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by slyall 3y ago
A press can be one way for a smaller University to have an outsized impact. For example I read books about Spaceflight and the University of Nebraska Press has a great series called "Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spacefli
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Qwen: chat and pretrained large language model by Alibaba Cloud(github.com)
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Qwen is a large language model series by Alibaba Cloud(huggingface.co)
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The 1982 song "Some People (Have All The Fun)" was a minor hit in Australia, New Zealand. It includes the lyrics: A Oh mumma make me happy, send me lots more cash Don't worry, I saw the Midnight Express thirty-six
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As a New Zealander I remember there was a whole thing in the mid-1980s where our Trade Minister (Mike Moore) was trying to promote "Lamb Burgers" to be sold in the US. At the time NZ sheep farmers were having a slump in sales and
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Previously: World’s Oldest Surviving Torrent Still Alive After 15 Years - 203 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18102578 The World’s Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon - 98 comments https://news.ycom
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by slyall 3y ago
Not sure while they are complaining. Even if have a AI read their work is "stealing" they'll still be making money from their copyright for the next 100 years at least. The "artists" seem to be as happy to abuse cop
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by slyall 3y ago
With the way Copyright now lasts roughly forever and covers roughly everything then it can't expect to be respected. Copyright owners have used their power to tilt the bargain entirely in their favour. They have only themselves to blam
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Digital Strategy at Radio New Zealand, 2005-2016, Part Four(richard.hulse.nz)
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It depends what is happening to the houses. If they are empty then prices will remain the same or increase. If they are being rented out then prices to buy should decrease since there will be less demand (since more peopel will be renting a
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Like these guys? https://books.google.com/
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Come on, when you say "lift your content" you mean show a headline, a picture and maybe the top line of the story with a huge link back to the original website? 90% of the time that data is published as "Open graph" form
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Addressing the "Technological Illiteracy" bit from the viewpoint of someone who was running a Chess Club up to 2020. Depending on where you live what people do online can vary a lot, especially if you have a mix of young and old p
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No because if anything (the effect might have been small) it reduced the power of the open web and many websites (which Google tied togeather) and encouraged people to go to walled gardens ( Facebook, Instagram, twitter, etc ) which are con
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Googlecloud dropped our 1M req/day quota causing our site to alarm and error out(twitter.com)
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Shortages of Flights, Geopolitical tensions, Perception that society/government is unfriendly to foreigners. Also starting from zero since covid restrictions. https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-latest-problem-peop
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When Tech Says ‘No’(ben-evans.com)
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Amazon Elastic Block Store at 15 Years - 13 exabytes/day of transfers(perspectives.mvdirona.com)
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We Scaled Grafana Cloud Logs’ memcached cluster to 50TB and improved reliability(grafana.com)
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I got the opposite. They requested a Infra design with one page of explanations and one page for the diagram, it was actually two designs, an onprem version and a cloud version. Physically not enough room to put in everything with explanat
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by slyall 3y ago
One thing Amazon could do is adapt the Lord of the Rings into a TV show. 60 one hour episodes could be interesting. Personally I prefer the books to the movies and dislike many of the changes. I'm following the "Other Minds and Ha
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by slyall 3y ago
But I wonder if their knowledge of TV is also as deep. When I was a kid the TV was filled up with a lot of repeats of TV shows. Things that had been create 10,20 or even 40 years before. I'd watch them because there were not many other
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Northerner terrifies Londoners by saying "Hello" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PT0ay9u1gg4
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Works okay for me. I get a feature snippet saying: "Kenya is located on the eastern coast of Africa and borders Somalia to the northeast, Tanzania to the north, Uganda to the west, South Sudan to the northwest, Ethiopia to the southwes
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In which case another developer will build them. Assuming the numbers make sense. Either way refusing to allow apartments to be built because you fear they will be "luxury" is dumb. It just means that the only people who get to li
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If people can't afford $1m apartments then developers will build cheaper ones if they can make the numbers work.
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You experience seems to be in a broken housing market which the article is trying to fix. All new apartments are described as luxury. It's makes them easier to sell. If land prices are high and it takes years to get approval to build t
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Personally I found the shuffles with the API a huge pain. I have a small bot and I previously just used a command line client to post my automated tweets. With the API changes and new keys those clients all stopped working and the maintaine
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> It’s why YouTubers have mental breakdowns, bloggers snap and wipe their blogs Which was why people called the police. They thought he was potentially going to kill himself. Because this is the sort of thing people do before committing
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Some HN posts at the time on Mark's disappearance. Ask HN: Anyone know where Mark Pilgrim went? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3073798 Searching for Mark Pilgrim https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

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