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Could Poland’s promotion to Europe’s top table be a turning point for Ukraine? | Paul Taylor | The Guardian
March 20, 2024 at 8:30:36 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Frankreich - Deutschland - Polen: könnte genau das sein, was die EU als Motor jetzt und für die nahe Zukunft braucht
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/20/poland-europe-top-table-ukraine-weimar-triangle-france-germany
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Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet | MetaFilter
March 8, 2024 at 2:02:27 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved, a study of more than seven million digital publications suggests
- https://www.metafilter.com/202820/Millions-of-research-papers-at-risk-of-disappearing-from-the-Internet
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Pushing Buttons: When even PlayStation is cutting jobs, something is seriously wrong with games | Games | The Guardian
March 4, 2024 at 8:19:09 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Sony’s news that it is cutting jobs and cancelling projects for the mega-console underlines a depressing fact about game development – it’s go big, or go home
- https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/feb/28/pushing-buttons-playstation-job-losses
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What’s up with Generation Z? | Mental health | The Guardian
March 3, 2024 at 9:28:12 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem, such as depression or anxiety disorder, compared with one in four in 2000.
This figure was not the result of a quick and dirty snapshot poll. It was one result from a three-year research programme by the Resolution Foundation
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/03/whats-up-with-generation-z
One in three 18- to 24-year-olds now report symptoms indicating they have experienced a common mental health problem such as depression or anxiety disorder compared with one four 2000. This figure was not the result of quick and dirty snapshot poll. It from three-year research programme by Resolution Foundation -
Shōgun review – a mesmerising epic that goes big on the gore | Television | The Guardian
February 27, 2024 at 7:34:25 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Strap yourself in for a wild adventure in feudal Japan
- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/27/shogun-review-a-mesmerising-epic-that-goes-big-on-the-gore
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Like cigarettes, junk food should come with a warning: ‘Can kill’ | Martha Gill | The Guardian
February 25, 2024 at 8:56:06 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Like cigarettes, junk food should come with a warning: ‘Can kill’
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/25/the-truth-is-hard-to-swallow-but-junk-food-should-come-with-a-warning-can-kill
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Huge cybersecurity leak lifts lid on world of China’s hackers for hire | Cybercrime | The Guardian
February 23, 2024 at 8:26:09 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -A big leak of data from a Chinese cybersecurity firm has revealed state security agents paying tens of thousands of pounds to harvest data on targets, including foreign governments, while hackers hoover up huge amounts of information on any person or institution who might be of interest to their prospective clients
- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/23/huge-cybersecurity-leak-lifts-lid-on-world-of-chinas-hackers-for-hire
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When "letting it crash" is not enough
February 9, 2024 at 9:47:45 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -"let it crash". The core idea behind it has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states that they can find themselves in. The more complex your application is, the more variables you need to keep track of everything. Eventually it becomes impossible for developers to predict all combinations of state that these variables will form. Once your app gets into an undesirable state, the best thing you can do is to reset it and start from a fresh, well known and correct state
- https://flawless.dev/essays/when-letting-it-crash-is-not-enough/
"let it crash". The core idea behind has to do with the fact that modern applications have a huge number of states they can find themselves in. more complex your application is variables you need keep track everything. Eventually becomes impossible for developers predict all combinations state these will form. Once app gets into an undesirable state best thing is reset and start from fresh well known correct -
Two Mindsets That Can Create Rude or Polite Coworkers | AOM Insights
February 2, 2024 at 9:15:50 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work:
Humanistic mindset: an empathetic, person-centric approach that focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity. Mechanistic mindset: an efficient, task-focused approach that focuses on utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons.“The mindset adopted by employees has implications on whether they interact with others in a civil or uncivil manner,”
- https://journals.aom.org/doi/10.5465/amd.2022.0069.summary
The authors explored two mindsets that employees are likely to adopt when faced with challenges at work: Humanistic mindset: an empathetic person-centric approach focuses on each coworker’s self-worth and dignity. Mechanistic efficient task-focused utilitarian cost-benefit comparisons. “The mindset adopted by has implications whether they interact others in a civil or uncivil manner -
The ashes of Arthur C. Clarke and Star Trek creator Gene Rodenberry just burned up on re-entry to Earth's atmosphere after a failed moonshot | PC Gamer
January 20, 2024 at 9:24:03 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -Ehhhh...
- https://www.pcgamer.com/the-ashes-of-arthur-c-clarke-and-star-trek-creator-gene-rodenberry-just-burned-up-on-re-entry-to-earths-atmosphere-after-a-failed-moonshot/
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The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore | PCMag
December 3, 2023 at 7:29:03 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -alarmingly large portion of the world's business and finance systems run on COBOL, and only a small community of programmers know it
- https://www.pcmag.com/articles/ibms-plan-to-update-cobol-with-watson
