DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4mo ago
The reverse is true. Unionization of the UK car industry in the 1970s, more than played its part in the collapse of the UK car industry, for example: > The company became an infamous example of the industrial turmoil that plagued the Un
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
The Labour party was founded by unions, so it's no surprise they're still completely beholden to them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Labour_Party_(U...
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
In a jobs market place of wide choice, unionization is unnecessary. The tech job pool spans multiple industries, so if your employer is treating you poorly, leave. In a jobs market where there are few employers, maybe unionize, because tho
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
This is the correct answer. Win2k was probably the most solid and cruft-free release that they did. Then the enshittification started with Window XP, jelly-mold/curved glass buttons, activation, and .NET everywhere, followed by the di
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
It's the UK gov. Rather than do something, it's endless inquiries and 'research'. Example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Thames_Crossing - the planning application is 360,000 pages and not a
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
More context: > Elizabeth Louise Kendall (born 11 June 1971)[1] is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology > [sic] graduating with first class honours in history in 1993 > [
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
MS has inertia on its side, and its abusive marketing and lock-in strategies of the 90s. Remember when you couldn't buy a PC without Windows from most vendors? Meaning you were paying MS, even if you immediately uninstalled it? T
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
I'm not sure what this obsession is at the moment with 'fat pensions'. Pensions are far from 'fat', and (european) governments have been very dishonest about what will happen state pensions for decades. Government
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
> If only there wasn't a global power invading countries for oil reserves over the years and causing mass migration and destabilising those places? Do you think that's the only reason for 'mass migration'? Consider
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
Channeling your inner Douglas Adams.
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
The automotive part is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_flux_motor#Automotive > Mercedes-Benz subsidiary YASA (Yokeless and Segmented Armature) makes AFMs that have powered various concept (Jaguar C-
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by DrBazza 4mo ago
And is development of batteries (and better magnetics) not just chemical engineering and material science? Motors might be a 'solved problem' - there might not be much innovation, Maxwell's laws aren't changing any tim
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by DrBazza 5mo ago
Although the Government (and local Government) can employ 'heads' at market rate. It's just the rank-and-file that have banded salaries. When you realise that any Government is ultimately a business, it's revenue is mos
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by DrBazza 5mo ago
Before 2004 there used to be a decent number of antipodeans working in finance in London. After 2004, the numbers dropped noticeably. This feels apt: https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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by DrBazza 5mo ago
> „Poland is the largest beneficiary of EU funds 2014-2020, with one in four euro going to Poland“ https://www.gov.pl/web/funds-regional-policy/poland-at-the-f ... Update: The comments below this are strange. Th
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by DrBazza 6mo ago
I read the post yesterday, and read it again today before commenting, and it's not really self-indulgent waffle. Ghostty might be an open source and free product, but that doesn't mean that Mitchell in particular, that works on it
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by DrBazza 6mo ago
> The problem is a management pattern: removing people and organizational slack because they don’t generate immediate profit, and then expecting the knowledge to still be there when it’s needed. It's always seemed to me that the pro
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by DrBazza 6mo ago
Crossing the Atlantic and the discovery of the Americas? How many deaths were acceptable during that initial period of exploration? That’s where we still are with space. And the atmospheric entry is still the same as 1969. Physics doesn’
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by DrBazza 6mo ago
Which are the US made computers? Start by excluding all the ones with Korean LCD panels, and Taiwanese motherboards, and Chinese parts. If you mean assembled then there are lots of very small European companies that make custom build PCs
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by DrBazza 6mo ago
If you work in finance, you've probably just bankrupted your company. Nanoseconds matter. Clean code tends to equal simple code, which tends to equal fast code. The order of items in memory does matter, as does cache locality. 32Kb fi
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
If we're talking about fitting a quart into a pint pot, it would be remiss not to mention Elite fitting into a BBC Model B, 32kb, and the excellent code archaeology of it, and variants by Mark Moxon here: https://www.bbceli
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
Same. I watched last night, UK time, and I couldn't shake the worrying feeling. I was relieved that they got into orbit. Now I can be a little bit excited until re-entry. That worries me for the same reason. In the UK as a kid, whe
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
C++ isn't the first language to do things, but was/is often the first mainstream language to do things. And then people complain about C++ for doing it wrong, or its complexity, and show language 'X' that does it better&
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
> better API documentation and conventional coding tools Agreed, and it depends on the language I suppose. I'm a C++ developer and when you start working with templates even at a non-casual level, the compiler errors due to either
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
There are still large untapped known fields in the North Sea within UK waters adjacent to the same that Norway are still profitably using. There is also vast swathes of UK waters that are unexplored, and are currently artificially expensiv
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
Today is abnormally windy in the north of the country, and sunny, so this is not unexpected. By their own data, today is about 18GW for wind, and this time last week it was 3GW.
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
No candlestick maker? I'm disappointed ;) My local highstreet also had several betting shops where none previously existed. It's quite depressing really, and gambling invariably targets the poorest in the community. https:&#x2F
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
> Here are three stories about the state of gambling in America. Here's one story about gambling in the UK: the TV advertising is relentless and out of control after 9pm due to legislation passed in the early 00s. Gambling can qui
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
Most of the other replies to this hit the nail on the head. A human writing some poor, but working code that is supposed to be a demo, goes to production 9 times out of 10. Then it becomes critical infrastructure. Then management cannot und
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by DrBazza 7mo ago
> memory bandwidth is always the bottleneck I'm hoping that today's complaints are tomorrow's innovations. Back when 1Mb hard drive was $100,000, or when Gates said 640kb is enough. Perhaps some 'in the (chip) indust

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