@SSDT1955 Don't forget Permitted Development, which lets developers turn old office blocks into new slums. Great for "new housing" metrics, great for avoiding pesky planning permission requirements and housing standards
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Ian Kirker
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Ian Kirker
@ikirker
HPC support/ops minion, former computational chemist, briefly a scifi&fantasy librarian, into a lot of things. He/him (or they/them).
London Katılım Ekim 2013
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@JosephineCumbo And then even if you do want AC, you’ll be stuck with inefficient portable systems because you can’t modify the wall or windows.
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High-rise buildings are particularly prone to overheating. Without air-conditioning as standard, will high rise homes become undesirable investments?
BBC London@BBCLondonNews
Some five million children - over half of those in England - are living in homes at risk of overheating. bbc.in/4oWUhus
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@nobody_handmaid @FromPayne @lucyhargreaves4 Amazing that you would look at this and come to this conclusion, rather than “flight attendants should be paid at least a living wage, and nurses and teachers should be paid more”.
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@FromPayne @lucyhargreaves4 A flight attendant trains for 4-8 weeks, that's it and that should earn a living wage like a nurse or teacher who go to school for 4-5 years? C'mon.
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I struggle to understand the long-term strategy of major Canadian unions. Striking at disruptive times erodes public trust and confidence, rather than building leverage.
Many Canadians abandoned Canada Post. Air Canada risks losing customers permanently.
- Air Canada, 2025: Strike during peak summer travel.
- Canada Post, 2024: Strike during peak holiday mail.
- Federal Public Service, 2023: Strike removed CRA workers during tax season.
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@JosephineCumbo Stamp duty already discourages moving at all. A system with periodic property tax and no stamp duty surely *encourages* downsizing?
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A property tax could discourage downsizing. Downsizing, or moving to a smaller home, can help alleviate the housing crisis by freeing up larger properties for families and reducing the strain on housing stock.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Rachel Reeves is considering replacing stamp duty with a new "property tax" on the sale of homes worth over £500,000 [@guardian]
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@qntm Somewhat confused by the two different entries on the Blackwells site, but definitely interested in buying the negative mass exotic matter edition
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@hpcnotes What if: fp(3x42), a happy middle ground with a vector of 3 42-bit floats in a 128-bit register (with two spare bits to play with) 🙂
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Some great debate already in response to this.
But are we just defending FP64 because it is what we have now and what we know?
Would we defend FP32 if that is all we had?
If we had pervasive FP128 would we be arguing that a drop to FP64 is not good enough?
#ISC25 #HPC
Andrew Jones@hpcnotes
Provocative question to debate at #ISC25 - in talks, meetings, booths, over beers: What is so special about #FP64 that science holds it as a gold standard? If #HPC had never got as far as FP64, eg had got stuck at FP32, surely we would still have been able to do science?
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@StephBore @hassanrahim Conversely, the McMaster-Carr website is simple, elegant, and extremely fast, since they want to sell you the thing you want.
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@hassanrahim Look, I'm a web designer. It took me a lot of time to swallow the pill that websites that perform the best are sites like Craiglists or Amazon. Graphically, real eye-sores, but, are they efficient at what they're supposed to do (find sth, trap ppl)? Yes, yes they are.
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said it before and i’ll say it again, if your invoices look like they were made by a graphic designer they get paid 35% slower. they need to look like they’re made on an IBM thinkpad with shitty enterprise software. argue with yourself i have years of research behind this
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@ethanhays @SwiftOnSecurity I guess the flipside of this is that your offer should be laid out: if people are going to be asked to put in the effort/resources upfront, it should be as obvious as possible what they're going to get in return.
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@SwiftOnSecurity Effort filter all over the place
Same with clients
Start the relationship with a free offer, you’re teaching clients to be entitled “what ELSE do I get for free??”
Add an effort filter. Clients paying full price are generally grateful & comparatively easy
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I think constantly about that essay on how important the effort filter was in online forums. No you couldn't just jump into a discussion with a has you had to register and confirm and learn where things are and the customs.
elle ✨@heyellehogan
I see a lot of people wonder why there aren’t more free IRL communities… Let me share a story from today, as someone who’s hosted 146 free walks every week since July 2022. I started requiring that people RSVP for my free event (it makes my life 100x easier) and a guy came up to me at the end of today’s walk and said: “I am going to waste 100 minutes of my life filling out your RSVP form over the course of a year… I also hate how it throws off the vibe at the beginning because everyone complains about filling out the form.” He complained about specific things (i.e. how it didn’t autofill even though he uses incognito browsing) and honestly made me feel like shit. Here I am… flabbergasted at this interaction because it feels like a bare minimum ask for attending an incredibly high-value, curated, FREE event on a weekly basis (this guy has attended easily 30+ times)… but he is not the first to do this. I’ve had dozens of other people complain about RSVPing in a similar way (with some outright refusing to do it), and I’m at my breaking point. If you’re wondering why there aren’t more free, high-quality events: behavior like this is why. The entitlement, bitterness, and combativeness I’ve experienced from asking people to do a *1-minute* task that’s expected at every single event on earth has frankly crushed my spirit. If it continues like this, I will need to make some big changes. I do not deserve to be treated this way, and I will not tolerate it. If you don’t want to RSVP, do not attend my events. Full stop. And lastly… if you attend a free IRL event or community you really enjoy, do not act like this. It kills the host’s morale and is a big reason why there aren’t more free communities. Bring gratitude with you. Ask how you can help. Be a kind human. (By the way… one man asked how he could help me today, and I really appreciated that. I asked him to write a testimonial and share with friends!) It goes such a long way. 🤍
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@simonsarris Personally I'm constantly disappointed by the many ways homes often have corners cut that make maintenance >10x more difficult later.
Building things into walls instead of conduits and removable panels, and valves or even RCDs buried behind nailed-down boards, that kind of thing.
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It is understandable to not know the inner workings of many things. You pay a technician to service them. But then who watches the watchers?
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"Can the average house be maintained by the average person?" sounds like a nonsense question at first blush but I think it's an important one
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@ravenscimaven @peace_oceans This related paper might help. Or at least provide a distraction. doi.org/10.1111/jpc.14…
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I'm on DAY 4 of the edamame situation and I'm telling you right now, it's not over.
Raven Baxter, Ph.D.@ravenscimaven
Decided to try a new food today and I’m halfway through this plate of edamame 🫛and had to google if I was even eating this right because my gums were starting to bleed 😌lmaooo I wasn’t supposed to eat the outside. 😌 See y’all on the other side 🫶🏿👋🏾💕 it has been real ✨✨✨
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@MakoFukasameTV Honestly curious though how much they could increase the price before they'd see significant business customer drop-off
I bet it's more than 100% if they boil the frog
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the office subscription 60% price increases are because microsoft is upselling you to copilot (but not even, just credits lmao) and hiding the opt-out
the dotcom bubble era antitrust microsoft is so back
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@minervas_muse @BioMickWatson It doesn’t matter what your salary is if you still get made bankrupt by a single hospital visit
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@BioMickWatson I've seen UK salaries. Your countrymen would kiss the ground when they arrived.
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(Sorry to my American friends) but Americans have no clue how bad everyone else thinks their country is
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@qntm I frequently think about this article at work, the problem and warning sign of ending up having a single person bearing all or most of the complexity and responsibility of a system @ziobrando/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-dungeon-master-c2d511eed12f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@ziobrando/the…
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Compounding complexity. Increasing difficulty of making seemingly simple changes. Difficulty onboarding new developers to the codebase. Dwindling number of people who know how it all works. Bad code wherever you look. Bugs no one understands
x.com/eigen_spectra/…
eigenspectra (in SF, let's meet up!)@eigen_spectra
@qntm What are the warning signs?
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Avoid, at all costs, arriving at a scenario where the ground-up rewrite starts to look attractive. This is something you can see coming from a very long way out and must actively steer away from
Signed, an SWE of uncertain seniority
Dmitrii Kovanikov@ChShersh
Junior SWE: "If we rewrite the project, we'll have no tech debt!" Senior SWE: "If we rewrite the project, we'll get even more tech debt"
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@glennklockwood SMRs aren't a single technology, though? They're a logistics/fabrication class.
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Meta has issued an RFI searching for partners to build out 1-4 GW of new nuclear power capacity anywhere in the US in the early 2030s. The only technology that can meet that deadline are SMRs.
buff.ly/41h85GH
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@SwiftOnSecurity “Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny”
bloodknife.com/everyone-beaut…
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We have produced a lineage both oversexed in the mind and completely sterile in body. Where sweat has no smell and flesh has no sound and consequence ends when the scene does. What have we done. Why don't our geckos fuck anymore?
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The tragedy of GenZ is they have unprecedented access to sexuality but not a culture that instructs them to act on it. Bathed in pornography absent allure.
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@DJSnM @kylecoolky Comic Sans MS appears to be the intended font in that PDF, along with some bits of Arial.
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@kylecoolky Right so, I need a PDF expert to tell me what the commander intended, and why Comic Sans was the result.
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There's one mystery from spaceflight I have yet to solve,
when the first crew began their stay on the ISS, commander William Shepherd began keeping a ships log.
And I can't understand how these historic documents were published in Comic Sans. Was this an intentional choice by the astronaut, someone at NASA or just a glitch in the conversion software, after all there are a lot of glitches in the encoding, so it could be something related to that.
web.archive.org/web/2009071011…
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@FelixCLC_ Does it still count if their toolchain is made from other people's toolchains
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Which company has the most productive and complete HPC software development suite. Compilers, libraries, profilers, the whole thing, and causes you the least amount of grief:
#HPC
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This is so stupidly pointless for the government to bother with.
I’m a bit sceptical of government mandating charging standards vs just letting the industry do it, but it doesn’t matter, the EU has set the rules on this in a way that we cannot.
BBC News (UK)@BBCNews
UK considering EU-style common charging cable bbc.in/4dOBXgg
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Teams Feature: Ultrasound proximity join
"Your device will detect ultrasonic signals emitted by Teams rooms and provide a precise list of nearby rooms on the pre-join screen. IT admins can configure settings for enabling ultrasound signals and automatic acceptance of the join prompt on users' laptops using XML files" 👀
techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-t…
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@glennklockwood Oh, apparently the actual metric that value is from is quite different:
x.com/StefanFSchuber…
Stefan Schubert@StefanFSchubert
@emollick Re 2) it’s not that 25% of people used it for more than 60 minutes per day at work, it’s that 25% of people who used GenAI at work on a particular day used it for more than an hour
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@ikirker I pay for ChatGPT, and I don’t use most of the Copilot features in Office because they’re not that useful. But I may be projecting that others are the same as me.
If 25% of people are really just fighting with AI for an hour a day, that’s a very different outcome.
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I am definitely an enthusiast, but 60 minutes a day is pushing it even for me.
Maybe between business+personal it would add up to an hour of my day.
Ethan Mollick@emollick
This August 2024 US survey of AI use confirms that AI is not just hype: 1) AI adoption is crazy fast by historical standards 2) It obviously useful to people in many industries. 25% people use GenAI at least 60 minutes a day at work, already 3) AI is being used for many purposes
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