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I took over a project that was built by an overseas team. They set up a data ingestion process. They have a step in the ingestion where they use Libre Office (in headless mode) to …

The Iliad was written after the classical era of Bronze Age Egypt, so no classical age mummy could be buried with the Iliad because it didn't exist yet.

No, it is exactly the same thing. The tax on cassettes raised money that was given to artists.

Nothing you said is true. The fact that you didn't name a single person is an example of the style of reasoning that has increasingly shaped USA discourse over the last 60 years. I…

The problem is more general. Trust in American institutions peaked in the 1950s. Starting in the 1960s, Americans began to slowly withdraw from institutions, and also distrust them…

“Ireland offers long-term grants for artists” is how this would have been written 50 years ago. The idea is not new, only the rhetoric.

Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection -- this totally makes sense if you assume they believe that the future of human connection is with an AI friend. That http…

I don't think this is a great article, as I think it focuses too much on the Washington Post, but there are some issues that will have to be addressed in American democracy. Nation…

They went from $559.36 to $132 a month on Hetzner, and they seem happy about the performance. This matches my own experience as well, I have been stunned regarding Hetzner and how …

Why do volunteer firefighters rush into a burning building to try to save children from some family they have never met before? Every day we afforded examples of people sacrificing…

I tried to read this, but it's just gibberish. I cannot figure out what you are trying to say. Obviously Putin leads the international right-wing movement. This is well known. I ha…

You are making up your own, personal definition of genocide. But "genocide" has a specific definition under international law, and it is a crime of intent. Israel clearly had no in…

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In late 2021, Ed Zitron wrote (on Twitter) that the future of all work was "work from home" and that no one would ever work in an office again. I responded: "In the past, most comp…

It's not invisible, because some people can see it. It is illegible because the leadership of a large company won't know how to interpret it. This particular usage of "illegible" h…

"Ordinary people—who watched their rent, groceries, and gas bills skyrocket—saw a profession more invested in protecting Democratic policy narratives than in telling the truth. The…

England was the first nation to escape from famine. A national market began to take shape shortly after the civil war, and the national market transformed traditional famine into a…

I have read that before the Industrial Revolution, most people faced famine for about 10% of their lives. And while, historically, that would have probably been concentrated into a…

Surprising they don’t mention Fernand Braudel: https://www.amazon.com/Civilization-Capitalism-15th-18th-Cen... The Annales journal was established in 1929 and shaped the context of…

Sadly, these tweaks don't address any of the more obvious oddities that people have with proportional representation in the legislature. While such a system won't necessarily end u…

Assume an existing site would like to add a jobs board, including user profiles, and job posts, and tracking the status of resumes being submitted to the jobs. Is there good open s…

If intelligence was always the correct answer then it would have developed much faster than it did.

I agree with the emphasis on networking. At the risk of sounding like I am doing an advertisement, last month I gave away 5 free tickets to graduates of Fullstack Academy to come t…

Here in the USA we currently have a regime that is focused on destroying all forms of American power: they are destroying our economic power, they are destroying our cultural power…

I ask in all seriousness. I have the impression that when Kafka was first adapted by organizations, many organizations were looking for a place in their data flows where they could…