arethuza

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   by arethuza 3y ago

   I must admit that I'm in Scotland and my son went to a couple of private schools (though they seem to call themselves "independent" schools) - never heard anyone referring to a public school other that in UK media discussing
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   UK "public schools" are pretty much a subset of private schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_school_(United_Kingdom)
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   "People could attempt to replicate something close to his methodology, guidelines and levels of engagement" I wonder how close are we to getting an AI to do this kind of work? Pretty far I would guess?
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   And pi squared if it is a new team doing something new...
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   "Places that value that shit speed at any cost eventually go bust" That has not been my experience...
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   Admittedly we only lived in two flats - maybe we were lucky? Edit: we lived in two flats for a total of nearly 25 years!
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   I lived in flats in the New Town of Edinburgh (i.e. fairly old buildings) for ~30 years and never heard a sound from neighbours - probably because the walls appeared to be ~1m thick sandstone!
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   Apparently Rowling thought of Hogwarts before moving to Edinburgh - but it seems a bit of a coincidence that Heriots school is right next to the graveyard with Tom Riddle's grave: https://www.pottertour.co.uk/blog&#x2
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   by arethuza 3y ago

   Or on the banks of Loch Shiel in Scotland? [NB This is based on me recognising the landscape in some of the movies, apparently the books say it is near Dufftown - which is on the other side of Scotland]. I had also assumed it was the school
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    Fair point - a two seat estate is a bit odd, unless you go down the shooting brake route... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_brake
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    Sounds like a Citroen Ami? https://www.topgear.com/car-reviews/citroen/ami
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    So how do you turn on and adjust wipers in a Tesla?
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    Advocates are the Scottish equivalent of barristers - specialised lawyers who can appear in the highest courts. During training one of the things they have to do is act as an unpaid assistant for a senior junior (but not a senior!) advocate
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    I believe a very basic rule-of-thumb for lawyers in court is to don't ask witnesses questions you don't already know the answer to. Edit: I remember my wife telling me this during her time as an Advocate's Devil.
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    I have to say that I really like the Welsh names: Eryri for Snowdonia and Yr Wyddfa for Snowdon itself.
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    BB(748) - BB(745) is probably the largest value that anyone has ever described as "tiny" :-)
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    YAGNI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    I think GP practises were always privately owned?
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    I suspect senior management who hire that consultancy know exactly what will happen but they need the cover to be able to say that they had "independent" management consultants come in and look at the business and give their &quot
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    I have a book about the management consulting industry that suggest there is at least one large successful firm of management consultants where the answer is always "fire 23% - 33% of your staff" regardless of what the question wa
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    It can also circumvent in-house infrastructure teams - who I used to find were a far bigger challenge than purchasing. I used to work somewhere where the main mission of the infrastructure team seemed to be to prevent anyone actually runnin
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    Which is pretty much the plot of the excellent For All Mankind - basically how I expected things to progress when I was a young kid in the early 1970s.
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    You do see people arguing for running SQLite in-process rather than using a separate database server like PostgreSQL?
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    So how do you tell and how long do you have to wait - because the difference only ever seems to come visible with a certain degree of hindsight and/or luck.
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    Is there really much difference between being a "pretty smart guy" and convincing people that you are a "pretty smart guy"?
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    "the honor of fighting Cthulhu" Didn't work though?
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    Just don't make the mistake of going for the "Unlimited" option in ABC... Edit: I wonder if cloud brain emulators would censor inappropriate thoughts?
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    "God knows what else" AFAIR not only would SLAM arguably be a WMD in its own right but it would also be dropping multiple H-bombs along the way.
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    The town in Scotland nearest to where I live, Burntisland, has docks and they have a huge crane there - at Xmas the company puts a Christmas tree on top of the crane about 65m or so up. It's quite bizarre as when it's dark (and
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    by arethuza 3y ago

    You don't need to disable the system in a technical sense, you just need to persuade management/ownership that it might be a good idea to take the hint.