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440bx

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    Comment #47803263

    A huge number of them. It's not like we don't work with the EU on a ton of things. Brexit didn't just pull the plug on everything .

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    Comment #47799538

    I don't need a diagnosis of my point. Perhaps I should explain further. I'll say that it's more that the assertion that WhatsApp is a big issue is false. Civil servants know stuff …

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    Comment #47798880

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    Comment #47795503

    Can the team please use that money on making thunderbird look like the nice UI mockups that were published that don't look anything like thunderbird.

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    Comment #47795423

    Thought "hey this better not be AI". Yes it's AI. Just keep making a decent browser and stop getting distracted on shit.

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    Comment #47794738

    My life has mostly been making that as not true as possible :)

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    Comment #47794538

    Your employer is a fucking moron.

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    Comment #47794512

    I'm taking the radical approach of starting with the problem and finding a solution rather than start with a solution and hit all your problems with it. LLMs have yet to feature.

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    Comment #47789679

    Well it wasn't really a teaching revolution. It was a marketing job around a YouTube channel that purported to be a teaching revolution. The thing is people want more than material…

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    Comment #47783133

    Promises are broken, policies are changed and political regimes vary. You need to make sure that you consider the future and not just now. And that means NEVER handing your data ov…

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    Comment #47783083

    As someone who works on closed source software and has done for a couple of decades, most companies won't even know about that and of those who do only a fraction give enough of a …

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    Comment #47781346

    Yes. I travel around the world looking for such things.

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    Comment #47775475

    This is the horseshoe theory of Agile. If you do Agile hard enough you end up at SAFe which is basically waterfall.

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    Comment #47772149

    As it appears to be hugged to death, archive link: https://archive.ph/qsdc3

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    Comment #47767021

    Not really. Offence is sometimes the best defence. But when people start rubbing their hands at the prospect of a war being their retirement plan I don't want to be around them.

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    Comment #47766273

    Well it's not all bad. Some of the stuff we did was entirely defence and disaster support. I basically got to choose projects I worked on until I was told I couldn't.

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    Comment #47764902

    Good on you. I quit my job in the defence sector over two decades ago for the same reasons. Best decision I ever made.

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    Comment #47761988

    Boring mathematical reality here. This is nice and all that but as a (part time) corporate mathematician, I'd like an AI that organises conference trips, picks the best accommodati…

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    Comment #47756446

    Yeah I tend to agree. For me Mythos' principal risk in my mind is saturation through being able to do bad things faster. Vulnerabilities are found and fixed - that's life. What is …