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Terrific thing!

The FAQ should state explicitly that patron money will only be used for preservation, not put into GOG general revenue, if that is indeed true.

It's not a wildly false dichotomy.

It's hyperbolic, sure, but the broad point that there are things that parents find hard to parent for reasons, and society should think about helping them out, is 100% true.

It's a coordination problem. I can "parent" my kids by banning them from social media sure, but if the other parents don't also do that, then I just made my kid a social outcast.

As it is we have to allow our eldest a lot more screen and social media time than we think is healthy, but it's more healthy than not having any friends.

I'm not necessarily in favour of a government ban, but I do wish more parents were on board. At the primary school (age 10) 100% of other kids had phones, and no one else seemed to give a shit.

The basic mechanics look like very standard type of puzzle mechanics (e.g. Sokoban) that have been in many games over decades.

I'm British and I have sometimes chosen Canadian English as my OS language so that it will not constantly try to correct my usage of z in words like this.

It's way easier to remember and program

When I was playing The Farmer Was Replaced and needed to implement sorting, I just wrote a bubble sort. Worked first time.

Slate Star Codex's review is always worth a re-read

https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/02/book-review-on-the-roa...

Right - don’t make subagents for the different roles, make them to manage context for token heavy tasks.

A backend developer subagent is going to do the job ok, but then the supervisor agent will be missing useful context about what’s been done and will go off the rails.

The ideal sub agent is one that can take a simple question, use up massive amounts of tokens answering it, and then return a simple answer, dropping all those intermediate tokens as unnecessary.

Documentation Search is a good one - does X library have a Y function - the subagent can search the web, read doc MCPs, and then return a simple answer without the supervisor needing to be polluted with all the context

Right - for me each year of university (in UK) was a year of learning with exams at the end, that was it, and it was normal.

To an extent I think would be surprising to anyone who hasn’t done interviews, all developer CVs below about Staff level are the same.

Everyone’s architected a system, handled communication with stakeholders, contributed to technical direction of the team, mentored other developers, etc etc

I tried the demo, fingerprint.com, in:

  - Safari
  - Safari private mode
  - Chrome private mode

I then tried

  - Chrome (normal, non-private mode)

Does Safari have better privacy than Chrome?

Maybe a dumb question, but what is the C# compiler and runtime that you use?

I used to be up to date with .NET and Mono and stuff but I'm 10 years out of date

Can I ask a dumb question - how is Atomic set operation implemented internally if not by grabbing a lock?

As always when there's a new trend it refuses me.

I showed it a picture of a street in Rome from our last holiday and the thinking traces show it was bang on but halfway through the output it just deletes it all and says it's against policy.

He also wrote a story about how AI will create a non-literate society, because we'll all just talk to the computers whenever we need anything.

A big win, but not so stable - IIRC within a few years of this referendum the polls had swung back to about 2/3 against membership of the EC, where it remained for a long time.

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Am I right that this article nowhere compares against the current red or even has anything with the current red in it, anywhere?

Is that a policy choice there? They don't want to.. not be future looking or something? I don't really get why. It made the article frustrating to read

It's interesting though - I'm not sure why they submitted a police report... they weren't robbed, Apple was.

Removing nodes by adding a concept of implicit branches via "unless" clauses within a node doesn't necessarily make the system any easier to understand at a glance.

The original diagram does this too - it has an "A && B" node.

How does it generate voice when it's based on a text based model? I read the readme but afraid I didn't understand

Thanks... I haven't thought about it in a long time, as it was difficult, but looking back it seems quite positive.

Three things:

1. Full disclosure at that time in my life I was rather bad at motivating myself to work independently for long periods. In hindsight starting a PhD was a bad idea for this reason alone.

2. The university closed the department I was in. I was transferred to another supervisor in another department, who was nice but saw his role as more administrative. After a while he then announced he was retiring so I was looking at moving to another supervisor again.

3. I turned out to be far, far more interested in writing software than doing research. E.g I wrote an open source unit testing library in Prolog to support my research tooling. I was learning Rails on the side. I went to the Hacker News meet-up in London, and the startup that was running them offered me a job, and the rest is history!

I had sunk multiple years into it so it wasn't easy. But in hindsight it was not even a close decision.

"You are formally invited to A WAKE for THE RESEARCH SCIENCE CAREER of FRANCES HOCUTT FRIDAY from 7 PM to MIDNIGHT"

When I quit my PhD I had an Ungraduation Party! My wife made a cake and everyone sang Happy Ungraduation To You! It was sad and happy but overwhelmingly such a relief to get out

More like AssholeHub. But not so rude.

Ahh takes me back!

In 2009 I wrote a lib to auto-generate Ruby bindings for Vala code. It gave a very pleasant API to create native extensions for Ruby, if you were happy using glib.

https://github.com/danlucraft/valar

One reason was to increase investment. In water's case the infrastructure had been under-invested in under public ownership for decades, due to it always being a low priority from a political point of view.

The regulatory structure of the privatized industry says the water companies can only make profits if they make capital investments, and so the amount invested in water infrastructure in the UK (particularly England) has duly gone up a lot since privatization and has been comparable or higher to other nations since.

From this point of view, it's less about choice and markets as a way to structure the regulation and ownership so that capital investment actually happens.

I've been an Evernote user since 2008 and a paying one for most of that. The other week I tried to go through some old notes. Half of them wouldn't load. Looking to leave now.

On the main ChatGPT website there's already an option in settings to disallow use of anything you say in chat for training.

Tl;dr someone put “futuristic skyscrapers” into Midjourney

At the time I calculated that if all the money spent on the 2012 Olympics (supposedly to inspire a nation's children to love sport) was instead given as endowments, then every single secondary school in England would receive something like £150,000 a year extra in their budget to spend on sport - in perpetuity.