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At least 68 killed in Nepal's worst air crash in three decades

I watched this yesterday after a friend recommended it. Very nice videography with the birds footage. Also he handled the feral cat situation quite humanely.

Are they getting rid off some of the creature comforts for the employees who're still sticking around? I could be wrong but is it another way Elon thinks that he could improve efficiency? Probably overthinking!

This probably describes most of the work done by big IT consulting/services firms.

Initially I actually believed this to be true. The line is getting more and more blurry with every single day under the Chief Twit!

Looks like the employee who was in charge of managing badge access was laid off and several staff have locked themselves out!

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442

I absolutely needed this today. Marking it as a favourite!

This is an accurate assessment. Having worked for companies similar to Infosys, I can confirm this.

My brother in law works for a local Schnitzel chain (Schnitz) and it's hard to believe what people are ready to pay for convenience. They've a few regular customers who order fresh hot chips twice or thrice a day. Just a regular size box of hot chips that probably costs less than $5 and they're happy to pay another $4 or more for delivery!

Some of them order just a can of soft drink. If they went to the grocery store and bought a pack of six cans, it'd cost them the same as just one can from the restaurant. Not to mention another $4 delivery fee!

It's not a bad business to be in. Personally, I dislike them all as I like getting my own food and mostly eat at home. But there are heaps of people who're happy to pay exorbitant prices to have things delivered to them. I can't imagine how much it adds to our carbon footprint!

WOW, what a read! I remember reading about Annie Besant in school. Historical events like these have a lot to teach us even today. With so many countries still running sweat shops with inhuman labour conditions it's increasingly important to be aware of the origin of a product. I recently had a training from my company about "Modern Slavery" and it was quite eye opening. We deal with it every day without even realising it.

What surprised me is the lack of any of it in the WikiPedia page of "Bryant and May". I'd have thought this was an important piece of information about their history. I've never edited anything on WikiPedia but will do my best add a section about it.

Ahh. I think it was quite an effort. The whole organisation really did spend some time and tested it thoroughly. I reckon it depends on the scale and complexity of the code base. I'm not a dev, I don't know enough. I'm worried about changes to Python packages breaking my code. haha.

I was chatting with the devs at my company and they've just migrated their code to .Net 6!

CEOs saying they're accountable is just another way of saying sorry (not really) and being polite. This is just business and as long as reasonable severance packages are paid, employees will be willing to work there when times are better.

What does the future of F# look like with C# becoming more and more functional?

Yes, absolutely. EV's have a lot of limitations. The batteries degrade in capacity and are toxic. They're quite heavy and can explode (things have improved a lot).

The chemicals used in the batteries are toxic. Countries that are still dependant on fossil fuel for electricity, aren't going to reap much environmental benefits out of these EVs that need to be charged from the grid. And last but the most obvious one is the time it takes to charge batteries.

You're probably right about the currently known processes. But there are companies working on chemical engineering processes that are more efficient.

Here is one : https://hazer.wpmudev.host/about/#hazerprocess

This is really promising. But I usually sense some pessimism from the EV crowd about the viability of Hydrogen. I personally hope for a Hydrogen future.

This is not just efficient but also saves a lot of time. I do this with rice/pasta or anything that requires boiling. Also, using a pressure cooker can save a lot of time/energy with foods like legumes/meats etc.

Thank you. Aptly written. Even if the idea is fantastic, if not much happens for years, it's almost safe to assume that the product is sort of dead. But it kind of depends! An old academic language like Standard ML might not get a lot of action on its repo (actually gets updated frequently), I'd still use it as it forms the basis of several successor languages.

There isn't much activity on Github. The last release was nine years ago and all the code contributions are from a single person.

https://github.com/sparist/Om

Great to hear that it can be used as a desktop replacement. I did my bachelors in Electrical Engineering in India almost 16 years ago. We went to GridCo for our industrial training sessions. The managing director was very interested in the subject of quality of electricity. The voltage fluctuates so much due to a variety of factors that it used to be almost impossible to provide reliable electricity for manufacturing chips. He was quite sad when told us about the story where Intel couldn't set up a fab in India and chose to go to Israel instead because of this very reason. Hopefully things have changed.

Looks like it's back online! I reckon it's a good reminder to donate a few bucks to them. I've used Wikipedia so much and I can never thank them enough!

Although, not bad as Saudi Arabian murders killing a journalist in their embassy, this should be condemned. The Chinese officials have been openly insulting and threatening several nations. However, they can't seem to take any criticism. All dictatorships (Russia, China, Saudis etc) are quite similar in many ways.

I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, but I think you're oversimplifying things here!

ohh yes, good tip. Although it's pretty normal in my suburb, but I'll remember this one for future calamities! Thank you.

ohh yes, a phone with few days of standby power just to call for help is more than enough. I'm sure my work can wait if I lose power. haha.. The bbq is an essential tool. I've got a gas bbq and I live close to Bunnings so shouldn't be hard to replace the tank. Also have a small charcoal bbq and a bag of briquettes! Yeah, I'm gonna refrain from showering for a couple of days if the hot water system fails! So far the weather looks okay. We're expecting heavy rain in another few hours. Fingers crossed!

Mate, I can't even imagine what you went through. The desperation in such situations can be suffocating. I don't think we're facing anything even remotely close to that right now in Vic. Sorry, that you'd to go through all that. Nature can be brutal.

I've got a few tuna cans, some chicken in the fridge and salami. Got enough flour and yeast to bake breads. I'm worried that electricity might get disconnected for some time but gas should be okay. In the worst case, I've got a barbie, should be able to cook simple stuff on it. I've charged a few power banks just in case I need it for mobiles phones. Thank you for the comment.

I think adults shouldn't have to be told what's bad and what's not. Not to mention that it's almost impossible to enforce and it shouldn't be anyway!

I was just browsing this man's webpage (http://lucacardelli.name/) and it's just fascinating what he has achieved in his life!

Mate, I can't thank you enough for suggesting this one. I think I've been a subscriber and I generally follow ketoish diet (At least used to). But I've been binging on junk food since last few months. It feels like I've had some sort of flu/covid since the beginning of this year and it doesn't want ditch me! I've gained about 6 kilos just around my abdomen and my cholesterol levels are elevated!

The doctor actually recommended reducing carb intake and processed food as well. Good advise. But my wife has seen me eating large quantities of butter with sourdough toasts and oftentimes combined with salami/ham! Now I can't blame her for thinking that fat has been the problem all this time. It's difficult to explain to her. But anyway, I've just started eating mostly chicken, broccoli and other veggies. Exercising whenever possible and health allows. Thank you again for the recommendations. I'll look into it. Cheers.