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by ideonode 4mo ago
The trilogy of books are interesting, but there is some very dubious sexual exploitation as an entirely unnecessary plot point.
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Ptolemy’s Treatise on the Meteoroscope Recovered(link.springer.com)
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by ideonode 3y ago
Do you have a reference for that?
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by ideonode 4y ago
I sympathise. I have a 16in M1 Max, coming from an LG Gram 17. I can't fault the power of it, but the heft isn't ideal for me. I'd welcome a 15in or 16in Air. The rumour mill suggests a 15in Air is in the works. However, I&#x
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by ideonode 4y ago
Nice to see Dunbar's Number validated with real world data.
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by ideonode 4y ago
Why not just celebrate it for being neat, rather than berate it for not living up to your expectations? I thougbt it was interesting, and it has inspired me to try something similar on my pico. Especially after rereading Code recently. Oh,
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by ideonode 4y ago
Actually, I read both the first and second editions this year. Was looking forward to the second edition, and preordered. Sadly, it didn't quite live up to the impact of first book. Whilst it's mainly the same, there are a couple
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by ideonode 4y ago
Not sure I personally understand the point you're making. Are reading and deploying to production activities that are mutually exclusive in your life?
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by ideonode 4y ago
Wasn't the inspiration for Hadoop not just a web crawler use-case, but also Google's famous MapReduce paper?
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by ideonode 5y ago
Athena is more of a wrapper over Presto / Trino than Hive. It does not run map reduce per se over your data - its a SQL engine.
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by ideonode 5y ago
I remember hearing a story (probably apocryphal) about a mainframe that was so redundant that it had to be physically dismantled and moved from one datacentre to another across town, and did so whilst remaining up the entire time.
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by ideonode 5y ago
Presumably he means the Satoshi in the article. Not sure why GP being downvoted for their evocative reverie of puzzle questing...
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by ideonode 6y ago
It's Charles Stross, one of the leading SF writers of the day.
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by ideonode 6y ago
I'd second this recommendation, given your price-bracket. My home laptop is a 2020 LG Gram 17 (which I've augmented to 40GB RAM and a 1TB Samsung Evo Plus SSD). The combination of sheer screen real-estate plus incredible lightness
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by ideonode 7y ago
There's actually a more recent book, Sandworm, which is specifically about cyberattacks on the power grid (in Ukraine). Recommended.
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by ideonode 7y ago
Actually, Peter Frankopan has recently written an even more relevant (though confusingly named) book, The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World, which is precisely about China's Belt and Road initiative and the US (and EU
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by ideonode 9y ago
For 45 minutes a day, I'd recommend the BBC In Our Time podcast, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each week, academics talk about a particular topic from the world of science, history, philosophy etc. It's unashamedly high-brow. There&#x27