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by sparsely 5y ago
He was! He worked on "A Writer at War", and if you check the quotes and references in Stalingrad a huge number are from Grossman or Ehrenburg
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by sparsely 5y ago
Life and Fate is a truly incredible book - readable, thought provoking and deeply moving. Wildly underappreciated. There's also an excellent translation with light commentary of Grossman's journalistic notes and articles from the
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by sparsely 5y ago
I glanced through it and it has some interesting stuff, but I suspect you'll write better code in 99% of jobs if you don't read it, and don't know about most of the techniques described
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by sparsely 5y ago
I had a quick look at what various special interest "non profits" had to say about this: Alzheimer's Association -> very positive, basically an advert ( https://www.alz.org/get-involved-now/new-day ). &
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by sparsely 5y ago
An absolutely shocking decision, which will have immense negative consequences for healthcare and healthcare costs far into the future. A license to turn false hope into profit margins and commissions for snake oil salesmen. List price is $
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by sparsely 5y ago
First page of DDG found this: https://www.wired.com/2008/11/the-boy-who-cri/ (from 2008) or this https://conversation.which.co.uk/motoring/breaking-speed-lim... it's from an insurer
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by sparsely 5y ago
I think it's pretty widely acknowledged that speed limits are not effectively enforced on cars. And if they are, what is the cost to making the limitation (+10mph or whatever as required for safety) automatic?
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by sparsely 5y ago
Cities are requiring speed limiters on electric scooters and bikes, but I have never seen any serious suggestions from politicians that the same could and should be done on cars, despite the huge gap in danger.
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by sparsely 5y ago
I was about to make a comment that this felt like something from 10 years ago, but it turns out it actually was!
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by sparsely 5y ago
Lots of m43 cameras do some of the corrections in software, which does keep lens sizes and prices down.
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by sparsely 5y ago
We have speed limits on e-scooters and e-bikes, it's only path dependence that means we don't have them on cars, despite the obvious difference in risk.
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by sparsely 5y ago
Agreed. The nice thing about AWS is that they normally have at most a couple of different services that do what you're looking for, and you can be reasonably confident that they will work well and play nicely with all your other AWS ho
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by sparsely 5y ago
No opinion on the thread, but his current startup involves streaming a chrome instance from the cloud, which feels very "Internet in 2021"
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by sparsely 5y ago
It's really great for exactly that use case, creating lots of internal dashboards from scratch. Part of how it makes it really easy is that you don't go through all the normal dev practices, and will normally connect directly to y
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by sparsely 5y ago
Nice article. Ironically, using retool will inevitably generate massive tech debt in your organisation.
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by sparsely 5y ago
I agree that visual programming can be great - my argument would be that starting from a model that we know works and making incremental steps towards something more visual is more likely to succeed, than attempting to jump all the way to s
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by sparsely 5y ago
It feels like this has been reposted regularly for years, but the demo videos and slightly threadbare use cases haven't changed at all. Re-imagining how we interact with computers sounds great, but it doesn't feel like this projec
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by sparsely 5y ago
Totally reasonable thing to want IMO. Try searching for stuff to do with managing ETL/integrations. Some of these jobs will require loads of product involvement, others will be some not terribly interesting data munging. At your target
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by sparsely 6y ago
Why would they do this, and not have their own collectables database which they could more easily make money off?
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by sparsely 6y ago
The data in the article shows that life expectancy was significantly lower among European elites than it is now. At 30, in the period they consider expected age of death was in the 60-70 range. Now it's in the high 80s among ALL europe
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by sparsely 6y ago
I feel like the author is really missing the point of this criticism. It's probably fine on an individual basis to work for (most) adtech companies like google. What sucks is the overall system which incentivizes the creation of arguab
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by sparsely 6y ago
Java is used all over the place for various backend applications, e.g. data processing, web backends. It's fast, well documented and has a great standard library and ecosystem. In many of these applications you control the deployment e
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by sparsely 6y ago
I expected to agree with that article, but honestly the tradeoff seems reasonable. Given just the data presented there, is it actually worse if rent controlled apartments are hard to get if lots of people are also paying much less rent? I&#
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by sparsely 6y ago
Often getting an account in another country is a big hurdle - TW makes this incredibly easy. e.g. I'm opening an account in France at the moment (as a French resident!) and it is taking literal weeks and lots of scanning documents, pos
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by sparsely 6y ago
Really interesting article. The intro and conclusion suggest that there is some sort of debate going on about usage of "Anglo-Saxon", but I cannot work out what it actually is and what side the author is on.
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by sparsely 6y ago
It's true, energy markets are entirely unresponsive to supply and demand and contain no feedback loops.
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by sparsely 6y ago
That is at least 1 order of magnitude cheaper than I would have guessed. Mind boggling that it's cheaper to do that then buy like the 4th best meal delivery app in Canada or whatever.
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by sparsely 6y ago
This is a very weird rant, is "Wall Street" actually terrified or are some talking heads on CNBC just making up some drama?
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by sparsely 6y ago
There are 110 long shares worth of economic interest in the company - the original owner will still report the shares they have lent out when looking at their current position.
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by sparsely 6y ago
Pretty incredible that the simulations take "many months" to run on what I presume would be a supercomputer of some sort. What sort of resolution are they modelling these events at?

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