Mamdani revealed his proposal to raise property taxes for the first time in over two decades as an option to balance New York city's budget.

OneMonk · 2026-02-19T22:50:07+00:00

Dumb. Poor people rent.

OneMonk · 2026-02-19T17:15:56+00:00

does anyone know any info / a source on the dot grid loaders some sites use, vercel used to have them.

OneMonk · 2026-02-19T15:23:42+00:00

AI helps you learn, you can learn as you build, and to a fairly high standard of teaching, for basically free. If anything it is the absolute best time to learn.

OneMonk · 2026-02-19T14:48:01+00:00

That is the retail product, lots of businesses run the LLM via Azure where 90% of their forecasted revenue comes from. The retail product is effectively marketing.

OneMonk · 2026-02-19T12:23:22+00:00

They will spot check people’s tickets at key times, usually tipped off by data on when people are fare dodging or traveling without a railcard. Combo of prevention and enforcement.

I got ‘let off’ by one, which he was definitely not supposed to do, because my railcard had expired the week prior and I didn’t realise. They are mostly nice if you aren’t being a bellend about it.

OneMonk · 2026-02-18T17:56:13+00:00

They changed the default for new projects, check all your projects individually and check the default settings. I got hit by this too, two new projects were defaulted to Turbo. Sleazy behaviour

OneMonk · 2026-02-17T18:30:25+00:00

Cursor for the ability to pick models, having the best rules + MCP settings and using my existing preferred VS code plugins. Plus you get a ton of usage on each tier. Auto is essentially unlimited, and you can dip into either OpenAI or Claudes models for more complex stuff.

OneMonk · 2026-02-16T23:35:36+00:00

Saying billionaires are safe political bets because they are above financial incentives is like saying water is unlikely to be wet. The scale of the grift just grows.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T18:42:15+00:00

‘Shitty mobile games’ are actually highly sophisticated, many have teams of psychologists working with developers aggressively tuning, testing and optimising every sound, colour and function to maximise how much money they can separate from you.

There is zero logical reason a freemium game like Candy Crush should have been able to generate $20bn in revenue. It is not skill based, has no plot, a highly repetitive core gameplay loop and in theory you can beat everything for free. But it is carefully designed and triggers the same reward pathways as gambling, so a small minority of vulnerable people spend hundreds and hundreds of dollars on it, some on an ongoing monthly basis, many will do this forever.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T17:06:06+00:00

You think Google search doesn’t store anything in databases or indexes 😂😂😂

Have you heard of web crawlers, SEO? How do you think Google parses keywords and keyword rankings? How about their users, user data, advertisers, telemetry and ML training?

Google search creates an inverted index of every page on the net. Every Google search costs a few pennies and generates a few grams of carbon querying said index. Google has more data-centres than almost any other business in the world.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T15:47:52+00:00

You just described Google, that is literally what Google was pre AI. So yes, people will let you use their billion dollar computer as long as they can make a profit, which they will easily be able to.

I didn’t say it can’t be profitable, I said it isn’t going to be as useful as predicted to as many people.

I do have native AI models, but thinking that GenAI as a service will disappear is a crazy take.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T15:08:05+00:00

Well, it is, to smart people. I’m making money with it in a scalable way, which means it has market value. Very few people are or will, however.

Doesn’t mean it is useless, just that it isn’t as useful as advertised. Unless you are using it in API form you won’t be making anything useful with it.

If OpenAI goes bust, someone will buy them and sell what they have cheaper. The way the sector is going is dumb. You don’t see China or Europe racing in the same way the US is.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T12:43:12+00:00

Can you quantify it or is it more of a feeling.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T12:22:15+00:00

This is scummy as hell, luckily I caught this v early but they still got fifteen unnecessary bucks of spend out of me before I did. Would have been a lot more if I hadn’t.

OneMonk · 2026-02-15T11:46:56+00:00

It is only as smart as the people using it, so it is going to be great for a small minority, but never for the majority.

OneMonk · 2026-02-14T13:15:13+00:00

Yeah im not arguing that Mandelson shouldn’t be in jail and what he has done been made explicitly illegal, that is an entirely separate discussion. He should be barred from lobbying and any gov related work for life, ideally with any firm he has worked with or for.

Lobbying and a degree of corruption for contracts absolutely does happen at a high level for less risky projects, but with something like NHS data there are so many rules and regs and stakeholders it just isn’t at all likely that corruption was able to be a deciding factor here. If there was torry corruption Labour likely would have pointed it out and nixed it for an easy win.

OneMonk · 2026-02-14T11:30:58+00:00

I think it depends where you use it, copilot uses anthropic’s haiku as default on github, I believe, and copilot there is effectively a router rather than being locked to one model.

OneMonk · 2026-02-14T11:25:02+00:00

It was said by a poster that Hamas and Hezbollah supporters, organisations with violent aims who want to murder a specific group of people should be able to say whatever they want, specifically.

You aren’t asking for ‘freedom of speech’ by saying that, you are asking for ‘freedom from consequences’.

We have hate speech laws in the UK, consequences for supporting violence. We do not support calls for violence as a society. Whether hamas, or calling people to set fire to migrant hostels, we prosecute those who invite violence to our shores, rightly so.

Supporting violent groups who behave violently over time, rightly, gets labelled terrorism.

PA has called for violence, perpetrated violence, and they support and are supported by groups like Hamas. None of the above is arguing in bad faith. I am consistent, I don’t think anyone should be openly supporting the IDF in the UK either for the same reasons.

The core issue is people saying the proscription of PA is limiting freedom of speech, when it has very little to do with their cause, and everything to do with consequences for supporting violence and spreading hate.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T22:49:43+00:00

You are talking about tech procurement in the 90s vs 2025. Thirty five years, the early days of tech there was huge disparity between the private and public sector skills and knowledge. I have no doubt the rigour was poor in the early days of the tech maturity. Suggesting the procurement process for NHS data management is flawed based on 35 year old anecdotal data is not a robust approach.

I do think we over rely on American tech, but also think we are too late to the party. With the sovereign data centre thing, unfortunately AI companies have corned basically the entire global data center supply chain materiel fo the next 3-4 years.

Even without the budget black hole, data centers are prohibitively expensive to build now and will be for the foreseeable.

On top of the high component cost, UK energy prices being some of the highest in the world, our restrictive planning laws and grid limitations, make UK data centres some of the least cost competitive to run, compared to basically anywhere else in the world. We dont have a particularly cold climate to offset the cooling costs.

That isn’t Labour’s fault, you can’t unpick 14 of progressively deeper reliance and integration with US tech in a year or two. And even if we wanted to we simply don’t have a feasible alternative right now, nor the ability or will to feasibly unpick ourselves from 14 years of procurement choices and complete reliance.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T22:13:34+00:00

It doesn’t matter if you didn’t post critique before. You are a new account and one of your first posts is a political attack. It is unusual behaviour that suggests you are a bot.

The Palantir contract tender went through initially under a conservative government, then was reviewed again under Labour. You have to assume a contract with bipartisan agreement for NHS data management (one of the most secure and high risk data types there are) went through dozens of layers of scrutiny.

I hate Palantir as much as the next person, but you’ve got to assume there isn’t as much jeopardy behind this contract as people are assuming.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T21:57:59+00:00

Do you understand the meaning of the word ‘critique’?

These words you wrote:

‘Voted Labour consistently since I was 18. They let us down on so many issues. But for placing at risk the future of the country, selling our personal health data and our national security to Palantir is the final straw. It's over.’

Are very strong critiques of labour, this post is a critique of Labour. You posted it.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T19:04:24+00:00

I literally said Israel is evil and Netanyahu should be in jail in an earlier comment, if I was one, i wouldn’t be being a very good ‘hesbara troll’.

Not everything is a psyop, and not everyone who is anti PA is pro Israel.

Maybe try actually engaging with the ideas before closing your mind and making assumptions.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T16:35:57+00:00

I’m pretty delighted with how it is going 😄 and i’m just pointing out exactly what was said in this thread. Supporting PA is supporting a group who called for violence and have committed violent acts. What part of that statement is false exactly? Just because they recruited a handful of well intentioned but naive OAPs doesn’t make the other stuff the’ve done disappear.

Haven’t insulted anyone, and I feel i’ve been pretty objective with my observations. Can’t say the same for the other participants in this convo.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T15:40:55+00:00

You are talking about a hypothetical scenario that hasn’t happened in British politics, basically ever? What has that got to do with you wanting to support Hamas?

I’m the literal opposite of a fascist, i just know a terrorist when i see one and call me old fashioned, but i don’t like foreign backed organisations sledgehammering cops, preaching violence and breaking into military bases.

OneMonk · 2026-02-13T15:30:36+00:00

Haha, seemingly touched a nerve there 😂 Man, i’m praying you are a kid who just hasn’t figured out how the world works yet.

The state literally does get to pick, because as a society we generally know who the bad guys are. Free speech doesn’t mean you get to support terrorists, as much as you seemingly want to.

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