shadowtree

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by shadowtree 2y ago
It sits on a major European waterway, the Danube, which after Vienna exists into the plain lands - Hungary, Romania. Started as a Roman settlement, Vindobona, it has been strategically important for a very long time. Paris without the Sei
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Counterpoint: comp.os.minix There are famous groups/chats that allowed the creation of stupendously important software.
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by shadowtree 2y ago
It's also because there is a stigma around mental reasons. "Hypochondria", "Hysteria", "Psychosomatic" ... all these words have negative connotations, even though the mind/body connection is a real th
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Eaze shuts down, lays off 500 workers(sfgate.com)
5 points by shadowtree 2y ago|1 comments
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Ah, but does it beat exercise, fresh air and sunlight? https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in...
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by shadowtree 2y ago
The internet you use to transmit this message wouldn't exist without fossil fuels - and I am not talking about energy, but computer and networking materials. Ditto the fertilizer and many other things that keep you alive to type on her
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by shadowtree 2y ago
MrBeast built his castle inside of Youtube.
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Mussolini: "Fascism is reaction". That guy, a former Marxist, who invented fascism might be a more credible source than other opinions. Fascism is as revolutionary as communism, focused on the collective vs. the individual. The on
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by shadowtree 2y ago
It literally forced a bunch of peoples into a single entity run by a family (aka monarchy). It predates the nation state, it was blown up by the very desire of the peoples within it to get out. Vienna was the center of this entity, not a pa
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Well, Gurman was right - the 16 phones will not trigger a big upgrade cycle. 17 might, as it would indicate Apple is taking a breath. Or, of course, we'll never get a supercycle again till someone iphones the iPhone.
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by shadowtree 2y ago
No, it's a function of low IQ and low impulse control.
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Arc'teryx to offer exoskeleton pants in 2025(squamish.arcteryxacademy.com)
3 points by shadowtree 2y ago|1 comments
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Spreadsheetllm: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models(huggingface.co)
1 points by shadowtree 2y ago|0 comments
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by shadowtree 2y ago
My daughter was prescribed an audio therapy that worked wonders. An app plays something akin to channel surfing on steroids, at a high initial switching frequency. Patient is to watch their favorite Youtube vids, play a video game - for 30
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Japan wants to build a cargo conveyor belt because it’s running out of drivers(carscoops.com)
51 points by shadowtree 2y ago|66 comments
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by shadowtree 2y ago
He droned and killed a US citizen without due process. Literal murder.
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Obama droned a US citizen without due process, zero consequences. Nothing new.
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by shadowtree 2y ago
https://archive.is/PCO0H
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The scariest thing about climate change? Global cooling(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by shadowtree 2y ago|1 comments
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Same Google that just laid off the entire Python Frameworks team. Deeply cynical play for low cost labor.
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by shadowtree 2y ago
Man, Vienna is killing it in physics. Nobel in 2022 for Zeilinger Nobel in 2023 for Kraus, who did his work at TU Wien Now this. Giving a lot of other unis a run for their money.
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by shadowtree 3y ago
What this really does is prove the commoditization of the generic SFDC approach to "CRM", where it's horizontal and empty. It's price pressure for force.com, hence their push on "AI" and add-ons, to protect 30b
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by shadowtree 3y ago
And you really think this is NOT the same in Search, Youtube, etc.? By the way, Dall-E has similar issues. Wikipedia edits too. Reddit? Of course. History will be re-written, it is not stoppable.
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by shadowtree 3y ago
Isn't pair programming just one, endless meeting?
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by shadowtree 3y ago
SFPD, per stats, basically stopped enforcing traffic laws during Covid/BLM. This leads to an overall rise in crime, as traffic stops catch way more than speeders. Criminals tend to break many laws habitually, so it is a wide net. The c
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by shadowtree 3y ago
It's a taboo topic, people lose their jobs, existence over it. You can see it play out here right now. This map shows 50% of the world's GDP: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Ft... From fi
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by shadowtree 3y ago
Google/Sundar is seen as the template, not necessarily as a positive one. Doing the needful, to the grave. MSFT/Satya is the outlier, should be what others aspire to.
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by shadowtree 3y ago
Given the successor, they'll either flip Twilio or go private equity - in both cases Twilio as we know it is toast. Amazon could snatch, also Oracle the evergreen. SFDC is the dark horse, don't see MSFT touching it due to massive
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by shadowtree 3y ago
Ultima 7:2 taught me more about DOS memory management than anything else. Had to handcraft a menu-driven autoexec.bat / config.sys monster to get that thing going. HIMEM.SYS ... oh the memories. A single KB too much in a mouse driver a
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by shadowtree 3y ago
Has office with door - but 15 Slack channels with notifications on. Plus a twitch stream for some game plus a endless youtube of a "relax/study" channel. You think nobody sees what's on engineers desktops? Of course they

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