Posts by Fara82Light

Forked-off Xlibre tells Wayland display protocol to DEI in a fire

Scenarios benefiting from X Window system

Are there any specific platform architectures that benefit or even depend on the capabilities of the X Window system?

Waymo problems in La La Land as robotaxis set aflame

It is not a protest if those involved resort to violence and damage to property.

Tesla FSD ignores school bus lights and hits 'child' dummy in staged demo

I think these road behaviours can be localised. I have lived in various parts of the United States over the last three decades, and if anything, I have found ordinary USA drivers to be far more conservative than UK drivers. Both countries have individuals who have no regard for others, let alone highway regulations, but they are the exception. The USA is a big country, and it is always a mistake to assume the alleged characteristics are universally applicable.

"There's a million people who die in car accidents every year"

The figure for the USA in 2022 is reported to have been just over 42,500. If you are going to exaggerate on minor points, it tends to undermine trust in whatever claims you make.

Tech suppliers asked to support single electronic health record across England

Re: As an ex NHS PAM.,.

I have just been through the NHS for a series of treatments. The Doctors at my GP practice and the three hospitals I was treated at within the same health trust all had access to the same medical records via one system, but none of them had spent the time to read all the pertinent details whenever I met them.

Re: Prove it.

The claim is just social media-originated nonsense.

"It's something that should be run in-house, not farmed out to the likes of Palantir nor should it be in a public cloud."

Why?

Point 6: How would you go about determining what is a "suitable subset of the data"?

Point 5: Are you aware of any of the existing standards used in the health profession? What about the classification system for a start?

Point 4: There is a lot more to formalising systems specifications than suggesting the use of XML.

Point 3: Why?

Why should the records be held by the GP?

Re: Secure and Private Until...............

Just because you have not heard about it does not mean it has not been happening.

Re: Can we talk to others

Very true, however, I think we would be horrified if NHS England's staff expenditure on business-related foreign travel was made public.

Few government agencies in the UK have people who are sufficiently competent to negotiate technology-centric contracts.

Re: Secure and Private Until...............

Paper records are less secure than electronic records.

Standard APIs would be a step in the right direction.

"The real objective here is a package up all the data nicely and make it easy to sell on the open market."

No it is not.

NHS Progress

In the last two to three years, the NHS has started to show signs of progress. My local hospital has almost entirely shifted to the NHS App for letter and message delivery first. This saves so much time with letters previously getting lost in the post or turning up perhaps two to three weeks after posting. There is still a lot of admin work required to get this aspect of the service right but it has been a big step forward from a personal perspective.

Re: Decentalise It

One technical concept hardly scratches the surface of the problems within NHS IT.

New Intel boss is all about ‘deleveraging’ the x86 giant

De-laborating

I wonder if CEO Lip-Bu Tan even knows what he means.

India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots

This will not be a surprise to many.

Dev loudly complained about older colleague, who retired not long after

What would younger people know about quality of work nor be in a position to judge the work of an experienced member of staff?

Time to make C the COBOL of this century

Constructive debate

Provocative articles may help boost the readership but they hardly help with actually informing the debate around tackling the practical and cost issues any such migration away from C would encounter.

Voda-Three name post-merger top team, keep schtum on layoffs

The merge will be for the better and will allow the three remaining mobile operators to concentrate on the premium customers via the rebalancing of the sector.

EE's service in London is now excellent. Claims about it being otherwise do not standup to inspection.

UK council selling the farm (and the fire station) to fund ballooning Oracle project

Re: Oracle

Is it not in part because councils and even government agencies are not doing the due diligence in advance of signing such contracts? Not many councils will have access to the technical experts essential to giving these sorts of projects a solid foundation.