Have you heard of Fratzonic? If you haven't, you can't unhear it. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/heres-what-the-electric...
Technocracy rose roughly simultaneously with the Good Government movement of the 1920s. Both were a response to the machine politics and crony capitalism of the gilded age. The hippie movement was itself somewhat a…
If you find this music interesting, check out the Frozen Brass compilations. This one is of mostly Southeast Asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmbrcQNWCc
Listen to season 4 of Michael Lewis' podcast. He covers the downsides in detail. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules I think this is the ep that gets into the most detail, but I haven't read the…
There's margin (on BOM cost), and then there's profit margin (above the design cost). Design costs are probably an order of magnitude higher in USA than in China, and can't be spread over hundreds of thousands of units.…
Those students might do better if they are taught practical uses of math, rather than STEM-focused abstractions. (I was one of those kids going "why the hell are we learning this" until I got to grad school and was able…
I was a mid-level government manager. What most people outside don't understand is that our modern US bureaucracy isn't set up to deal with problems at scale. This article gives an alternative from history in…
Training from the bottom up ("equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership") helps make change in the right place at the right time. For changes to come from the top down…
I call that trickle-down ergonomics.
The question is not profitable. The question is can they be MORE PROFITABLE than they currently are. Some companies are unprofitable and easy targets. Others are mildly profitable, but PE can lever up their investments…
It's interesting to search for recipes in other languages and not find junk as we do in English. I read Spanish and Italian fluently and stumble my way through Japanese (with translation). It's easier to find a good…
It's different enough from Comic Sans that it doesn't look terrible to me! edit: drop actually from prev sentence
it's probably a decent HD streamer. I have Kodi running on a pi2 (1GB) and it's OK at 720p but 1080 lags. The pi5 will do 1080, and might even pull off 4k depending on the source.
Assume two things and it makes more sense: 1. Harvard was aiming their students to jump straight into middle management (as it does today). 2. No ERP. No Excel spreadsheets. Mechanical calculation if you're lucky.…
I'm guessing one of these questions had to deal with a timetabling diagram. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
But do we ackshually want to use Windows? The HN crowd is probably in alignment against, but Windows still rules outside of the major metros and tech sector. Sadly.
Or a whitehat who couldn't get attention another way?
A calendar alert is an automated alert, is it not? </s>
Researchers compiled lyrics to songs from five musical genres (rap, country, pop, R&B, and rock) that were released between 1970 and 2020. This is an interesting period to sample. The late 60s and early 70s were a high…
Ideally, wouldn't the IC's / Group of ICs' responsibility to introduce blameless culture before the incident, right? I've worked in blameful places, always without ICs; just shouting HIPPOs. I hope that an org evolved…
There's a movement to leave new growth trees in the ground longer for additional carbon capture: https://www.sightline.org/forest-long-rotation-harvests/ I wonder what impact this has on the final product.
I don't have such a conspiratorial take on this. Based on my previous experience in GovTech, I think this is what happened: The project team specs out a procurement. The procurement team gets bids and handles the…
Normal Accidents and To Engineer is Human are two popular and great books.
No mosquitos is new. I grew up in the east bay, with a view of the GG bridge. When I was young 25-35 years ago, I would get eaten alive at night. I did get one bite earlier this year in downtown Oakland. It was the…
This is my favorite mustard. It's Austrian, spicy but not too much, and overall has a taste that is hard to describe with any other word than sublime. https://www.thetasteofgermany.com/mautner-austrian-hot-musta...
Have you heard of Fratzonic? If you haven't, you can't unhear it. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/08/heres-what-the-electric...
Technocracy rose roughly simultaneously with the Good Government movement of the 1920s. Both were a response to the machine politics and crony capitalism of the gilded age. The hippie movement was itself somewhat a…
If you find this music interesting, check out the Frozen Brass compilations. This one is of mostly Southeast Asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtmbrcQNWCc
Listen to season 4 of Michael Lewis' podcast. He covers the downsides in detail. https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/against-the-rules I think this is the ep that gets into the most detail, but I haven't read the…
There's margin (on BOM cost), and then there's profit margin (above the design cost). Design costs are probably an order of magnitude higher in USA than in China, and can't be spread over hundreds of thousands of units.…
Those students might do better if they are taught practical uses of math, rather than STEM-focused abstractions. (I was one of those kids going "why the hell are we learning this" until I got to grad school and was able…
I was a mid-level government manager. What most people outside don't understand is that our modern US bureaucracy isn't set up to deal with problems at scale. This article gives an alternative from history in…
Training from the bottom up ("equipped front-line supervisors with analytical tools rather than targeting top leadership") helps make change in the right place at the right time. For changes to come from the top down…
I call that trickle-down ergonomics.
The question is not profitable. The question is can they be MORE PROFITABLE than they currently are. Some companies are unprofitable and easy targets. Others are mildly profitable, but PE can lever up their investments…
It's interesting to search for recipes in other languages and not find junk as we do in English. I read Spanish and Italian fluently and stumble my way through Japanese (with translation). It's easier to find a good…
It's different enough from Comic Sans that it doesn't look terrible to me! edit: drop actually from prev sentence
it's probably a decent HD streamer. I have Kodi running on a pi2 (1GB) and it's OK at 720p but 1080 lags. The pi5 will do 1080, and might even pull off 4k depending on the source.
Assume two things and it makes more sense: 1. Harvard was aiming their students to jump straight into middle management (as it does today). 2. No ERP. No Excel spreadsheets. Mechanical calculation if you're lucky.…
I'm guessing one of these questions had to deal with a timetabling diagram. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
But do we ackshually want to use Windows? The HN crowd is probably in alignment against, but Windows still rules outside of the major metros and tech sector. Sadly.
Or a whitehat who couldn't get attention another way?
A calendar alert is an automated alert, is it not? </s>
Researchers compiled lyrics to songs from five musical genres (rap, country, pop, R&B, and rock) that were released between 1970 and 2020. This is an interesting period to sample. The late 60s and early 70s were a high…
Ideally, wouldn't the IC's / Group of ICs' responsibility to introduce blameless culture before the incident, right? I've worked in blameful places, always without ICs; just shouting HIPPOs. I hope that an org evolved…
There's a movement to leave new growth trees in the ground longer for additional carbon capture: https://www.sightline.org/forest-long-rotation-harvests/ I wonder what impact this has on the final product.
I don't have such a conspiratorial take on this. Based on my previous experience in GovTech, I think this is what happened: The project team specs out a procurement. The procurement team gets bids and handles the…
Normal Accidents and To Engineer is Human are two popular and great books.
No mosquitos is new. I grew up in the east bay, with a view of the GG bridge. When I was young 25-35 years ago, I would get eaten alive at night. I did get one bite earlier this year in downtown Oakland. It was the…
This is my favorite mustard. It's Austrian, spicy but not too much, and overall has a taste that is hard to describe with any other word than sublime. https://www.thetasteofgermany.com/mautner-austrian-hot-musta...