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UK graduates share their job-hunting woes amid the AI fallout(theguardian.com)
6 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|2 comments
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Good to know. This was in suburban Chicago, Naperville, IL to be exact, during the 90s. The industry was Telecomm. Maybe it was a more conservative area compared with the Bay Area or Boston.
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
I initially worked in Canada where it wouldn't be uncommon to go out for a work lunch and order a beer. When I got a new job in the US, my boss took me and several coworkers to a restaurant for lunch as a way to welcome me. When the wa
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Growing up in Toronto during the 70s, I remember several expressions I've rarely, if ever, heard elsewhere. "No guff"--meaning something like "no, really?" in a sarcastic sense "My foot"--maybe something s
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Loggers close in on uncontacted people in Peruvian Amazon(theguardian.com)
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
One would've thought that unproven and potentially dangerous technology like this--self-driving cars--would've required many years of testing before being allowed on public roads. And yet here we are where the testing grounds are
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Hilbert's Grand JavaScript School (2015)(raganwald.com)
1 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|0 comments
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Startup's technology hopes to clean up pollution from cargo shipping(theguardian.com)
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Why Did the Novel-Reading Man Disappear?(nytimes.com)
4 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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OpenAI takes down mentions of Jony Ive's io amid trademark row(theguardian.com)
5 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
> It's that they believe they have a religious duty to destroy the state of Israel. I believe this is very important to highlight, and, unfortunately, many Iranians will suffer because of the Iranian government's views. But I d
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
You make some good points, but then what is one to do? I'm hearing from you that short-term efforts, especially ones with political aims, are, at best, misguided and, at worst, capable of exacerbating the ecological problems they are t
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
I know these types of comments are frowned upon here, but I find it really sad that posts about video game sales, for example, have many more upvotes than a post about positive efforts to reduce plastic waste. It shows where priorities and
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Spain says April blackout was caused by grid failures and poor planning(apnews.com)
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Thank you for sharing this! I had no idea the B flat sonata was the last piece he played. It's one of my favorites, but I can't listen to it that often because I find it so sad and wistful, and now knowing this it might be even mo
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
One of my favorite pianists. His recording(s) of the complete Beethoven Sonatas are unequaled, IMHO. His intellectual approach was balanced by an emotional expressiveness that would often move me to tears. I never got to see him perform, bu
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Celebrated pianist and writer Alfred Brendel dies aged 94(theguardian.com)
69 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|11 comments
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Tourists damage crystal-covered chair in Italian museum by sitting on it(theguardian.com)
8 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe(theguardian.com)
8 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
One of my favorite Sly moments was when he appeared on the Mike Douglas Show with Muhammad Ali. Sly is the perfect foil playing the jester and peacemaker to Ali's activism and seriousness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
I agree that Dostoyevsky's psychological insights were profound. Maybe it doesn't exhibit the same psychological depths, but morally and philosophically I would also recommend Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities. It is s
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
First, I did want to point out that my claim that "Mozart was never able to" didn't mean that I thought he wasn't able to compose fugues, rather I thought he wasn't able to compose fugues WELL--definite emphasis on
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Being able to compose fugues well is notoriously difficult. Mozart was never able to. Beethoven on the other hand... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Fuge https://youtu.be/hUaziUz4jx0
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Explaining How North Korea Botched the Launch of a Warship(nytimes.com)
3 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
> Perhaps there are no simple and beautiful natural laws, like those that exists in Physics, that can explain how humans think and make decisions. Isn't Physics trying to describe the natural world? I'm guessing you are taking
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One Writing Class, 35 Years, 113 Deals, 95 Books(nytimes.com)
12 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Good find. Sadly there are many such examples
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Also, > But while we can't safely conclude that beautiful writing is true, it's usually safe to conclude the converse: something that seems clumsily written will usually have gotten the ideas wrong too. So, we have 1) Can'
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Northern Soul, the Music Making Generations Dance(nytimes.com)
2 points by mykowebhn 1y ago|1 comments
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by mykowebhn 1y ago
Whether it's well written is debatable.

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