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by idw 13d ago
I'd like to know how good people think this is from different disciplines
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'coarse – AI peer review, of course (MIT license)(coarse.ink)
1 points by idw 13d ago|1 comments
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I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb (at least a little)(beeb6502.com)
2 points by idw 2mo ago|0 comments
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Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by idw 2mo ago|1 comments
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by idw 2mo ago
"The low waters of the [Danube] have resulted in several unexpected discoveries. ... And a resident of the northeastern Bulgarian city of Ruse found bones on the Danube river bed, which experts determined were the remains of a mammoth.
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by idw 4mo ago
The saying goes: it takes ten years to become an overnight success. As for the stick or twist question, if your only goal is to make money then twisting whenever it seems to make that more likely makes sense. Most people thrive on doing wor
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They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks."(nateglubish.substack.com)
65 points by idw 4mo ago|69 comments
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The Bureaucratic Escalator and how it operates(profserious.substack.com)
3 points by idw 5mo ago|1 comments
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by idw 5mo ago
TL;DR: Bureaucracy in public institutions is not principally a management pathology. It is the cumulative result of a largely logical process. It is generated by policy and rendered permanent by asymmetric incentives. Nobody decides to crea
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by idw 5mo ago
I assumed this was a new euphemism for layoffs
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by idw 6mo ago
Done this. Good question but I don't think it's the most helpful way of thinking about it. Every new recruit brings their own assumptions about how organizations / employment / etc. work and many of those assumptions won
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by idw 7mo ago
+1 on Mint, specifically with the Cinnamon desktop environment for people leaving Windows
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Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly(voidtools.com)
148 points by idw 7mo ago|58 comments
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by idw 7mo ago
Saw this mentioned in a comment recently , I just downloaded, installed and used it to find a file while Windows Search was still saying 'Working on it...'. So I thought others might like to know. Previously on HN a year ago: htt
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by idw 1y ago
The Science Media Centre (UK) has a round up of expert reactions https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-announ...
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Classic Psion fan releases proof-of-concept language server for OPL(theregister.com)
2 points by idw 1y ago|0 comments
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by idw 1y ago
The robing room chair of state
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by idw 1y ago
Simon Willison has helpful recent advice on this: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code (11th March 2025) https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/us.ing-llms-for-code/
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Everything Google Announced at I/O 2025(mashable.com)
2 points by idw 1y ago|0 comments
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by idw 1y ago
Sometimes the BBC does make mistakes but this seems to fit their style guide: "Treat collective nouns - companies, governments and other bodies - as singular. There are some exceptions: ... Sports teams - although they are singular in
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by idw 1y ago
It might help to know that blindness takes many forms. Having no sight at all is what many people assume but is not what many blind people experience. So some blind people can use accessibility tools together with the sight they do have whi
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by idw 1y ago
If you're going to start something, you need to be running to it not running from something else. Running your own thing can be great but will be hard. The culture may well not be what you hoped for, and you may well find it hard to st
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by idw 2y ago
Ask a lawyer whether it is actually enforceable
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by idw 2y ago
One of my biggest lessons from running a growing organization was: always have one level better financial advice than you think you need. So, get an accountant from the beginning and let them decide and set it up right. FWIW, I preferred ze
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by idw 2y ago
"Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea – but new observations demand a radical rethink" (2023) < by David Wiltshire, one of the authors of this paper, aimed at non-physicists https://theconversa
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by idw 2y ago
Remember that senior roles are about building teams around you to get the job done. I'm wondering if your current experience reflects what the job has to be, or whether you could shape your team so that your job gives you energy, and o
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by idw 2y ago
Crash into a nuclear waste container, of course https://blog.railwaymuseum.org.uk/operation-smash-hit/
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by idw 2y ago
"A qualitative approach was employed, involving in-depth semi-structured interviews. Thematic and content analyses were applied. Out of a sample of 47 participants using Flow, 18 participants consented to be interviewed." https:&
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by idw 2y ago
Some thoughts, worth what you paid... You can't share enough information here to get really good advice. If you do this you will need someone whose advice you trust, who understands your weaknesses as well as your strengths. Could be a
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by idw 3y ago
It was a breach of their guidelines to report a method of suicide, so it sounds like they were just fixing that. This is standard in the UK because of evidence showing that reporting methods can be followed by further suicides. https:&#x2F

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