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by _puk 3y ago
Define winning - I'd take "Android maintained its position as the leading mobile operating system worldwide in the second quarter of 2023 with a market share of 70.8 percent. Android's closest rival, Apple's iOS, had a m
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by _puk 3y ago
Given the impact on the surrounding areas (including a speed limit to "improve air quality" because that'll make a huge difference..), and the general film of black dust on everything in the locality, it really is worth £3500
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by _puk 3y ago
"I don’t want the mere discussion of ideas to give me satisfaction". I'm struggling to find a reference, but I very much subscribe to the concept I read somewhere that discussing an idea releases a similar dopamine hit to act
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by _puk 3y ago
https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ Ironically, currently 2023 entries.
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by _puk 3y ago
This [0] was posted recently and (IMO) really captures the reality of ownership. Without all 3 of responsibility, mandate, and knowledge there can be no ownership. 0: https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/broken-ownership
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by _puk 3y ago
In a country that doesn't have a written constitution [0] (per se), and is continually trying to renege on what human rights have been agreed [1], what would there be to punish against? 0: https://www.bl.uk/magna-carta&
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by _puk 3y ago
It looks like "private residential club communities" are still a thing: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66536...
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by _puk 3y ago
A big thing is support for island architecture [0]. Essentially it only pulls in the JavaScript it needs to make an element interactive; you can mix frameworks on the same page, and it's very fast. https://docs.astro.build&#
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by _puk 3y ago
Awesome, thank you! If I called it truly open source I half expected to get shot down. I know where we stand now :)
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by _puk 3y ago
I didn't want to open that can of worms: "If you use ChainForge for research purposes, or build upon the source code, we ask that you cite this project in any related publications. The BibTeX you can use for now is.." That&#x
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by _puk 3y ago
I think you should probably mention that its source is available! [0] I don't personally have a need for this right now, but I can really see the use for the parameterised queries, as well as comparisons across models. Thanks for your
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by _puk 3y ago
Define "We". With a UK card pretty much any transaction I do online requires me to Auth it in app. I even found I had to do it recently for things like car hire, and those websites are generally just wrappers around local company
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by _puk 3y ago
GoStudent | Europe | Madrid, Spain; Sofia, Bulgaria; Vienna, Austria | Full-time | Hybrid, Fully Remote | https://gostudent.org | Education One for the Europeans! Staff and Senior Engineers (5+ years of experience) GoLang, Types
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by _puk 3y ago
Does this not affect insurance? We have categories of write off, so if insurance has paid out it affects the future value of the car. This would be a category D [0], which makes a big difference on resell. 0: https://www.rac.co.u
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by _puk 3y ago
"Nothing else works like this, and shouldn't" I'm pretty sure homebrew does this, and it's awful behaviour. Every time you think I'll just.. and then you have to sit and wait whilst it does it's thing.. It
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by _puk 3y ago
I think you can quite correctly substitute Flying Dog for Brew Dog in the "owner is an asswipe and I won't buy anything from him" stakes: 'BrewDog, the fast-expanding craft beer firm, has apologised to former employees w
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by _puk 3y ago
A lot of contracts I'm seeing nowadays include the opt out of this working time directive. They say you can opt in or out at any point by providing a written request to HR, but defaulting to opt out at the point when all the power is w
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by _puk 3y ago
Did you specifically prompt it for a US political party? Talking of bias - this is used the world over..
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by _puk 3y ago
Whilst we are generalising, why wouldn't we put it in the same sentence? "What Americans Can Learn From Scandinavians, the Happiest People in the World"[0] 0: https://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/
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by _puk 3y ago
Thanks for this! I have made a point over the years of hanging out with people that are far more intelligent and talented than myself, many of whom are in completely different fields to myself.. and I realise that I've always done this
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by _puk 3y ago
How does that work for e.g. small scale salt farming in many European countries that flood areas with sea water, then harvest the salt after the water has evaporated [0]? Is it just a case of the scale making it safe? 0: https://
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by _puk 3y ago
How long would it take the drone to reach Utrecht?! I think the beauty of this is the fact that it's now easy to do this for anywhere that has coverage from Google tiles. I'd love to see a side by side of achieving this with Unrea
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by _puk 3y ago
There's a big difference between a salaried 40ish hours (plus or including commute), where the commute forms part of the decision to take the job, and you know you're getting paid vs hanging around, unable to commit to other tasks
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by _puk 3y ago
According to game theory [0], it all comes right in the end.. Sadly, the time horizon is far too long, and the individual short term benefit far too high for this to be (currently) working out as hoped.. 0: https://ncase.me/
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by _puk 3y ago
"You can summarize many types of web content, including: Text web pages, articles, and forum threads PDF documents PowerPoint documents (.pptx) Audio files (mp3/wav) YouTube URLs"... It doesn't actually state video, do y
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by _puk 3y ago
What has been lost, in the UK at least, is the concept of a watershed. Previously violence, nudity, and profanity would only end up on screen / radio after a certain time (9pm iirc). In an on demand world, we're now expected (righ
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by _puk 3y ago
Whilst I agree, that's what I don't get. When a user is expected to have to repurchase a product in the future (e.g. phone upgrade), do they look at it as squeezing as much revenue out of a single user whilst they own a single dev
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by _puk 3y ago
I doubt it would be classical music and whale song playing over a beautifully calm scene.. More like kids watching movies without headphones, over loud conversations and screaming babies if other public transport is anything to go by. But w
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by _puk 3y ago
Plenty of truly innovative inventions aren't initially universally loved, take automobiles for example[0]. 0: https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2017/01/get-horse-americ...
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Virgin Orbit: Richard Branson's rocket firm files for bankruptcy(bbc.co.uk)
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