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by stringsandchars 2y ago
> It doesn't really feel different. My work machine was upgraded from an M1 with 16GB of RAM to an M3 Max with 36GB and the difference in Xcode compile times is beyond belief: I went from something like 1-2 minutes to 15-20 seconds.
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The unstoppable rise of phone theft(theguardian.com)
18 points by stringsandchars 2y ago|17 comments
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Social services called for allowing son, 15, to travel abroad(theguardian.com)
3 points by stringsandchars 2y ago|0 comments
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by stringsandchars 2y ago
> Wouldn't that be offputting and annoying if someone were to say that to you? There's a very emotionally-loaded tone to this discussion, which I don't think was an element in my original comment. I was struck by the fact
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by stringsandchars 2y ago
> "poor self-discipline" is quite the judgy statement to make dude. I certainly didn't think it was so extreme that it needed to be flagged . I simply find it an incredible concept that a person needs to physically leave
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by stringsandchars 2y ago
> high-bandwidth communication This just sounds like some sort of buzzwordy justification for hauling people back to the office. My experience, is that communication propagates better in group-chat environments like Slack, that meetings
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> (like a high-trust environment like Sweden) You maybe don't know that Sweden is consistently near the top of shoplifting statistics in Europe.
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
I may be misinterpreting the general tone of these sorts of articles, but I usually get this impression: "selfish people who now work from home should go back to the office to keep sandwich shops open". Setting aside all the envir
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Noone is talking about Sweden, the thread is on the UK I was replying to a response that was specifically about Sweden. > Erikun > This was my thought exactly (I’m Swedish). It sounds so brutal, and it was not just her own but he
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> lung cancer CT scans happen inside a week. I know this from experience. This is such a mischaracterization of the Swedish healthcare system, which is much more a lottery than your 'personal experience' suggests. I have my own
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
I thought I'd try your app and paid for the 'pro' version, but I'm not happy that the first thing that is a prerequisite for it to function at all, is that it demands: > access to control “System Events.app”. Allowin
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> ...And homeless people are often friendly and helpful to kids. OK now I get it. Virtue signalling .
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> How is proximity to homeless people sleeping in parks and sex workers a problem for kids? Is there a name for this type of question, which is framed in such an ingenuous way that almost any reasonable answer to it will make that person
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> would you expect a whistleblower to not be completely anonymous? In my view, a "whistleblower" is someone who gives their information confidentially (not anonymously) to a responsible investigating authority. Not someone wh
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
Much as I'd like to see Boeing investigated for what look like systemic failures in their construction processes, I don't think a totally anonymous comment on some blog article on the internet really qualifies anyone as "a Bo
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> I don’t think it makes sense for passengers to worry about the plane model. Why do you think we should surrender the tiny amount of agency that we still have, in the face of corporate profit-driven deterioration? For me, this isn'
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Or maybe ACT test scores have plummeted because these students have experienced 1-2 years of remote teaching, which might have been less effective than in-person school? As I mentioned in another post, you can check this theory against
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Could also be the consequences of schooling during a lockdown. Luckily we have the control-group of Sweden, that spent a large part of the pandemic proclaiming that not closing schools was going to have a fantastic positive effect on c
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Is it the system advocated by Milton Friedman or is it different? I think Milton Friedman's idea, was that parents would actually receive education 'vouchers' and be free to use them in whichever education context they c
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Swedish indie artist releases AI music video [YouTube](youtube.com)
1 points by stringsandchars 3y ago|0 comments
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Apple products attract weak, vulnerable people It may contravene some sort of HN guidelines to point this out, but the fact that this comment has not been downvoted by a large number of people is quite an indictment of the mindset here
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> edit I actually found this in my bookmarks fyi: https://archive.ph/7y7gF But Tegnell is the architect and main proponent of the historical revisionism that I'm talking about. He is the man at the center of the con
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Yea I’m dying to hear this too because that’s what I’ve seen: it was a free for all. If you go to: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-stringency-index take away the default countries, and instead add Denmark, Finland, No
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> Some places never locked down, like Sweden After the first two devastating waves during the Spring and Autumn of 2020, Sweden in fact 'locked-down' in some ways more restrictively than our nordic neighbors - all of which made
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> That office was your moat and now it’s gone. I don't think sitting in an office somewhere, with my headphones on is any kind of 'moat'. I'm judged on the quality and speed of work that I do. I'm also paid for u
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European governments shrinking railways in favour of road-building(theguardian.com)
33 points by stringsandchars 3y ago|46 comments
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
Ironic that the last screen wants you to 'drop a comment' on LinkedIn... or even signup for the mailing list 'with Google'. I guess this guy thought knocking Apple for Meta's unscrupulous methods would just guarante
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> The fact that experts are able to distinguish earlier and later variants doesn't mean that this is trivial So you are arguing with my loose assertion that it is trivial whereas what I should have been more clear about, was that
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> but relatively far away from the spot where it was first found in humans But not far away from humans who had been to where the bat virus was found to bring back samples for analysis and experimentation in their laboratory [1] [1] sp
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by stringsandchars 3y ago
> I'm sure all of the evolutionary biologists would love to have your level of confidence. It's easy to say this, as neither you nor I have the requisite knowledge to prove/disprove your assertion. But I read threads like

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