mgilroy

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by mgilroy 5mo ago
One of the issues is that you can't watch what you want on one paid for service. I would happily watch my football team play on the telly if I could watch all the games for a reasonable price. However, you can't pay to watch all t
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by mgilroy 6mo ago
Nightingal, and Robertson before her, argued for better designs in hospitals to overcome these issues. We are over 150 years on from this arguement which has already been proven. Using a digital sensor isn't required. The spread of var
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by mgilroy 6mo ago
I think the more interesting question is how much longer does oracle have and at what point does a hostile takeover make sense. Their databases are heavily used in government, banking and other large industries which have been slower to ada
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by mgilroy 7mo ago
I think it's a reasonable idea. It's mostly going to affect the "luxury" brands who attempt to limit price reductions. Perhaps it might encourage producers to do smaller runs to confirm interest before massively increasi
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by mgilroy 8mo ago
I'd argue that it has failed in some organisations. DevOps for me is embedding the operations with the development team. I still have operations specialist, however, they attend the development team stand ups and help articulate the pr
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by mgilroy 9mo ago
I was very specific in using the word generally. I taught a mixture of computer science and electronic engineering students. About three to four times more electronic students were competent for every computer science student over the years
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by mgilroy 9mo ago
The issue with the software team using an FPGA is that software developers generally aren't very good at doing things in parallel. They generally do a poor job in implementing hardware. I previously taught undergraduates VHDL, the soft
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by mgilroy 11mo ago
Are we making a joke about software developers chance of getting any of the nine to sleep with them? You can't give birth to a baby in one month using 9 women.
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by mgilroy 1y ago
I was asked to sign off on an R&D tax claim for my team's work. I reviewed it and said no. Was then sent to a meeting with the accountants who explained the claim was based on what the CEO had told them. We went through the details
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by mgilroy 1y ago
I created an account because I didn't have one. I just thought I'd correct a comment which was ignoring what actually happens in the UK. We have wild herds. In the Highlands they can be massive herds. I've known a few people
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by mgilroy 1y ago
Visit Scotland. We've plenty of wild deer. There are even herds in Glasgow. Highlands are covered in them. We have road signs to warn drivers.