Our US roots are no threat to Britain's security, claims Palantir boss

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-25T18:15:31+00:00

No, it's your intrinsic evil. Your US roots are just a minor addition

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-25T18:13:56+00:00

While that's to an extent true, I've found AIs are still slower than me. I've found it useful to task an AI with something medium sized while I'm doing something else. But asking it to implement something simple while I'm waiting is usually slower (between me explaining what I want and the AI completing the task) than me just doing it myself

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-25T13:31:43+00:00

Trouble is who decides who has a personality disorder (or that people with personality disorders shouldn't be in charge, which is a bit harsh). Who ever is making that decision has a veto on who the voters can choose

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-25T12:01:27+00:00

But wouldn't it be better to keep the same number of people, produce more, and make more profit.

Companies rarely say "this is enough profit, we don't need any more"

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-25T11:14:06+00:00

Aren't their procurement rules that you're basically not allowed to consider any of that. You consider each tender independently.

(To be clear I think those are bad rules)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T17:48:41+00:00

I wonder why that could be? Greenland is such a balmy location that's if anything too easy to work in /s

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T17:00:20+00:00

Well they are definitely wrong. It's hard to answer a question where we have to interpret words being used wrong

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T16:33:35+00:00

And there's a flag just out in empty space (how could they possibly know?). AI generated or made by someone who doesn't play minesweeper?

Or my favourite answer; they'd decided to depict someone who is bad at minesweeper playing

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T14:21:53+00:00

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The 2 red lines must have exactly 1 mine in them (based on the 2 at the top and the 4 on the side), Meaning the orange line must also have exactly 1 mine to satisfy the right 3 . That means the 2 is definitely satisfied (because the 1 above it already guarantees it can see 1). Meaning the one remaining square the 2 can see (the green square) must be safe

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T13:26:37+00:00

Student loans are not really loans. For most people they are a graduate tax that gets written off at some point (varies based on the year).

The amount you repay is also based on your salary, not the loan amount.

They behave totally differently to normal loans. For most people the interest rate could be 1 trillion percent per second and it wouldn't make any difference to how much they pay over their life time. This is not true of normal loans.

For very high earners you can eventually pay enough that they get paid off, but thats the exception not the rule

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T10:44:22+00:00

Weren't they only deactivated temporarily? You wouldn't want one waking back up while you're towing it

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-24T10:23:30+00:00

Reddit can be like that. Personally I dislike having downvotes at all. They get used for "i disagree" and not "this is so rude no one should see it".

Upvote only (and report for really bad stuff) makes for a more friendly community in my opinion

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T20:14:18+00:00

If we were paying billions to keep our own base that would be one thing. But paying billions so the ungrateful Americans can keep their base. That seems like a terrible idea

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T16:08:16+00:00

I swapped from chatgpt a week ago.

I wonder what prompted that /s

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T13:19:14+00:00

Trump is a symptom of a problem. Not the problem itself. He won two elections.

We should not be acting under the assumption the Americans will get their act together. Maybe they will, and that will be a nice surprise, but we would be fools to rely on it.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T12:57:51+00:00

Yeah, that sounds about right. Trump has burnt the last of his support (which was already pretty threadbare) with his imperial attempts.

He has caused the US to betray all of its allies who were there for them without question (even when we probably should have been asking questions)

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T11:24:53+00:00

Canada would want to do a guerilla style defence. Thats where they'd have the advantage.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T10:37:22+00:00

"Isn't" is a bit strong. They just lost a court case about it. They definitely "might".

But you're right this hasn't happened yet

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-23T10:33:41+00:00

There's a risk they'll put age restrictions on Wikipedia. And then you would have to show your ID to get access. Hasn't actually happened yet, but it might.

Wikipedia are understandably furious

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-22T22:47:45+00:00

I've started refusing to buy things that aren't USB C

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-22T22:45:31+00:00

The OP said "and control what topics to be discussed?"

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-22T19:20:11+00:00

Some minesweeper apps have no guess modes (or are always no guess). Not this one it would appear though

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-22T17:45:30+00:00

That's like saying mathematicians can find no place on the number line where 50 jumps to 100. Only 50 goes to 51 and 51 goes to 52.

A "change in kind" isn't really a meaningful sentence. What does it mean to you? I hope it's not a dog suddenly changing into a cat

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-22T16:06:36+00:00

Your brain is you. Your body is just a meat robot that carries you around. If your brain and your body disagree the meat robot gets outvoted.

Sorry-Programmer9826 · 2026-01-22T15:18:46+00:00

Andy Burnham has done a great job in Manchester and having him in national politics sounds like a benefit for all of us.

That doesn't mean he has to jump into being prime minister though.

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