MCP from the good old days of security tool naming.
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by doingtheiroming 1y ago
"Does this belong in..." seems to be nearly the correct question.
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by doingtheiroming 2y ago
Stephen Maturin switches from opium to coca leaves about halfway through the Master and Commander series (around 1800). Ensuring a steady supply of the leaves becomes a recurring theme as is his sharing of their wonders with the various sci
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by doingtheiroming 2y ago
There was at least one study during the pandemic that showed efficacy of these things. The problem for studies is knowing exactly how much they're used. I've used the Boots version in the UK for a long time on the basis that there
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Amsterdam Flower Pot Regulation(theguardian.com)
1 points by doingtheiroming 2y ago|0 comments
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by doingtheiroming 2y ago
Surely they could just ask China.
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by doingtheiroming 2y ago
It might well be neoliberal dogma but the rose that got walked through London last week by the Watermen is a reminder that it is also true. People should complain much more about doctors’ guilds. There are limits on how many doctors can be
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by doingtheiroming 2y ago
It's amusing that they actually use the word guild. If the medieval guilds had their way London would still only have one bridge. The irony here is that creatives have an advantage that workers in every other industry lack. Humans valu
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by doingtheiroming 2y ago
There’s a line in one of the Aubury Maturin books, Clarissa Oaks when pumping the ship bilges, a sailor remarks, “she flows as clear and sweet as Hobson’s conduit”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobson's_Conduit
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Yep. Grid integration is great. Engineered markets much less so. Sadly, the incentives for regulators and market participants are well aligned here...
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Damn. Came to post the same. You said it better. It's the real disease of the EU. There's no problem of failed policy that shouldn't be addressed by deepening the policy and making it harder to back track. The only possible r
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Don’t shoot the message.
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Reading the comments, it seems that absolutely no one is happy about this. It is either a lie, insufficient or a pointless response to a non-problem. But it’s a clear achievement. An achievement with lots of nuance. And one that runs counte
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Ah. A simpler time when people were still able to access the operating system internals of products they bought and alter their function without first having to jump through hoops that risked bricking the product they bought. There’s an iro
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
I remember playing Unreal for 3 days solid while working an IT service desk in the late '90s. Compaq Deskpro in software mode later upgraded to a Matrox G200 which upended my world. Working Christmas and New Year was a bonus as far as
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
The constant 15% that everyone forgets. And the U.K. is still importing French nuclear energy today.
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Like I said, can of worms. There are no easy solutions.
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
You pass a law giving a class of inspector the right to enter premises where building works appear to be progressing. You strictly limit what they are permitted to observe and record and require recording of reasonable suspicion. Refusal to
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
I often observe that PPE compliance in the U.K. is dramatically better than it is on the continent where I live. In part I think that’s a result of the concentration of the building contractor business and the (relatively) strong enforcemen
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
There are lots of ways to define “good enough” as well. What are the costs of inferring several small experts contributing to a decomposed workflow versus using GPT4 for example. If you want to run multiple instances for different teams or
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
These are by far the hardest kinds of fraud for banks to deal with right now. They’re so convincing that even when the bank detects them, the customer still demands the transactions go ahead because they’re so bought into the fraudsters. We
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Does it detect academic back-biting?
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EU AI Law Foundation Model Rules Threaten to Block Adoption(euractiv.com)
1 points by doingtheiroming 3y ago|0 comments
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EU AI Law might be in trouble(twitter.com)
2 points by doingtheiroming 3y ago|1 comments
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
France and Germany have realised that cutting European AI development off at the knees might not be the best way to challenge US tech dominance.
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
The answer might be in the article already. The proportion of manufacturing that is in industries like construction has increased versus heavy industry, semiconductors, auto-manufacturing etc. The reasons for a decline in productivity in th
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Multibillion dollar organisation with an essentially unlimited scope for bureaucratic work versus kid trying to move house at the weekend. The “why did he do this to himself?” meme seems appropriate. Also, yes. I’ve gotten better over the y
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by doingtheiroming 3y ago
Well known. Airlines including KLM specifically mention during their safety speech that if a device falls into the seat, you're to call an attendant rather than try to retrieve it.

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