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Risk management is not project management
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Rucker's Musings
Risk Management is not Project Management
A common situation I find myself in looks like this: I am working with a client to plan a project at a strategic level. These are large, cumbersome, multi-ph...
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Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies
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KUT Radio
Texas power plants have no responsibility to provide electricity in emergencies, judges rule
A panel of judges has said that big power companies cannot be held liable for failure to provide electricity during the 2021 blackout. The reason is Texas’ deregulated energy market.
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BC Supreme Court bars man from calling himself an 'engineer'
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CBC
Judge orders former PPC candidate to stop calling himself an engineer | CBC News
David Hilderman, who ran for the PPC in the Saanich—Gulf Islands riding in 2021, has a university degree in engineering but is not licensed as a professional engineer, according to a recent B.C. Supreme Court judgment.
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On the pronunciation of “fsck”
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Hachyderm.io
rob pike (@robpike@hachyderm.io)
This link captures the confusion about how to pronounce "fsck":
https://lwn.net/Articles/190223/
Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name…
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Show HN: SQL Polyglot
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codapi.org
SQL Polyglot
Try running a query anywhere from PostgreSQL to DuckDB in your browser.
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How museum items go missing
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SAPIENS
How Museum Items Go Missing
After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping collections—and U.K. laws preventing repatriations.
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A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
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The Economist
A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
Global shipping firms are suspending voyages in the Red Sea
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Ask HN: Does anyone here use Haxe?
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Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime
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Yahoo Finance
Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime
(Bloomberg) -- Alphabet Inc.’s Google is changing its Maps tool so that the company no longer has access to users' individual location histories, cutting off its ability to respond to law enforcement warrants that ask for data on everyone who was in the vicinity…
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We think too much and feel too little
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Charliechaplin
Charlie Chaplin : The Final Speech from The Great Dictator
I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone - if possible...
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BrainGPT turns thoughts into text
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IFLScience
New Mind-Reading "BrainGPT" Turns Thoughts Into Text On Screen
It offers new hope to people unable to communicate in other ways.
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US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving 'ignition' over and over
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Nature
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over
Nature - Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.
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WyGPT: Minimal mature GPT model in C++
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GitHub
GitHub - wangyi-fudan/wyGPT: Wang Yi's GPT solution
Wang Yi's GPT solution. Contribute to wangyi-fudan/wyGPT development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Pearl: A Production-Ready Reinforcement Learning Agent
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GitHub
GitHub - facebookresearch/Pearl: A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning AI Agent Library brought by the Applied Reinforcement…
A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning AI Agent Library brought by the Applied Reinforcement Learning team at Meta. - GitHub - facebookresearch/Pearl: A Production-ready Reinforcement Learning ...
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Misra C++:2023 Published
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microsoft/promptbase: All things prompt engineering
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GitHub
GitHub - microsoft/promptbase: All things prompt engineering
All things prompt engineering. Contribute to microsoft/promptbase development by creating an account on GitHub.
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3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn't tell the public
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Minnesota Reformer
Toxic: 3M knew its chemicals were harmful decades ago, but didn’t tell the public, government
3M knew its chemicals were toxic decades ago, but didn’t tell the public or government, internal documents show.
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A curiously recurring lifetime issue
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blog.dureuill.net
A curiously recurring lifetime issue
Naming is hard. After all, it is one of the two hard problems of computer science, with cache invalidation and off-by-one errors.
Mostly we would assume that poorly chosen type and variable names would merely make the code harder to read, but turns out they…
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Goodreads asks users to help combat 'review bombing'
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NPR
Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants its users to help solve it
Posting a torrent of fake negative book reviews — sometimes before a book is out or has even been written — is a known problem on the literary social media site.
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Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted
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High Growth Engineer
Becoming a go-to person gets you promoted. Here's how to do it as a software engineer.
To reach the Senior level, you need to increase your scope, impact, and ownership. One of the best ways to do that is to become a “go-to” person or an expert. You could be the “database expert”, “Python expert”, “caching expert”, “frontend expert”, “Typenoscript…
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Where Johnny Cash Came From
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National Endowment for the Humanities
Where Johnny Cash Came From
As we consider Cash’s career and the range of musical worlds it embraces, our challenge is to understand its breadth as well as its enduring themes of social justice and the human condition.
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