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by bschne 1y ago
The same foundation/cultural festival previously built a red wooden tower on the Julier Pass, which I found quite beautiful ever since I first saw it driving by https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juliertheater
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Why I no longer recommend RAG for autonomous coding agents(pashpashpash.substack.com)
6 points by bschne 1y ago|2 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
If you wanna get some more footage of the buildings and inhabitants, I can recommend checking out Bêka & Lemoine's "Barbicania" --- https://vimeo.com/ondemand/barbicania This site also seems to have
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by bschne 1y ago
correct, edited, thanks
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by bschne 1y ago
2024 numbers -- Selling, General & Admin vs. R&D Roche (Pharma Division): 7533 MCHF vs. 11096 MCHF Novartis: 12566 MUSD vs. 10022 MUSD Pfizer: 14730 MUSD vs. 10822 MUSD Eli Lilly: 8594
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by bschne 1y ago
> In high school we were having growing pangs weren't we all...
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by bschne 1y ago
I'm in civil protection service in Switzerland and occasionally spend a few days at a time in one of these doing basically office work or running refresher courses etc., definitely agree on the losing track of time thing --- can't
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Networks of Trust vs. Markets(lesswrong.com)
2 points by bschne 1y ago|0 comments
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How Kim Jong Il Kidnapped a Director, Made a Cult Hit Godzilla Knockoff (2015)(vanityfair.com)
73 points by bschne 1y ago|35 comments
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Accidentally Turing-Complete(beza1e1.tuxen.de)
25 points by bschne 1y ago|7 comments
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by bschne 1y ago
path dependency with fields having developed their own early on I guess?
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by bschne 1y ago
I also find this annoying, but it‘s common practice to do this while a draft is still being worked on and not yet getting submitted to a journal (SSRN is ≈ SocSci Arxiv)
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SRE's Review of Democracy(250bpm.substack.com)
3 points by bschne 1y ago|0 comments
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A tour of AT&T's Network Operations Center (1979) – AT&T Archives [video](youtube.com)
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by bschne 2y ago
From Wikipedia: > All tracks were originally sold in 256 kilobits-per-second variable bitrate MP3 format without per-customer watermarking or DRM Don‘t remember 100% but wouldn‘t the variable bit rate explain this?
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by bschne 2y ago
1. Renewables have currently offset less than half of year 2000 nuclear generation -- https://www.iea.org/countries/germany/energy-mix 2. Industrial energy prices seem to have risen pretty consistently since 2000:
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Wind Knitting Factory(merelkarhof.nl)
2 points by bschne 2y ago|0 comments
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Cephalopod Sentience and Cognition(thebrooksinstitute.org)
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Rosalind – a platform for learning bioinformatics through problem solving(rosalind.info)
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by bschne 2y ago
Aside: I was surprised to read "dental caries" in the list of things detectable through similar methods in the court filing screenshot in this post. Is that about a device that could optically detect caries from tooth surfaces thr
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by bschne 2y ago
reminded of my favorite bit from Malcolm in The Middle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
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SwissMicros – most precise RPN calculators(swissmicros.com)
3 points by bschne 2y ago|1 comments
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Decimal Day(en.wikipedia.org)
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Obama's Trauma Team (2014)(time.com)
3 points by bschne 2y ago|1 comments
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by bschne 2y ago
Anecdote: I was in charge of a complete rebuild for an e-commerce website a few years back, which included a new design. We were debating various layout options, as it was tricky to get the information hierarchy right and show everything ne
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by bschne 2y ago
:')
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by bschne 2y ago
What is your hypothesis in this case? Something like "margins went down because of accounting shenanigans they only figured out a few years ago, surged so much because of price fixing that the accounting shenanigans were not good enoug
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by bschne 2y ago
Gross margins don‘t include executive pay on the cost side
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by bschne 2y ago
apologies, this gave me pause for a split second but I didn't double check — see sibling comment, I think the captions weren't properly updated by the site reporting the stats.
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by bschne 2y ago
It seems they do pretty badly in Germany too. TÜV data showed 14.2% Model 3 cars had "significant defects" at inspections after 2-3 years. This was the highest defect rate of any car model. https://fussmattenprofi.com&#

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