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funnybeam commented on Exeter's unassuming co-op worker leads double life as 'Lord of the Logos'   devonlive.com/whats-on/wh... · Posted by u/summoned
kristianp · 5 months ago
Pronounced "coo-op" or "cwop", depending on your accent.
funnybeam · 5 months ago
“Ko op” where I’m from, never heard it pronounced any other way

Rhymes with no-op

funnybeam commented on Europe cannot rely on US protection, Pentagon chief tells NATO allies   telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2... · Posted by u/perihelions
immibis · 7 months ago
Yes. See how the new regime is ignoring treaties left, right and center.
funnybeam · 7 months ago
Not just the ’new regime’

Check out the 1994 Budapest Memorandum where Russia, USA and UK all agreed to preserve Ukraine’s borders in return for them giving their nukes to Russia.

All parties seen to have forgotten about that one

funnybeam commented on Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food?   newyorker.com/culture/inf... · Posted by u/fortran77
pjerem · 7 months ago
A hella lot of people have gotten laid with cigarettes, when it was cool.

Also the article is about kids. They have time for this to become a problem.

funnybeam · 7 months ago
Not only was it cool, it was also social. I met a lot of people through smoking that I wouldn’t have done otherwise
funnybeam commented on UK bans daytime TV ads for cereals, muffins and burgers   france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung
thanksgiving · 9 months ago
It makes sense though if I think about it.

In theory, all the money wagered is money that has already paid income tax at some point so why tax it again?

funnybeam · 9 months ago
That’s true of anything you pay money for
funnybeam commented on Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines   markwhen.com... · Posted by u/koch
SuperV1234 · 9 months ago
This is really cool, I wish there was some sort of life planner software where I can write down appointments, notes, ideas, and more in a simple format like Markdown, and automatically get notifications/reminders based on what I wrote.
funnybeam · 9 months ago
Have you looked at org mode for eMacs? That does precisely this
funnybeam commented on Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines   markwhen.com... · Posted by u/koch
thunfisch · 9 months ago
It's using a slash because that's how ISO 8601 defines time intervals. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals
funnybeam · 9 months ago
Thanks for linking that. I’m a big proponent of using ISO 8601 but had either missed or completely forgotten about it specifying a format for intervals.

Note that ISO also permits a double hyphen as the interval separator which is hugely preferable to me personally and also works with file names (as mentioned in that Wikipedia article)

funnybeam commented on Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?    · Posted by u/pjacotg
funnybeam · a year ago
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull

Never entirely sure why I love it so much. First read it as a child when I hated apparently similar books - stories that seem written to speak to an adult’s idea of a sweet and innocent childhood - but it would always transport me… somewhere… I could never really describe. Still can’t, but still love it decades later

funnybeam commented on Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon   reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/logicchains
SenorKimchi · a year ago
> Where is the line between war and terrorism ?

Easy. When it is you or your allies committing an act, it is war and collateral damage. When it is someone else, it is terrorism.

It is often a difficult topic to discuss because both sides tend to be in the wrong. It ends up being asymmetrical warfare. The stronger side accuses the weaker of hiding behind civilians while the weaker side accuses the stronger of human rights violations.

As sad as this case is, I find it pretty interesting since it is clearly an extrajudicial act of violence carried out in a foreign land. The west will likely celebrate this, but I personally find this much worse than the Indian assassination that took place in Canada "recently" and didn't have significant collateral damage, yet the west was up in arms about.

funnybeam · a year ago
Terrorism is attacking civilian targets in order to create political pressure from fear.

War is attacking military targets to reduce the enemy’s capability to wage war against you.

Civilian target = terrorism

Military target = war

There absolutely are grey areas and overlap between the two but not nearly as much as people like to make out.

funnybeam commented on "SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more   rachelbythebay.com/w/2024... · Posted by u/CuriousIndian
benfortuna · a year ago
You need to also look into why DevOps became a thing. Because devs were sick of the BS dealing with Ops teams (want a server, that will take 6 months to provision). So devs decided they could do it themselves (with better tools).
funnybeam · a year ago
> So devs decided they could do it themselves (with better tools).

And failed. Other people’s jobs always look easy from the outside

funnybeam commented on If you give Copilot the reins, don't be surprised when it spills your secrets   theregister.com/2024/08/0... · Posted by u/cassianoleal
mihaaly · a year ago
> Employees can already search through everything.

Not in the places I worked. Not at all! There were confidential matters that only people with dedicated responsibility can access and act on. Otherwise it would be a disaster whenever a less honest employee come accross data useful to act on the companies behalf or worse, act directly pretending being one of those eligible people.

Then I wonder how this bots handle the info. Are those scanning through what's there and build the knowledge into self? I guess so, otherwise how would know what is what when asked about, if something is a thing and being there at all. And then if having limited access then the bot would be clueless about some important things the people with elevated credentials need. Or, if can scan everything, I mean everything!, then that data is built into the bot, it 'knows' it, so it is just time tricking to give it out to those not eligible. Pretending being someone, or pretending getting received elevated credentails, or who knows what ways could be there to trick and squeeze that knowledge out from these chatty things. Or can be there several different bots, training multitude of bots, some left clueless like an ordinary employee and not let talk to, the CEO having an administrative bot that knows it all? I am jut trying to imagine being complete outsider how these things work.

funnybeam · a year ago
Employees can already search through everything _they have permission to _

Copilot only has access to whatever the user has access to - it uses the same permissions.

The copilot bots in the article are slightly different from normal copilot so might have elevated permissions but if you are creating a service with access to your data then you should make sure it has the correct restrictions in place - there is nothing special about copilot in this regard.

u/funnybeam

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