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His genuine interest in such a vast range of topics and his ability to keep experts away from rabbit holes made the show exceptional. He will be sorely missed

It’s impressive that Airbus caught up with Boeing after a 20 year head start. It sounds like Airbus’s bet on the future paid off but the article reads more like a PR piece than a c…

And will anyone talented enough to put all the pieces back together want to work for the federal government after all this? Feels like a good way of ensuring the only path forward …

The schadenfreude is strong here but it’s hard to argue with results. By treating space launches as a process to refine through iteration (so the more the better) they’ve come to d…

The whole new iteration of attempts to game this are going to be fascinating. The adversarial nature of AIs trying to produce content better able to fool the AI judging the content…

This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlig…

Not that I think TikTok is particularly spotless but this sounds like the result of an algorithm learning what groups will engage with, ie democratic leaning accounts were more lik…

You’ve been given the chance to show that your previous success wasn’t just a function of the domain you were in and team you were on. Taking a flailing org and being visibly a par…

The risk of deployments isn’t entirely technical. Depending on your business and customer base it might be necessary for some groups to have access to the feature earlier or later …

Whatever problems or limitations the existing approach had dropping everything on the floor is one of the least helpful ways of trying to fix it (assuming good intent).

You are assuming the business is entirely located in one city or at least region which is rarely the case beyond a certain size. It would also be an argument against function speci…

Ireland tends to top the list of countries happy to be part of the EU. Which would be an odd position if European was a touchy identifier. It’s also not unheard of for people to re…

Absolutely, it’s possible the name could be misleading but surely this is one of those times where maybe you make the mistake once and then never again. There are far more painful …

Most shops in Ire/UK have stopped providing thin plastic bags for sale. All bags are either bags for life or (much) more expensive reusable plastic bags. Only small convenience sto…

In an ideal world the state would prosecute the company and the evidence from that would be usable in a class action suit with huge punitive damages.

For a hack day project someone took our IRC logs to do something similar for employees who had left (one bot per engineer, small company so a handful of bots). This made for a grea…

If you work for a company where your whole immediate team are co-located it can be great. In my experience I end up spending most of my time working with people in disparate office…

I just bought a couple of the Builders of Tomorrow Set #6177. All regular pieces, no tie-in or specialist parts. Expand with a couple of specific sets for the minifigs or custom pi…

I was lucky enough to get a startup to sponsor my H1B. It was a big investment for them since I'd cost them a large chunk of money and time before I'd written a single line of code…

So much better in fact that they are the trope namer for a series suddenly getting better: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GrowingTheBeard

Isn't the whole idea of the government taking action against people for marketing goods against free market capitalism?

>>> from decimal import Decimal >>> 2 * Decimal("3.1") Decimal('6.2')

The problem with the market judging is a bank is worth your money or not is that by the time everybody decides that bank X is going under it's probably too late to get your money o…

I know a number of people who fell back on using the mobile version but it was so much hassle they just found alternative sources. I used to hit Kotaku and io9 multiple times per d…