maffyoo

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by maffyoo 7mo ago
some context here is really important: China started construction on an estimated 95 GW of new coal power capacity in 2024 it accounted for 93% of new global coal-power construction BUT, importantly, Coal power's share in the electrici
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by maffyoo 8mo ago
totally agree, technology could make this much more cost effective (or time effective). what's the best use of my time versus the cheaper option.. It's interesting running the numbers though. e.g. if it only take 10 minutes to get
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by maffyoo 8mo ago
you can probably work it out but you have to make a lot of assumptions :) Ultimately how much is your time worth? in the example given drcongo's time is worth £1.28 an hour.
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by maffyoo 8mo ago
When see things like this, I always think of the Chinese proverb "An inch of time is worth an inch of gold, but it is hard to buy one inch of time with one inch of gold" Which always says to me that its not worth it just use the q
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by maffyoo 8mo ago
this seems reasonable but isn't the conclusion a statement what we already know. These tools are really powerful, but with the ability to cause significant pain, need organisations to adapt, so that they can make best use of them but t
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by maffyoo 10mo ago
Yeah that’s another gripe. When is a product finished ..
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by maffyoo 10mo ago
my 83 year old mother was able to use (almost) all the features of iOS when she first got an iPhone, in 2012. It genuinely changed her life and meant she could participate in a world I dont think she ever expected to be comfortable in. She
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by maffyoo 11mo ago
ive always wondered why, in "day stay" car parks (commuters etc) they dont have 6 to 8 cables from a charging point that can all connect to different cars and then do round robin charging. This solves the problem of one person bei
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by maffyoo 11mo ago
Im not sure that's the case, they've been doing MR-G watches for a long time (29 years) as a push upmarket. Just look at the latest GW-BX5600 (released in 3 days) it has a new MIP LCD panel on a new module. This retails for $150 .
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by maffyoo 11mo ago
Expand Contract from Fowler's bliki https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ParallelChange.html
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by maffyoo 1y ago
Fusion is 30 years away
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by maffyoo 1y ago
what happens if access is unrestricted from UK users and the content becomes available again. Reads to me that they will monitor sites to ensure this doesn't happen. Surely logical..
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by maffyoo 1y ago
just a quick point here; 1.2K is highly statistically significant, even for a national level poll/survey. The issue here is the potential for selection bias, which seems primarily to be driven by people who want to do the survey not su
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by maffyoo 1y ago
+1 for a "this has been posted before" check https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Structured+Procrastination
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by maffyoo 1y ago
How do you decide what the basics are? maybe you should outsource answering customer emails instead of spending time doing them yourself? The basics is not a differentiator; strategy is. At best the basics is just a fitness measure of strat
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by maffyoo 1y ago
execute what though? by far the best content on strategy I have read is Peter Compo, a point he repeatedly makes is that the whole execution argument is meaningless without a strategy (and its many tactics, plans, compromises) to execute. S
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by maffyoo 2y ago
This just doesn't make sense. Google wont disallow fingerprinting on companies using ITS advertising technology. I think accountability gets exhausted pretty quickly on this just by thinking about the implications. If UK gov (or any ot
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by maffyoo 6y ago
Woo.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ the 90's is asking for its platform wars back
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by maffyoo 6y ago
i just dont agree with this at all. Mental models make no claims about expertise they are abstractions of accepted knowledge and capture the essence of something. They are, after all, called models. Maybe some have mis-appropriated mental m
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by maffyoo 6y ago
fully agree with this position. Mental models are just that, models. they are abstractions of a particular classification of a thing, they convey information. they carry no guarantee of understanding and (in the odd cases given in the artic
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by maffyoo 6y ago
What an odd article, I have to admit I spent a good while questioning whether i'd got the my own understanding of the value of mental models totally wrong. My first issue with the article is that i've never really seen any claims
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by maffyoo 8y ago
Given China has seen lowest growth in almost 30 years and the US where some positive numbers are hiding some negative stories, it would seem that there is a wider context to take into consideration. The article seems loaded with the premise
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by maffyoo 8y ago
Im a real cynic when it comes to lego. it has increasingly become a product that is sold to parents and then foisted upon children. I know a few parents who claim their kids love lego but empirical evidence seems to be far from that. We bou
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by maffyoo 8y ago
Canalys are a well known google Shill. When the apple hit record revenues in China Canalys pretty much ignored them in their market report. A quick google shows that they are hardly unbiased or particularly accurate in their reporting
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by maffyoo 9y ago
you forgot to mention emacs..!
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by maffyoo 9y ago
i dunno, we could equally say that your position is UI optimism. AI is new tech, certainly as it now becomes feasible to apply it to real problems. Given some of the challenges AI is solving right now this one is relatively trivial, HTML an
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by maffyoo 9y ago
what about the converse of this? what about producing a basic set of content and letting AI taxonomise or organise it and then create a design based on design models. It could work both ways. I guess ultimately the problem will be solved bo
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by maffyoo 11y ago
there's an accepted answer here which i found straight away by googling "Fork Bomb" http://askubuntu.com/questions/159491/why-did-the-command-ma...
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by maffyoo 11y ago
I think its a bit premature to predict critical mass for Go and maybe your python comparison is a reasonable prediction of where Go will finish up.
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by maffyoo 12y ago
Evolution, progress, the march of the human race has fundamentally been enabled by our ability to efficiently abstract and encapsulate complexity into building blocks that form the next leap forwards in the advancement of science, knowledge

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