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Here's a Ken Livingstone quote from the foreword of "Drama Games: For Those Who Like To Say No": > In the early 1980s, when the GLC (Greater London Council) was trying to save and …

How many in your estimation are moving to EU owned vs just EU hosted?

The thing is what is the alternative option? If you don't build it, then your rivals do. All of your electronic and military systems then become compromised because your rivals can…

You definitely shut up quickly when you said something as a kid and grandma whipped this one out

So basically artists are cool with developers not getting paid so long as they do...

Sometimes I wonder if what will actually happen, is that we will have very small startups, essentially a C-Suite but with actual coding skills and domain knowledge, who build new c…

In my opinion, Cloudflare are coming at this from the wrong angle. WordPress is so popular because back in the day it was the easiest way to get a website built. So it got a networ…

https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-directive https://talk.commonmark.org/t/generic-directives-plugins-syn...

The author's conclusion is fucking astonishing. Don't respond with bitterness - focus on your hobbies, friendships and love. Exactly how are people meant to do any of that exactly …

I agree that AI today over-engineers. However with the rate that everything is improving, do people really think that it's also not going to be able to refactor and optimise the co…

> The reader is not respected enough by the software. The reader is not respected by the software because the reader themselves does not respect the software or the article. If the…

There is a case to be made that teaching improves the understanding and insight of the teacher which in turn can increase their research ability. For starters, it provides a less b…

You might be better off with this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8 Or his articles/newsletter on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raydalio/recent-act…

TIL, very cool!

Everyone seems so focussed on the price and the RAM that noone is talking about the fact that macOS is now running on the A system chips which makes me wonder how far away from an …

This does remind me somewhat of military command structures with L1-L5 being enlisted ranks and L6-L10 either being NCO or Commissioned depending on your view of how much gatekeepi…

Not an expert but surely it's only a matter of time until there's a way to update with the latest information without having to retrain on the entire corpus?

Something I noticed recently is that Claude Code interprets "or" as inclusive or (or at least it does when writing function names). I suspect that this must be due to it's code spe…

This looks awesome. There's also the R Go Split, drops the curvature but you gain in portability: https://www.r-go-tools.co.uk/r-go-split-break-version-2/

In my opinion, governments are going to have to tax the big tech companies hard and distribute the money to funding bodies like Arts Council. I can see a future "Tech Council" for …

For a long time I used to be able to manage my exercise with depression. Eventually, it stopped working. I literally climbed a mountain, got to the top and felt nothing. What got m…

We almost got that with Bretton Woods 1.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bancor

https://youtu.be/7MkAs99O1LQ

Replace the word US in this paragraph with Nazi Germany and the issue with this statement becomes apparent. If the only way you can maintain power is via physical force over others…