piltdownman

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by piltdownman 6d ago
It's LucidSpark for non-masochists. It's Parabol for power-users. It's possibly the greatest 'roll your own' tool for workshopping and blue-sky planning to hit mass-appeal without feature and subscription bloat. Inc
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by piltdownman 9d ago
What did the Medicis or Guggengheim's do other than be rich and idle at the right time and place in history? The contemporary prompt is a port for patronage, not a point of inflection - with a similarly ludicrous symbiotic relationship
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by piltdownman 9d ago
If fumbling through 'hot cross buns' on the recorder is roughly analogous to recitation of multiplication tables, then Gould playing Shostakovich can certainly be referenced as one would the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Certainly
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by piltdownman 14d ago
The difference being that the role of Engineer wasn't conceived as a layer of friction between consumers and their statutory rights to the point where a U.S. Senate subcommittee probe (Senate Homeland Security Subcommittee on Disaster
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by piltdownman 14d ago
A lot of which isn't under the purview of Dublin City Council - what you're talking about is the M50 ring, and the purview of the other 3 councils - Fingal (e.g. Swords and Malahide) South Dublin County Council (Tallaght and Clond
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by piltdownman 16d ago
Well, yes. Not a huge breadth of research, but all conclusions support my statements above. Two such relevant and recent studies: Evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence and Online Psychotherapy Initiative to Improve Access and Efficiency
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by piltdownman 16d ago
It's an amazing and disingenuous posit that the problem here lies with the Algorithm as opposed to the consequences under which it was introduced - cost-cutting. The barriers to care for patients who are already struggling with serious
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by piltdownman 16d ago
Kimi K3 is an LLM so completely separate to the conversation at hand. The DSA doesn't apply to models, it applies to businesses operating as Platforms with more than 45 million monthly users in the EU. If you were to use Kimi K3 via ki
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by piltdownman 16d ago
Not only do they have clear requirements and guidelines, they're codified into law. The core aims of the law are unambiguous in both aim and implementation, and serve to enforce existing consumer rights. Please feel free to highlight w
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by piltdownman 16d ago
Due to hitting 45 million average monthly users in the EU, ChatGPT is now subject to the same classification as Reddit or Roblox - and thus held accountable for mitigating risks related to ChatGPT’s impact on minors, user mental health, and
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by piltdownman 16d ago
Because iPhone/AirPods are a wealth and fashion signifier. IKEA is a flat-pack THX-1138. Fight Club summarised it beautifully two decades ago: “- Like so many others, I had become a slave to the IKEA nesting instinct. Narrator: Uh, yes
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by piltdownman 20d ago
In terms of 'automating' Leadership, it's self-evident that Agentic AI is more than capable of inferring context and providing insight based on its significant business administration and management corpus. From this it can s
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by piltdownman 22d ago
From about 2010 onwards we have had the phenomenon of the High-Income White Collar Itinerate - the Silicon Valley worker living in a converted van, or the remote coder working from a LOC country with low barriers to entry regarding Visas an
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by piltdownman 22d ago
// whose only creed was FYPM Good. It took a long while for ICs to be paid more than 'management' in the US. It's still a hard-fought battle here. // a flood of coders in the '10s-early '20s whos
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by piltdownman 22d ago
In Ireland, the National Postal Service (An Post) charges €6.95 processing on top of the €3 Customs Charge. An additional €2 handling fee per product is expected in November 2026. All subject to 23% Vat. So we go from €3 to about €15 a pack
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by piltdownman 27d ago
You're absolutely right, I had Malaysia in my head for some reason. Music Tribe City is in Zhongshan, China https://www.musicradar.com/news/behringers-mindblowing-new-f...
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by piltdownman 28d ago
This is where Behringer absolutely shine - about a decade ago they established a fully automated mega-factory in Malaysia designed around Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, PLM/MES software, and Digital Twin technology. Korg 2600 - ~ €1000
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by piltdownman 28d ago
The shortest 'legal' sentence I can come up with is 82 Characters "Why did Microsoft Entertainment Pack have a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?" The had... had... is doing the heavy lifting for omitting the 'd
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
Stripe aren't even in the top 3 for payment processing. -Global Payments: $2.8 trillion -JPMorgan Chase: $2.45 to $2.6 trillion -Fiserv: $2.2 trillion -Stripe: ~$1.9 trillion -PayPal/Braintree: ~$1.9 trillion
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
Their preference is for 'audio as convenient as it was in the 1950s', but they instead go on to describe a basic configuration issue with their use-case. The reality of consumer audio in 1950s was closer to a physics lab than a re
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
USB-C to 3.5mm adapter is about $5 tbf. The rest is just poor configuration on your part.
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
I'm just waiting for an Agentic AI to hit a writers-block and whip out a deck of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
The 'reliable heuristics' for identifying LLM output tend to pattern-match on technical lexicons, adherence to syntax at the cost of parsability, and atypically rigid punctuation and literary contrivances. Typically these form the
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
Miller's situation is a little more nuanced - he was crew on an Allied Bomber that levelled the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy during World War I, falsely believing it was occupied by German troops. His subsequent PTSD
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by piltdownman 1mo ago
uConnect and the various 3rd party storefront/DRMs are a travesty on the Steamdeck - the Decky plugin Junkstore goes some way to remedying it, but Far Cry 3 is harder to get working than any number of tempermental Switch emulations wit
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Again, there's a lot of nuance here that has been beautifully articulated to great comic effect 40 years ago - and very little has changed regarding the aims, motives and consequences. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes&#
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Aramco was the most prominent sponsor in the World Cup, and Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan owns Man City and was subject to a campaign calling on the English Premier League to hold Mansour to account for the UAE's role in the war in Sudan
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Unagi Don using Aubergine is one of the few vegan cheats that is arguably better than the original. Rukmini Iyer does a nice riff with a vegan traybake on a similar theme that's very easy to throw together https://thehappyfo
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
CLZ Books is sort of in that domain, and is the best solution I came across for cataloguing and tracking my 1000+ post 1970s books https://clz.com/books
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever"

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