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A Software Engineer and Idiot. Amateur philosopher. Professional Bristolian. I like cheese
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'More dependants of workers than actual workers' wouldn't be surprising. 1 Key worker plus one spouse and 1 child, and you have 2 dependants to 1 worker.
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I certainly have prepared food which required piercing food with the tip of a knife.
What would prevent people from purchasing a knife and sharpening it elsewhere?
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Get whole teams dependent on it, with their employers used to the speed of delivery it offers, then gradually hike the price.
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Cookiegate.
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Absolutely worth writing to let you know exactly what you think.
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I take your point, those 3 in particular are recognisably the 'Big 3' cloud providers (Azure, AWS and GCP), it would not be unique to the British to be dependent on them. They are all American, which is wider issue with the cloud itself.
A British owned large cloud provider would be ambitious.
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Or I just have a pirated copy of Bertrand Russell’s ‘Analysis of Matter’, but it’s obscure enough that a print on demand offer seems plausible, and a criminal conspiracy to print forgeries seems unlikely to me.
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And I wonder therefore, if books that remain in the catalogue but were in fact unpublished, it would be possible to get print copies by this route.
It’s a guess, but that’s plausibly what is happening.
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And by long running, probably means any task taking longer than 30 seconds and certainly if it takes several minutes to complete.
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It’s not necessarily correctness, as it’s non-deterministic. But you need to be able to inspect what the application did and check you have the right handling in place for those circumstances.
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At the rate things are going, should be a 200% by next Monday.
Up and up it goes, where it stops nobody knows.
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It is the year Trumpty Hundred and Trumpty Trump.
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Theirs also an accompanying narrative of Europe as once great, and now in decline into irrelevance. With what was good about European ideals taken up by the USA.
They actively idealise Empire building, which Europe has turned away from.
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I understand it as opposition to socially liberal (woke) ideas and the perception that those are European ideals or that Europe is adopting those ideas whilst they are rejecting them.
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I don’t know if you’ve seen any James Bond films, but the villain always loses in the end.
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Boxing and fencing?
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I believe I can place him at an event with John McCarthy, a young Jack Stevens and the Randlords Harry and Barney Barnato, in December 1885. In a pub known for selling undocumented jewellery and gemstones.
The power and the ruthlessness of the Randlords can hardly be doubted.
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That could just be coincidence, but as with Alec Munro, no-one was brought to justice for Stevens’ death. There’s a bit of a pattern. Hezekiah may not have felt able to trust the local police. He might have been right not to, for all I know. ;)
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A few months after Hezekiah went missing in September 1892, the boxer ‘Black Jack’ Stevens was killed in a knife fight in Kent. By Billy Maher, a man who seems to have been employed by John McCarthy. ‘Black Jack’ had been a pupil of Hezekiah’s in 1887 - 88 (and perhaps as early as 1885).
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My first thought on reading your original blogs was that he may have gone on the run, perhaps in fear for his life. The boxing world at the time over-lapped with some very powerful and ruthless figures. It is said that Charles Sabini was a boxer in his youth.
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And a damn near gpt-4o model produces results you believe that you'd be able to sell?
You will use power each time you generate and how many cycles of generation are required to produce a sellable product?
Damn cheap isn't free.
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There's the classic line 'if you're not paying for the product, you are the product'.
But are free-to-use AI products monetising their user base, yet?
'Sure, I'll respond to your prompt after this message from our sponsors.'