PaulRobinson

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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
My dad once told me that being smart was a curse in some ways, but he framed it as having a World view that few others had. I think however your take on it is closer: when you're smart, you're told you're smart (both as a pos
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
This is missing the "(2013)" at the end of the HN link, but it does seem weirdly prescient as we say a rise of more polarised politics across the World, just 13 years later.
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
That's an amazing battery life these days. Love my Apple Watch, but having to charge it at least once a day, is a chore. Might take another look at these - given the price, it's not a huge gamble to try it out for a few weeks.
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
It feels like the only way to stop this happening reliably, is to get as many people as possible off Google and Microsoft. I'd argue that self-hosting is the first step. The second step is helping everyone you know get their own domain
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
I think this might be the core signal that it’s a bubble.
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
You don’t think GPUs depreciate massively in value? I think they are written off to zero in less than 5 years. And if you look at the ARR of the companies “buying” them, I think we can see there’s some significant leverage going on.
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
It's a strange game, in which the only winning move is not to play
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
In about 1990, my Dad gifted me an old XT. By that point it was almost ancient, no modern software would work on it, but I could do some BASIC programming, and learn DOS and a few PC magazines still had PC software on 5.25" cover disks
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
The Test is repeated every day you get in the cab. If you get into a black cab in London and ask to be taken to any location, anywhere within 6 miles of Charing Cross, that driver will know immediately the right route to take without satnav
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
I'm not saying this, because I'm not aware of this. I have a friend who is enjoying living in Osaka, but I wouldn't feel qualified to talk about Japanese sentiment towards him or any other group of non-natives. I'm sayin
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
That "simple process" requires equipment most people don't own or know how to operate, an oil most people don't keep in their cupboards, and is suggested in a book most people haven't heard of by a tech CTO they wou
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
All metaphors break at some point. However, your example actually proves the point. How many people who want a good steak know how to identify a high quality cut? Do they even know where to buy a high quality cut? What the different cuts ar
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
TFA explains that Japan is unusual as being the only country in Asia with two cities in the top 10 most liveable cities in the World. That's why they wrote the article. If Spain had been the only country in Europe with two cities in th
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
It needs critical mass, but then it cascades. If you read through the description, what they talk about is that the culture is built around the idea of the individual being part of something bigger, and that consideration and respect for th
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
That "trope" is in almost every press release, every corporate announcement I have read in decades. AI is trained on all that material and regurgitates it. It is trained to do that. So the problem we have is that AI sounds like th
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
> clearly 100% AI-generated First, show your working - just reads like generic announcement/PR speak from the last 30 years to me. Secondly, could everyone who wants to make comments about AI text in submissions please consider re-r
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
I think I would trust a Nobel laureate on their topic of expertise, as indicated by their Nobel prize. The problem seems to be that they are asked - and often answer - questions on topics unrelated to that topic, in the belief they're
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
Indeed. The FIFA Peace Prize winners espousing views they don't seem to have any qualification to comment on (and may express factually incorrect views, unsupported by data), seems to be running at a rate of ~100% at the moment. The Ba
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
I'm currently weighing up a sabbatical (3 months), for a bunch of reasons. A vacation (or holiday, or PTO, or whatever you call it locally), is great, but normally too short to properly reset. I often come back thinking "I could d
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
Gary Neville's mini-retirement hot take was the first thing I thought of when reading headline.
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
There is a pedagogical theory that states a student only really learns something when they apply it. Not read it, not highlight it, not copy it out: apply it. The only way to build personal knowledge, in my experience, is to do things. And
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
I never again want to work on a team full of people who drink a lot of energy drinks. I'm not going to pretend I'm a saint and I only ever sip mineral water or kombucha (although I do like both), but that stuff sends people crazy
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
I guess you also think the "Hand of God" goal, was also a legitimate and fair goal because something something Maradonna something something Malvinas something something god? Look, it's football. We're all entitled to ha
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
This is definitely an iterative improvement on what we have today. However, I think from a fundamental approach, you've just highlighted the pain of working with AI that I hadn't quite been able to verbalise until seeing this. Go
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
- The number of teams expanding weakened the group stage to a point of being ignorable - The extraordinary pricing of the tickets - "Hydration breaks" to cater for TV advertising - The US red card being rescinded after a phone cal
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by PaulRobinson 2mo ago
The moment external investors acquire ownership interests in FIFA competitions, football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. Investor expectations become a daily pressure. From that moment onwards, ever
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
This is cool, but do you know what was really cool? 2 years earlier, they made a TV watch: https://by.seiko-design.com/140th/en/topic/51.html
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
The only thing that annoyed me about HS2 more than "Oh, and it'll stop at Oak Common, and won't go to Manchester", was by that point they'd already flattened the Bree Louise.
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
OK, short version: no. And logically this makes sense, because you can see the pub problem as a subset of locations within all locations, and all of these pubs are clustered around an equidistant point at ~72 minutes from everywhere in Lond
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by PaulRobinson 3mo ago
I have a readers card for the BL, and agree its a marvellous thing - I regularly head over there despite my earlier comment about getting depressed on Euston Road. My preferred way to deal with this part of town: slip out of Kings X and int

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