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by sien 5d ago
I don't think you're one of the happy few. You're more like one of the happy many. Amazon has sold an estimated 70 million Kindle readers. Ebook sales are at least 20% of book sales. I read 60+ books a year. Almost all on my
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by sien 8d ago
Yep. Muddling through with markets, democracy and welfare. Global life expectancy was 34 in 1913. Today it's 70. https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy Global GDP was less than 1Trn until about 1800. In 1950 it was
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by sien 9d ago
Yep. They alternate decades with the 'Airships are returning for cargo' groups.
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by sien 9d ago
Andor was really good and only finished in 2025. Star Wars Jedi Survivor was also highly enjoyable. The big films have been sad except for Rogue One. But there is some Star Wars stuff that is out there and is really good.
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by sien 10d ago
The wikipedia entry is well worth a read for anyone interested in this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shada_(Doctor_Who) The tie in between Shada and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective agency is worth noting.
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by sien 12d ago
I'm old enough to remember when it was celebrated that 'big data' was being used to rally voters. https://www.technologyreview.com/2012/12/19/114510/how-obama... This was in 2012. These to
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by sien 14d ago
People outside Germany are just sad about it. German electricity production was at 339 gC02eq/kwH for the past year. That's ten times the level of France.
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by sien 15d ago
Freight modal share by country is interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_rail_usag... Latvia, Rusia, Estonia and Switzerland have a higher modal share of freight than the US. But the US is high
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by sien 15d ago
Good on Google. Finland has low emissions from electricity : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/all/yearly 71 gC02eq/kwH France, Sweden and Norway look like good places for data centres in Europe too on the
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by sien 1mo ago
Ironically wouldn't someone who solves real problems at scale actually be a 'keyboard warrior'?
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by sien 1mo ago
US views on AI are interesting. There is actually some nuance in the answers people give : "50% say they’re more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life, up from 37% in 2021. 10% are more excited than concern
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by sien 1mo ago
For people who are interested in modern literature reading the Booker Prize winners from 1969 forward and skipping any book that you find dull after 100 pages or whatever is well worth it. Then people can stop as they get to the latest thin
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by sien 2mo ago
One thing you can do with the LLMs is ask them to make up quick quizzes for you one a subject. That can help a bit.
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by sien 2mo ago
I'm not an American but FIFA certainly care about the US and Mexico. The US is a vast market. It's played a lot in the US as well. The MLS also not a tiny league. Football is also huge in Mexico. Hugo Sanchez was truly a legend. A
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by sien 2mo ago
Community radio is still alive and well in Australia too. RRR and PBS in Melbourne are still excellent and seem to still be a fairly big deal if bumper stickers are anything to go by.
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by sien 3mo ago
A Kindle really helps me. I don't do anything else other than read with it. As does Goodreads and reviewing, for myself, every book I read. Logging out of social media on phones is a good idea.
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A Fusion First: Realta Demos Direct Energy Conversion(realtafusion.com)
4 points by sien 3mo ago|0 comments
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by sien 3mo ago
OK. It does have a real time spell checker. But it doesn't seem to have the squiggly line. The screen blinks at you when you type a word it can't find. I've just run Prowrite 2 and 3.1.1 via FS-UAE. So my memory is wrong abou
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by sien 3mo ago
The 'check continuously' is the thing. I'm going to run it and have a look in a bit and get back to you. It looks like 1st Word on the Atari ST also have a continuous spell checker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by sien 3mo ago
Prowrite on the Amiga had a real time spell checker before Word did. Possibly there were other programs that did as well prior to that. But Prowrite did it and had a red squiggly line under incorrect words. https://www.atarimagaz
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by sien 4mo ago
If you look at US share of energy consumption by source you can see that solar is 2.83% of energy used in the US. Natural gas is 34.2% . https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/united-states
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Open Letter Requesting SAT/ACT math scores be used for STEM in the UC System [pdf](ucstudentsuccess.org)
3 points by sien 4mo ago|0 comments
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by sien 4mo ago
The average house in the UK now has 1.3 laptops. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/09/online-al... A windows laptop from today is vastly easier to code on that a C64 or whatever. Most house
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by sien 4mo ago
Check out 'Coding for Beginners Using Python' by Osborne. Also have a look at 'Coding Projects in Python' by DK books. Both these books are excellent and would enable a smart and determined 11 year old to learn to code.
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by sien 5mo ago
Metafilter and Something Awful both do this. Both sites have survived and continue to work well for their users. A small cost does definitely work for some sites.
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How Long Do We Wait for New Inventions?(construction-physics.com)
5 points by sien 5mo ago|1 comments
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by sien 5mo ago
Thanks for recommending this book. I'm now about half way through. It's really good.
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by sien 5mo ago
A copy for people who want to read the article : https://archive.md/Q0DYu
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by sien 7mo ago
Yep. Creating a good story, getting good actors and getting it all to come together is hard and still costs millions. At the end you may also not get your money back Take 'I Swear', a very good recent film. It's well worth a
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by sien 7mo ago
Yep. It's a very good book and well worth a read. It's interesting to see how upset people are on Goodreads about that book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of... The top review

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