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by steve_gh 4y ago
16 + (2 * 5) = 26 In my book that is 6 month's pay
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Pycom Ltd – In Administration(pycom.io)
3 points by steve_gh 4y ago|1 comments
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by steve_gh 4y ago
There is now a banner at the top of the PYCOM homepage: PYCOM Limited – In Administration On Friday 16 September 2022, Matthew Fox of Beacon LIP Limited was appointed Administrator in the High Court of Justice. The Administrator seeks to ac
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Skoda is part of the VW group, as are Audi and Seat. There are some common parts used across the group, from chassis and engines down to much smller elements. But the different marques have different feels and appeal to different markets. S
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by steve_gh 4y ago
I discovered Ruby in 2001. It's been my go-to language ever since. I can write in other languages (mainly C, C++, Python and Haskell), and most certainly read a multitude of other languages, but Ruby just hits the spot.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Now here's a question: Suppose we trained the open AI model on the entire corpus of pop hits from about 1960 onwards. What are the chances it would get sued for copyright infringement. If the derivative nature is clear in the same mode
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by steve_gh 4y ago
I think I like SQLite as it is. It's a great piece of code. And I think using the Rule of Benedict as a code of conduct is perfect. All these young'uns reinventing the wheel...
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by steve_gh 4y ago
You know, that's a pretty despicable attitude. The coroner's judgement (which I'm presuming we will see in more detail soon) basically calls attention to the fact that social media algorithms (which are designed to maximize e
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Quite frankly, you are hugely privileged to be earning at that level. The median average salary in the UK is just under £26k. Also, when you are that income level, there are a number of tax benefits you can enjoy - for example the first £40
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Many more than that. Pre-pandemic Bath was quite busy in the mornings. Only 75 mins from Paddington, good comfortable trains, and always a seat, so you could work. What's not to like
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by steve_gh 4y ago
That'sodd. I travel on French trains regularly (Both TGV and local). I have always found the French train system to be easy to navigate, and clearly signed. The trains departures and platforms are always on big screens in the stations.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
This: "You can always rewrite software. Rewriting bad data is not only difficult but often impossible."
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by steve_gh 4y ago
>I believe that this is a fundamental problem of testing in all distributed systems: you are trying to test and validate for emergent behaviour. The other term we have for such systems is: chaotic. Good luck with that Emergent behaviour
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Deep... and interesting. Will need to think hard about this. Possibly with a glass of cyrogenic brain coolant (Chardonnay)
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Hmm. A few thoughts. There are alternatives to the Prussik such as the Klemheist which don't jam as badly. I wouldn't use a ring bend - the double fisherman's is superior for tying rope or cord ends together to create a sling
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Just tried it on VSCode. The Penumbra light doesn't map very well in a few places. If you open the "Editor Playground" page, some of the code samples have some pretty unreadable sections, because the background grey is too cl
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by steve_gh 4y ago
For OLAP applications (heavy on reads, pretty much no writes) I find a local SQLite has far superior performance to eith cloud based Postgres or SQL Server instances. YMMV.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Me too! Wonderful film
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Without these chips, we are in big trouble, and Britain has no strategy(news.sky.com)
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Either Teams etc just work and allow screen sharing, or they doesn't.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
My first job (in my gap year) in the mid 80s was in the research labs of a major chemical corporation. There was an onsite bar next to the canteen. A pint on a Friday lunchtime was the done thing... then back to working with all sorts of na
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by steve_gh 4y ago
The last race had some truly horrendous decision making by the race director, which led to Verstappen / RBR being gifted the race. That is very different to cheating. There is no question that Verstappen raced well, and was within the
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by steve_gh 4y ago
There is an interesting development going on to electrify some of the UK rail lines - an OverHead Line (OHL) - battery hybrid system. The idea is that you have a standard electrified OHL system where it is easy and cheap (!!!) to install. P
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Really good clear explanation of the issues. The group I work in (Amey Consulting) have built a couple of systems for Network Rail here in the UK, called Quartz and Cosmo. These are analytic systems examine rail delays and delay propagation
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Hmm. I entered "kingdom of heaven" - and it returned a ProtocolError Seems kind of appropriate. Obviously it is easier for a camel to thread the eye of a needle than to get a semantic search on the Kingdom of Heaven.
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by steve_gh 4y ago
In the UK we count ballots manually. We have 90%+ of results overnight. There is even a race between a few constituencies to be the first to officially declare a result. These guys are really well organised, and for a few days it is a huge
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Here's the basic problem. Network Rail (the UK's national rail track authority) runs a timetabled service. So they have planned where every train should be at any moment. The underground is a metro service. They are not trying to
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Depends where you are. Food deserts exist, even in relatively affluent countries. The range of goods at a supermarket is different in Bath (affluent) to Maerdy (poor).
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by steve_gh 4y ago
No
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by steve_gh 4y ago
Interesting piece. From my position (running innovation programmes inside a big mature organisation) the idea of channel / offer fit is just as important internally as externally. You need to be able to explain the idea in ways that in

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