Also, nothing wrong using consultants (I might be biased) - they bring expertise and experience from across different sectors.
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Also, nothing wrong using consultants (I might be biased) - they bring expertise and experience from across different sectors.
The Cabinet Office relies on each department to develop its own internal methods for handling and tracking spending but approaches "vary", leading to "inconsistent" data, the report said. HM Treasury estimated a spend of £1.36bn in 2022-23, but other sources put the figure as high as £2.23bn, according to a National Audit Office report last year.
Hang on… government expects individuals and businesses to report spending consistently when submitting tax returns, yet can’t apply the same to itself.
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The thing that irks me most about all this is that it is inherently extractive dressed up with a smile. And I hate it.
It’s the worst features of capitalism and it is permeating everything: banks, supermarkets, even government.
Have some fucking boundaries.
Which just means that the digitalisation of life is degrading all of us, whether we’re willing participants or not.
Bring back bank branches and get the local branch manager to send out end of year reviews to their clients.
I can get on board with cringe when the person delivering the cringe has to look other people in the eye and maintain relationships with them afterwards.
I cannot wait to submit a Subject Access Request the next time I see the pervert glasses in public.
How far did you run?
Created a little programme that takes config for a PowerPoint template in JSON and creates a slide deck from a markdown file. Aim is to wrap it as an agent skill so that the days of faffing around with PowerPoint are over.
Just vibes man. Pure vibes.
Let me guess how this plays out:
Oil prices will go up, a power vacuum will be filled by something worse, and the US will not see it as their responsibility.
And yes, I consider Sam Altman to be a Marxist.
There’s a thing that’s been bugging me for a while… AI Doomers are basically Marxists and no one is calling them out on their flawed ideology.
I’ve seen 784 columns (with billions of rows) recently and everyone is wondering why it’s so slow in downstream processing.
Turns out that batching columns and running in parallel is quite effective. Stitching back together on the row id is fun…
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Will AI eat software?
Are software companies overly priced and the sell-off is a correction? Probably but that’s not the point I’m making.
The point I’m making is: AI won’t eat software.
If AI does eat software, it’ll eat itself… and circular references aren’t pretty.
Don’t be too bearish on software.
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Despite the vibe-coding cottage industry, there’s still a need for software companies because they provide a service and have obligations to their customers that you’re not going to get from a vibed app.
Bro needs to fibremax.
And also to enjoy life. None of the described “vibe” sounds like it’s from someone who enjoys life.
Wrote a blog post to better articulate my disgust.
A conservative case against billionaires: ustdoes.tech/posts/philos...
As a conservative, I say this: abolish billionaires. They are extracting all value from communities and have abandoned all sense of obligation to those same communities.
Abhorrent aberrations.
I built a hangman style game for Little O and you can play it too: last-letter.app
If copilot is anything to go by, those white collared jobs are safe.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Mustafa Suleyman plots AI ‘self-sufficiency’ as Microsoft loosens OpenAI ties
According to Little O, 67 is a naughty number and it shouldn’t be written down. Which sucks to be my parents, who are both 67 this year - they skip to being 68.
Someone please take replit off the sycophants
Just imagine what the world could have been if everyone had clapped…
What even is “centrism” these days? I consider myself to be a “centrist” and yet I would probably say that the Labour Party has many policies to my right…
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For example, business rates and the hospitality “relief”.
None of this addresses the questions:
- What incentives (behaviours) need driving?
- What are the desired outcomes of business rates?
- Why are business rates valid in a globalised economy?
Discounting just keeps us trapped in the problem
I’m convinced that the government is in the bind that it is in due to its collective lack of imagination.
They recognise that problems exist and try to address them in the very same systems that are producing the problems, rather than addressing that the systems themselves.
Besides, efficient robots (and humans) are those who do one thing. And they do that one thing really well
I actually don’t know why you would build a humanoid robot for a factory setting.
Factories are still, largely, configured for humans to operate in. If you want to maximise efficiency, you redesign the factory to be robot-centric
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BRIE: Bruyant Retrait Instantané Ensuite
Just don’t look too closely at the sentence structure…
