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He seems to enjoy it, especially as a retired research psychologist. Every few years he goes to London and they run tests, see how long he can stand on one leg, do various scans etc. They are currently running a sleep study using wearables.

The study also had a 70th birthday party in 2016 for the cohort, which I got to go to as a guest. Apparently very few people have dropped out, so hopefully it's a positive experience for most people.

There's also a book about the study: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Project-Extraordinary-Story-Or...

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Flourish is an online tool for creating beautiful data graphics, presentations and other interactive content without coding. Launched in 2018, we have grown quickly and are used by some of the world’s largest companies and news organisations.

We’re looking for a senior developer to join our team, reporting to the head of software development. You'll be developing new features for Flourish; maintaining standards for web performance, security and accessibility; building automated tests and improving the observability of the codebase; mentoring and supporting more junior developers.

Some of the technologies we use include Node.js, Express; Postgres, Redis; Handlebars, Sass; AWS; Cypress; GitHub, CircleCI, Sentry. We don’t expect you to have worked with all of these, but any you have are a plus.

More details here: https://flourish.studio/jobs/senior-developer/

That's a very good piece capturing a lot of the issues (esp GPS retrofitting which is easy and make a huge difference).

The one thing it doesn't quite draw out is that the market has segmented. If you are a small to mid farmer you have fairly low demands for horsepower and can tolerate small breakdowns you can fix in the field. So buying an older machine makes sense.

If you are a big farmer or a contractor (person with a big tractor/combine/machine who hires out) you need high horsepower and 18 hour a day operation without breakdowns. as in fleet purchasing for trucks they have rolling finance for high capital value kit to replace it every couple of years having run up high hours.

The modern electronic high power kit is quite amazing, it's not gratuitous use of electronics. Electronics also important for meeting modern emissions regs.

Tractors, as the piece points out have to be ultra rugged for field work and that means that the older stuff does last well and 100hp or over will get you a long way.

Tens of thousands of political ads have gone missing from Facebook’s public archive less than 48 hours before the British general election, raising fresh questions over measures introduced to address transparency concerns in online political advertising...

...On December 5, Facebook’s ad library, which includes adverts shown on its photo messaging subsidiary Instagram, showed a total of just under 180,000 classified as political in Britain since October 2018. But on Tuesday, that number had suddenly dropped by a third, to fewer than 120,000 ads.

Facebook declined to say what had caused the issue, or whether the ad data were irretrievably lost or could be recovered. But a company spokesperson said: “We’re aware that people are having trouble accessing the ads in the ads library, and we’re working to fix the issue as soon as possible.”...

...The data lost by Facebook did not appear to be limited to any particular party or subset — ads were missing from all the main parties’ pages.

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https://www.pprune.org/

Which is pretty much what the name suggests. Airline pilots, both passenger and commercial flights, swapping news and rumours.

Flourish is a next-generation platform for data visualisation and storytelling. It brings the power, flexibility and beauty of D3 and WebGL to anyone with a spreadsheet or database.

Flourish is being created by the award-winning visualisation studio Kiln with the backing of well-known investors in the UK and US.

We’re looking for a talented developer to join our team in London and lead full-stack JavaScript development, reporting to the CTO.

This is a key role which will involve overseeing the maintenance and development of the backend of Flourish – a web app written in Node/Express, backed by a PostgreSQL database, running on AWS.

Competitive salary, share options, 30 days’ annual holiday. Based in London, but we’re open to part-time remote work.

To apply: Send a CV and/or portfolio to jobs@kiln.digital - and email with any questions.

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