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John Herbert

@johnherbert

Award winning design engineer, based in Hong Kong. BEAM Professional since 2010

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Joined June 2008
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Those people will be moved to the new unit not yet named
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The more "experts", the more bureaucracy and more casualties.
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Secretary of Home Affairs Alice Mak joined the apology train. • “I will follow the Chief Executive's instructions in my capacity, remain steadfast in my duties, and carry out the substantial work ahead on institutional reforms and legislative amendments.” info.gov.hk/gia/general/2026…
Alice Mak

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2004 Barrat new build, we looked at the house 'manual' it said 4 adults should not be in an upstairs room at the same time.
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BREAKING: openai launches "ram amnesty" program citizens can drop off unused 32gb sticks at any data center, no questions asked in return, you get a $200/month subscription to use your own ram
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Lee@LP1980AA7h
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There was something v wrong. I went to work on the MTR and saw some smoke and flames. I came back 8 hours later and the whole things were on fire glowing from the MTR.
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inmediahknet@inmediahkOct 30
山頂光影匯演項目終止 被問開支 羅淑佩：已使用的資源有限 inme.cc/ifJ0ab
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What’s astounding is that so many of the public just looked on as charlatans siphoned up taxpayers money in the belief that Green hydrogen was a viable source of energy when the majority of the public would have no idea what green hydrogen is&how dangerous hydrogen is to handle
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うるせえメモリの在庫返せバカ
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM for their own PCs is a waste and instead should be saved for data centers "It’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."
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So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, that’s copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, that’s perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. I’m so sick of the hypocrisy.
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The Chinese stock market exists to teach the Chinese to keep their day job. The only way to win a small fortune in it is to start with a big one.
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When your bow is long you're gonna have trouble with 3 point turns innit #HKnumberplates
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The world according to Sam Altman btw 😭
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Because they now have a cool acronym
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Where is the action against ICAC, HK’s final safeguard against this sort of crap. Which also failed.
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Watch her relaunch her career as being a persecuted patriot.
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I too agree that SA's remarks are way too irresponsible, inconsiderate, and ext. selfish AF...... Tech is not always about progress but regress, as exemplified here, due mostly to human corp. greed......
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Jamaal Ghabī@JackassjamaalOct 30
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So the people in charge last time who failed, are now being transferred to a new department to do the same thing again? Sounds like they are just painting shit white and trying to convince us it’s vanilla ice cream.
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OpenAIのサム・アルトマンが「個人のPCにメモリを積むのは無駄なので、全てデータセンタに集約すべき」と言い出したので、全世界から袋叩きにされている。 （そのうち『一般家庭に電力を供給するのも無駄』と言い出しそうなので、袋叩きにされた方が良い）
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The OG #HKnumberplates
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