kayo_20211030

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by kayo_20211030 17d ago
I read this article, all of it. I'm still trying to square the circle of how a report about the tribulations of fish-farming on the Danube align with the broader concept of the "Desertification in Europe". To me, it seems lik
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by kayo_20211030 18d ago
I've seen this same discussion in a million guises. This particular essay starts with > I’m a kid of the 90s, and I still remember the early internet. ... and then contains a lot of predictable stuff about how and why avalon became:
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by kayo_20211030 20d ago
I'm interested - for reasons. Does anyone have a sense of what this study means in a practical or actionable sense? In toto, the conclusion of the paper: > Together, these findings define a dual-layered model of molecular convergenc
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by kayo_20211030 20d ago
It used to happen in NZ too. I don't know if it still does.
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by kayo_20211030 21d ago
> It's the product, what the code does that moves the needle. Never a truer word said. It's the only thing that moves the needle. I'm not sure that businesses are straying from AI. I reckon everyone's on board. but
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by kayo_20211030 21d ago
I think so. Two traditional and _almost_ disjoint sets, the technology realm and the business realm, will start to (be forced to?) have much greater overlap. There have always been political battles along the boundary, but this upcoming one
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by kayo_20211030 21d ago
> The developers who stand out will be the ones who understand the systems. That has always been true. AI doesn't change it. It just rearranges some elements that come ahead of that understanding. The volume and velocity are challen
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by kayo_20211030 24d ago
Excellent write-up that even I could understand - I'm interested, but not particularly knowledgable - thanks.
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by kayo_20211030 25d ago
Thanks
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by kayo_20211030 25d ago
Everyone is self-censoring on this, possibly with the exceptions way-out on both six sigma ends of the distribution; at least until there's a consensus established. Sad that. This interview I found interesting: https://www.n
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by kayo_20211030 25d ago
I can't read this because of content restrictions, but I upvote the premise of the title.
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by kayo_20211030 25d ago
Is it any more goofy than making an engineering major take a GenEd class in medieval history, or anthropology? School is just weird. Do it, get it done, move on.
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by kayo_20211030 27d ago
I believe that one should optimize for the needs of the business that uses the project/software. SaaS, Open Source and internally used proprietary software have different optimization parameters.
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by kayo_20211030 27d ago
If a business decides to migrate from X-lang to Y-lang (or X-system to Y-system) for some particular and sensible reason can the business afford to spend a couple of years to restore its productivity to what it was? It might, but there&#x27
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by kayo_20211030 27d ago
I would have interviewed him too. I would have felt that he was at least technically savvy; and, beyond that, he might have the spark of one of the best qualities of a future colleague i.e. interesting-ness - one can't underestimate th
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by kayo_20211030 27d ago
I have no particular religious preference for a language. One uses what one feels is appropriate. But, let's say this effort is a complete success. What's next? Can all the maintainers of the c codebase move over to maintaining (f
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
What an `effin disaster. The alert almost gave me a heart attack.
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
When I see this it makes me depressed. > gained access to the data by tricking a phone help desk worker. The whole edifice was built on a helpful, possibly overworked and possibly harassed help desk worker? The end result is that two kid
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
It's all a bit of a mess with the consolidation of multiple businesses. > SpaceX is a pretty important company not just for "the market" but also for many other things (see Russia/Ukraine war) Starlink, which was roll
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
I'd go with Ogden Nash as the most American "American" poet. He's my horse in the race.
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
I get it - the enthusiasm - I totally get it. I think I'd sell my soul for an 1980's BMW M3.
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
Wow! TIL. Totally ignorant is I.
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
Super piece. Well worth reading. I keep wondering if there's some structural economic fundamental that disperses money the way it does. Is the dispersion purely a consequence of the attention economy? Probably, but I'm guessing. E
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
ROFL. If LinkedIn could now establish some adjacency to gambling or prediction markets they might be onto some thing huge :-)
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
Sam Neill did a super podcast with Marc Maron a few years ago. He came across as a really stand-up bloke - genuine, funny, smart and kind; and every obit I've seen today seems to echo all that. It's well worth a listen. https:&#x
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
I no longer have access, but this I remember being a good paper on the Vasa in the context of product design and project management https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=31396
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
A super piece, with a lot of really good insights. The "judgement" mentioned is maybe what differentiates between the quick and the dead in business terms. Building the ineffective thing brilliantly and quickly won't move the
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
> try to design the internal tools in such way as to make the users fall into a pit of success. Yes. I couldn't agree more. The tools have to make it quick and easy for the users to succeed - as invisible as possible, and transparen
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
Only because it made to the HN front page. A lot of stilted dialog first. Fine, fine, fine, I get it. Not everyone is a natural presenter. Then I got to > How copper and metal plates were combined and I stopped. "metal plates"?
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by kayo_20211030 2mo ago
Yes. I agree, although careerism in the military is maybe not that strong an influence; it is, for sure, but not that strong yet. Careerism in the political class is probably exactly as strong as you claim it is. However, I do hope there

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