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2911.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
This is a crime scene. Possibly an act of terrorism. What do they mean by an "intentional" act? What's the current forensic and motivational analysis for this? Water sensor data should be able to point roughly to the dumping
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Mainly e-scooters are where it's at for young people in my part of the world. As an older person, I might think about retrofitting a hub motor and battery to my bike one day, but right now I appreciate the exercise. Both these electr
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> How can we fix this? Educate the parents. This stuff isn't just harmful to your wallet, it's harmful to your child's health [1,2]. You may as well be encouraging her to smoke cigarettes. You're the adult in charge.
2914.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
The water situation in Britain is fairly easy to understand. In the 1970s we had an over-capacity of reservoirs. In the 80's Thatcher privatised the water companies. Those companies then sold off the land for housing estates that are
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Learning to "proof" steel is something worth spending time on. I was taught by a Chinese room-mate at college who showed me how to prepare a wok. - 1. Heat the thing up as HIGH as it will go, till parts of the base glow red if
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I have not driven a car in 30 years, always walk, bike or use public transport. No longer fly. I cook and eat local food, as much vegetarian as possible. I don't own a smart phone or use any Big Tech services. Limit my work to what i
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Most cultures historically didn't have any education I'd say that's untrue. What I am particularly thinking about is rites of passage in primitive cultures. Education may have been as simple as learning to hunt, light a
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
They need to put more resources into reliably handling the hidden service [1]. Since NY Times, BBC and even Facebook rolled out hidden services for privacy I see it as a sign of a mature organisation that is genuinely committed to values. D
2919.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> It feels so childish of me. It is. "Capitalism is for children" said Adam Phillips [1] You cannot be a fully fledged adult, a self-determined being, under conditions of wage slavery. Education is set up not to allow graceful
2920.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> the true value of low code is the ability for business/ ops teams to create tools that serve their needs without waiting on a team of "real" developers to make time for them. I agree with this. There is a hidden mark
2921.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> food cultivated by you in your backyard that was never zoned for mass agriculture. The way you turned that around seems similar to "Free speech zones". So now we need official "Health Zones" where children can pla
2922.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Visualisation is so powerful. Especially late at night, close to sleep. I've had that come into dreams - when deeply immersed in a project or problem - suddenly quite intrusive, vivid dreams of using some almost alien software or devic
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> What does it mean to you, deep down Absolutely. Hard to find out sometimes. As a bit of an amateur psychologist, I'd say the "deep down" part presents the challenge. We're mostly too busy cutting code to do the &quo
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Amazing links. Thank you for posting.
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I use emotion. It beats every kind of "system" and "rational" framework. Think of the people you love. Think of how your project will help them in some small way, even if that is just making you a happier, wealthier pe
2926.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Don't worry it's a sane reaction to an insane world. It's cultural. Prozac won't fix it. Universal basic income won't fix it. Renouncing post-colonial guilt and solving climate-change probably wouldn't fix it i
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
A good bit of banter gentle(wo)men. Thanks for the interesting links posted. Sorry I missed that thread while working. We at least agree, party politics aside, that anti-intellectualism is on the rise. That should be worrying not just becau
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
As a systems person, what I really love is how this miracle you describe is itself just one small cog in vast machine of inter-dependent miracles. A plant growing from a seed is meaningless outside the context of soil, liquids and gases in
2929.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
That's the first part of the test. If you can't easily break into a university IT system what sort of hacker are you? :)
2930.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
4. Dried leaves are highly flammable. Had to clear a big pile of dried mixed palm and cordyline leaves, and decided to burn them. Big mistake. They're full of oils. Be very careful with that. Annoyingly for the same reason they don&#x2
2931.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
E-waste is greatly exacerbated by low level backdoors. Gear cannot be repurposed if you cannot trust the hardware or embedded firmware. A skip full of Cisco routers [1] was sitting outside an organisation once, and I asked about their fate.
2932.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
Love KiCAD and used it to make single and 2-layer boards around 2014. One niggle was if you had an unusual component it was not much fun to define new one, binding together the schematic symbol and footprint into a package, dealing with unu
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I think what's really being sold is "simplicity" > It’s so, so simple. Complexity is overwhelming us all. Who doesn't want simplicity? Simplicity is to thinking what convenience is to labour. All you must do is rejec
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
You make some good points. Most I mention in this list [1] are communists, so anti-intellectualism looks historically a feature of the left. Indeed, if what I remember of Messrs Snow and Orwell applies, it's the (small C) conservative
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
- Pol Pot from Cambodia - Mao from China's Cultural Revolution - Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey [1] - Joseph Stalin, author of the Great Terror - Adolf Hitler in Poland [2] - Ahmednejad in Iran [3] - And ISIS, in the smoking remains of the
2936.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
That's generally accurate. The heavy hitters, with a few exceptions like Faraday, were of noble ancestry or otherwise privileged. We really need to look to the Americans, to Horace Mann and John Dewey who understood the wider non-funct
2937.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> To approach his work with the epistemological presumptions of the scientist or historian, necessarily precludes philosophical skepticism. Yes, and that doesn't just exclude dyed-in-the-wool "scientists". Quite extremis
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
A good account of the ideological battle still playing out in the UK, particularly the one-dimensional anti-intellectualism of the vacuous financial classes now exclusively constituting the Tory party. Britain's descent from the powerh
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by nonrandomstring 4y ago
> Technology's default mode is to constantly call for my attention. "Technology" has no need for your attention. Developers do. Right from it's origins in the 60's and 70's, driven by early science fiction,
2940.
by nonrandomstring 4y ago
I may be mistaken but Center for Humane Technology which compiled the "Ledger of harms" is an umbrella for critical thought on digital tech whose members include folk like Roger McNamee, Cal Newport, Jonathan Haidt, Max Stossel, T

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