Central questions of intergenerational justice are: first, whether present generations can be duty-bound because of considerations of justice to past and future people; second, whether other moral considerations should guide those currently alive in relating to both past and future people; and…
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I recently reached a few high points in my career that coincided, not coincidentally, with some of the worst harassment of my life. It made me reflect on how my career has been defined as much in term
(Redirected from Liquid modernity) Sociological concept Not to be confused with Late modernism. Late modernity (or liquid modernity) is the characterization of today's highly developed global societie
image: Len Stomski, River Flow Zygmunt Bauman advocates for the idea of "liquid modernity" ( Liquid Modernity). This view emphasizes the fact of change within society; and it argues that change is occ
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After an initial euphoric rush to the cloud, administrators are questioning the value and promise of the tech giant's services. According to a report published by UK cloud outfit Civo, more than a thi
It really is a valley: There, right in the middle of the Santa Clara Valley, formed by the Santa Cruz Mountains on the west and the Diablo Range on the east, lies the once-sleepy city of Mountain View
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José Coronado plays film star Julio Arenas in Close Your Eyes. Film Movement The Spanish director Víctor Erice is one of our most revered, yet least prolific, European filmmakers. Over the past 50 yea
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For the past decade, ARM CPU makers have made repeated attempts to break into the high performance CPU market so it’s no surprise that we’ve seen plenty of articles, videos and discussions about ARM’s
The mega-wealthy Gilded Age icon who gave away his fortune Archive Pics/Alamy Stock Photo Fiercely ambitious and with the intellect and savvy to match, Andrew Carnegie left behind grinding poverty in
Canonical has released version 24.04.1 LTS of Ubuntu Linux, across desktop platforms, servers, IoT devices, and other platforms. This update focuses on improving stability and bug fixes that came in t
I've always had an ambivalent relationship with goals. I don't like goals that feel like checkpoints on a treadmill. They make you reach for a million dollars in revenue, celebrate for a second, and t
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August 29, 2024 • tech In case you missed it, ‘Elasticsearch is open source, again’ - announced in their latest blog post, using a weird writing style where every paragraph begins with [D.N.A], [LOVE.
Marc Olson has been part of the team shaping Elastic Block Store (EBS) for over a decade. In that time, he’s helped to drive the dramatic evolution of EBS from a simple block storage service relying o
As a professional photographer who used most models of the Canon 5D series of DSLRs, and who recently made the switch to mirrorless with the Canon R5, I thought it would be useful to review the 5D lin
Giamatti is nominated for an Oscar for his role as a pompous boarding school teacher who's assigned to supervise a student who has nowhere to go over winter break. Originally broadcast Jan. 10, 2024.
Introduction Sometimes, companies make what seems, on the surface, technically poor decisions. I consider this the case with Canon’s new R5 Mark ii (and R1) dropping support for sensor Pixel Shifting
make is a build tool that’s been around since the 1970s. It was originally designed for automating the building of C programs: installing dependencies, running tests, and compiling binaries. These day
In your professional and personal life, I don't believe there is a stronger motivation than having something in mind and the desire to do it. Yet the natural way to deal with a desire to do something
I want to start by making one thing clear: I’m not comparing open source software to typical Gartneresque tech hype bubbles like the metaverse or blockchain. FOSS as both a movement and as an industry
For its Self-Indulgence issue in December 1973, National Lampoon dreamt up a spoof publication called Me Magazine, billed as “The ultimate special interest magazine.” Addressed to Mr. Walter J. Arnhol
SQL Has Problems. We Can Fix Them: Pipe Syntax In SQL (via) A new paper from Google Research describing custom syntax for analytical SQL queries that has been rolling out inside Google since February,
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When Canon released its latest flagship camera, the EOS R1, it was fair to say that it was overshadowed by the humble R5 Mark II. Like a thief in the night, the mantle for the most exciting Canon came
The digital camera industry has endured a lot of changes over the years and is currently at the tail of a huge collapse that is tied directly to the proliferation of smartphones. A new chart that uses
In addition to the end-to-end encryption that protects every Signal message, the Signal service is designed to minimize the data that is retained about Signal users. By design, it does not store a rec
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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups is a technical post about database scalability. What caught my eye was the term. What an odd term — “sharding.” Why would a database be described that way? So I
Expanding equitable access to cloud infrastructure for Tampa Bay's developer community. If there’s one idea at the core of Tampa Devs, it’s that technology should be a tool for all, and not a privileg
This is a post I've been meaning to do for a while. While it's simple to explain how to set up an app for self-hosting, it's pointless to host an app on a weak foundation. It's a massive pain in my as
Dokku: my favorite personal serverless platform infra severless Like Heroku, but you own it. Author Hamel Husain Published January 9, 2024 With Dokku, you can turn a VPS into a powerful serverless pla
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