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This is the other side of the continent (Pacific Coast).

The national paper has a bunch of articles above the fold: https://www.eltiempo.com . 20+ confirmed dead in Pereira, a third-tier city with population of ~500,000. Many wounded.

Have you heard of Fratzonic? If you haven't, you can't unhear it. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/heres-what-the-electric...

Technocracy rose roughly simultaneously with the Good Government movement of the 1920s. Both were a response to the machine politics and crony capitalism of the gilded age. The hip…

If you find this music interesting, check out the Frozen Brass compilations. This one is of mostly Southeast Asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmbrcQNWCc

Listen to season 4 of Michael Lewis' podcast. He covers the downsides in detail. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules I think this is the ep that gets into the most de…

There's margin (on BOM cost), and then there's profit margin (above the design cost). Design costs are probably an order of magnitude higher in USA than in China, and can't be spre…

Those students might do better if they are taught practical uses of math, rather than STEM-focused abstractions. (I was one of those kids going "why the hell are we learning this" …

I was a mid-level government manager. What most people outside don't understand is that our modern US bureaucracy isn't set up to deal with problems at scale. This article gives an…

Training from the bottom up ("equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership") helps make change in the right place at the right time. F…

I call that trickle-down ergonomics.

The question is not profitable . The question is can they be MORE PROFITABLE than they currently are. Some companies are unprofitable and easy targets. Others are mildly profitable…

It's interesting to search for recipes in other languages and not find junk as we do in English. I read Spanish and Italian fluently and stumble my way through Japanese (with trans…

It's different enough from Comic Sans that it doesn't look terrible to me! edit: drop actually from prev sentence

it's probably a decent HD streamer. I have Kodi running on a pi2 (1GB) and it's OK at 720p but 1080 lags. The pi5 will do 1080, and might even pull off 4k depending on the source.

Assume two things and it makes more sense: 1. Harvard was aiming their students to jump straight into middle management (as it does today). 2. No ERP. No Excel spreadsheets. Mechan…

I'm guessing one of these questions had to deal with a timetabling diagram. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

But do we ackshually want to use Windows? The HN crowd is probably in alignment against, but Windows still rules outside of the major metros and tech sector. Sadly.

Or a whitehat who couldn't get attention another way?

A calendar alert is an automated alert, is it not?

Researchers compiled lyrics to songs from five musical genres (rap, country, pop, R&B, and rock) that were released between 1970 and 2020. This is an interesting period to sample. …

Ideally, wouldn't the IC's / Group of ICs' responsibility to introduce blameless culture before the incident, right? I've worked in blameful places, always without ICs; just shouti…

There's a movement to leave new growth trees in the ground longer for additional carbon capture: https://www.sightline.org/forest-long-rotation-harvests/ I wonder what impact this …

I don't have such a conspiratorial take on this. Based on my previous experience in GovTech, I think this is what happened: The project team specs out a procurement. The procuremen…

Normal Accidents and To Engineer is Human are two popular and great books.