November 27, 2004

November 27, 2004 by yorksranter 0 comments

The Guardian Just Doesn’t Get It

The Grauniad’s Jonathan Steele has produced a frankly silly article in yesterday’s paper in which he basically decides that the Ukrainian revolution is an evil CIA plot. Steele has already been roundly cursed by the blogosphere for this particularly dodgy argument: “Nor is there much evidence to imagine that, were he the incumbent president facing…

Why housing shortages cause homelessness - Works in Progress
All I’m adding to this well-known pattern is to hypothesize that time runs out faster when the couch is in the living room rather than a spare bedroom // good point, and speaks to something that bothers me about a lot of schemes with tinyhouses/just whack up the sleepboxes/fiddly semi-shared, which is that they don't […]
The rise of China's AI framework: Huawei MindSpore claims 30% market share
According to data presented by the Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences, during the Huawei event, MindSpore has achieved a market share of close to 30% in China, marking its entry into the ranks of mainstream AI frameworks
The darker side of Guy Hands’ legacy
“If you removed him, yeah, absolutely that toxic stuff would all go,”
‘It’s a huge problem’: what’s gone wrong at the ONS and why does it matter? | Office for National Statistics | The Guardian
Response rates to the LFS, which involves a letter sent to households and followed up with a phone or in-person interview, were already falling before 2020, then plunged during the pandemic and remained low afterwards – hitting a nadir of 17.4% last year. The Living Costs and Food Survey – used in the GDP readings […]
9th telecoms firm hit by Chinese espionage campaign, White House says | AP News
officials did not yet have a precise sense how many Americans overall were affected by Salt Typhoon, in part because the Chinese were careful about their techniques, but that a “large number” were in the Washington-Virginia area.
Rudolfine Steindling – Wikipedia
Steindling pflegte einen extravaganten Lebensstil und hatte größere Vermögenswerte – wie ihre Villa in Döbling – bereits zu Lebzeiten auf ihre Tochter überschrieben.[15] Rudolfine Steindling verstarb am 27. Oktober 2012 in Tel Aviv...Später soll Steindling das Geld abgehoben und in Banksafes gelagert haben, wobei der endgültige Verbleib unbekannt ist
Boxing clever? China's next-gen tailless combat aircraft analysed
funny huge delta that's really fast but shows out hugely in IR
19980148010.pdf
software changes to F-15 and MD-11 autoflight were enough to land them quite well with only differential thrust, at best through the FADECs but the ordinary autothrottle also worked. somewhat surprising this wasn't taken forwards more, although maybe in spooky delta wing things...
eufy Clean G50 Series User Guide (For T2210 & T2212)
« Complément d’enquête » sur Gérard Depardieu : retour sur un an d’intox et de mensonges | Mediapart
La justice a été saisie et un expert doit prochainement examiner les rushs de « Complément d’enquête ». Mediapart a pu les consulter il y a plusieurs mois. Ces images brutes et sans floutage prouvent que les arguments avancés par le clan Depardieu sont totalement infondés. Rien ne permet aujourd’hui d’affirmer que Gérard Depardieu ne […]