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Lifesaving snippets
Some snippets to make my life easier.
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We Must Act Now
A Statement on AI’s Transformation of the Economy Source: We Must Act Now
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Hobbes’ Internet Timeline – the definitive ARPAnet & Internet history
1969 Nodes are stood up as BBN builds each IMP [Honeywell DDP-516 mini computer with 12K of memory]; AT&T provides lines bundled to 50kbps … 1982 DCA and ARPA establish the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), as the protocol suite, commonly known as TCP/IP, for ARPANET. (:vgc:) … 1991 World-Wide Web (WWW)…
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The Thief of Tales
A wonderful story told as a web comic. https://www.thethiefoftales.com
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AI Economics for Dummies – McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The…
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Your Name in Landsat
The internet still has some very nice pages and tools. https://science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/
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Ronin / The Forty-Seven
Source: The Forty-Seven
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Spectacular image of Earth
The snap was taken aboard the Orion capsule by its commander, Reid Wiseman, as the crew head towards the Moon. Source: Artemis II crew now halfway to Moon as they take ‘spectacular’ image of Earth
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What is Culture?
As I am often in contact with people from all around the world, sometimes I am asking myself: what makes a “culture” – geography, history, language, politics, belief system? I can in principle agree with the Wikipedia definition (a bit convoluted though)… Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found…
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“Recursion” by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch My rating: 5 of 5 stars Quite original idea on time-travel and paradoxes involved, wrapped in an action filled thriller. View all my reviews
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Technical debt and vibe-coding
When looking at any system as-it-is, my perspective remains: tech debt is the state of a system that captured the understanding of the problem when it was created and doesn’t fully reflect today’s understanding. The (obsolete) understanding applies to both functional and non-functional requirements, so it might be about the business, technical, scaling, or another…