ChrisKnott

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Former programmer based in London
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Comment · 19 days ago
Electricity consumption isn’t a good measure of Services.

If you shut down a steel mill and replace it with ARM, GDP is up but energy consumption is down.

Comment · 1 month ago
Possibly andrewlaack’s clanker run amok
Comment · 2 months ago
IMO including the totally unnecessary phrase “unlikely situation” here is quite indicative of a toxic environment within the company.
Comment · 4 months ago
Well, it potentially does make it “ok” in the sense of being less bad than letting the guy off. That’s why the legal concept exists. There are other contexts where there is no good faith exception, but in this situation there is one.

In this case the crime is a bank robbery which isn’t victimless but most people think of as somewhat “victim-lite”. If the crime was the stranger rape of a little girl then the vast majority of people would have been outraged if the police had not obtained this warrant.

Comment · 4 months ago
McDonald’s getting a strongly worded letter from the Mayor of Hamburg over their use of “cheeseburger”.
Comment · 4 months ago
It just means they were completely transparent with the court when getting the data, and believed themselves it was lawful.

What’s hard to believe about that? They clearly put some effort into minimising the collateral privacy intrusions.

Comment · 4 months ago
Yes too much “it’s not X it’s Y”, and too few references to personal actions/biography.
Comment · 7 months ago
Is there a SOTA OCR model that prioritises failing in a debuggable way?

What I want is an output that records which sections of the image have contributed to each word/letter, preferably with per word confidence levels and user correctable identification information.

I should be able to build a UI to say: no, this section is red-on-green vertically aligned Cyrillic characters; try again.

Comment · 7 months ago
This is almost certainly because a member of the public phoned the police/FBI and alleged that GM was /u/maxwellhill, not that it was part of the FBI’s case. Look at the other stuff on the list.

I don’t know if the claim is “absurd” but it appears to be essentially baseless.

Comment · 7 months ago
Other ones that to me felt like completely fair value and better than anything I had as a child were the Creator Bunny, Space Telescope, and Space Robot. Something like £18/£25/£25 the second two having light bricks included.

JK Brickworks has an alt build for the bunny that doesn’t require a massive amount of different pieces and makes it lay mini eggs.

Comment · 7 months ago
I don’t think this is true at all. What do you mean by “general bricks”? If anything there is more brick-built stuff nowadays.

For example the Creator 3-in-1 Castle (which I got for my son for Christmas) is pretty similar to castle sets I had as a child but basically way better and with brick built horses rather than large mould ones

Comment · 8 months ago
The citation for your quote appears to be an unsourced Reddit post.

The agreement at the heart of 5 Eyes is to not surveil the other nations - this must be up there for most persistently misunderstood fact among techies (probably why AI spits it out)

Comment · 11 months ago
This is literally my favourite website, I use it several times a week.

I do wish the search was a bit better; it could show the matching quote below the matching frame, and it doesn’t seem to support phrase queries.

A more advanced feature would be searching by speaking character too.

Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah, what a tiny joy when it "picked up" the canvas as it went

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