DrBazza

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by DrBazza 4y ago
There I was thinking my 90s code at Megabank that’s still running was an achievement. Fwiw it was and still is a simple time series db.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Yes. I used avocados as an example because everyone is well aware how large the seed is. I couldn't find the original reference, but there's a few papers on how there are South American plants that now geographically isolated be
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Glyptodons in South America made huge burrows: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/get-lost-in-me... Then consider that plants have a symbiotic relationship with animals. And think about the size of Avocado
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by DrBazza 4y ago
This is a point that seems to be completely missed. This is cost push inflation, but the UK government is trying to use the usual tactics to control it - tax and interest rates. To be fair, it's what current economic theory prescribes
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Exclamation marks always remind me of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9mRtTahZTM
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Not really the ‘tories’ just some of them. The northern Tory MPs certainly want it. It is funded by long dated bonds. Not immediate taxation as it’s a nationally significant capital project. So cancelling bits of it looks good on paper
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Cut and cover though. Dig a cutting in a road. Put the top back on. Met line, District line, Circle line.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Frankly, the change in the way the stories are written is probably more to do with the evolution of the internet as another form of media. I can remember when the BBC website launched, and it was clear that they, and everyone else, had no
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Yes, I'm in the UK. BBC used to be my "news of last resort", in the sense that it was the least worst of all the UK reporting. But with things that you mentioned and recently Martine Croxall [1], I've pretty much switch
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> My blood does boil even there, with the subtle editorializing tell us what to feel about what is essentially a neutral news item, but it's much easier to control than the online media. The article is on the BBC news site. As some
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I think everyone on here appreciates obits for tech pioneers, particularly those that are less well known. Frankly there's not a lot of websites, if any, that publish obituaries for anyone other than people like Steve Jobs. It's
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The one regret in my life I’ll never have is “I wish I’d worked longer hours”.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
For all of El Reg's tongue-in-cheek reporting style, they do a tip-top job on obituaries. https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/24/in_memoriam_stephen_w... https://www.theregister.com/2021&
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Just wait until you get old... a "few" years ago, starts becoming a larger number...
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Nice achievement. Curious about this though: > building the compiler itself used to require 9.6GB of RAM, while now it takes 2.8GB. Why is the RAM usage so high? It was only a few years back and we were building C++ compilers on machine
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I could have written your comment myself. When I was a kid, my neighbours in the 70s were exactly who you're referring to. An Asian-Ugandan couple who worked and worked and spent everything on their two daughters, who were a bit older
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Parent comment has been edited, but either way, it is referring to Sunak being a billionaire and out of touch, which apparently is "a bad thing". Despite the fact he comes from just about the most modest background possible. Whic
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by DrBazza 4y ago
The previous 'run off' had many candidates where the one with the fewest votes (by MPs) was eliminated until there were 2 and then those 2 candidates were put forward to members of the Conservative party (80,000 members). Party me
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by DrBazza 4y ago
In 2022, the 'working class', are in offices, working. Which I suspect the PM, and government ministers all do. And often for longer hours, and over weekends. > Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton[10][11] to African-
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Agreed. I'm fortunate that I have a room that I can work in and close the door.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> I know that "the office" is a bad place for a lot of people. There's certainly a number of us where 'work from office' (WFO) really means share a vast open plan area with people and all their annoying habits. T
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by DrBazza 4y ago
China doesn't want alliances, it wants 'tribute', indebted countries, and vassal states. Russia is fooling itself if it thinks it has a strategic alliance with China. I would not be surprised if the Russian parts of Manchur
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by DrBazza 4y ago
What part of going to university aged 18 to get a junk degree, just because that's what's expected, and tens of thousands of pounds of debt by the time you're 21 is absurd, is wrong? In the UK in 2022, if you're not i
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Political influence and knowledge of the UK system. It's a well trodden path. Credit Suisse paid almost a million for ex-PM John Major to work 'part time' for them after he left government.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> Ha, a generation of English students will thoroughly enjoy this. They might well do, but it was their parents that didn't stop them and say 'perhaps you ought to get a job, do an apprenticeship, or basically anything other th
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by DrBazza 4y ago
In terms of personality he seemed pretty decent and professional. Perhaps it's just rose-tinted lenses, but as every year advances, the current crop of politicians in all parties just seem to be worse, and more childish than the previo
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by DrBazza 4y ago
I thought there was another name for it, but it seems that the Wait Calculation, is applicable right now, i.e. if we send something now, we might as well wait for X years and send something that's faster and will over take whatever we
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Were the background checks for a remote job? That would makes sense. Employing someone several thousands miles away in a foreign country requires a certain amount of due diligence, especially to keep the (tax) authorities happy.
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by DrBazza 4y ago
> "[Company I've never heard of] and [Another company I've never heard of], I'm going to guess you're under 30? Amongst the many things Tibco sold was Rendezvous, which was extremely popular in the banks for runn
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by DrBazza 4y ago
Obligatory - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98... Missiles don't really need GC or RAII. They have their own special resource clean up.

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