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  Andreas Richardson

  18 hours ago

  This copilot is stupid and wants to kill me

  matthewbutterick.com

  25 June 2022 This week, Microsoft released an AI-based tool for writing soft­ware called Git­Hub Copilot. As a lawyer and 20+ year partic­i­pant in …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  1 day ago

  Are UK ‘altnets’ digging themselves into a hole?

  Financial Times - Anna Gross

  Underneath the UK’s streets, a billion-pound race is taking place. In many towns and cities, at least three companies are digging to lay broadband fibre cables all targeting the same households, with some areas predicted to have six or seven such lines by the end of the decade. But only some of them …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  2 days ago

  Inside the secret, often bizarre world that decides what porn you see

  Financial Times - Alex Barker

  Bill Ackman was at home in the Hamptons, killing time on a Saturday morning in December 2020, when a New York Times article caught his eye. He read it on his phone, got angry, re-read it and logged on to Twitter to express his outrage. Then, the 56-year-old billionaire started plotting the downfall …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  How to fix Britain’s chronically ill healthcare system

  Financial Times - John Burn-Murdoch

  In April this year, 24,000 people were left waiting over 12 hours in England’s emergency departments, the highest this figure has ever been. That same month, roughly 30,000 people who suffered a stroke or sudden chest-pain were kept waiting two hours or more for an ambulance (the target is 40 …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  Did inhaling nitrous oxide — and glimpsing madness — inspire Roget’s Thesaurus?

  Financial Times

  De Quincey. Huxley. Welsh. These are just a few examples of authors who got wasted on mind-altering substances and then wrote ecstatic books about it. But what about one who had the opposite experience, who took drugs and had a drab time, but nevertheless went on to produce a major work as a result? …

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  Andreas Richardson

  

  In utopic Copenhagen, fine dining faces a reckoning over toxic workplaces

  Financial Times - Imogen West-Knights

  “We recommend you eat this dish in seven bites,” the waiter said, before gliding away to serve another table. I was halfway through a 16-course tasting menu of Korean-inflected Nordic cuisine at a fine-dining restaurant in Copenhagen called Koan at Relæ. Each dish, including oyster tempura resting …