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On social media, I still occasionally read posts suggesting that #NoOps is a *new* buzzword, not realising that, actually, it’s a 10yo idea. An idea that largely failed and must be replaced by more pragmatic paths forward: https://t.co/vHnpAURkkC
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“By the end of the century, Nigeria could surpass China in population”

Long Slide Looms for World Population, With Sweeping Ramifications https://t.co/gsTJShH5oJ

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Or “How @replit gives developers access to over 30,000 OS packages instantly in the browser”. It’s not just the web-based IDE. It’s everything else around it. >

How we went from supporting 50 languages to all of them https://t.co/8EVskJQ09q

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Sensible comments, for a change >

China fund managers rely on #AI to manage trading data and pick stocks https://t.co/NbeQDVZWxd https://t.co/xHt857LWii

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What was it? “Security is everyone’s job”? How did it work so far?

I articulated my profound scepticism about it here: https://t.co/gI7RBY2nVJ https://t.co/Moe6pXEkkV

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@stevegaines Yep, true.
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@rnelson0 I thought they all disappeared because replaced by phone alarms…
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@bhwaldman Very good.
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@gunnarwb Maybe not a generic ball, but a sport ball (one for each sport), for sure. Very good.
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@mmmmmmpc I thought about it, too, but I’m not sure cutlery exists in only a few hundreds variants. I can easily count over 200 sets from my favourite design shop serving the UK alone. I suspect the number across the world is significant bigger.
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