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by kkfx 2y ago
Few notes: - Alphabet have made a switch from a (mostly) tech-driven company to a pure finance-driven one, when this happen you can expect a bit of growth, even a sharp one for a little time, than an inexorable decline; - the more and more
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by kkfx 2y ago
My home project, data from a friend in constructions for a 3-floors (6 units) and 8 (32 units) computing the wood frame, windows, ventilation, heating, ... of my home vs iron, cement, sand, ... for the condos. Even if I have a concrete tile
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by kkfx 2y ago
I suggest another study, albeit very hard to do: what if Germany have chosen de-urbanisation, observing that in the denser Nederland 81.3% of citizens live in homes not apartments, like in Belgium (77.6%) or France (62%) pushing a nation-wi
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by kkfx 2y ago
Ancient Greek's have two separate world for "knowledge": doxa and gnosis. Doxa is the practical, notional ability of doing things, gnosis is the understatement of things. Today schools push doxa and try to their best to avoid
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by kkfx 2y ago
I have some, BUT they tend to have some hyper-high costs on certain networks, so on unusual trips I still need a companion app to verify the price of one of the few I have plus the option to register, download the nth crapplication and so o
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by kkfx 2y ago
Absolutely, but only very few highway chargers here also accept bank cards and they also operate badly, some have only crapplications, some have app+card but the card tend to be costly. I call this just surveillance capitalism...
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by kkfx 2y ago
Essentially at a very generic level (from SOHO to not that critical services at SME level): - automated alerts on unusual loads, meaning I do not care about CPU/RAM/disk usage as long as there are specific spikes, so the monitor j
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by kkfx 2y ago
Here in EU (south-east France, north-west Italy to be more precise) most chargers seems operational though they are ALL an immense amount of crapware crap, many with mandatory dysfunctional apps, some with a hell of different smart-cards on
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by kkfx 2y ago
I fail to see a specific news, the article cite a single example of a failed BEV OEM, there are many, it's perfectly normal that some are not good enough to survive. In our golden age of automotive we have had countless automakers, mos
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by kkfx 2y ago
I'm not a specific talent but I was a globetrotter having choose a different country than my original one. Some aspects I've valued and I still value: - country stability, in term of internal and external projection (I would not l
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by kkfx 2y ago
Does it matter if the chicken came before or after the egg? You have a big tech company, born out of a small piece of Xerox PARC research having found a good way to make it anti-user, you finally be able to sell very cheap computers where u
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by kkfx 2y ago
Ehm... Does someone think ALL smartphones are not spying devices controlled by many more than their formal human owner?
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by kkfx 2y ago
Alphabet losses (not just in ML) are due to the switch from a tech-oriented to a financial oriented enterprise, for a certain, not long, amount of time, the switch makes money, than the fall. We do not live on finance, we live on Earth, we
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by kkfx 2y ago
Visually Chrome now look more like Firefox, really, thin tabs with declining borders have been substituted by thicker one with vertical border. Practically if feel faster on the same iron, and it's more rigid in user UI change, for ins
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by kkfx 2y ago
Durable probably, but there are no guarantee it doesn't change a step at a time...
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by kkfx 2y ago
A suggest addition "time-based partitioning" or when your notes have a time-based taxonomy like: - archive/ for notes spanning an indefinite amount of time, as long as they exists - YYYY/ an year by another - YYYY/m
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by kkfx 2y ago
Very true BUT yet in hw terms most systems are NOT designed for LOM indeed, and that's on purpose because LOM means also the need of open standards for interoperability and OEM likes to keep their own lock-in. Hell, most people even fa
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by kkfx 2y ago
Non-paywall source https://observer.com/2024/08/eric-schmidt-google-remote-work... Maybe this thread should be merged with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41241682 and https://news
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by kkfx 2y ago
Pro-tax economist in an era where the source of money is private and just loan them counter "public debt" (an oxymoron by itself) are simply thieves or people convinced by thieves not much understanding economy. If you want social
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by kkfx 2y ago
Hem... There is PerSourcePenaltyExemptList to whitelist specific hosts so while I agree it might create a bit more complexity (not much different than handling fail2ban and co) it's not "blocking" like described.
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by kkfx 2y ago
Allow me to translate: from space exploration and submarines ops to climate changes issues we desperately try to create food in artificial environments we can create a bit in all climates, nearly everywhere and possibly in simple buildings,
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by kkfx 2y ago
Statistics say gasoline vehicle burn a bit more frequent than EV, but that's not much the matter, the people psychosis is the ruling class psychosis when they have realized that the green new deal is only possible re-building the socie
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Eric Schmidt Blames Google's A.I. Struggle on Remote Work(observer.com)
6 points by kkfx 2y ago|4 comments
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by kkfx 2y ago
Well... Just another one who try to save financial capitalism at the expense of innovation and human wellness, stating without even try to prove the statement that what financial capitalism need it's needed to win, while this model act
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by kkfx 2y ago
IMVHO and perception we live in an era of very informed ignorance, NOT in the Socrates sense of course... I can speculate about various cohort of informed ignorant (me included), like those who demand "numbers" but not care how th
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by kkfx 2y ago
More complex than that, let's say your car state it wasn't on autopilot when for "unknown reasons" a pedestrian was hit: how can you prove you are right, the car was indeed in autopilot mode, you try to avoid the impact,
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by kkfx 2y ago
I'll do my best to avoid using them, so far successfully...
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by kkfx 2y ago
It's simply about time telling those who ask for sacrifice, FOR THEM, that they can sacrifice themselves if they like, but others do not want sacrifice for nothing in return. It's about time to ORGANIZE heading to MANDATE for huma
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by kkfx 2y ago
Maybe it's about time to state that widgets-based GUIs are dead, time to switch to DocUIs, because that's essentially the point and the point is that WebApp today do much but are heavy monsters with very limited flexibility. The c
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by kkfx 2y ago
> they aren't allowed to use it for something else without your consent But I can't prove they respect the law. That's the point. > With AGPL, they must share with you actual source code running on their servers. Same a

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