DrBazza

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by DrBazza 10mo ago
The number of deaths due to the Kim dynasty is in the millions, including their kwanliso murder camps and man-made famine, and vastly outnumbers war casualties unfortunately.
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
This release of MacOS is the most retrograde backwards step I've seen Apple make. To use a famous movie quote: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
Publicly, it's about oil, privately, it's also about China getting a foothold in South America, on the USA's doorstep and denying them a source of cheap oil from the world's largest proven reserve. It's the mod
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
The only 'leaders' that end up in the Hague and convicted are those forcibly captured via military action. And those 'orders' declared by the UN can, and be vetoed by China, Russia, USA, UK, and France. Guess which two
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
On the other hand, in an alternate reality, this could be preventing a North Korea style dictatorship. Or to flip it, had the USA stayed in South Korea and carried on fighting, it might have prevented North Korea and the Kims and saved lit
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
Well, 'western' 'rules based order' involves democratic elections and being in 166th place for government transparency isn't a good sign. Appointing your successor isn't exactly democratic, in fact it's v
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
And simultaneously denying China a source of oil and (yet another) foothold in South America on the USA's doorstep? It's like Cuba all over again.
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by DrBazza 10mo ago
The unstated implicit difference between online and real world interactions is that you talk to people in real time, can't scroll by, block a person, or be rude to them. Well, you can, but, good old fashioned discourse, and friends te
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
When I graduated, ahem, a few decades ago, the main difference between Oxbridge (maths graduates) and non-Oxbridge, specifically the Cambridge Maths Tripos, was that is was teaching the same content it had for the previous decades, whereas
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
The same could be said of Jira. I could switch on the dev console in the Browser, and see which one loads the largest amount of Javascript, but I'd be disappointed with both.
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
I like to think the Plumbob bore cap overtook Voyager 1 quite some time ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
The cost of nuclear is two fold - government bureaucracy, and the lack of commercialization due to decades of misinformation from the eco-groups. The plans just to build a tunnel under the Thames in the UK in 2025 is over 2 million pages at
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
Fisherman frequently dredge up stone age (or earlier) implements from there.
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
> they _really_ hate nuclear The general public don't understand nuclear. And we can thank CND, Greenpeace, and the mainstream press of the 60s onwards for regurgitating their misinformation and poor science as fact. Modern desig
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
British Telecom. Party lines and waiting a couple of months to be connected were part of the fun times in the 70s. Imagine having one mobile phone provider.
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by DrBazza 11mo ago
You mean the Harrow, Lewisham and Hither Green accidents in the late 50s and 1960s under British Rail? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rail_accidents_in_the_...
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Welcome to the UK and its innovation hostile environment. We don't have the US culture of throwing VC money at things and seeing what sticks.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
> I am not sure how we silently got ourselves into this position Two things: 1. converting all the old Polytechnics to Universities, in 1992, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universities_in_the_United_Kin... followed
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by DrBazza 1y ago
This chap https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/?m=1 Goes into all sorts of London miscellany as well.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
No mention of Spring Heeled Jack? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack
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by DrBazza 1y ago
I'd argue the database falls into that category. The two questions no one seems to ask are 'do I even need a database?', and ' where do I need my database?' There are alternate data storage 'patterns' tha
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Don't forget that the recipient countries of immigrants are brain-draining the countries they're leaving. Arguably those motivated individuals are precisely those that should stay in their country and make it less 'bad'
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Following the 'American Dream' in the UK isn't the problem. No one I know in the UK wants that. It's hugely more nuanced than that. Culture requires groups of people with similar views, opinions, and values. And that
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by DrBazza 1y ago
That first paragraph made my head hurt. A lot of contortion to avoid saying 'Intel has slightly more than half the (edit) revenue in the server market'. I thought I'd find a chart, best I can do is here: https://w
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by DrBazza 1y ago
It could be worse, it could be 'learnings'. It's lessons. We don't go for 'drivings'. Though ChatGPT will probably force more nonsense like that into the mainstream. That's from the last decade. 'P
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by DrBazza 1y ago
There's more of a production line when building Starships, with modern mechanised tooling - much of it computerised and 100% repeatable. There's been at least 10 so far, vs only 15 Saturn V, 3 of which were ground tested. https:
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Whenever we talk about space flight, this movie quote comes to mind: "You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest bidder." Starship
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by DrBazza 1y ago
No. We were typically indifferent to our Government. Very much a case of 'go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over.' But substitute 'tea'. But in the last couple of decades,
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Barns was a particular favourite from my university years. Imagine my surprise encountering 'mb' and it wasn't millibars. Then again, I also had to deal with microhertz and nanohertz.
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by DrBazza 1y ago
Portability to other CI/CDs systems is an understated reason to use a single build command.

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