steve_gh

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   by steve_gh 9y ago

   One issue is that in the UK, there is a tax called "National Insurance" or NI, which was originally intended to fund unempoyment benefits. As an employee, you have to pay a certain % of your wages. But the employer also has to pay
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   by steve_gh 9y ago

   I work in engineering consultancy. Some of our best consultants come from non-engineering backgrounds. Two in particular - one is an architect by training, the other an ancient historian, with a background in reconstructing ancient power hi
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   by steve_gh 9y ago

   The DUP (a right-wing / unionist Northern Ireland party) has a gun to the UK Gov't head at the moment as the Government needs their votes to stay in power (and do Brexit). 4,500 jobs is hugely important to that economy, and by ext
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   by steve_gh 9y ago

   I remember a 3G network signalling simulation I worked on back in about 2002. We ran it on a rack of custom servers. The CPU load was pretty hellish, and the only way we could get it to run reliably without segfaults was to install gaming c
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   by steve_gh 10y ago

   I was involved in a project that measured the fuel consumption of 1-2MW diesel gensets a couple of years back. It is not that hard...