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by avastmick 1y ago
Having lived in China for five years and seeing how it is done there (literally everywhere), I see this as a payment problem. There is no sensible, low cost payment infrastructure to support this safely. Instead most of the west has a fract
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by avastmick 2y ago
I’m in a similar space. Solo working on an Edtech solution. Man it can be hard. @cjs_ac, I’d be keen to chat, if you’d have time.
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by avastmick 2y ago
I’m a solo founder/developer ( https://kayshun.co ) my relationship/usage of LLMs for codegen has been complicated. At first I was all in with Copilot and various similar plugins for neovim. It helped me get going but di
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by avastmick 2y ago
I like this view. I’m not especially successful (by any of the measures knocking about) but in the midst of a startup again for the last year. This time I work how I want to work and am actually enjoying myself. The whole 80 hours a week s
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by avastmick 2y ago
I really cannot understand consciousness. And if I am honest nor do I see peoples fascination with it. Especially now that scientists are trying to measure, they seem to come up short and some posit that it must a quantum effect or somethin
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by avastmick 2y ago
Fairly common in Australia and New Zealand to relocate complete houses. I’ve seen them done here in NZ fully furnished. Most houses here are wooden construction with corrugated steel roofs which keeps the weight down.
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by avastmick 2y ago
Slightly tangential is the work I did on a National digital identity platform. It enables personal information sharing from trusted sources (birth records, tax records, banks) and could simply enable true/false responses to queries suc
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Why South Korean women aren't having babies(bbc.com)
16 points by avastmick 3y ago|31 comments
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by avastmick 3y ago
I have to second this. No one I know complained when it was introduced, and I saw no complaints aired in the media of any noticeable degree. We still have too much unnecessary plastic in packaging. My wife is Irish, and they started the rem
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Brazil's mysterious tunnels made by giant sloths(bbc.com)
30 points by avastmick 3y ago|2 comments
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by avastmick 3y ago
My take is that it is attempting a similar “intervention” as the Agile Manifesto did, but less well thought through or phrased. The data science/ engineering domain appears to often produce outcomes like a good deal of 1990s software p
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Data Engineering Is Not Software Engineering(betterprogramming.pub)
4 points by avastmick 3y ago|0 comments
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Why an Engineering Manager Should Not Review Code(betterprogramming.pub)
10 points by avastmick 3y ago|5 comments
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by avastmick 3y ago
Isn’t this a building quality concern rather than a concern of building location and style? I live in a townhouse with shared walls on both sides and we never hear our neighbours. I’ve asked them if they hear us (we have teenagers) and one
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by avastmick 3y ago
Sorry cities are much more efficient than any other form of human living [0]. It is suburbs and rural sprawl that creates the energy waste. Population drift towards the latter may cause the hollowing of cities which lead to crime and transp
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The clean energy milestone the world is set to pass in 2023(bbc.com)
9 points by avastmick 3y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 3y ago
I led the technical design team for RealMe, New Zealand’s digital identity service. Sadly, the service is woefully undervalued and poorly used. The technology is now out dated. It was built to directly mitigate events like the Latitude brea
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by avastmick 4y ago
Honest question: is there an example in history of when a new technology led to the loss of jobs and didn’t just lead to a shift and further growth? I’ve tried to think of one, but I’m stumped.
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by avastmick 4y ago
Aligns with our experience in China for the four years before the pandemic. Apart from a couple of apartments we visited in Harbin that had gas boiler radiators, everwhere else we found apartments heated and cooled by heat pumps. It makes t
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by avastmick 4y ago
Uric acid may be a complex symptomatic expression rather than a cause. My own journey may reflect this. I suffered from gout and also other worrisome blood work markers that indicated metabolic syndrome. I am now largely vegan, alcohol free
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by avastmick 4y ago
I use Teams a lot with some Zoom. I've also used all the competing tools - Slack, whatever the current Google branding gives, among others. They all kinda suck. But hang on, am I asking too much? Is this suckiness because it's har
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by avastmick 4y ago
I agree with this; we’ve only been recently witnessing the awakening. My view entirely: (some) people will start to see themselves as the true commodity of value and either move to where they are valued or work remotely. This is already sta
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Zero Energy Cost Fresh Water. How do they do that?(youtube.com)
3 points by avastmick 4y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 4y ago
Great STEAM project for schools (who likely have the needed DVD players).
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by avastmick 4y ago
The road toll in the US is staggering given its wealth. The conversation to reduce it doesn’t obviously exist like it does in other places. The NHTSA figures showed an increase per kilometre in 2021, where many developed nations are showin
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Taupō Volcano: Volcanic Alert Level Raised to Level 1(geonet.org.nz)
2 points by avastmick 4y ago|0 comments
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In New Zealand, conservation is buoyed by Indigenous knowledge(arstechnica.com)
2 points by avastmick 4y ago|0 comments
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by avastmick 4y ago
Not sure I can fully agree; it will just create a downward cycle. The approach doesn’t allow for excellence or gaining satisfaction through doing quality work. However, many jobs are joyless and I think it’s vicious cycle and something has
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by avastmick 4y ago
Anecdotal and the opposite effect. When I was a kid I used to keep lizards as pets. I quickly noticed that if I filled up the water trays with cold water it would evaporate within a day from the hot heat lamps. Hot or very warm warm out of
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by avastmick 4y ago
I lean towards this sentiment - I think the patent and copyright structures limit innovation. The concept that an idea is worth anything without successful implementation is flawed in my opinion. However, has any research been done on the a

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