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by bschne 9mo ago
fun anecdote about Ethiopia doing this to prevent cheating in national exams --- https://x.com/benkuhn/status/1339016975494811649?s=20
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Waymo suspends service amid widespread blackout-related disruption(sfstandard.com)
3 points by bschne 9mo ago|1 comments
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12 days on Wolf Rock Lighthouse [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bschne 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bschne 9mo ago
you're telling me the results of this paper were likely bs? --- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10538...
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Working quickly is more important than it seems (2015)(jsomers.net)
271 points by bschne 10mo ago|130 comments
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by bschne 10mo ago
information density of online maps is, in general, quite low compared to old paper maps: https://x.com/patrickc/status/1738646361128792402 I guess there's various reasons, ranging from "it's hard to
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What happens when you add a new Teller?(johndcook.com)
2 points by bschne 10mo ago|0 comments
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by bschne 10mo ago
I've been occasionally using futureme.org since ~15 years ago, in case you're a believer in the Lindy effect. FWIW I don't think I've ever used it for anything more than ~1 year ahead, that always seemed fun/interes
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by bschne 11mo ago
The same thing happened to German magazine Spiegel recently, see the correction remark at the end of this article https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/deutsche-bahn-...
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The Plonk It Guide to GeoGuessr(plonkit.net)
1 points by bschne 11mo ago|0 comments
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Bayside Canadian Railway(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bschne 11mo ago|0 comments
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Tech on the Toilet: Driving Software Excellence, One Bathroom Break at a Time(testing.googleblog.com)
1 points by bschne 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bschne 11mo ago
I used to work at an SME that ran ~everything on its own colo'd hardware, and while it never got this bad, there were a couple instances of the CTO driving over to the dc because the oob access to some hung up server wasn't workin
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by bschne 11mo ago
I find this hard to judge in the abstract, but I'm not quite convinced the situation for the modal company today is worse than their answer to "what if your colo rack catches fire" would have been twenty years ago.
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Uber is turning its app into an AI training ground(theverge.com)
2 points by bschne 11mo ago|0 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
This. I've started thinking of it like this — the iPad, in my case, has an absolutely abysmal cost to usage ratio. On the far other end of the spectrum (and in a similar form factor if you squint) is probably my Kindle. That being said
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Mobile Adapter GB(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by bschne 1y ago|0 comments
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Hazardous States and Accidents(entropicthoughts.com)
2 points by bschne 1y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
Tangential, but I was very surprised to learn recently that my country still has a more or less nationwide POCSAG pager network where only some users encrypt their traffic
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics(edge.org)
2 points by bschne 1y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
whole-heartedly seconded, it helps with anything from "they want me to do something really bad" all the way to "I'm really not feeling it anymore here"
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by bschne 1y ago
I'm quite firmly on the side of "don't do bad stuff", even way before crossing the line to wondering how you'd look in the proverbial orange jumpsuit. But two things about this are often under-discussed IMO. Firstly
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Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did(blog.pragmaticengineer.com)
548 points by bschne 1y ago|353 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
> Inbound marketing is pretty explicitly about creating high quality content that builds a business's credibility, making prospects more likely to want to engage and buy from said business Well, yeah, I agree and would probably purs
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Is Nitrous Oxide Food?(ft.com)
1 points by bschne 1y ago|1 comments
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Explaining, Blaming, and Being Slightly Sympathetic Toward Enron (2020)(mattlakeman.org)
1 points by bschne 1y ago|0 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
Not proof, per se, but the term to look up is "inbound marketing". HubSpot was very big on pushing companies to publish lots of content like blog posts and then having calls to action for people to submit their info in exchange fo
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by bschne 1y ago
https://archive.is/pe7aT
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The Battle to Protect Time(ft.com)
2 points by bschne 1y ago|1 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
SEEKING WORK, Zurich (CH), Remote OK - Location: Zurich, Switzerland - Remote: Both OK - Willing to relocate: Open for good fit - Tech: Main focus is (technical) product work, though I have hands-on experience across the stack (mainly .NET,

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