> It's done by one specific career bureaucrat or group
Almost all governments have a legally defined public procurement framework. If this is overridden, it's pretty much always by elected politicians, not by regular government employees.
I've worked both sides of a 'transparent open-process lowest cost bid' for the US government, and it's pretty easy to get the outcome you want. a lot of the time its not even for reasons of overt corruption, just that that's the vendor you've chosen to work with.
> "Company tries to roll its own system and [saves / loses] money" is just a common story, one way or the other.
Governments build these kinds of systems ("collect data from a bunch of internal systems and show some public forms and have some internal processes for handling form submissions") all the time. When I worked for a local municipality, we built something like this every other month.
Yeah, this exactly. "multiple government systems", "tens of thousands", "hundreds of thousands" is the typical "part-time allocation for four people in an office" government project. This should have a budget in the low hundreds of thousands of £ at most.
Yeah, Claude is very creative in finding ways of "solving" problems that go against what the user probably intended.
Having said that, after looking at some of the test changes, they seem to be minor things, like changing timeouts, not changing the actual intended semantics of the tests. But it's too much code to review everything, so I might be completely wrong about that, and in real-world usage, even minor changes like these will cause issues.
the people who got bombed during Clinton's tenure must've been delighted that their children were murdered and their homes were destroyed in a humane manner by a cool sax-playing pedo rather than a cringe orange pedo.
B52 dropping bombs vs B52 with BLM and LGBT stickers dropping bombs.jpg
Creality has printers that are straight-up clones of the Bambu printers and are just as easy to use, but they've historically been somewhat okay at working in the open source ecosystem, unlike Bambu.
Prusa is, of course, the gold standard, and their more recent printers are super easy to use, too.
This exactly. I find it perplexing that social media companies get to make decisions about what people see but then also get to pretend that they are just a neutral communication medium. They're clearly not.
HN also decides what you see. Yes, it's (mostly) based on other users' upvotes, but on TikTok et al. its the same just with a different metric (watchtime, interaction, retention and probabily more). Where do you draw the line? Or do you have a different proposal how these generated feeds should work? I don't think just showing content by users you follow is going to cut it, because ideally the purpose is to show new and interesting stuff nobody in your circle was aware of.
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