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   by arethuza 7y ago

   I remember an occasion a few years back where a colleague of mine was getting a VPN connection from the UK to a middle east site working - the Cisco partner couldn't get it to work and said "We don't understand why it doesn&#
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   I don't expect end users to have VS Code or VS Studio and things are tested in end-user appropriate environments? I don't see what development tools and target environments have to do with each other - 'bloat' in the lat
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   People used to fret about emacs being "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" I'm running all this stuff on a beefy desktop - I don't really care if it takes 200MB RAM to open a file as VC Code has lots of features I r
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   Well, Teams is using less memory than Skype for Business that I also have running and compared to Visual Studio and multiple browsers windows I have open they are hardly using anything. Edit: Yes, I think Electron/nodejs are "bloa
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   Presumably with Autopogo so you can have a nap or read HN while pogoing about? Edit: Could we have self-pogoing pogo sticks that could come and pick me up? What a bright future we have waiting for us. Edit2: What about delivering pogo stick
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   I have MS Teams and VS Code, both Electron apps, open and they seem perfectly OK to me - in fact I am surprised by how little memory they use.
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   "I am not an animal brain, I am not even some attempt to produce an AI through software running on a computer. I am a Culture Mind. We are close to gods, and on the far side. We are quicker; we live faster and more completely than you
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   Ah - my mistake - should have read the article more carefully! We could always do what we did the last time we forgot how to build submarines and simply ask the US how to do it?
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   by arethuza 7y ago

   I would think "yes", "yes" and "yes" to all three of those questions. You don't want to give anyone an excuse to start invoking lawyers. You could ask for explicit permission - but there is a good chance (
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I hardly think this is surprising - countries that use the same reactors for power generation and production of materials for weapons are going to have some cross subsidies of some kind. What I find surprising is that nobody ever comments o
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    If you have signed a contract saying that anything you do on their laptop is their property and then you go and distribute that publicly then you are probably violating the confidentiality parts of your contract. Personally, I would never d
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    "There are no up-sells." That's not completely true - when our son was born we paid for a private room in an NHS hospital. Mind you that was ~20 years ago don't know if they still do it.
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I agree about how good it is - I don't think anything on TV has given me the same sense of existential dread since I watched Threads on the BBC when I was a teenager.
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    On Sky here in the UK it does say that it is a co-production with HBO Miniseries.
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    Actually, you see the explosion in the distance at the start of the first episode from the Ignatenko's apartment.
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    As the writer of the series had said: ".... The lesson of Chernobyl isn't that modern nuclear power is dangerous. The lesson is that lying, arrogance and suppression of criticism is dangerous. The flaws that led to Chernobyl are
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I'm a strong supporter of the Scottish Government line on immigration: Migration is crucial to the development of Scotland as an inclusive, fair, prosperous, innovative country ready and willing to embrace the future. It is essential
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    Yeah - we have all the gear for making sure remote access to meetings works really well (cameras, screens, hand held wireless microphones etc).
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    And like any tool they can be abused - I really like Excel but I've seen it used for things that were unwise . I've spent months reverse engineering a vast, complex, costing application that had evolved within a spreadsheet and n
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    That is very much the case here - I often have no idea whether someone I am communicating with is in the office or somewhere else - although always amusing to realise that an online meeting actually has all the attendees sitting a few metre
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I work in a company where there is a mix between people who are always in the office, some who work 2 or 3 days at home (like me) and others who are mostly remote. Seems to work pretty well - so it's certainly possible.
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    A few years back my employer took over a floor of offices that had previously been occupied by a small financial services company - they had installed loads of very obvious cameras in the ceilings. Although I was pretty sure they weren&#x27
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I still remember the conversation with a senior IT support guy who had been sent my way by the CIO - "<boss> says to speak to you as email is broken". "How much of it is broken?", "All of it".... The chea
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    "running your own mail infrastructure" - I once got responsibility for a complex email nightmare dumped on me (tens of thousands of users, hundreds of domains, hundreds of servers) and I had no idea the vast number of entertaining
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I was at a conference once where someone was presenting and describing something where they used Hadoop to do pretty simple processing on ~30MB of data and the audience appeared to be lapping it up. I just sat there thinking I could probabl
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    I promise to pay the bearer the sum of 1 ton of C02 on demand?
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    Yes - you can see the differences between the coastal towns and the ex mining towns in this map of social deprivation in Scotland: http://simd.scot
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    Garden, walk, cycle, fish, run, hunt, sail, ride horses, keep bees, kayak, swim, view historical stuff.... [I'm just naming things that people do within a couple of km from where I live]. NB Personally I garden, walk and look at myster
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    It probably depends on a lot on the region within the UK - towns in ex-industrial areas might be shrinking but those within commuting distance of a city or in areas with particularly high quality of life and good communication links seem to
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    by arethuza 7y ago

    CO2 sequestration?