shaftoe444

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by shaftoe444 2y ago
> I recommend reading some of his books Shame this needs to be said.
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Spengler's "Plan for a New Atlas of Antiquity" in English(spergler.substack.com)
2 points by shaftoe444 2y ago|0 comments
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Automated Social Science with LLMs(marginalrevolution.com)
5 points by shaftoe444 3y ago|0 comments
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The Commercial Impact of Sora(bloomberg.com)
1 points by shaftoe444 3y ago|0 comments
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
But for the UK this is our only nuclear weapon, if it fails there are no planes or land based missiles to back it up. Different for the US.
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Trident missile test fails for a second time in a row(bbc.co.uk)
25 points by shaftoe444 3y ago|56 comments
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Carry on up the iron age.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
A small website to tell me when football games are on the radio/TV. https://wirelessfootball.co.uk/ All the existing feeds were either per channel or overwhelmed with ads.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Just as a fun comparison the oldest still existing regiment in the British Army is the Coldstream Guards, formed 1650. So not far off 400 years.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
See the clockwise/spiral rule!
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Inspired me to have another run at the second half of Crafting Interpreters.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Do things that don't scale!
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
If you predict what they will predict and do the opposite is that perfect free will or the opposite?
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
> ROF Water Supply Reservoir Number 2. The romance of history! That's an interesting page though I love how much of this stuff is documented.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
They were usually placed along with anti tank defences and/or natural barriers. In truth any land fighting in England would have been a desperate last ditch defence after air and sea defences had been overwhelmed.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Funny I wasted a few hours today on this map of Second World War defences, pillboxes and all. https://edob.mattaldred.com/map/
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
I am being contrarian. Rules of thumb like yours are good but the article claims a level of scientific rigour that I don't think exists.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
If that's true why aren't they going to work at Aldi?
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
The only definition of ultra processed food is food the middle classes turn their noses up at. You are right about meat though.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Can you confidently state all the amino acids in an egg?
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
The concept of ultra-processed food is nonsense. https://thecritic.co.uk/whos-afraid-of-upfs-part-1/
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
The UK government also artificially limits the number of doctors that can be trained each year. Doctors obviously support this to boost their wages. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62594141
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
TLDR is there or isn't there?
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Opening of West Point time capsule reveals what cynics said it would: Nothing(freep.com)
45 points by shaftoe444 3y ago|22 comments
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
You might like https://no-js.club/
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
My favourite prime number generator is this one using go channels to create filters. Not efficient but fun. https://go.dev/play/p/9U22NfrXeq
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
> Imagine if you could just send it the whole “page” Could have stopped here
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Paul Graham has the rare but admirable habit of saying "I don't know" when he doesn't know something.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
In theory yes but the problem is many people here (England) end up picking the session beers and then drinking 10 of them.
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by shaftoe444 3y ago
Cutesy cartoon saying no JavaScript but all examples are JavaScript. Html first but you need npm install. Convinced this is satire designed to annoy me.

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