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by dfex 1y ago
I think the way that democratic governments can achieve these long-term plans is by establishing (or using existing) entities to complete these goals on their behalf. An example that comes to mind is the Apollo program: JFK announced a nati
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by dfex 1y ago
So much this! The Mom Test is a rare gem in a sea of startup advice books, but it's the only one I've come across that cuts through all the BS and focusses on the only important thing - finding a market for people who want your p
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by dfex 1y ago
I wonder how widely this affected all 3 of Citrix customers?
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by dfex 1y ago
Yuri's Revenge never gets old - it's just the right balance of RTS with a bit more of an arcadey feel. Sadly I missed the original Starcraft train (finished Starcraft II), but one of these days I'm going to sit down and work
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by dfex 1y ago
Bravo! It might be just my age, but these days I'm more excited about sporadic releases for long dead platforms than the absolute tsunami of copycat "AAA" content released on modern consoles/PCs.
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by dfex 1y ago
> Charles currently takes work breaks every six months for two weeks at a time, and said he heard about micro-retirements from a friend Back in the day, we called this annual leave and we read about it in our employment contract
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by dfex 1y ago
Read this as pornological. Came away disappointed.
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by dfex 1y ago
You might be right - it's just odd that it's always showing "more" rather than similar amounts. Also, according to Claude[1] a 50ppm difference is equivalent to around 25 years current atmospheric carbon increase. * Pre-
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by dfex 1y ago
More concerning - can anyone explain why there is such a variation in the results from the DC powered unit vs. the TENG-powered one? The graph at the bottom of the report shows a difference of 30-50ppm between both units when they are sitt
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by dfex 1y ago
I really wanted to like Stage Manager. I feel like there was something there in terms of window management that hadn't really been done before, but there was just something about it that wasn't quite right - the gestures never se
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by dfex 1y ago
Only because we've mastered caching
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by dfex 1y ago
This looks amazing! I'm working on a construction project right now (not as an architect/engineer) and I can tell you right now that live collaboration is THE killer feature (your slick UI not withstanding). If this job is anythin
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by dfex 1y ago
THIS! I'm working at a large construction project now, and am continually amazed at what "state-of-the-art" realtime 3D in Revit looks like. Yes, all these corporate laptops have shitty GPUs, but come on, I got better fidel
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by dfex 1y ago
Dragon Day[1] beat them to it [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772262/
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by dfex 1y ago
To be fair, these are the companies that pay for the level of industrial design that Ive produces, and after spending the latter part of his career at Apple knocking out revisions of existing products, probably made a nice change. I think i
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by dfex 1y ago
Oh man - I used to have a Harmony remote and thought it was the best thing ever for my multi-vendor AV setup... ...then the AppleTV was released, with a remote that made the Harmony look like the console of a nuclear power plant by comparis
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by dfex 2y ago
Haven't read the full article (paywall), but the biggest issue with co-mingling livestock and solar panels is the damage they cause to the installation by chewing through or rubbing up against insulated wires. Also, when the panels are
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by dfex 2y ago
Aussie in AU here - I think about this opportunity a lot too, but sadly it will not be our government that delivers this outcome if the current nuclear vs. solar/wind debate (like these are mutually exclusive outcomes) is anything to g
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by dfex 2y ago
This! It's not even just the web - how did we go from the amazing creativity of say WinAmp skins, to the flat lifeless interfaces of Spotify and Music.app?
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by dfex 2y ago
The ideas and prototypes coming out of inkandswitch are really interesting. It feels like user interface innovations all stopped/stagnated in the early 2000s and we've just spent the last 20 years adjusting the previous 20 years o
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by dfex 2y ago
Absolutely: Architects vs Builders Project Managers vs Project Engineers Planners vs Doers I used to think it was just an experience/wisdom thing - e.g.: when you're younger, you tend to be biased to action, builder/doer min
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by dfex 2y ago
If you have the original CDs, then yes, you can import all the cutscene media files (FMV, music etc.) during the install phase and it will play them just like the original, but they aren't included in the download for obvious reasons.
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by dfex 2y ago
And I thought it was just me. I didn't get my first win until I chose Turtle AI with 40% handicap. After many months of "honing" my skills, I am now about 50/50 against Rush AI on equal standings, but I still have to pl
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by dfex 2y ago
AgTech fascinates me as well - it is a space with so much potential for gain and efficiency. All the pieces for fully autonomous crop farming are available today, but just not well integrated yet. To an outsider, they don't look like
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by dfex 2y ago
Decentralisation projects are trying to solve the problem of massive scale without central control. Why are we trying to build a single unified platform for everything? Maybe the friction of having different networks/applications based
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by dfex 2y ago
Surrender? More like short-term strategy. Trump will come and go (for good after his second term) - these guys are all just there to ensure it's business-as-usual for the next 4 years.
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by dfex 2y ago
> "We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace" I remember reading this in my mid-teens and it really speaking to me. Sometimes we tend to forget: nobody is forcing us to use the crap that "the Internet" h
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by dfex 2y ago
That was certainly the case 15 years ago. The only switching/routing vendor with an API worth a damn was Juniper - in fact they were the only vendor who was applying CLI changes to the box via their own API, the Way It Should Be Done™.
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by dfex 2y ago
The dream is you never have to rely on buggy vendor software again. The reality is, you end up with a complex stack with no or homegrown documentation that requires experienced engineers to operate and maintain. In some environments, that&#
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by dfex 2y ago
Thanks Brian [0] was a great podcast and got me through a large lawn mowing!

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