drbw

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by drbw 8mo ago
In the UK, yes.
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by drbw 2y ago
FWIW, the UK Met Office's models are described here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-sys...
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by drbw 2y ago
Yeah, it was definitely inspired by the Eye.
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by drbw 3y ago
Blimey, that's an address I haven't seen in a long time. Happy times downloading Amiga shareware from a university computer lab. And now I feel old...
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by drbw 3y ago
Try this from Fermilab's Dr Don Lincoln: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zspu7ziA8Y
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by drbw 4y ago
Next stop, Arisia!
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by drbw 4y ago
Yep, after years of being a couch- and desk-potato, this got me out and running. That, and having a young and energetic dog in the early stages of lock-down! I've managed to stick to 5-10km every other day (though it's a challenge
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by drbw 4y ago
Astrophysicist YouTuber Dr Becky covered this last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJR3lenz1I
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by drbw 5y ago
Yeah, I've seen "Vitamin D enriched" mushrooms at the Coop supermarket in the UK.
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by drbw 5y ago
As the old saying goes, "normalize until it hurts; denormalize until it works".
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by drbw 5y ago
So pretty much the Blazor Server approach in the Dot Net world then?
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by drbw 5y ago
As the article says > The details of how AlphaFold 2 works are still unknown, and we may not have full access to them until their paper is peer-reviewed (which may take more than a year, based on their CASP13 paper). So it's not par
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by drbw 6y ago
Yeah, it's practically archaeology now! It is very fast for doing some things, though. If anyone's interested in it from a Dot Net perspective, ExcelDNA [0] was excellent when I used it a few years ago. [0] https://exce
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by drbw 6y ago
Try this episode of PBS SpaceTime which goes into the dichotomy between GR and QM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNEBhwimJWs .
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by drbw 6y ago
No, but now I'm thinking about the early days of Slashdot, when "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" was a common in-joke. Along with the obligatory dozen claiming to be "frist".
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by drbw 6y ago
Pretty much - I started work before even internal email was a thing, so everything was done on paper. And often hand-written paper at that. Hell, I made the first Word template for a work-item ticket! Before that we had custom forms to fill
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by drbw 6y ago
I spent most of the money I'd saved from my summer job during my first year at university on a 42MB hard drive for my Amiga just so I could play Civ I without continually swapping floppies. ... and now I feel old.
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by drbw 6y ago
Or use something like Nexus or Artifactory to host a private copy of dependencies.
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by drbw 6y ago
I haven't used SSIS since about SQL2008 - back then it terrible to use with version control - not only was it a huge blob of XML, it had more xml escaped and shoved into attributes of the main document! Whats more it seemed to re-all
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by drbw 7y ago
Aren't things like $filter, $orderBy etc. straight out of the OData standard[1]. [1] https://www.odata.org/
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by drbw 7y ago
I think it uses it: https://thenextweb.com/security/2018/06/26/mozilla-bakes-hav...
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by drbw 7y ago
Maybe, but he's always been lazy and unwilling to do much actual work, apparently [1] his headmaster wrote to his father in 1982: Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude to his classical studies... Boris some
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by drbw 8y ago
Yeah, but there's no local variables or dynamic memory allocation (from what I remember of COBOL85 on Tandems, anyway)
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by drbw 8y ago
There's a good episode of PBS SpaceTime about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs
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by drbw 10y ago
No - they mean hydrogen ions, which are just bare protons.
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by drbw 10y ago
> they will have to outlaw inability to decrypt. The UK's already done that - the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 already made it an offence not to divulge encryption keys when asked. [1] 1 https://wiki.openri
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by drbw 10y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that I can remember that the NOP opcode was EA. Amazing what sticks in your mind for almost forty years...