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by ggm 3mo ago
... as an open platform. Android as a mobile and home device OS is approaching 4 billion.
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by ggm 3mo ago
Investor money being pissed up against the wall, for little purpose? What else is new. I'm amazed the backers are on board. I wouldn't be. I'd rather invest in dead tech like coal, and soak every last drop of profit, than bac
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by ggm 3mo ago
Flying into London on November 5 a decade or so ago I was struck by how similar things looked to WW2 bombing run photographs, except it was in colour. A moment of pause. (The Australian War memorial has a museum with the nose of a Lancaster
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by ggm 3mo ago
There's two kinds of dark suckers. you've met the second kind. It's always saddened me I've been to Dublin 3 times and never made it to Dalkey. I want to pay a courtesy caul..
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by ggm 3mo ago
200 clicks later... I often find myself drowning in things like the Qld state library photo archives of the suburbs of Brisbane. They name street junctions which still exist, you pull up a modern photo in google maps, you look at the old on
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by ggm 3mo ago
One mention of Tibet and Xinjiang. No mention of Uighers directly. So a discussion about the nature of Han Chinese identity and multiculturalism but almost no real discussion of the internal minority issues. Singaporean, Malaysian and Taiwa
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by ggm 3mo ago
Extensively discusses the banking app problem. We need some externalised installable trust model to join EU and other identity proofs with an identity on the phone. Depending on google and Apple was a mistake. Depend on them to architect th
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by ggm 3mo ago
I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself in
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by ggm 3mo ago
This is wondeful. Made me think of Meese "know it when I see it" and Pratchett: "feather? Erotica. The whole Chicken? Filth."
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by ggm 3mo ago
It's Emacs. Well.. not exactly but I bet an Emacs user would Very quickly feel at home. "The ui is hard to learn" is a selling feature not a problem. It's like sabre or amadeus: it helps the industry keep out time waster
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by ggm 3mo ago
Time and motion/Taylorism is an anti pattern for staff retention. There is more to work than pay. Being humiliated and hassled over pee breaks for instance.
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by ggm 4mo ago
CSIRO and the Australian privacy commissioner suggested this path to the Australian Government a few years ago. I'm not a fan of technology fixes for social problems but i do think this may be in the sweet spot. I see a lot of people h
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by ggm 4mo ago
It was slower. In a beneficial way. There was a low enough cohort you could talk to people of some significance or notoriety and get a response. The barrier between email and news was dilute, osmotic pressure effects meant things leaked. A
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by ggm 4mo ago
Upton Sinclair's "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". comes to mind, regarding the Democratic aristocracy in place and with sinecure. Most people at
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by ggm 4mo ago
I think I was on more than I added. I kept seeing these posts which said "plonk" and then.. nothing.
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by ggm 4mo ago
Thank you. TIL!
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by ggm 4mo ago
If the bonds were undervalued that tells a story and if the bonds aren't taken up or the yield is high that tells another story. So.. where's the good story here? Because whichever way I look at it, something about the valuation s
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by ggm 4mo ago
Does this not act as a signal of over capitalisation in AI and so a signal the flush is busted?
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by ggm 4mo ago
Why does this show a 4 cylinder engine firing as two pairs? My ignorance is on display, surely it's more subtle and there are 4 distinct phased firings not two?
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by ggm 4mo ago
Remote mute control was contentious in early MBone apps. Lots of good discussion about why they were useful and when. Cisco webex went out the door with one and it's wonderfully "undemocratic" and equally useful. Just stop. D
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by ggm 4mo ago
Always a moment when you find yourself agreeing with the sentiment and outcome of a public intellectual despite reading inordinate amounts of contextual vituperation about said public intellectual from professional historians regarding his
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by ggm 4mo ago
We had to issue a directive for an open attendance online board meeting I'm on. AI adjunct popped up unannounced, poses issues for formalisms like board minutes. Aside from that I just think its rude. Ask permission not forgiveness. Pe
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by ggm 4mo ago
I have a lot of sympathy with this. I use some topic specific old school web forums and they feel better all round than the discord channels/forums. I suspect it's an age/attitude thing. The implicit "My forum my rules&q
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by ggm 4mo ago
Shorter lead times in the face of viral mutations will be helpful. Tailored vaccines for things like cancer are a game changer. I live in hope of a semi-universal flu+related vaccine. I live in fear of the measles induced "immune amnes
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by ggm 4mo ago
Both economies have massive drug industries and China in particular has advanced manufacturing processes for decades. I suspect they made an economic/risk decision and will be reviewing it in the light of mRNA production lead time. We&
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by ggm 4mo ago
I'm reminded of Professor Hermione Lee of the University of York English department facing a stuttering student explaining the contextual meaning of the word "quaint" in middle English poetry: Spit it out man! It means CU
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by ggm 4mo ago
Does that align with this emerging new proposal "we need more", and how does it adjust to age related needs which are higher? I know how to apply a rule of thumb from prior statements I see, which are close to yours (ive seen 1.9)
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by ggm 4mo ago
A rule of thumb against bodyweight would be helpful.
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by ggm 4mo ago
The positive schpiels say it gets higher utilisaton ("burn") of the fuel inside the micropellets, so it may be HEU, but there's more taken out so less made overall. I'm unsure where the H in HEU comes from, probably nast
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by ggm 4mo ago
TRISO fuel so.. pebble bed? Is there a reluctance to market on this? The Chinese were all-in. Great to see engineering deliver on time. I wonder if Rolls Royce will also have a smooth ride. It's a PWR.

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