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Comment · 16 days ago
what, in the name of feck, is 'sealioning'?!?
Comment · 1 month ago
Combined with Iain McGilchrist's ideas[0] about the different roles of the hemispheres, this could get complex..
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_His_Emissary
Comment · 2 months ago
It wasn't even industrialisation - it was agriculture. Do people really like cities? I am not so sure - certainly many do, but many also hanker for the village and there are a bunch of interesting theories about us working well at 'village scale' (I could be easily convinced that no-one hankers for the suburbs..) I think if the economic opportunities were not so heavily weighted towards cities we would see much reduced urbanisation.
Comment · 2 months ago
thought it was onboarding day at Black Mesa all over again for a few minutes there..
Comment · 2 months ago
https://patroni.readthedocs.io/
But I sure wish it was 'core' and we didn't have to worry about it potentially going away, becoming de-supported..
Comment · 2 months ago
So its now 404'ing?
Comment · 3 months ago
I have to steal part of the discussion at the Guardian for this - I have read neither translation but this is illuminating and unhelpfully makes me want to read both:
Compare the opening lines:
Fagles:
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns
driven time and again off course, once he had plundered
the hallowed heights of Troy.
Tell me about a complicated man.
Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost
when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy,
The Fagles translation is much more lyrical without being overly pompous or florid, and the McKellen audio version (which is the way the story was first told, right?) is delightful. Reading along as McKellen tells the story is a joy.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/16/a-voyage-of-di...
Comment · 3 months ago
"It's honestly perplexing how major powers seem incapable of learning from history."
I think you mean it is perplexing how the leaders of certain major powers seem incapable of learning from history. It seems clear the relevant advice has been available. And yes, I also suspect arrogance but the list of problematic personality traits that apply to the current situation have been exhaustively detailed all over the place...
Comment · 3 months ago
fair enough, but what else have the Romans done for us?
Comment · 4 months ago
Can we just have a new little flag for "AI Shite"?
Comment · 5 months ago
this is genius... and call shop stewards 'agents'... and call the act of unionising an org "agentifying a node flock"...
Comment · 5 months ago
100% - have always loved Mr Pollan's pithy summary. I also like Alan Goldhamer's (I am paraphrasing): "There are two types of cardiologist; vegans, and the ones who haven't studied the data yet."
Comment · 5 months ago
Good shout - particularly for learning, I assume, rather than getting the most productive reply from a SOTA model.
Comment · 5 months ago
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