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> The announcement follows the release of an external report by UK-based consultants Alma Economics, which found that the pilot cost €72 million to date but generated nearly €80 million in total benefits to the Irish economy. The report
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> This is the hidden bot economy. I still have to hear a compelling argument about why I should use computers “by hand” and ignore these powerful tools. Price checking, comparison shopping, buy when released for sale… All of these things
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No they’re not “coming”: NC State University: “Researchers Propose a Fourth Light on Traffic Signals – For Self-Driving Cars“ (2023) [1] > The researchers acknowledge that AVs are not ready to adopt the new distributed computing approach
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Posting a tl;dr here might stave off some of dismissive comments based only on only reading the headline.
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This article is referencing a subscriber-only letter. I think this video is from the same source as the letter MicroStrategy Partnership: “Power Plai - Julien Garran - 02 October 2025” https://youtu.be/uz2EqmqNNlE > Ma
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That’s only a problem if your goal is to keep on doing the same old web apps the same old way, just delegating part of the program logic to WASM which, I agree, will be more complicated. But if you’re going to use WASM why limit yourself to
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> What I'm curious is why the platforms don't adapt to how the developers have found works best? Here's my take: - The web was visualized as a way to publish academic documents in a hyperlinked document system. Librarians
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This is no different than if recipient of the secure message shares the message in plaintext. The problem is a discipline problem not a technology one, and the solution is the same in both cases.
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That report also mentions individual employees using their own personal subscriptions for work, and points to it as a good model for organizations to use when rolling out the tech (i.e. just make the tools available and encourage/teach
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This comment talks about next-gen engines as the driver for new airframe designs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45431849 Those engines will be a major driver of whether “better” is achieved, in particular maintenance
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You’re mixing up the high-end and low-end markets. French wines exported to the U.S. don’t really address the low end of the market: Cheaper wines can be had from California’s Central Valley, Eastern Europe, or made domestically from import
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OT: I wonder if WASM is ready to fulfill the sandboxing needs expressed in this article, i.e. can we put the AI agent into a web assembly sandbox and have it function as required?
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“Changes in Carbapenemase-Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales, 2019 to 2023” https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-02404
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The research didn't study that so we can't draw any conclusions about the effects of playing flight sims in the 80s on human perception of objects in 3D space.
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> Moreover, the [Henley] report uses a far narrower definition of ‘millionaires’ that does not include all dollar millionaires like the standard definition (people with net worth of 1 million dollars or more), but rather only individuals
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> Goldman Sachs economist Pierfrancesco Mei wrote on Thursday that “finding a job takes longer in a low-turnover labor market.” He argued that “job reallocation,” or the pace at which new jobs are created and existing ones destroyed, has
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Being faster on a lab-administered test doesn’t tell you anything about your game-playing ability. This research was focused on determining why people invert their controls, nothing more. > In short, gamers think they are an inverter or
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Your linked source omits state and local managed land. For example compare their map of Massachusetts with this map from the state: https://www.mass.gov/how-to/masswildlife-lands-viewer
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There was a very good article about magic [1] where the magicians describe tricks that are too good to perform because people will get angry. Apparently the audience is much more receptive when they believe they can figure out how the trick
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> ... [M]any avoidable defects are caused by business practices that focus on building and selling quickly, with minimal concern for repeat business or quality control, according to Robert Knowles, president and founder of the National A
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You’ll have to be more specific about what you mean by “product owner”, because that’s a very nebulous job title. For example, how technical is this product owner? Are they assumed to “just know” that they’re asking for an overly complex, e
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I like to make the distinction that the absence of automated tests is not the absence of tests altogether, and that the time it takes to get an automated test set up might be longer than doing the test manually. This is especially impor
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I guess you’d disagree with Article 19 of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights then, on the basis that these human rights are a “western” concept and the United Nations is a “western” institution? > Article 19 > Everyone has
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(2018)
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I can’t comment on this as I don’t know the case-law well, but I’m struggling to understand how citing but not linking to a source lessens the ability of anyone to make claims about accuracy, whether in a court of law or in the court of pub
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> … reporters covering court cases… never seem to simply paste the link to the online PDF decision/ruling for us all to read, right in the story This is an editorial decision and not something individual reporters get to decide. Hea
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Laravel 3.2 was released in May 2012, so 13 years ago. Sounds like you should port the application off of Laravel since Laravel’s got an “evergreen”/regular updates maintenance model. I’m not even sure that 13 year old PHP is still ma
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> The upgrade from Laravel 4 to 5 (released Oct 2013) is probably the biggest hurdle.... Can confirm. We started on Laravel 4 and it languished at that version until someone in leadership agreed to get it updated to version 8, which seem
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Saw that comment and I’m pretty sure that it is a bad idea since the article explicitly mentioned that stressing the leeches causes them to “vomit blood back into your bloodstream” and introduces a risk of bacterial infections. The advice w
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> Or are they literally just in the business of making money? All for-profit businesses can be viewed abstractly as “in the business of making money”, so this doesn’t really distinguish Jane Street in any way. > … why/if what t
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