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by asplake 5mo ago
Another old person here. At an office in Zurich I saw a layer of smoke filling the upper reaches of the atrium. I wondered how many working (i.e. smoking) hours it would take before it reached the balcony on which I was standing.
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by asplake 5mo ago
“Friday next week”. Sorted.
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Do you take after your dad's RNA?(knowablemagazine.org)
3 points by asplake 5mo ago|0 comments
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Sam Altman is "the face of evil" for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer(arstechnica.com)
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by asplake 5mo ago
Yes, it's great that civilian homes and infrastructure are sacrosanct now. Saracasm aside, that's a matter of perspective, no?
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by asplake 6mo ago
I wasn’t taught it, but that was forty years ago
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From one disappointing order to a massive 'ghost cake' delivery scandal in China(cnn.com)
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by asplake 6mo ago
IANAD, but sounds like IBS or similar, not necessarily age-related, and potentially treatable.
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HTMX 4.0: Hypermedia finds a new gear(infoworld.com)
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by asplake 6mo ago
Previously: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=orange+peel
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by asplake 6mo ago
I had the privilege last night of attending a lecture given by Prof Sir John Kay (Obliquity, Radical Uncertainty, etc). He was scathing on two points: 1) the way the world changed in the 1970s from management as responsibility to leadership
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Europe sleepwalked into yet another energy crisis(bbc.com)
36 points by asplake 7mo ago|46 comments
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Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection(joanwestenberg.com)
5 points by asplake 7mo ago|2 comments
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by asplake 7mo ago
And to ease oil prices, the US takes its already limited pressure off Russia meanwhile. Given the Ukraine situation, I can't see how that helps EU and UK.
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by asplake 7mo ago
Is tossing stuff over the fence considered ok now? Review the slop with the person that submitted it.
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by asplake 7mo ago
Agreeing first that it is genuinely interesting, let me make a constructive comment on the text: Early on, there are too many small paragraphs that don't on their own make a cogent argument. That important but easily overlooked structu
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AI chatbot urged violence, study finds(arstechnica.com)
4 points by asplake 7mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 7mo ago
Because you buy not just a device but into an ecosystem. Because you have expectations of future development. Because, as far as a changing political landscape will allow, you hope you can trust their judgement. Because you want support. Be
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From Iran to Ukraine, everyone's trying to hack security cameras(wired.com)
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by asplake 7mo ago
I suffered a highly unpleasant vertigo attack yesterday - happens every once in a while. Tinnitus was the warning, and I was definitely over-tired beforehand. After an ear infection 30 years ago I lost most hearing in my left ear and my bal
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Beyond Dunbar: Civilization Was Right to Move Beyond the Village(indyjohar.substack.com)
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by asplake 7mo ago
Agree that Channel 4 is also pretty good, perhaps better even than the BBC for politics now. But so much UK politics coverage these days has moved to podcasts – some of them staffed by ex-BBC people.
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Could a vaccine prevent dementia? Shingles shot data only getting stronger(arstechnica.com)
8 points by asplake 7mo ago|1 comments
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by asplake 7mo ago
Exactly
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by asplake 7mo ago
LLM adopting conventions (typographical or otherwise) is what they do, right? The idea that anyone should then have to change their behaviour is ridiculous, as is the whole conversation, really.
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What Developers Actually Need to Know Right Now(oreilly.com)
1 points by asplake 8mo ago|0 comments
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by asplake 8mo ago
Came to make the same recommendation. Great book!
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by asplake 8mo ago
Actual title (too long for HN and more clickbaity): Trump said wind power is for ‘stupid people.’ Here’s what European countries did 5 days later
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In contrast with Trump's America, Europe's 100 gigawatt clean energy hub(cnn.com)
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by asplake 8mo ago
Obviously the truth is messier than that, and it's worth noting that Drucker later recognised the toxicity of Management by Objectives and disavowed it. Quite a bit of OKR literature is devoted to avoiding it becoming its progenitor, M

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