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by ferros 6y ago
How covert is staring at someone’s shoes trying to identify slight variations?
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by ferros 6y ago
How common are worms in western societies?
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by ferros 6y ago
Agreed. Even if you get past the first layer, which is to create something that sells. You’re still left with organisational biases. Then after that personal reporter biases. It would take a large conscious effort to get past all of these.
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by ferros 6y ago
I would be willing to pay an amount for better quality news than what can be found for free, however news outlets always seem to lean one way. I want somebody to just report and not tilt it in one direction.
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Amazon closer to launching satellites, upping internet reach(foxbusiness.com)
2 points by ferros 6y ago|0 comments
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UnrealEngine and Nvidia RTX servers generating CGI fans for baseball games(news.developer.nvidia.com)
1 points by ferros 6y ago|0 comments
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by ferros 6y ago
What implications will this have elsewhere. Where is the line drawn? I don’t disagree with this but it feels like this will open a hornets nest.
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Brusselization(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by ferros 6y ago|1 comments
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by ferros 6y ago
There is a book on this very topic called 'The Shallows' by Nicholas Carr
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by ferros 6y ago
Fair comment I can see where you're coming from in terms of humility and bias. Again I can only talk from personal experience but I notice this also from self assessment exercises in performance reviews. Humility aside the more senior
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by ferros 6y ago
When interviewing new candidates it's interesting to see the difference between beginner/mid and seniors. The beginner/mid group seem to have a lot more confidence in their skills and not be as aware of what they don't k
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by ferros 6y ago
On top of all this there is an arbiter (social network) that filters and decides what is important enough be shared maximally. Before anybody even hears your conversation it has been filtered to a degree, there is no organic interpretation
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by ferros 6y ago
I think they have avoided any handouts to accelerate(Or at least not delay) a sale. Now that there is new ownership I expect they will come to the table.
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by ferros 6y ago
Virgin’s unrealised value is in the government handouts and concession that are still to come. Virgin is the second and only competitor to Australia’s main carrier QANTAS, and sole carrier for some routes. The government will not let them f
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by ferros 6y ago
What is the motivation behind this announcement? Considering that it is a generic ‘we are under attack’. The Prime Minister doesn’t usually hold press conferences like this unless there is a good reason.
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Foreign government behind major cyber attacks on Australian gov and biz, PM says(abc.net.au)
5 points by ferros 6y ago|1 comments
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by ferros 6y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but apart from defaulting to Google search engine, what are the negatives and hidden google effects of a vanilla chrome install?
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Flawed data puts Covid-19 policies, treatments in doubt(patientdaily.com)
2 points by ferros 6y ago|0 comments
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Astronauts Aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon Dock with International Space Station(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by ferros 6y ago|0 comments
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by ferros 6y ago
It’s much like Wordpress in the sense that you can get it up and running very quickly. The time cost is in how much you want to customise it. Once it’s set up it’s just markdown, no ruby required.
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by ferros 6y ago
Personally I work in tech all day, I want my blog to be as simple as possible and to focus just on my writing. Still using Jekyll.
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by ferros 6y ago
Fair enough, they’re doing it to protect their business. But why should a user have to subject their machine internals to inspection by eBay? And, without their consent.
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by ferros 6y ago
Are all addictions bad? I’m addicted to coffee. I have been caffeine free many times before however I prefer the coffee addiction.
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by ferros 6y ago
The more I read and learn the more I realise how little we know about everything that surrounds us and existence itself. It truly is humbling.
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Vienna’s Unique Social Housing Program(huduser.gov)
3 points by ferros 6y ago|0 comments
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China’s first Long March 5B rocket launches on crew capsule test flight(spaceflightnow.com)
4 points by ferros 6y ago|0 comments
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by ferros 6y ago
The real question is, after this all dies down, will these apps be repurposed and become the new normal?
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by ferros 6y ago
To his credit the PM seemed quite knowledgeable about AWS as far as a non tech person/politician when he answered questions in a press conference. Used the correct terminology and was able to explain in minor detail.
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by ferros 6y ago
It was interesting to hear a lead story on the nightly news talking about data privacy issues related to where the data was stored, saying that the data would be stored on “American company Amazon’s Servers”. No mention of Australian region
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by ferros 6y ago
Don’t forget for smokers that your body metabolises caffeine around twice as fast

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