Super_Jambo

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Campaigner for Proportional Representation in the UK lower house.

Email me jms301(at)gmail.com

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Comment · 1 month ago
From the careless people woman we learn that he is unaccustomed to losing at Settlers of Catan because they all let him win.

If you're not much of a board game person this is _wild_ because Catan gets annoying with 1 beginner since you can see how they end up gifting the win to someone else.

So he either knows people are letting him win (and got mad at the newbie who didn't?) or he's too stupid to see them make mistakes or he thinks they're idiots but he keeps playing with them?

I dunno there was a lot of stuff from her that was damning but somehow this is the most damning thing to me, real insight into the man.

Reminds me of the UK prime minister's close protection officer and inner circle all gambling on the election date and getting caught.

What degree of corruption did you witness that this seemed OK?

Comment · 1 year ago
What on earth makes you think you could know what's going on in someone else's brain with such confidence.

Wild.

Comment · 1 year ago
Once you're an adult some of the best lessons come from having bad teachers.
Comment · 1 year ago
For the same reason weights and measures legislation is of course impossible.

This is why every time you go to the shops you have to carry your own standard weights and balance scale! The idea that society could regulate the weight and volume of every product in every shop is simply preposterous!

Comment · 1 year ago
I think what's most worrying here is Trump & co publicly exerting influence over these huge companies.

So the concentration of economic power has made the number of oligarchs he needs to capture quite manageable.

Comment · 1 year ago
More likely that sensible mainstream journalists will laugh at people under Govt surveillance because they sound like the reddit conspiracy nuts from their youth...
Comment · 1 year ago
I think the point they are making is that google will let the fraudsters pay to place higher than the warnings because it's profitable to do so.
Comment · 1 year ago
No embedding endpoints?
Comment · 1 year ago
Seems like a rather large moral hazard if we don't?

At some point the courts should be able to say "ok fine you were the directors responsible for the company you're going to prison n years, sorry."

Bet we'd see a lot more documentation suddenly appear.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I have been very impressed with what you can build on it.

I built this little service to add UK specific political location data to Action Network CRM. 300 lines for the actual service!

code here: https://github.com/jms301/ANUpdaterUK/blob/main/src/index.js

Sure it's only taking a webhook, reading an API, looking up a db entry and then updating via API.

But just knowing it's running on someone else's infra and there's so little code to validate is very comforting.

Prior to this I had a version running on a VPS and yeah I can do it. But you end up with a LOT of code / config to run the web server, the queue, the database... And any of that could be introducing bugs and security problems.

Comment · 2 years ago
I assume the intention is you store actual data in R2 objects and just hold references to them in D1.
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd have thought the SQLite database (D1) would be a more obvious fit for a blog?
Comment · 2 years ago
This is why the greatest art is only made by people who grow the plants to create their own paint from scratch...
Comment · 2 years ago
I think the assumption is more that someone who's offended that the Guardian didn't explain a mainstay British playground game to their readers...

Is probably from the USA.

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