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by fangorn 3mo ago
FT's "Why birth rates are falling everywhere all at once" was published, and discussed, recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168928 https://www.ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a-4a
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by fangorn 6mo ago
The hilarious question is: will you fail the AI certification for using AI during the exam? What if it's a competing AI?
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by fangorn 7mo ago
So, "Gnu is Not Unix, Dawg"?
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by fangorn 8mo ago
That's the real joke...
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by fangorn 8mo ago
Let's hope you're right, but you might be underestimating the "$200 per month (robo)engineer can only do it like this, therefore this is the way to do it" factor.
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by fangorn 2y ago
If you often find yourself saying "but you didn't specify humanity must survive this!" maybe you're part of the problem ;)
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by fangorn 2y ago
I believe originally it was a name for PTSD, that's an even more curious association. In case it wasn't obvious, tortoise-related puns can be taken too far :)
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by fangorn 3y ago
Patrick Boyle explains: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=QkuAXOMYwA4
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by fangorn 3y ago
Pick your poison, as usual, but Patrick Boyle's "How The Japanese Economic Miracle Led to Lost Decades" suggests the fall was entirely of their (Japan's) own making: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=12ddOpt7Hio
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by fangorn 3y ago
I recently concocted a (conspiracy) theory that relicensing of HC projects is a ploy to get IBM (or some other company happy to rain on IBM's parade) to finally make an offer. Mitchell leaving the company features in the theory as well
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by fangorn 3y ago
When cloud was a young buzzword there was a popular test: replace "in the cloud" with "on the internet" and see if you want to continue. - We store pictures of our kids [in the cloud|on the internet]. - We store all our
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by fangorn 3y ago
Maybe it's nothing, or maybe it's freudian, but email existed before Google, so did calendar. Youtube was an acquisition. Maps, well, there are great alternatives now that do not require anal-probe-level surveillance to find an ad
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Mark Zuckerberg wins medals on jiu-jitsu debut(theguardian.com)
3 points by fangorn 3y ago|0 comments
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Costa Rican Sloths Open New Path to Antibiotics of the Future(ticotimes.net)
2 points by fangorn 3y ago|1 comments
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by fangorn 3y ago
https://ami-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/146...
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by fangorn 3y ago
I guess that's the proof things are going backwards in the UK, they've recently gotten rid of no. 1 - "Freedom of Movement": https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-and-s...
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by fangorn 4y ago
It's only impossible until someone finds a way...
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by fangorn 4y ago
From what I've been told, you need to "change something" in order to get promoted at Google. Doesn't much matter what, as long as it's a visible change, presumably at least marginally improving things. And that illu
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by fangorn 4y ago
Sounds like we need a G.E.C.K.!
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So long and thanks for all the bits(ncsc.gov.uk)
240 points by fangorn 4y ago|74 comments
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by fangorn 4y ago
Ian Levy, UK National Cyber Security Centre’s departing Technical Director, discusses life, the universe, and everything.
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by fangorn 4y ago
From TFA: "researchers stress that this cross-sectional study does not allow for cause-and-effect analyses, and that it could be that children who are good at these types of cognitive tasks may choose to play video games."
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by fangorn 4y ago
France takes up 643801 km2, so are you sure Paris is in the 11mln km2 ballpark?
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by fangorn 4y ago
yewtu.be / Invidious for the win!
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by fangorn 4y ago
Material science is great, but the hype... The structure is not really like enamel, the process is impractical for use in dentistry, but that's OK, because they haven't even checked if it can be used for dentistry (adhesion to rea
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by fangorn 5y ago
So the advice here is to "stop trying to predict the future" and "make sure you have a resilient portfolio". That's as useful as saying "if you want to be smart, don't be stupid, simple!". Looks like
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by fangorn 5y ago
They are already working on it: https://www.iter.org/ ;)
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by fangorn 5y ago
You might want to have a look at http://lng.sourceforge.net/
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by fangorn 5y ago
And if that shopkeeper starts following you around everywhere you go, noting what you do, what you buy, what you read, with whom, and then shares this with whomever they want, for profit, isn't that stalking, isn't that person bas
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by fangorn 5y ago
SOAP server (in PHP 4) to send fax messages using Hylafax.

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