rlamacraft @rlamacraft@qoto.org
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
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Consider, if LLMs existed in the 1820s trained on all the knowledge of that time they would be enthusiastically recommending leeches and bloodletting as medical procedures.
Discussions around job automation annoy me so much: “$technology can’t replace everything I do so how could there possibly be any job loss” — If it replaces half of what you do then the demand for people like you halves, we don’t need 100% job loss for there to be a big problem! “$technology also creates some jobs” — yes, but what’s the NET effect? Doesn’t matter if it creates 1% new jobs if we loss 20% of existing ones
@keefeglise @anon_opin Only once you’ve exceeded the tax free amounts. IIRC it’s £500 for dividends, £3000 for capital gains, and a similar amount for renting out a spare room (assuming the original poster was taking about the U.K., which most AnonOpins are)
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First past the post might not be ideal, but proportional representation isn't the utopia people think it it. Just take Israel for example. Far right nut jobs never get enough votes to rule, but just enough to threaten to collapse the government unless they get what they want.
@anon_opin And caramelized onions too. So much energy is wasted shipping large bulbs for me to cook down in small quantities when the end product freezes well and can be added to lots of dishes
@anon_opin@mastodon.social And caramelized onions too. So much energy is wasted shipping large bulbs for me to cook down in small quantities when the end product freezes well and can be added to lots of dishes
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Nettles are lovely green leaves that are healthy to eat, easy to grow, but hard to process. Supermarkets should sell frozen nettles to include in curries and stews, just like they sell bags full of blocks of frozen spinach.
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I have zero sympathy for people who lost their homes due to cliff erosion or are about to soon. You knew perfectly well what you were risking when you bought a house teetering on the edge of a cliff. You have only yourself and your stupid decision-making "skills" to blame.
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London doesn't have much in common with the rest of the UK so it should be split off in to its own country and added as a 5th UK country
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JSON implies the existence of JDÓTTIR
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Referendums are abdication of duty and responsibility of elected representatives and should never be used.
@jasongorman One of several small improvements that Jujutsu makes over Git. It's not required, so I can't speak for how it may compare to TDD, but it's perfectly possible to describe the current change even when it's still empty.
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Just thinking about better ways to penalize corporations that break the law.
Fines are trivial and never keep pace with reality. Instead, what if companies had to give back a chunk of shares to the government? Issuing new shares that dilute existing shareholder value, and making the govt part owners. Effectively, nationalize the company in degrees with every breach of trust.
Fines are trivial and never keep pace with reality. Instead, what if companies had to give back a chunk of shares to the government? Issuing new shares that dilute existing shareholder value, and making the govt part owners. Effectively, nationalize the company in degrees with every breach of trust.
@anon_opin Only thing it’s good for is French toast
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Brioche has no right to exist. It's too sweet for a bread. Too dense for a pastry. And too bland for a cake.
I feel like LLMs are the death-nail for using anything but the top 5 most popular programming languages. It was already nigh-on impossible to make the business case for less-popular tools, simply from a hiring and training perspective, but with LLMs being trained on the most popular languages and tools, it doesn't matter how much better less common languages might be, they're not going to be able to overcome the productivity gain of throwing LLMs at the problem.
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The only way for Labour to resolve its internal differences - and the Labour electorate too - is: to implement PR during this parliament; split in two; then form a coalition after the next election, with the Lib Dems and/or Greens thrown in too
@anon_opin You can then take it one step further, arriving at Modern Monetary Theory, by concluding that the only purpose of taxation is to make inflation less regressive.
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Slightly pedantic, but the government actually does have a magic money tree and it's called the Bank of England. It can, and does, create money out of thin air. It would be far more accurate to say 'We have a magic money tree but we have to be careful how we use it'.
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As of today, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was published closer to the Apollo 11 Moon landing than it was to the present day.
Software engineer by trade. Programmer by hobby too (in addition to basketry and spoon carving). Personal website: https://rlamacraft.uk/. Gemini capsule: gemini://gemini.rlamacraft.uk
Joined Jan 2020
