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by shagie 2y ago
> The US is an outlier in that the executive appoints about 4,000 civil servants; most places don't work like that (even in the US; _most_ civil servants (about 2.8 million of them, federal) are hired, promoted, disciplined etc by o
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by shagie 2y ago
If you can find a copy of the game Koalition ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/303/koalition ) it has some of the fun of European politics in it. > 60 politicians of all colors stand for election in the 15
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by shagie 2y ago
Legal Eagle (among many others I suspect - that's just the channel I tend to follow for pop legal) did a breakdown of that clip explaining what was going on for the layperson: https://youtu.be/x-QcbOphxYs
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by shagie 2y ago
Alas, "Onion Now: Focus" https://youtu.be/Bex5LyzbbBE
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by shagie 2y ago
> As a result, whenever you see enterprise WiFi that actually works, you'll probably be able to see a ton of access points covering a large room. IETF attendees reengineer their hotel’s Wi-Fi network - https://www.compute
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by shagie 2y ago
12 years ago: Our Tractor Literally Drives Itself! (GPS Auto Steering Technology) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YStRc1fCj38 It has a guidance system that is connected to a wheel that is friction attached to the steering
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Weed lasers in Idaho - https://youtu.be/lWTDwj1y9Xg
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by shagie 2y ago
Spotify works under a royalties for musical performers - not residuals. Netflix (and all other streamers and broadcasts) work under a residuals system. Two different groups of content producers (musicians and actors) negotiated different mo
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by shagie 2y ago
> I'd assume residuals are lower / non-existent on the much-bemoaned formulaic Netflix fodder movies? Hence why they keep getting stuffed in services. As I understand it, the residuals are for things beyond the original contrac
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by shagie 2y ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/17/1164146728/why-are-dozens-of-... The issue is residuals. They have to pay the people who were part of the making for having the content available - even if no one stream
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by shagie 2y ago
As mentioned in a sibling, try looking at Mucinex a try. There is a 12h version that has Guaifenesin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaifenesin and Dextromethorphan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De
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by shagie 2y ago
(There was a comment that I was replying to about the realization that this was a transmitter and not just a receiver that was deleted ...) It was both. The Arecibo message was transmitted from there - https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by shagie 2y ago
They just released their earnings report. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/new-york-times-nyt-q3-earnin... > Total revenue of $640.2 million was in line with estimates of $640.8 million, as digital advertis
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by shagie 2y ago
https://www.threads.net/@astor.maggie/post/DB82iPoxKMC > Some background: The Tech Guild represents hundreds of software engineers, product designers, data analysts and others who make and run our website, apps
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by shagie 2y ago
Half of all of the work - not all of all of the work.
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by shagie 2y ago
Price's Law is "50% of the work is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate in the work." https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/ https://routine.co/blog/wh
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by shagie 2y ago
I've tangentially mentioned it before though I don't think directly (it has influenced my theory of humor). Mentions of it show up occasionally, though it seems to be more of a trickle than an avalanche of mention. Much more so
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by shagie 2y ago
Evolve is another beast... but for the: "I've thought about this a lot. I'm no philosopher or AI researcher, so I'm just spitballing... but if I were to try my hand at it, I think I'd like to start from "princi
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by shagie 2y ago
You're looking at everything as one budget that you control. Consider instead that you're part of a co-op and your responsibility is to buy the groceries always. Someone else does the home repairs. Someone else keeps all the car
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by shagie 2y ago
yr.no is the only one that I've found that really does cloud coverage well. https://www.yr.no/en/details/graph/2-4887398/United%20States... https://www.yr.no/en/details/t
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by shagie 2y ago
You can get WeatherKit cross platform. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/weatherkitrestapi https://developer.apple.com/weatherkit/ - the pricing is comparable to the original - https:&#x2
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by shagie 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20100112232513/http://dev.perl.o... AUTHOR Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Maintainer: Larry Wall <larry@wall.org> Date: 4 Jun 2002 Last Modif
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by shagie 2y ago
I was recently reminded of The Codeless Code. In that set of stories, there's the Laughing Monkey Clan. http://thecodelesscode.com/names/Laughing+Monkey+Clan Specialists in the business tier, where monkey b
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by shagie 2y ago
The POSIX standard for regular expressions (which grep implemented half a century ago) doesn't support back references. Even I-Regexp (RFC 9485) doesn't support it. This specification describes an interoperable regular expr
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by shagie 2y ago
Part of it also that this isn't a regular language. The PCRE is more powerful a language than a Chomsky type 3 language in that there are strings that can be matched by a PCRE (such as a prime number expressed in unary) that are not
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by shagie 2y ago
URL Share version https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/31/world/europe/... (the richer media on the site doesn't get archived well)
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by shagie 2y ago
https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn.html for the "what is it looking at right now" If you catch a site commutating with Voyager you will sometimes see it using two dishes... though most often it'
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by shagie 2y ago
Cutting Deals and Striking Bargains: The History of an Idiom https://web.archive.org/web/20060920230602/https://www.csub.... By way of "Why do we 'cut' a deal?" https://eng
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by shagie 2y ago
Elseweb with GitHub Copilot today... Call for testers for an early access release of a Stack Overflow extension for GitHub Copilot -- https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/432029
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Not long after his immersion in LIFE, Gosper himself got a glimpse of the limits of the tight circle the hackers had drawn. It happened in the man-made daylight of the 1972 Apollo 17 moon shot. He was a passenger on a special cruise to the

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