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Gut reaction to the results: swearing because you feel you should have got it, and frustration because you feel it's too hard.

Would it be fair to say that Zuck had some idea (and for some time)? Otherwise he’d have no reason to write the letter about interference.

Amazing to see this. I just landed after a week in Japan where we discovered this word and instantly recognised how it applies to our team. Made heavy use of it when pitching to ex…

B2B SaaS founder - Direct sales (contacts, LinkedIn, in-person industry events). Client advocates voluntarily promoting the product within the industry.

This take is less than generous to Penrose. In a recent debate (which was less than fruitful as debates go), Penrose said this regarding this paper: > Moderator: ... saying that th…

This evokes some strong nostalgia. My formative years were spent playing Doom IPX on LAN (DOS), Trials of Battle (OS/2) on LAN, and Galactic Civilizations, learning to code with RE…

We bought a new primary car last April, it was a toss up between an electric and a petrol/diesel, and we opted for a diesel car in the end. Reasons: range anxiety, and war anxiety.…

This is incredible. Not just because of the engineering that went into such a long lived machine, but also because of the ingenuity of the teams that have looked after this mission…

I understand that this comment probably wasn’t meant in this way but it comes off as condescending of people from only a few thousand years ago and it feels like my friends were be…

It IS dangerous. You must apply critical thinking to what’s in front of you. You can’t blindly believe what this thing generates! Much like heavy machinery, it’s a game changer whe…

The real time applications are a game changer. I haven’t dabbled with that yet! Pasting things from emails and summarising - then keeping in my notes app. Also for planning out day…

I’ve been actively using it and it’s become my go-to in a lot of cases - Google is more for verification when I smell something off or if it doesn’t have up to date information. He…

Random chance

How incredible is it, that I'm writing software on a laptop, connected to the internet over wifi, all while being 38,000 feet in the air. And all this enabled by billions of tiny t…

A couple of years ago I was on a walk with my wife and she asked me “what’s the point of Siri? it can hardly do anything useful outside weather and timers.” I told her a tall tale …

The BBC’s Octonaughts taught me about these!

The auction is meant to find a stable price and can have some wild prices coming in, because no matching happens at the point of entry, the market will naturally find a level befor…

This brings back some memories. Long ago worked at BIGCORP which utilised JIRA for everything, including time logging in non-revenue generating teams. It was a time consuming activ…

This brings back some memories! The world was using Windows 95 and we were using OS/2 at home, with a sprinkle of DOS and Win NT 4.0. Anyone remember the old Stardock games for OS/…

If you enjoy Matt @ Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Kurzgesagt, and are into astrophysics, I would highly recommend Anton Petrov’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/what…

The benefits are mostly realised when playing games: * Higher refresh rates means more frames can be displayed each second by the monitor * Lower latency between some input action …

Always a pleasure to read Douglas Adams. As usual an engaging and insightful read. I’d be curious to know what his thoughts would have been on the current state of online ads, soci…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage Astounding little things. I hope the west picks up the pace for research in this area.

Cheap and effective: kettlebell workouts and running. Keep it regular even if you only do a bit.