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by arethuza 7mo ago
Well I'm pretty sure that Vulcan still isn't there!
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by arethuza 7mo ago
Maybe I should have mentioned that was about 50 years ago - still a good book though!
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by arethuza 7mo ago
On that second point - I can strongly recommend the book Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath%27s_Curse
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by arethuza 7mo ago
My mother bought me "The Planet that Wasn't" when I was a kid - excellent book that I re-read many times: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planet_That_Wasn%27t
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by arethuza 7mo ago
One of my favourite Robert the Bruce stories is about all the adventures his heart had once he died and it was removed from his body: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Teba
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by arethuza 7mo ago
Indeed, but it's interesting that it is included in the Declaration of Arbroath asking the Pope to recognise Scotland's independence - I think it might have been to emphasise that it wasn't just about his wants but all of t
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by arethuza 7mo ago
Robert the Bruce, King of Scots, held his position on the condition that "...if he should give up what he has begun, seeking to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to
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by arethuza 7mo ago
Our house sits on a small basalt volcanic plug and the solid dark rock lurks not very far under our garden - 100m north of us and its sandstone, 100m south and it is limestone. Digging a hole of any depth would probably require explosives!
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by arethuza 7mo ago
"exceptionally short-sighted Brits" Probably something along the lines of "nice nuclear deterrent shame if it was to stop working" or "nice carriers, shame if the only aeroplanes that can fly from them stopped worki
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by arethuza 7mo ago
How do you define "gambling" though - the YouTube ads I see for crypto trading apps and outright betting apps look very similar. Mind you I don't gamble or "invest" in crypto...
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by arethuza 7mo ago
In Scotland and, I think, Wales there are no subscription charges at all.
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by arethuza 7mo ago
"Surely I could do a mediocre job as a CxO by parroting whatever is hot on Linkedin" Having worked for a pretty decent CIO of a global business I'd say his main job was to travel about speak to other senior leaders and work o
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by arethuza 7mo ago
Worth noting that "eligibility for COVID vaccines" is for "free at the point of delivery" NHS treatment - you can still get it elsewhere at any age. Boots (a major chain of pharmacies) do it for £98: https://w
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by arethuza 7mo ago
That was my experience in the 80's - we were taught theory, we had to apply the theory in projects so we spent lots of time programming and getting stuff working - but we were pretty much expected to pick up particular languages, opera
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by arethuza 7mo ago
I would think that the existence of a flawless predictor is probably more likely to indicate that memories of predictions, and any associated records, have been modified to make the predictor appear flawless.
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by arethuza 7mo ago
About 20 years ago I quite liked the idea of becoming a CISO - the CIO I worked for at the time talked me out of it - saying that the role would largely involve being ignored then, when something inevitably did go wrong, you'd get sack
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by arethuza 7mo ago
A Culture Mind would at least have a clear set of objectives and a plan for how to achieve them? "Bomb everything forever" doesn't seem very like the Culture at all?
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by arethuza 7mo ago
About 20 years ago I can remember a German colleague describing the quality of engineering by Mercedes as a "national disgrace". I wonder what he thinks now!
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by arethuza 7mo ago
"Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune the cost of which should be shared by the community.” Aneurin Bevan
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by arethuza 7mo ago
"an honest assessment & making us part of the journey to overcome whatever adversity" I suspect that most people just aren't wired up that way - we have a natural tendency to want to follow leaders and what we seem to w
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by arethuza 7mo ago
I think I'd rather work with very wide tables than the entity-attribute-value approach - which seems like a good idea but rapidly becomes a mess...
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by arethuza 7mo ago
That could you used like RAM like the delay-line memory used by early computers!
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by arethuza 7mo ago
Litigation funding is essentially just another asset class for investors: https://thehedgefundjournal.com/the-emerging-market-for-liti...
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by arethuza 7mo ago
At my last job (about 7 years ago) someone treated a tab delimited file as a CSV file and managed to import it into a critical system. It kind of look like it worked but then people noticed that it was actually garbage and there was no obvi
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by arethuza 7mo ago
SOAP always seemed to mostly work then if something did fail it was an utter nightmare to work out what the problem was - WSDL really wasn't much fun to read. Whereas when REST APIs came out (using JSON or XML) they were much easier to
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by arethuza 7mo ago
A good biography of Maxwell - "Fall" by John Preston. And he apparently stole £763m...
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by arethuza 7mo ago
I've never been interested in contrived puzzles like Rubik's cubes or even crosswords - but an actual real puzzle like "why does this call fail 1% of the time" could keep me enthralled for days/weeks until I either
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by arethuza 7mo ago
I suspect ~200 years ago in England people were saying pretty similar things!
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by arethuza 8mo ago
I don't think "Britannia Unchained" manages to achieve the level of nonsense.
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by arethuza 8mo ago
Is that "pass" still worth it though? NB I have no idea - ~40 years since I did a CS degree!

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