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by Zenst 6y ago
Yes we sure do like our Statues, also a penchant for people on horses as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equestrian_statues_in_...
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by Zenst 6y ago
Oh my experiences of the CV days when agencies would take your CV and send the client their formatted one (your contact details excluded of course) saw many fun times , today they kinda push the work onto you and just robot send what you gi
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by Zenst 6y ago
> This tradition lives on in the "Anyone but England" rule at sporting events... ;-) Yes, even in my youth as a child in the 70's/80's in football, nobody wanted to be England, so I get that. The panini football
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by Zenst 6y ago
> Given how much of EU innovation is bogged down by regulatory capture, I am extremely skeptical of this (note, I know EU/UK are separated, but nevertheless, lobbying is lobbying, universally) I share your scepticism about lobbying,
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by Zenst 6y ago
Yeah, though the UK has been playing Pokermon Go a lot longer than other countries, still - one persons invasion map is another persons exploration map. But certainly the whole grey area of exploration and invasion have been ironed out in t
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by Zenst 6y ago
Yeah, much that you miss out in history - I wasn't aware of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_expedition_to_Tibet "The British expedition to Tibet, also known as the British invasion of Tibet"
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by Zenst 6y ago
Related was how the Navy used to recruit, was case of if they could pass you a coin (shilling iirc) you had taken the kings money and was duly obliged to serve. What would happen is they would drop coins into unsuspecting drinks in the loca
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by Zenst 6y ago
The 386 was a 1000-1500 nano meter process, and even at that scale took 1/6th of the die space used by an RTX3090 today on 8nm process.
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by Zenst 6y ago
Very true, but they also do not own any chip Fab nowadays, having shifted that to Global Foundaries iirc. Which is one area that Intel still have in house. But given how much research IBM has done, I do wonder how many patents they hold i
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by Zenst 6y ago
Interesting, I was aware of IBM's work in this field and certainly an area they have been a bit more focused upon: https://www.ibm.com/security/services/homomorphic-encryption https://www.ibm.com&#
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by Zenst 6y ago
Sure, used to do kendo and professional swimming and was doing paint-ball tournament level. That all ended due to tendon issues, and also much lowered energy levels.
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by Zenst 6y ago
I became aware of them watching a documentary upon Hitler many years ago - he was a fan of them apparently. Though wasn't aware at the time and quick dig shows it's not something the health service in the UK offer even today. A
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by Zenst 6y ago
An experience I had relating to medications and the stomach: I had salmonella food poisoning, week later I'm better and then I get a call from doctor who had got tests back saying I had salmonella and was insistent I take this medicati
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by Zenst 6y ago
Not any time soon as can still buy them: https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/single-board-computers/125330...
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by Zenst 6y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26355480
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by Zenst 6y ago
Yes - it is exactly that, when the ocean is cooler than the above air is when this can happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fata_Morgana_(mirage)
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by Zenst 6y ago
Fun times and all in an era without raid storage, though the likes of Novell Netware soon did well addressing that in the years that followed. I didn't do much DBase work in that time, but did do Dataease https://en.wikipedi
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by Zenst 6y ago
Agreed and flying cars taught me this over several decades, as they have many others if they think about it. The valley between in the lab/prototype and commercial viable/practical is long and wide in some science.
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by Zenst 6y ago
I was sorting out some old box's just the other day and in one I found an old IBM PCMCIA Token Ring adapter, in the box with manual and connecting cable. I put it aside, it's so old that I won't ever use but probably niche e
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by Zenst 6y ago
I wonder if this will for some area's of science be a step like going from seeing the surface of your skin and then suddenly seeing it under a microscope and initially being shocked at what you see.
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by Zenst 6y ago
Given how many times in the past how electronic tech production has been impacted by natural disasters, from a simple few minute power loss down to earthquakes or tsnami's. It is somewhat worrying that with the shortfall as it is, any
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by Zenst 6y ago
Yes, I'm very mindful how companies and politicians have accidents like this - so may well be what I class as "tactile marketing" If we see some share or funding for that company soon, then that would be handy PR then. [EDIT
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by Zenst 6y ago
Sorry I took your reply as a reply to my post and the context from there. No idea what this current one does precisely but they do say they aggregate the data - to what extent I do not know.
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by Zenst 6y ago
Aggregated to hub level, actually Super Hub level, so for UK be a handful of aggregation at hour level at it's finest and this is chemists and hospitals orders for stock - not patient - however that does feed in and drive it. So very
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by Zenst 6y ago
> How does OpenPrescribing fit here? https://openprescribing.net/ After my time that, as mentioned this was 20 years ago, but interesting. Had a quick play, certainly few aspects come to mind and that would be looking a
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by Zenst 6y ago
I would focus upon the facts and not make large leaps without them to support such premise - otherwise it just reads like a conspiracy rabbit hole with the only tangible fact being he had a great grandfather who spent some time in prison fo
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by Zenst 6y ago
It is possible - depends how granular the data is. For example - drug manufacturers want to know demand so they can plan ahead. But in the UK, doctors, NHS, DOH etc don't share that data of usage as would be granular enough to be poss
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by Zenst 6y ago
Nothing comes to mind - and any crime his farther farther committed was paid for in a court of law. Was there something specific I'm missing? Maybe of more interest https://investors.palantir.com/governance/board
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by Zenst 6y ago
Actually had similar experience pen-testing a large financial institution. Was plotted up in their training room and was circa late 90's and I had a boot floppy distro (TRINUX iirc) which had the tools I wanted (tcpdump, nmap...). So
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by Zenst 6y ago
Would be better if they just did specialised versions of their datacenter systems geared towards the issue and capitalise upon it for a win win around. However as a stop-gap solution that won't impact many, but some crypto miners - I

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