jpfromlondon

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by jpfromlondon 4mo ago
>We as technologists need to engage with wider society and understand on their terms, the worries they have. We were the vanguard blocking this to the public's benefit, now they've voted for it our only duty is to ourselves; to
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
The suffragists arguably achieved a great deal more, without them the measures of the suffragettes would likely have set women’s rights back further. Yet they are all but forgotten.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
Mine was like an ancient remnant from the soviet union, dry as anything but wickedly funny, used to yell at us if we pronounced the Cyrillics wrong, or more usually if we did not use capitals for units named after people; I can still hear h
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
"Note that ψ (psi) is pronounced sye and ϕ (phi) is pronounced fye." This is the American pronunciation I take it? During my undergrad physics and mathematics modules I was instructed by a handful of Europeans (including a charmin
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
Why is this a "fun fact", what is this reddit-tier comment contributing?
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
>obscures ... implies See : Presumption
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
>Er, it kind of predicts the internet, The internet long precedes the publishing of Infinite Jest.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
I had already been cutting screen-time, my phone especially which no longer leaves the house with me. It's pure coincidence too as I read TPK in January and knew I had to read more DFW fiction as soon as I could.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
I wish to read this but I'm on page 600 of my first pass of the book and worry it'll spoil it for me. At risk of marking myself a "lit-bro" I think the book is proving solidly prophetic.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
how is that misleading if it's a fact, it's only misleading if you presume to know the reaction or intent behind making such a claim, and without context we should be extremely careful in making such presumptions.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
This sounds mostly like a skill issue, and the notion that it's somehow a walled garden is laughable when the alternatives are Cisco/Meraki, Juniper, et al? I can plug whatever I like into my Unifi estate and expect it work with l
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
There are, making such a conspiracy all the easier to perpetrate.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
I suspect because the Chinese firm in question was a fabrication of FMIC for exactly this purpose.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
The unsubsidised costs can't be revealed soon enough.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
did they? Is piracy now impossible?
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
you get used to it within a couple of hours
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
I'd like to know this too, especially the ipad.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
>In a world where people are fighting with each other to see who can get closer to the trading systems in order to shave off milliseconds, this seems glacial. the race to zero is over, nobody is doing that any more.
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
They certainly add hay to the haystack
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
I miread the title as Institutional Afflictions and immediately wondered what those might be, Scrum/Agile is a given of course but what else?
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by jpfromlondon 5mo ago
Reading a lot of the comments here is pretty depressing, I thought things had improved since I was a boy. My school (posh, British) turned a blind eye to bullying and fighting, there wasn't a great deal but I distinctly remember walkin
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
did you know Rolex are quite popular in Vatican to the point that they offer a latin day wheel on the day-date. Just because you are provided with necessities, does not mean your every material need is met.
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
>human nature >the problem will go away? ... It's more worrying to me that you think you can fix us.
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
My own job is accelerating my cognitive decline and destroying my mental wellbeing.
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
The public, and consumers in general often state a want or need for something that they don't actually want or that would harm their quality of life, it is correct to demean or deride these wants when they're identified, some aspe
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
I'm not entirely convinced, the biggest bullshitter I know professionally is truly profoundly incompetent and very much a shining example of the Peter principle, in fact I think (non-technical) managers exhibit strong bullshittery in t
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
This reminds me of David Foster Wallace's The Pale King in which a presumed jesuit guest lecturer tells an audience of college students that true heroism is enduring boredom, that there is no higher calling, that it is key to a success
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
It was common (at least here in europe) to simply buy your car, with the proliferation of finance and lease it is now the norm to essentially rent your own car for two to four years before inevitably having to trade it in for another, perpe
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
it's hard to recommend Veritasium on this subject when Asianometry exists... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsn1CUyXWs&list=PLKtxx9TnH7...
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by jpfromlondon 6mo ago
People want to choose what in their life they do. My job is to improve workflows with automation and analysis, I preach progress, but in my daily life I enjoy shifting gears in my ice car, taking time to make a coffee, developing photos fro

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