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by funnybeam 5d ago
Probably not in your bath, but in houses with water tanks at least one of the cold taps will be fed directly from the mains supply. If you are drinking it then you want it straight from the mains rather than from the tank in your loft that’
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by funnybeam 6d ago
Microsoft did an Android Duo that was basically two phones hinged together, like this but with two separate screens. Didn’t last long… Quite an odd name choice by Apple
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by funnybeam 9d ago
How much time do the majority of people spend scrolling on their phones? I tend to think that i don’t have time to do the things i want to do outside of work, but on the rare occasions when i managed to put my phone aside for a couple of we
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by funnybeam 1mo ago
And vice versa
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by funnybeam 2mo ago
I like to pretend that was filmed in the Hogwarts sixth form commmon room in the eighties
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by funnybeam 4mo ago
They don’t express gender, they signify adjective and noun. No genders in Esperanto
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by funnybeam 5mo ago
I used to refer to the helpdesk as the reading desk - “Hello, you’re through to the IT Helpdesk, what can i read for you today?”
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by funnybeam 6mo ago
In this scenario the ai _writer _ is redundant. You might as well publish the prompt you were going to give to the writer and have the ai reader consume that directly. Assuming you think any of this is a good idea of course. Personally I wo
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying(theguardian.com)
20 points by funnybeam 6mo ago|2 comments
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by funnybeam 7mo ago
The longbow didn’t require “minimal training”, it took years of regular practice and physical conditioning. Weekly longbow practice was even a legal requirement for most English men to ensure there were enough skilled archers. The crossbow
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by funnybeam 7mo ago
Except it keeps reverting to the new notepad every few days…. I’ve been fighting this for the last couple of weeks but it just doesn’t stick
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by funnybeam 8mo ago
According to Wikipedia she was born in Britain and a British citizen, but i am not aware of all the ins and outs of her case
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by funnybeam 8mo ago
Not heard of Shamima Begum? British born, stripped of citizenship I’m not commenting on the rightness or not of her case, just pointing out that being born British is not necessarily the guarantee you are describing
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by funnybeam 8mo ago
As an IT security loser it’s not your software I’m worried about, it’s your OpSec. I’ve seen enough innocuous software being owned and being used to deploy malware that it takes a lot of due diligence to trust providers of random binaries
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by funnybeam 9mo ago
Don’t let the bastards win. Keep your principles
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by funnybeam 9mo ago
We have a process at work where clients export information from their database as a pdf which they email to us so that we can ocr it and insert into our database. No one else seems to think this is bat shit insane
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
The Omega Factor is another good one you’d like judging by the rest of your list. Was terrified by the theme music as a child and never allowed to watch it. Managed to find it a little while ago and loved it. Only one season unfortunately.
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
I’ve been rewatching it recently and thought the first season was awful. The plots specifically, the aesthetics and theme music are awesome and worth watching for that alone. Haven’t gotten to the second season yet but was really hoping it
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
From memory I believe it was windows 7 that broke the taskbar - before that you could put it on any side of the screen and also embed folders on it. I used to have it on the left side of the screen with my actual documents folder (not “My D
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
This isn’t a bug, it is known behaviour that is inherent and fundamental to the way LLMs function. All the AI companies are aware of this and are pressing ahead anyway - it is completely irresponsible. If you haven’t come across it before,
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
Another thing that Microsoft is regressing on. Entra and intune are a poor substitute for Active Directory. Likewise with SharePoint compared to file shares and NTFS permissions
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
Except the new notepad autosaves so I can no longer trust it for temporary password storage. Thanks Microsoft for making everything worse I feel sorry for the younger generations, they’ll never know what it was like to use computers that we
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
I think you’re absolutely right. These companies know full well that their “guardrails” are ineffective but they just don’t care because they’ve sunk so much money into AI that they are desperate to pretend that everything’s fine and their
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by funnybeam 10mo ago
I really think we should stop using the term ‘guard rails’ as it implies a level of control that really doesn’t exist. These things are polite suggestions at best and it’s very misleading to people that do not understand the technology - I’
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by funnybeam 11mo ago
Some languages - human languages, natural or constructed, not programming languages - have ways of expressing the source of a piece of information, such as whether it is a known fact, something you have personally observed, or just an idea
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by funnybeam 1y ago
“Ko op” where I’m from, never heard it pronounced any other way Rhymes with no-op
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Not just the ’new regime’ Check out the 1994 Budapest Memorandum where Russia, USA and UK all agreed to preserve Ukraine’s borders in return for them giving their nukes to Russia. All parties seen to have forgotten about that one
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Not only was it cool, it was also social. I met a lot of people through smoking that I wouldn’t have done otherwise
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by funnybeam 2y ago
That’s true of anything you pay money for
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by funnybeam 2y ago
Have you looked at org mode for eMacs? That does precisely this

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