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by frereubu 1y ago
I'm so old I object to "leverage" as a verb.
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by frereubu 1y ago
Perhaps. But there's also an enormous amount of dirty money sloshing around the art world that I would argue has more to do with the price than the interest of the work itself.
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by frereubu 1y ago
Reminds me of the Damien Hirst piece that I love and hate equally. A platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with diamonds that had an asking price of £50 million, which was bought by a consortium of people that include... Da
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by frereubu 1y ago
Oh, absolutely. It's just that I've seen some of the original buildings in south east London and they looked absolutely freezing - single glazing with metal-framed windows. The walls looked like thin painted plywood, but I don&#x2
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by frereubu 1y ago
I'm sure it requires a bit of rethinking here or there, but there's a group of houses in Brighton, UK, that did it in the late 90s, a long time after Segal's original ideas: https://www.granddesignsmagazine.com&#x2
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by frereubu 1y ago
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV new
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Segal Method – Designing Buildings(designingbuildings.co.uk)
1 points by frereubu 1y ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
This reminds me of the Segal Method of housebuilding: https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Segal_Method Two of the core ideas are that the majority of the work can be undertaken by a single person with basic carpe
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the ans
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by frereubu 1y ago
There's a short comment thread here about that, which does seem to suggest they're better: https://old.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1l0v25s/how_r...
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by frereubu 1y ago
I'm never sure about the estimates on auctions like this, but the fact that so many things are going way over the estimate reminds me of the Sotheby's auction of items from the failed Pharmacy bar by Damien Hirst where things were
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Cognitive Debt(smithery.com)
20 points by frereubu 1y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
I know that all names are essentially "made up". It's the implicit nature of the "sciency" bit that annoys me. I don't believe Danone did a stroke of real science to come up with a bacteria that had any materia
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by frereubu 1y ago
I put up a (much less interesting and more nerdily annoyed) site that described how Dannon / Danone was using made-up sciency names for the bacteria in their yoghurt, and their legal department got in touch. I didn't back down: h
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by frereubu 1y ago
Some of the TV programmes he brought into being are very significant for a UK audience of a certain age ( Arena for me). If the ones mentioned in the Wikipedia article don't resonate, there isn't much that will be significant for
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://archive.is/IDOpi
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Home microgrids: a blueprint for the future of sustainable household energy?(ft.com)
3 points by frereubu 1y ago|1 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
It's not a viable proposition, I agree, but one thing it would get around is NIMBYs in the UK who seem to love vintage windmills, but not wind turbines!
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by frereubu 1y ago
Ah, OK - I must have misread the bit about who bought it from Pinterest.
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by frereubu 1y ago
I've never used Pocket, so I can't comment on feature parity, but for people looking for an alternative I've been using Instapaper for years and have been very happy with it. The founders recently bought it back from Pinteres
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by frereubu 1y ago
I've been using Instapaper for years and have always been very happy with it.
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by frereubu 1y ago
https://archive.is/hrpBq
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Microsoft-backed Builder.ai collapsed after finding potentially bogus sales(ft.com)
31 points by frereubu 1y ago|9 comments
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by frereubu 1y ago
I think you missed the entire point of the article. They're not saying that AI cannot be useful in the way you describe. They're saying that too many people are using it as a shortcut to producing verbiage that mimics the outcomes
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by frereubu 1y ago
Again, this just feels like throwing your hands up in the air and saying "it's too hard to decide!" But we have to take decisions somehow if we're going to do anything.
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by frereubu 1y ago
That may be true, but I guess my approach to it would be that as a general principle we shouldn't be using things that increase energy usage for little real gain, and this is something that is in my professional field that I can do som
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by frereubu 1y ago
I see where you're coming from, but the planet was not on the verge of a climate breakdown at the time. I think that's the implicit context in the block post that your reply misses.
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by frereubu 1y ago
Your argument seems to be flattening everything so it's just the same - "everything has an impact" - but different things have different impacts, and each needs to be measured against their utility. Me ordering a coffee at my
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by frereubu 1y ago
That's pretty dismissive for what seemed to be a thoughtful article. Do you think the person who wrote it somehow imagined the decrease in pain? Just because you sorted your out in that way doesn't mean other people can't man
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by frereubu 1y ago
The apartments are lovely, but the service charges are eye-watering, ranging from around £6,000 per year for a two-bedroom, to £14,400 for the more expensive ones: https://themodernhouse.com/sales-list/thomas-more-house

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