DrBazza

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by DrBazza 3y ago
The 'equivalent to an 8% pay rise' in the UK loosely matches the after-tax cost of an annual rail ticket on an hour commute or longer. That's a ticket in the region of £6000 per annum, which is about £10,000 of gross salary.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
log4shell enters the chat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Fair point. The web stack is the one thing I actively avoid doing anything significant with for exactly the reasons you've just described.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> so that I could learn the web tech stack from the ground up. It was all to avoid this fate. I'd like to think I've succeeded. I'm not sure if that's intentional humour or not.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> I'm actually surprised by the sheer lack of people commenting in the more-or-less-perma-LK-99 threads who show skepticism of the results. HN is supposed to have a high signal-to-noise for comments. I'm skeptical about this.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I'm resigned to disappointment for this. It's the modern days Pons and Fleischmann. Hopefully the lack of confirmation so far is due to people checking, double checking and triple checking, along with a healthy dose of "we d
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Corollary, if a developer, purposely root your ci system in a path with spaces in it to pick up these sorts of problems at build time.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Shorter, portable, lower energy railguns? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Maybe it will be the thing that gives the US a nudge towards building a high speed train network. Commodity maglev would be generational leap over existing high speed rail. It would be an economic driver for the US, and take a lot of plan
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The 'space wasted' on an estate of many hundreds, if not, thousands of acres is minimal. Given that often the bricks used were made and fired on site, it definitely saved on resources and labour. There's a stately home close
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Indeed, huge if true. I hope it's not another cold fusion moment.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
I have all of my running data on Garmin that shows pre and post COVID (at least 3 bouts). I'm now 90 seconds/km slower, doing the same volume and all other things being equal (except age). My diet hasn't changed, I walk the
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by DrBazza 3y ago
The sheer genius of throwing away the brand of one of a handful of companies that has a phrase that has entered common parlance: hoover it up, google it, and tweet it. Feels like Musk has caught some of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers 'Int
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Does that require 50% of my week to be in an office? My current employer has several 'company days' in a year , and we're in an always on (camera optional) Zoom channel. I know my current set of colleagues far better than
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by DrBazza 3y ago
It seems like these people should be required to read Douglas Adams. Though they'd likely miss the point.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
My former employer (in London) has just instructed everyone, finally after COVID, to be in the office for 50% of the time. Many of my former colleagues starting looking for other jobs last week. It seems employers have two concerns: cost
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by DrBazza 3y ago
This feels like crap-Investment-Bank poker. I'll raise you a company-wide ticketing system written in COBOL, running on an IBM mainframe.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Even though this is from 2018, it was and still is completely applicable to every other investment bank out there. Investment banking organizational structures are set up such that bureaucracy encourages 'silos' where teams can de
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Same in the Uk. Anyone can set up a company for pennies. So many expensive homes in London owned by shell companies. The government tried to introduce a law to make the ownership more transparent. Didn’t really work.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Generally when there's a high pressure system over Europe, the bad air stays trapped over Germany and Poland. Even right now you can see that Germany is about 10pts higher than the rest of Europe, and Poland another 10pts on top of tha
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Germany is second only to Russia in Europe for coal powered electricity. Followed by Poland. No wonder this map usually has the worst air over those countries: https://aqicn.org/map/europe/ https://www
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by DrBazza 3y ago
>> There's massive pent-up demand for an alternative > I'm not quite convinced by this; Agreed, only the very political types want this. No one else cares.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. No matter how hard I try to keep my Twitter timeline clean of politics, the algorithm fills my timeline. If Threads doesn't do that, I'm
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Yes, stocks and futures was exactly what I was talking about. Though we also hit the market with options models within another couple of months. The big costs for small firms are historic data (if you don't have any), colo, distance t
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Presumably it's because the jet stream is currently over Britain and the wind farms are actually producing a significant amount of power: https://renewables-map.robinhawkes.com/#5/55/-3.2
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by DrBazza 3y ago
> it’s largely a big firm world now. Largely, though I receive 1 or 2 job specs every week for start ups with the keywords 'hft' and 'low latency'. Admittedly there's going to be duplication there if you read th
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by DrBazza 3y ago
You're talking US zoning laws? We don't have those in the UK. The bellwether we have for the health of the UK, or at least London, is train and tube usage. It has, apparently, returned to almost 100% of pre-COVID. That's no
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by DrBazza 3y ago
At least some countries are learning from previous mistakes.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
Interesting answer, thanks.
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by DrBazza 3y ago
This attitude is actually common place in the industry. Can we make more profit than the fine for market abuse?

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