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b800h

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    Even the tag-line, "one poisoned patriarch, one locked-in truth" sounds very AI, and makes me think that I'd struggle to enjoy this. But I'll give it a go, because the idea is exce…

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    Comment #48956131

    I loved my Eee PC - I'd use it to program on the bus, train, or on a plane, but for me they were killed off by a combination of smartphones, and getting a driving license. Some yea…

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    Comment #48787676

    That isn't necessarily an easy fix at all. Depending on how this feature was written, separating comments from instructions may be quite difficult, especially if the original imple…

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    Comment #48745245

    They effectively had tourist English. They're probably in through an agency so the financial incentive is to find an examiner who will give the right answer.

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    Comment #48729627

    Her nurses frequently couldn't speak English. I had to spell out her medical conditions letter by letter so that the nurse could input it onto the medical system. She was entering …

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    Comment #48711716

    Well it was a nightmare for my mother's do-nothing GP surgery in the UK. She had several conditions which were being handled completely separately without central coordination, and…

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    Comment #48711647

    I'm not sure what your point is. Are you saying that medicine is inherently fallible and therefore AI is more likely to make a good diagnosis - particularly a cluster of specialist…

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    Comment #48643223

    I quite enjoyed using the memory segments - I thought they were quite intuitive and helped in reasoning about the machine.

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    Comment #48626946

    It's very possible that this occurred during the IR35 shake-up - HMRC moved the liability for unpaid income tax (in a situation where a contractor was determined to be a de-facto e…

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    Comment #48611904

    Banning under 16s from social media is de-facto censorship of political views outside of those promulgated by mainstream media, and as the mainstream media in this country tends to…

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    Comment #48611830

    This isn't an axis from freedom to control, with the country sitting at an identifiable point. All of these things are happening, antagonistically, at the same time. Right wing peo…

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    Comment #48566670

    Sorry, Brit here, I'm confused. Why is the plaintiff here the NAACP?

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    Comment #48489039

    Why do people use Medium?

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    Comment #48307010

    There are a lot of buzzwords in there. Does it work?

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    Comment #48278654

    Jesus, did the bloke from the Jaguar rebrand move to Ferrari?

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    Comment #48105178

    If you're working with an agent to write code, you want it in the most quickly-readable format possible. That's generally Python, although YMMV. I want to be able to skim and zoom …

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    Comment #47919081

    Popular in UK train stations until very recently. I suspect that there are still a few out there!

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    Comment #47586921

    Ah, I found this particularly offensive when I heard about the naming of the parent company. Randomly nicking a famous person's name for your company is pretty rubbish behaviour IM…

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    Comment #47565993

    Bias towards women would be understood by most readers as favouring them. I would have written bias against women here.

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    Comment #47529499

    I've been looking for a solution for this problem for a long time, and this is a particularly innovative approach. I'll look into this more: Most appreciated, thank you.

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    Comment #47292616

    I thought it was supposed to be called the Department of War?