4ndrewl

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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
"IBM created PCs as we know them and is currently worth $214Bn, yet nobody cares much about them." Well except they sold their PC division years (decades?) ago to Lenovo, so yeah, no-one cares at all about IBM PCs.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
And yet the IMF report seems to suggest that, even if your data is correct, all aspects of the economy benefit.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Will be interesting to review this in 5-10 years to see how many of these are still viable and whether there's a fashion tax to pay by having to switch.
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Google facing US Government attempt to break it up, court filing shows(theguardian.com)
4 points by 4ndrewl 2y ago|2 comments
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
You can't throw things away. You can only move them somewhere else.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Leading with the Grange Hill sausage though. chef's kiss
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
"When you finish a task, you simply pull the next one from the top of the backlog” Please, no. When you've finished a task see if you can help with a blocked or in-flight task. Teams win points for finishing work, not starting new
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
They're VC funded software developers, gods in the image of mere mortals. There's probably nothing they are not experts in.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
And the previous government closed pretty much all our storage capacity, disabling any ability to buy at lower prices and store for later use.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
It's Google. You know the answer ;)
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Zirp ended.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Fixed, thanks. Your point about total mileage of road/rail etc is interesting though isn't that contrary to the point the OP is making - building more stuff makes you richer?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
"The reason is that France ‘does a good job building the things that Britain blocks: housing, infrastructure and energy supply.’" Britain has roughly the same population as France, but France is approx 5 times the geographical are
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
This is hardly a 0-day vuln exploit. This works as designed (and presumably design has been signed off etc)
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Actual lol. Thank you :)
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
What's your background?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Let's just assume you can't trust any ugc on the internet from now. It's all done, but fun whilst it lasted.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
To truly disrupt the outdated notion of 'kindness' and to introduce the sorts of efficiencies only a market can deliver you really need VC-funded Kindness As A Service. Ideally with some LLM tech (though I'm old enough to rem
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
What a great game. Terrifying, but great! Thanks for sharing. I loved how the ants come in waves, felt very old-skool in line with the graphics, but still very effective!
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
The great thing about open source is that it enables all the people with the time to post negative comments here to address the shortcomings that their keen eyes have spotted...right?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Have you tried schemaspy?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
No, but fediverse/activitypub are features that the end-users directly use, whereas 'written in language X' isn't.
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
You're ignoring constituency work. Do you have a source for the "someone"?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Has anyone discovered the primary purpose of Nassim Taleb though?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
How else might you persuade companies operating in a competitive marketplace to change the makeup of their products? Ask them nicely?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
That's why the idea of the "middle class" was invented. You either live off the land/capital or you work for those people. You can't make the middle class rich enough that they don't have to work otherwise they
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
That would have been Autoroute. Written in the UK, the software house, Nextbase, was bought by Microsoft in 1993/94 and the Psion release was called "Microsoft Automap" - the only Microsoft release for that platform!
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
Ime these are always "write-only" documents. Sitting in PowerPoint on a SharePoint drive somewhere, never to be read...
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
These are 303s then?
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by 4ndrewl 2y ago
I didn't read that as reserving the right - looks like a standard dpia that is opt-in and limited. However, GP practices are essentially privatised - so you do have the right to register at another practice.

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