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It's got what plants crave.

Heh! I recognized the robots as being originally made by Kuka, because those were the ones used at my last job.

Sterling's Heavy Weather haunts me to this day.

I think this is a fair analysis, but for me the pleasure of reading Gibson has basically always been the use of language and jargon. Yes, Virtual Light is a stupid caper story but both Chevette and Berry are great characters, hard-luck protagonists trying to make it in a crapsack world. Berry's background is especially deftly told in a few telling vignettes.

That's why the Bigend books are such disappointments to me. Instead of outsiders looking in, or trying to strike it big, we have bougie insiders getting VC money. And Agency is a travesty.

"Brunnsmiljö" refers to "area with baths" (i.e. the old fashioned spa kind). The symbols under refer to restaurant, hotel, and camping cottages.

When travelling by air it's nice to have a bunch of feeds to read.

As soon as I saw the title my thoughts went to the old divide between Lutheran High Germany and Catholic Bavaria. But that's a lot because I had a coworker (from Berlin) whose grandfather was from Bavaria and ran away to sea to avoid becoming a priest, which his mother had promised God he would become for sparing his brother in WW1.

That sounds terrible. Is the pressure coming from medical professionals or caregivers?

Rolex makes the OG Day-Date. Only in precious metals though.

Surprisingly middlebrow.

Most engineering fields are de jure professional, which means they can and probably will enforce limitations on the use of GenAI or its successor tech before giving up that kind of job security. Same goes for the legal profession.

Software development does not have that kind of protection.

Nuclear fusion has been 3 decades away since as far as I can remember (I believe I first read about it in National Geographic in the late 70s or early 80s)

From a comment upstream, all foreshore in the UK has an owner. You can't just steal from the owner.

I think this is the same concept

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome

Except that the VA health insurance is unironically one of the better options in the US.

Bourne is fictional.

It's weird that the Wiki article doesn't have an image of the actual clocks, only of the stations.

Age comes for us all.

Yes, the Ohm, Kelvin and Ångström have their codepoints in Unicode.

Lowercasing the symbols for Ohm, Kelvin or Ångström makes no sense.

For the Greek alphabet cases, isn't there canonical forms for this kind of stuff?

Here's a crazy idea - move election day to a day when almost everyone is off work or school, problem solved.

Try the search function here!

https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/

We see these in Swedish too and they're just as incorrect, grammatically.

But the worst thing is usually the acute accent is used instead of a real apostrophe, which just makes it stand out even more.

Crypto (at least proof-of-work) is purposefully designed to have rising per-unit production cost.

It feels a bit disrepectful to reference the title of Tim O'Brien's book for a review of this year's latest tech gadgets.

Lots of confusion about what a "migrant" is in this context and who is eligible for the compensation.

Here's the English language page about the repatriation compensation (currently 10,000 SEK):

https://www.migrationsverket.se/English/Private-individuals/...

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You can apply for the grant if you have a temporary or permanent residence permit in Sweden

    * as a refugee
    * as a quota refugee
    * as a person eligible for subsidiary protection
    * on the grounds of exceptionally distressing circumstances
    * or because of your connection to a person who has one of the residence permits listed above.

The weird thousands separator placement, combined with the Central European usage of a decimal comma implies the total amount is $341, which frankly isn't much...

I've read the book. Prussia was the last one to go, finally extinguished in the wake of WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Prussia

I just re-read Surface Detail where some nobody from a backwards planet convinces a ship Mind to help her assassinate her local Elon Musk. So there's some agency to be found in the margins...

To those interested in verifying or not this narrative, Lobste.rs mod decisions are public:

https://lobste.rs/moderations

I'm a long-term member of the site and I don't generally have any problems with the moderation.

FWIW, what you describe as "AI hate" might just as well be "growth hacker/spammer hate".