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I believe you get 6 sessions on the NHS, but the therapist can recommend you for more if they think it's warranted.

You can atomic swap BTC to XMR to obscure where the coins came from but you would have to then launder them to get fiat. I'm not sure how that's done, buying gift cards could be part of it. I think in many cases the coins are just funnelled to a jurisdiction that doesn't have KYC.

What is a node in this context and what does designing a new node entail? Does this design process mean TSMC can do something with ASML machines that another company with the same machine couldn't do?

I didn't think he was advertising, but I did misinterpret it as him saying only shorter term contracts were available outside IR35.

Shorter than a year suits me. My goal with contracting is to have time off between contracts to have more energy and time to bootstrap some business ideas. It is a shame this legislation passed, I understand the concern about hidden employees/tax dodging but it seems they overshot a bit.

It's really a missed opportunity. In medieval times, we would have created a Programmers' Guild, kept the AI for ourselves, made up some reason AI can't generate code, automated everyone else out of a job, and been the masters of society. Unfortunately we are too altruistic (some would say naïve) these days and let the suits control the AI. Now people are saying we'll be the first to lose our jobs.

Since current AI only generates code that has some similarity to code it's seen before, I suspect this will only be an issue for people doing low code or making relatively simple CRUD applications and the like, at least for the foreseeable future. People working on software that requires a lot of domain knowledge won't lose their jobs. Salaries could go down if the demand for software engineers drops, but if the number of new engineers also falls then salaries could stay around the same level, and even increase for niche roles. In the long term we might get into a situation where a small number of engineers are trained to provide training data for the AI, which would be interesting. All of this ks of course pure speculation.

So the worst part of the job will become the entire job? Great!

You can contract outside IR-35 still, no? At least there were some advertised on LinkedIn last time I looked. If the contract is outside IR-35 then you can still claim expenses and pay corporate tax instead of (most) income tax.

I hope this is a joke. It made me laugh, anyway.

Do you have any recommended reading for these three categories?

This seems like a bit of a reach. "Move fast and break things" to me means take risks, don't get bogged down in process or do the same thing everyone else is doing. I don't see how you get from that to stabbing people. Your other quote is nice but it's a bit silly to apply it to a literal stabbing.

I have a daily cronjob that runs Clam AV, rkhunter and a few others on my Linux laptop & home server. Never really detected anything but I don't even notice the scan running, contrary to any AV software I used on Windows.

I still have their credit card as a backup. This is no surprise, their app has always been terrible.

If he didn't steal it himself, then it was just handling stolen goods, technically.

Especially when there's a decent chance the compiler would replace the loop with a call to strlen.

The drawings one is weird. In the case of the "decoy" being of age, it doesn't matter because the person intended to abuse a child. But a drawing? It's disgusting but I don't see why it should be a crime.

This is my view. Why recreate human intelligence when we already have human intelligence? AGI would be cool but we can already train AI to do specific tasks better than humans, that's good enough.

I think they learned from Microsoft Tay what happens if you train AI online without a curation process.

IMO it has more to do with people's desire to believe others are honest than any skill.

You can't really evaluate your ability to detect lies accurately, because you can't count the times someone was lying and you didn't notice it. You also probably can't count the times you thought someone was lying but wasn't (people can look like they're lying when admitting something that makes them uncomfortable, or hiding something while still telling the truth), since you probably didn't prove every single case. So you have an unknown rate of false positives and an unknown rate of false negatives.

The gut feeling/discrepancy you notice in body language can only be used as a sign you should dig deeper. Just like a polygraph, it can't prove someone is lying or not. You have to cross-reference.

Is it unrelated? He's assuming Musk's takeover caused the downtime, but you're assuming it didn't. I can think of several reasons it might've (removing a large amount of staff and overworking the remainder being obvious ones). What's the alternative?

> I still am not sure I truly understand what a Monad is but I can see the pattern and use it as a tool. It feels more constrained at first but it brings order to chaos.

Ha, I learned Haskell over 6 years ago and I still can't explain what a monad is other than in programming terms. It's a container which defines two operations: put something inside the container (Haskell's "return" keyword), and chain two operations on the container together (Haskell's >>= operator).

> Incompetent employees tend to gang up on competent employees every time so you are almost guaranteed to lose your best talent and get left with dunces

Could you elaborate on this? How have you seen employees gang up during layoffs?

Should be impossible, the model won't have write access to its weights when it isn't being trained. If you hacked the machine it was running on and gained FS write permission, sure, but you're not getting GPT to update its own weights, no mayter how good you are at prompt-engineering.

> It is strange to see that it is mostly the English speaking world that suffers from this, too.

Is it? I would say the Anglosphere does relatively well, and that's not a compliment.

I don't think it's as bad as all that, but it's certainly heading that waym

That's... quite spooky, do you have any theories as to what happened? I hope you at least changed all your security info.

My guess is it's someone else's lights vs. my (future) car, that makes the difference.

I remember that when the Starlink satellites first went up and people complained they were too visible, Starlink agreed to make future ones less so. I don't know why they didn't do that to begin with, maybe the metal is shiny by default and it's an extra cost to make it matte? Maybe it's about heat, since a matte object will absorb more from light? At any rate we're in dire need of some regulation around satellite visibility before we lose more of our night sky... oh, and flying drone billboards need to be banned before they catch on.