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How Airbus Took Off | Discussion
How Airbus took off - Works in Progress Magazine
Airbus is an example of successful industrial policy and the rare European company that is better than its American rival. Could its success be copied elsewhere?
worksinprogress.co
November 9, 2025 at 6:20 AM
How Airbus Took Off | Discussion
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...
accu.org/journals/ove...
Judgment Day
What if AI takes your job? Teedy Deigh finds out.
accu.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:27 AM
It's Halloween. So here's a story about the horror of replacing your developers with AI:
accu.org/journals/ove...
accu.org/journals/ove...
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The best technology blends into the background of everyday life. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/what...
What is USSD (and who cares)?
While many of us chase the latest tech trends, innovative builders in Sub-Saharan Africa are leveraging a nearly 30-year-old messaging protocol to process hundreds of billions in transactions annually...
www.allthingsdistributed.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The best technology blends into the background of everyday life. www.allthingsdistributed.com/2025/10/what...
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Can we for a second appreciate how Robinhood took no responsibility for being down, and tried to put the blame on AWS.
However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...
However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Can we for a second appreciate how Robinhood took no responsibility for being down, and tried to put the blame on AWS.
However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...
However, it was Robinhood that decided to run from a single AWS region, and not be preapred to fail over, like other, more resillient AWS users did...
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Didn’t think we’d see incompetence at this scale.
The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one.
Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…
The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one.
Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Didn’t think we’d see incompetence at this scale.
The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one.
Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…
The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one.
Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…
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Likewise for me, a huge improvement for me was shifting from “I want to deliver impact by being right and building correct solutions” to “I want to deliver impact by helping us reach mutual understanding, healthy communication, and building the right environment”
It makes a huge difference
It makes a huge difference
My self-concept really changed as a social scientist when I decided my core strength was being a creative and strategic compassion instead of [insert elitist idea of being technical here] and I really recommend it
August 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Likewise for me, a huge improvement for me was shifting from “I want to deliver impact by being right and building correct solutions” to “I want to deliver impact by helping us reach mutual understanding, healthy communication, and building the right environment”
It makes a huge difference
It makes a huge difference
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Back when I was working on Dusk, I stumbled on this easter egg in the Korg Minilogue. If you move the filter while it's starting up, it's starts a game of breakout.
July 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Back when I was working on Dusk, I stumbled on this easter egg in the Korg Minilogue. If you move the filter while it's starting up, it's starts a game of breakout.
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See, this is why you always read the app update notes
July 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
See, this is why you always read the app update notes
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The Methaphone—a clear slab of smartphone-shaped acrylic—is part cheeky art project, part helpful tool for those looking to curb their phone addiction.
Read more: www.wired.com/story/methap...
Read more: www.wired.com/story/methap...
June 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The Methaphone—a clear slab of smartphone-shaped acrylic—is part cheeky art project, part helpful tool for those looking to curb their phone addiction.
Read more: www.wired.com/story/methap...
Read more: www.wired.com/story/methap...
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Researchers analysed ties between 1.8bn Facebook users to assess whether male-female friendships were doomed
Can men and women be just friends?
The answer matters more than you think
econ.trib.al
June 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Researchers analysed ties between 1.8bn Facebook users to assess whether male-female friendships were doomed
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Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
Prediction: General-purpose AI could start getting worse
Opinion I use AI a lot, but not to write stories. I use AI for search. When it comes to search, AI, especially Perplexity, is simply better than Google.…
dlvr.it
May 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves
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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
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Remember when this was the big topic?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywO...
Before the AI and Tariff madness? :)
I wonder what news BBC consider crazy today will be normal 20+ years from now :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywO...
Before the AI and Tariff madness? :)
I wonder what news BBC consider crazy today will be normal 20+ years from now :)
2001: CAMERAS... on PHONES? | BBC News | Retro Tech | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
April 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Remember when this was the big topic?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywO...
Before the AI and Tariff madness? :)
I wonder what news BBC consider crazy today will be normal 20+ years from now :)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ywO...
Before the AI and Tariff madness? :)
I wonder what news BBC consider crazy today will be normal 20+ years from now :)
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"🏆 100 Most Watched Talks Of 2024"
That's a really great list of tech talks to watch. Special kudos to @royvanrijn.com for hitting the Top 10 with his session about the One Billion Row Challenge at GOTO!
www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-w...
That's a really great list of tech talks to watch. Special kudos to @royvanrijn.com for hitting the Top 10 with his session about the One Billion Row Challenge at GOTO!
www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-w...
February 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
"🏆 100 Most Watched Talks Of 2024"
That's a really great list of tech talks to watch. Special kudos to @royvanrijn.com for hitting the Top 10 with his session about the One Billion Row Challenge at GOTO!
www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-w...
That's a really great list of tech talks to watch. Special kudos to @royvanrijn.com for hitting the Top 10 with his session about the One Billion Row Challenge at GOTO!
www.techtalksweekly.io/p/100-most-w...
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I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?
Shabby admin invented 'transparent tape' – a terrible storage medium but a magic tool for unlocking IT budgets
On Call Each week at work creates memories many are happy to forget, but some are willing to share with fellow Register readers in On Call,…
dlvr.it
February 7, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I was told to make backups, not test them. Why does that make you look so worried?
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For anyone creating YouTube videos: what sense would it make to opt into AI training, for free?
It doesn’t.
Which is why this modal is cleverly worded. I’d expect ~99% of YT creators stay opted out from *third-party* training (the default).
Google can (and does!) train. It’s first-party!
It doesn’t.
Which is why this modal is cleverly worded. I’d expect ~99% of YT creators stay opted out from *third-party* training (the default).
Google can (and does!) train. It’s first-party!
December 18, 2024 at 12:24 PM
For anyone creating YouTube videos: what sense would it make to opt into AI training, for free?
It doesn’t.
Which is why this modal is cleverly worded. I’d expect ~99% of YT creators stay opted out from *third-party* training (the default).
Google can (and does!) train. It’s first-party!
It doesn’t.
Which is why this modal is cleverly worded. I’d expect ~99% of YT creators stay opted out from *third-party* training (the default).
Google can (and does!) train. It’s first-party!
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It’s all in the telling.
November 23, 2024 at 10:09 PM
It’s all in the telling.