DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
The UK has grade inflation in secondary schools (11-18yrs) to the point where year-on-year results kept 'improving' (because each year was more intelligent than the last, clearly) then we introduced A* above an A (because too many
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Low numbers in the 649 people that found and answered that survey, and are in the intersection of "people that answer online surveys" and "probably aren't beginners at C++". It would of course be helpful if all the
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> I've dropped it each time because while yes, things do work, they tend to STOP working And over 25 years of Windows updates, I've had breakages too. And I've had disastrous upgrades from XP->7, and 8->10. I'
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by DrBazza 4y ago
There's a Dilbert (rather than an xkcd for that). When everything is described by a superlative, really, it's just 'average'. Sites like Trip Advisor or Amazon, or anything with a rating system. The "average&quot
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Once a critical mass of pieces (planes/crew) were out of position the whole network fell apart, and it’s large enough that it seems like neither the humans nor software can easily reason about how to resume operations. Hence the n
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I really don’t. I’m just tired of anti nuclear propaganda when fossil fuels are demonstrably worse of deaths and pollution. For the avoidance of doubt I fly, and drive a dirty diesel car.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> when I said costs Sure :) I probably came across as a bit argumentative. I also meant to add that this was caused by a natural disaster as well, unlike Chernobyl. So nuclear is arguably even safer. Again, drawing a parallel with f
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Japan already paid the price of one costly lesson with the Fukushima Daiichi incident Once again 'paid the (nuclear) price', is 1 death. *One*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_dis
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> When our time passes, we will live as strangers in a strange land, drowning in the sea of nostalgia. I feel like that now, in my, ahem, later years, and watching the 20-somethings tie themselves in knots over things, that are actually
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Things I can think of that have changed since streaming started that are making streaming less attractive. 1. weekly releases of shows (episodes) instead of the whole thing 2. creep of advertising, including 'watch this rubbish trailer
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> This is why I don't understand nuclear power advocates: For one thing, it's 2022, not 1952. We have vastly better knowledge and engineering expertise to build safer, better, more efficient, less "polluting" (for s
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by DrBazza 4y ago
In the UK, we don't see a drug on the TV (other than headache tablets and cough syrups) and then demand our doctors prescribe them. We visit a doctor who makes a diagnosis and prescribes the appropriate medicine, if necessary.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I would have to check more of Ofcom guidelines, but it's likely in there somewhere that drugs (with exceptions you mentioned), like cigarettes are explicitly prohibited from adverts. In fact: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Sort-of-related, for Americans reading this, from a Brit, when I watch US TV programmes, the inclusion of drugs (prescription and illegal) in scripts is so matter-of-fact, it's actually shocking. Comparing like-for-like programs (poli
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The Thunderscreech had a supersonic propeller. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-84H_Thunderscree... Unsurprisingly it was noisy.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Naming is simple when the function or method is simple. Complex naming is often, but not always, a good indicator of complexity. Unless of course, it's Java... https://projects.haykranen.nl/java/
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I've just started at a company using MSSQL and it feels like a massive backwards step. This article indirectly shows what's missing with MSSQL - an 'ecosystem' of people developing products on top of it, and a much larg
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by DrBazza 4y ago
If I'm a shareholder of a company that builds office blocks, I'll be demanding dividends and a return on my investment. Unless the customer (e.g. Apple and their giant do(ugh)nut) specifically ask for something that isn't str
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> We're still in a nuclear war mental model. We can't build beautiful things if we think they'll be destroyed in a war. We still have a societal level PTSD from World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Soviet Union,
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by DrBazza 4y ago
10 year cycle perhaps? I had a 2012 MacBook and at the time it was the best laptop I'd ever used in terms of screen, keyboard, even performance. I upgraded last year to an M1 Pro, and once again, it's the best laptop I've use
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The UK recently demolished one of the few power stations that could restart the national grid via a jet engine. https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/watch-a-power-station-d... >To be able to restart the plant, it m
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by DrBazza 4y ago
It’s hand turned, profiled, and lacquered. It’s really nice. And the nib is fantastic.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I bought a hand turned fountain pen recently for around £100, and it is really nice to write with. A little bit like the article author, a nice fountain pen has made me enjoy writing again and I’m probably writing more than I have in years.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Never heard that quote before. +1
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Something that you, personally, could be reasonably expected to know pretty much everything about, whether that's an internal system, a public API, or tool. It's up to you whether the topic is transferrable.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Two bits of advice I'd add, from 30 years in the industry: * A colleague once said to me, a few years back, "become an expert in one thing", even if it's a small thing. * "My superpower is reading the manual"
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by DrBazza 4y ago
By bona fide London accent I mean that the way both sets of my grandparents spoke was different to each other in London and different again to their cousins that lived in Kent and Surrey. The Thames Estuary accent pretty much replaced the L
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by DrBazza 4y ago
How JRM speaks doesn’t bother me at all. Must be an age thing. What bothers me is the emergence over the last 10 or 15 years is the new London accent that was previously Thames Estaury in the 90s and before that an actual bona fide London a
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I’m curious why you think RP sounds stupid.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Using ffmpeg to stream for gaming: https://drewdevault.com/2022/10/12/In-praise-of-ffmpeg.html

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