gravescale

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by gravescale 2y ago
Note that "a bit" refers to the second half of the sentence, not your comment exactly.
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by gravescale 2y ago
A bit like imagining how many of the royal family have to die before Princess Eugenie becomes Queen or a Borgen-type affair where a junior minister becomes prime minister, can you imagine the crazy sequence of events that has astronauts res
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by gravescale 2y ago
Specifically, any new creative input to the book is copyrighted. Usually, this is things like new prefaces or forewords and new illustrations or cover art.
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by gravescale 2y ago
It comes from the Latin "laevus". Funnily enough, although "sinister" came to mean "the bad side", it may have come from Proto-Indo-European for the "favourable side".
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by gravescale 2y ago
> He told us our product was too expensive for what it was and that we would never succeed in business like he would. To be fair, when you're a 15 year old selling homemade drink, everything seems expensive, because you have basic
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by gravescale 2y ago
Just like Amazon being unable to deal with fake reviews and listing manipulation, despite having so much data that they have to invent new words for it like lakes. They don't want to do it: presumably they make better and-or easier mon
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by gravescale 2y ago
> But what is a Nixie Watch? How does it function? These are some questions worth exploring with this distinct and idiosyncratic wristwatch. So—let’s continue! > .... > Without getting into the weeds too much, the watch harvests el
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by gravescale 2y ago
"Some people (X'Grn'k et al) say it was a device used for humorous purposes. However, we consider that the presence of sacred etched silicon devices rules this hypothethis out. While crudely worked in that time, and despite t
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by gravescale 2y ago
I don't know, I think there was definitely a turn around the mid 2010s when actions and consequences really started to diverge. And to be clear, I don't mean that the exposure of CA was the cause, I mean that what CA and their i
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by gravescale 2y ago
The problem is that this (if my theory is not just bunk) isn't something you can really go back and do differently. An emergent property of the reactions of polarised groups to the behaviours of their leaders was discovered to be quite
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by gravescale 2y ago
My pet made-up theory is that careers aren't really killable like that any more, since Cambridge Analytica. Before CA, the received wisdom was that if you do something bad, you will need to resign before you are pushed for causing dama
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by gravescale 2y ago
My school had streams for several subjects which is perhaps unfashionably pragmatic, but at least it allows the top, bottom and inner quartiles to go at their own paces with more tailored tuition. The lower streams also took the lower exam
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by gravescale 2y ago
White reflects sunlight better and leads to less heating of the airframe's skin, shows up damage and leaks well, and the expensive paint job doesn't fade in the high-UV troposphere, so it's the supreme paint colour for most c
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by gravescale 2y ago
As usual, there's a relevant Akin's Law: > 12. There is never a single right solution. There are always multiple wrong ones, though. I'm not sure simple arithmetic is really the focus there, though I suppose "2²"
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by gravescale 2y ago
That's a document that really has had money spent on the formatting, it's really very nicely designed. The editable fields are a great touch as you can just paste in your answers directly from ChatGPT.
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by gravescale 2y ago
Which is a pity because my i7 Lenovo laptop is acoustically and thermally some kind of jet turbine in a case, because I was foolish enough to believe a review, and I really wish I could undervolt it so it can make it to lunchtime on a cha
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by gravescale 2y ago
My comment is more of a tangent along people/products but certainly I agree in that I don't see why the wider Wiki media group of sites including things like Wikibooks needed to completely evict "fun" content, even if I
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by gravescale 2y ago
I'm also a pretty strong inclusionist at heart, but I can see also that if the living-person rules were relaxed, self-aggrandisement would proliferate like crazy. Even under the current, slightly deletionist, status-quo in a 10000 word
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by gravescale 2y ago
It's a shame all the cool stuff is all hidden in a white box, but I suppose it does look a bit like a Hollywood depiction of a homemade nuclear bomb so the British Transport Police would be getting a few panicked calls if it were in a
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by gravescale 2y ago
It's a fun theory, and sounds rather plausible at first blush, but do so many of the upper management class really have so many commercial real estate investments that they're willing to break the effectiveness of their core busin
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by gravescale 2y ago
I imagine Fujitsu did everything they could to put only loyal management on the stand. They did call the Fujitsu chief architect, who is now under investigation for perjury for his efforts (and I also imagine Fujitsu are less going to try t
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by gravescale 2y ago
The UK justice system is pretty broken. I don't think the Post Office debacle features, but at the end of the Secret Barrister(1), a hypothetical example is given where the many critical systemic failings described in the book align to
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by gravescale 2y ago
They're not pointless if you're in the Guild of Box Ticking Consultancies, and guess who gets to say what the boxes are?
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by gravescale 2y ago
I like this description of having major problems with GDPR as usually either being because you actually are abusing people's data, or because you've run up a huge pile of technical debt related to data handling: https:/&#x
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by gravescale 2y ago
Nothing represents the idea that cars were intended to be absolutely welded to the idea of respectable American society than the "parkway" (it's a park, but you drive on it!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by gravescale 2y ago
Oh he absolutely did: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Didier_Sornette&a... Any edits he made that aren't his own page are editing in references to his own work in other articles.
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by gravescale 2y ago
A lot of a baby's language pickup is also based on what other people do in response to their attempts, linguistically and behaviourally. Read-only observation is obviously a big part of it, but it's not "exactly" the sam
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by gravescale 2y ago
Another great book like that is Machinery's Handbook : https://books.industrialpress.com/machinery-handbook/
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by gravescale 2y ago
No, but when you do that you have to make sure it's used in a maximally ironic way like making a spy plane to use against them. Double points for telling them (or saying you told them) a story that makes them look like mugs in retrospe
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by gravescale 2y ago
> rely so much on imports Seriously, try to design anything non-trivial without a TI part anywhere. Even in China, foreign brands are everywhere in electronics, and much of it is imported. There's a lot of scope left for China to pe

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