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Such is the state of British politics?

Isn't it the wild west already? On a lark, I asked Claude to compare AI to the wild west a while ago. It raised three points of similarity: - Land-grab economics - Lack of regulati…

Doing the lords work, as they say. Thank you for sharing.

Pretty rich that between this and Claude for Chrome, Anthropic just posted a ~40m YouTube video touting "How Anthropic stops AI cybercrime": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsCNkDr…

Taking a broad view of music, ChatGPT has been great at creating lyrics for songs my DND character sings.

In the context of the source material (the books by Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson), the 'greening' of Dune/Arrakis is a very broad plot theme. So, the comment …

When asking if anyone in the protest had firearms, a journalist was ejected from a news conference. Would have been a good opportunity to disavow violence, but here we are. In this…

How would that take down Twitter?

In the context of 'IT Consulting Companies,' which the blog post is about, it means that clients are paying a higher billable rate than for more 'junior' staff.

The great ones also realize that there are other things employees value and build upon those, along with compensation.

Negotiating courses often refer to this as the BATNA (best alternative to a negotiated agreement). Considering what that scenario is and having it as your bottom line is the best p…

Reducing attrition is a good incentive, especially these days. Whether it's enough is another question.

Then you too can enjoy The Mythical Man Month.

Getting off topic here a fair bit, but you may enjoy these conversations with Max Brooks from the Commonwealth Club: -How Star Wars Explains Modern Military Conflict: https://www.c…

Yeah, the consensus view these days seems to be that Brother laser printers are the way to go.

I too have a Canon POS inkjet printer/scanner. Recently had to change change out the black ink cartridges, because those are the only ones that really deplete. Picture my frustrati…

I would argue that it's a reasonable limit on whichever freedom may be cited not to allow the creation and distribution of child pornography, even when it is fictitious.

If children are being harmed by decisions, how is it not controversial?

SAP typically targets big corps with large IT spend, not so much startups.

Writing as someone who uses mind maps as part of my kit, I empathize with your comment. For my purposes, I've found that it helps to focus the map around a specific objective, proj…

Lots of lithium there too.

BeOS[1] was an OS at the time that by many accounts had good user experience. Didn't achieve commercial success though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

Lives of Squamish Nation members will certainly be bettered, which is why they agreed to the arrangement.

2600 had paper issues and local meetups all over the place.

Wikipedia is a good start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization