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by piltdownman 1mo ago
In terms of 'automating' Leadership, it's self-evident that Agentic AI is more than capable of inferring context and providing insight based on its significant business administration and management corpus. From this it can s
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
From about 2010 onwards we have had the phenomenon of the High-Income White Collar Itinerate - the Silicon Valley worker living in a converted van, or the remote coder working from a LOC country with low barriers to entry regarding Visas an
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
// whose only creed was FYPM Good. It took a long while for ICs to be paid more than 'management' in the US. It's still a hard-fought battle here. // a flood of coders in the '10s-early '20s whos
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
In Ireland, the National Postal Service (An Post) charges €6.95 processing on top of the €3 Customs Charge. An additional €2 handling fee per product is expected in November 2026. All subject to 23% Vat. So we go from €3 to about €15 a pack
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
You're absolutely right, I had Malaysia in my head for some reason. Music Tribe City is in Zhongshan, China https://www.musicradar.com/news/behringers-mindblowing-new-f...
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
This is where Behringer absolutely shine - about a decade ago they established a fully automated mega-factory in Malaysia designed around Siemens’ Xcelerator portfolio, PLM/MES software, and Digital Twin technology. Korg 2600 - ~ €1000
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
The shortest 'legal' sentence I can come up with is 82 Characters "Why did Microsoft Entertainment Pack have a sticker announcing that it had Tetris?" The had... had... is doing the heavy lifting for omitting the 'd
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Stripe aren't even in the top 3 for payment processing. -Global Payments: $2.8 trillion -JPMorgan Chase: $2.45 to $2.6 trillion -Fiserv: $2.2 trillion -Stripe: ~$1.9 trillion -PayPal/Braintree: ~$1.9 trillion
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Their preference is for 'audio as convenient as it was in the 1950s', but they instead go on to describe a basic configuration issue with their use-case. The reality of consumer audio in 1950s was closer to a physics lab than a re
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
USB-C to 3.5mm adapter is about $5 tbf. The rest is just poor configuration on your part.
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
I'm just waiting for an Agentic AI to hit a writers-block and whip out a deck of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies.
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
The 'reliable heuristics' for identifying LLM output tend to pattern-match on technical lexicons, adherence to syntax at the cost of parsability, and atypically rigid punctuation and literary contrivances. Typically these form the
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Miller's situation is a little more nuanced - he was crew on an Allied Bomber that levelled the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in Italy during World War I, falsely believing it was occupied by German troops. His subsequent PTSD
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
uConnect and the various 3rd party storefront/DRMs are a travesty on the Steamdeck - the Decky plugin Junkstore goes some way to remedying it, but Far Cry 3 is harder to get working than any number of tempermental Switch emulations wit
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Again, there's a lot of nuance here that has been beautifully articulated to great comic effect 40 years ago - and very little has changed regarding the aims, motives and consequences. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes&#
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Aramco was the most prominent sponsor in the World Cup, and Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan owns Man City and was subject to a campaign calling on the English Premier League to hold Mansour to account for the UAE's role in the war in Sudan
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
Unagi Don using Aubergine is one of the few vegan cheats that is arguably better than the original. Rukmini Iyer does a nice riff with a vegan traybake on a similar theme that's very easy to throw together https://thehappyfo
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by piltdownman 2mo ago
CLZ Books is sort of in that domain, and is the best solution I came across for cataloguing and tracking my 1000+ post 1970s books https://clz.com/books
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - for ever"
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
We're already there, it's just a matter of provisioning LEO constellations and sorting out market-fit, although Starlink Direct-to-Cell (D2C) is probably the least enticing offering. As it stands both ASTS and Lynk Global use 3GPP
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Following on from the machinations of the O-RAN ALLIANCE, and the complete wheel-spinning nonsense that was OpenRAN, at least they're doing something nation-state agnostic. The last decade has been one long appeasement of China Telecom
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Your contention was that it was an insane position that anyone should be able to use a piece of literature or a song for anything forever without consent. I simply highlighted the absurdity of that based on the fact that: 1. Copyright prote
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
In many territories like Ireland, Authors are compensated for their inclusion in lending libraries. It tends to be of the pitiful 'music rights organisation' style mechanical reproduction royalties, but it does exist.
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Intellectual property protections have a finite lifespan to begin with, and as a tenet of Western Civilization are barely 300 years old. For works published before copyright laws existed or after property protections expire, anyone should b
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
Texas is the only state in the lower 48 that has no major connections to neighboring power grids. That means growing energy demand in Texas must be met by new power generation in Texas. Texas has not improved energy efficiency standards sin
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
For reference, a famous Irish coffee-table (read: bathroom) book in a similar vein: https://www.abebooks.com/Said-Duchess-First-Lines-Gemma-OCon... And from a cursory few refreshes I didn't see the obvious one come up:
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
The Governance of that oh-so-dependable Texan power grid are going to engage in some macabre arithmetic this Winter...
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
'Movies' at Blockbuster level pivoted to ersatz carnival rides post-'Pirates of the Caribbean', focusing on safe IPs and simple plots designed to aid comprehension of the major story beats in the SEA markets without the
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
It ultimately depends on what sort of Skinnerbox you're running tbh. Players purchased roughly $6.8 billion worth of the Roblox in-game currency Robux in 2025, a massive 55% year-over-year increase.
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by piltdownman 3mo ago
To some extent - but you can't get away with Hollywood Accounting Practices in the same way. Also one must consider the likes of Hideo Kojima who can sell ~7 million copies of a new IP that is effectively a cinematic Walking Simulator

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