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by sien 2y ago
I'm reading this now and enjoying it. It's a book that should appeal to a lot of folks here. There is a combination of reflection on technology and life. As with most Booker Prize winners it is also extremely well written.
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For Amazon, the apparently have really good tooling to examine what people, at least coders, are doing. This is from presumably an Amazon employee : "Amazon has these numbers easily accessible as reports on their code systems runnable
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How do you think it compares to various European countries? Say, Germany, Spain, Italy (or any that you're familiar with). Northern Europeans seem to be fantastic at learning languages. It's surprising the rest of the world doesn&
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It's surprising that the article doesn't mention Australia. In Australia a packet of cigarettes now costs $AUD 40. The Australian government is also banning vapes with tobacco. There is now a substantial industry of illegal tobacc
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Giorgia Meloni - President of Italy. Victor Orban - President of Hungary. The AfD in Germany got a higher percentage of the vote in Thuringen in Germany than any other party. Currently polling higher than any member of the governing coaliti
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Yeah. Given that half of America votes for a party that many people inside the party would describe as 'anti-social justice' it's a pretty hard to guess at what is being regarded as harmful. The Intellectual Dark web includes
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A Carl Sagan AI would be fun and almost somehow appropriate.
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First you can have democracy. Then separation of powers between the judiciary, the executive and the legislature along with property rights and the rule of law. It seems to work reasonably well.
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In my first job there were two 'Senior Engineers' and a 'Chief Software Engineer' when I started. None were over 25. This was over 20 years ago. FWIW one of them was, to this day, the best coder I've ever worked wi
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Markets in everything.
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But what is the Straussian interpretation of your comment?
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Awnings are still pretty common in Australia. We have them on our house. In Australia it's very much worth getting awnings and ceiling fans as well as having a heat pump. In summer afternoons they can make a really remarkable differenc
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During the Messmer plan the French installed 56 reactors in 15 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Messme... So you're saying that in 1.5 years the same thing can now be done with renewabl
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Yep. Exactly. Do you think a weaker but more accurate claim would be : "The US aircraft industry was considerably helped by French and British orders for World War II."
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Also the DC-3 / C-47 had its first flight in 1935. With over 10,000 built it showed the US aircraft industry was strong before WW2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3
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It's so weird. Why didn't big tech companies fight tooth and nail to get Asian recognised as a minority so they could then turn around and say look 'We employ minorities at a rate way higher than other companies' ?
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It might be worth reading the short stories in 'Burning Chrome'. Also, there is an excellent BBC audio drama made from the book. It's on Youtube.
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I went back and read it after reading it as a teenager fairly recently. It still worked for me. It didn't quite have the same impact and the it sags a bit in the middle but it's still a great book that well, shaped the way I see t
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Roger Pielke Jnr has coined "Pielke's Iron Law" . It is : "If there is an iron law of climate policy, it is that when policies focused on economic growth confront policies focused on emissions reductions, it is economic
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No doubt with Github, AirBnB, Shopify and other big sites RoR is bigger for the front end. But now if lots of those sites are running on K8s with Argo CD or something or on a cloud platform where the infrastructure is provisioned with Terra
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Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?(construction-physics.com)
40 points by sien 2y ago|48 comments
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NanoWrimo accepted people using AI – Authors Groups object(wired.com)
11 points by sien 2y ago|8 comments
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The Value of Open Source Software(hbs.edu)
4 points by sien 2y ago|0 comments
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I was doing something to graph some numbers against each other using pandas and whatnot recently. I don't use this setup much or do this kind of work much. For the first part I stumbled through, doing it myself and referring to the doc
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Why has the Internet of Things failed?(petewarden.com)
6 points by sien 2y ago|3 comments
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You can get a 'Coat of Arms Pizza' at the Australian Heritage Hotel in Sydney "half emu & half pepper kangaroo, slow roasted tomato, charred peppers, lemon myrtle mayo" It was good the last time I had it.
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Are they starting to move people on now in San Francisco ? With the Grants Pass vs Johnson decision ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Grants_Pass_v._Johnson ) it seems like it is now possible. Is there any change
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It's not revenue. I wasn't in the US. People sink money into high performance athletes. They lose money. In Australia only the AFL and Rugby League make much money. That is also only at the high levels. There are places in Austral
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It's funny, I was good at basketball as a kid. I played 'representative' and went to country championships. Doing that made it clear to you that you might be good in your city but there were still kids who were way, way bette
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Let's have a look at France's emissions : https://ourworldindata.org/co2/country/france Somehow, from 1973 they went from 10t C02 per capita to 4.8 t per capita in 2022. Their GDP at the same went from 2

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