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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
How do you propose it's implemented though?

The two sides in this debate seem to be talking at cross purposes, which is why it goes round and round.

A: "We need to do this, however it's done, it was possible before so it must be possible now"

B: "You can't do this because of the implementation details (i.e. you can't break encryption without breaking it for everyone)"

ad infinitum.

Regardless of my own views on this, it seems to me that A needs to make a concrete proposal

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Thank you, I was trying to put a finer point on what I disagreed with in that comment but that's better than I'd have done. It's like saying "just pick the best option"
Comment · 1 year ago
Obviously few would with that framing, but if they're given policies, lots of British people across the political spectrum would support ones that are more paternalistic. Support for the OSA is very high: https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52693-how-have-brit...

British people are much happier with the state being paternalistic, across the political spectrum, it is a very strong differentiator between the US and the UK. "The government should do something!" You can see it in attitudes to the NHS, pensions, welfare. At its peak, in the 70s, 32% of people lived in social housing!

Labour voters, young and old, are generally quite paternalistic. Lots of Conservative voters are too, depending on the flavour. The exceptions are the Lib Dems and some conservative tribes. I am consistently surprised when talking to highly-educated, politically engaged people, left or right, how much the default is that the state should act.

Comment · 1 year ago
Great software, I've been using this since the start of this year, I use it every day, initially as a frustration with ChatGPT and Claude not having proper voice support in their desktop versions and then everywhere.

When you are in an environment where you can dictate, it really is a game changer. Not only is dictating much faster than typing, even if you're a fast typist, I find that you don't have the sticking problem of composing a message quite as much. It also makes my typing feel more like natural speech.

I have both the record and cancel actions bound to side buttons on my mouse, and paste to a third, the auto-paste feature is frustrating in my opinion.

I do miss having a taskbar icon to see if I'm recording or not. Sometimes I accidentally leave it running and sometimes the audio cues break until I restart it.

Transformations are great, despite an extreme amount of prompt engineering, I can't seem to stop the transformation model occasionally responding to my message rather than just transforming it though..

Comment · 1 year ago
As someone sympathetic to this, throwing in the culture war stuff (make jokes about LGBT etc) is a massive own goal and makes it so easy for people to discredit. This could have far more cross-party support but it's just going to amuse the people who already agreed with it and make everyone else think it's the alt-right letting the mask slip..
Comment · 1 year ago
I got a notification when I opened it, indicating that the default had changed, and I can see it on /model.

Only on a max (20x) account, not there on a Pro one.

Comment · 1 year ago
Seems to be for me, I came to look at HN because I saw it was the default in CC
Comment · 2 years ago
OK? But I'm not arguing that there don't exist tensions between employers and employees, of course there are. I'm saying that liking isolation and not wanting to interact with others isn't good for employers, and don't be surprised if they push back on it. It amounts to saying, I only want to do the fun parts of my job, not the boring but necessary bits, like co-ordinating with other humans.
Comment · 2 years ago
3.1: A skilled person does, but it's still easy to get led down the garden path, even for very skilled engineers, especially when something is urgent, or at least "urgent"

4: Stakeholders really like chat, and it's a constant battle to make them go through the motions to report things properly. Why wouldn't they like it, it puts the burden onto you rather than them. It's often a tricky balance to strike, depending on the organisation, they can often be more important than you.

Comment · 2 years ago
Well, that's honest! But presumably you can see that it's at odds with the interests of the business..
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Thanks, I just got SpaceDesk working on a cheap Amazon tablet over USB-C (after realising I had to set PTP mode on the tablet...) Should work really nicely as a second monitor when travelling, I have it on 60fps and high settings and the latency is barely perceptible.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don't understand this at all, a Kustomize base is far easier to read than a Helm Chart? It's a set of manifests with no templating. I find that it's easy to see what gets patched or replaced in the overlays and there's a lot more fail-fast rather than stringly-typed whitespace nonsense.

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