Re: Bad choice of comparison
Indeed. Until you MAX it out.
Posts by Dante Alighieri
325 publicly visible posts • joined 20 May 2010
SpaceX set to surpass Gemini 11's altitude record with Polaris Dawn mission
City council faces £216.5M loss over Oracle system debacle
If a cheesy '80s flick is a good metaphor for how you run projects, something is wrong
Former Fujitsu engineer apologizes for role in Post Office IT scandal
Voyager 1 makes stellar comeback to science operations
BOFH: An 'AI PC' for an Acutely Ignorant user
Forget feet and inches, latest UK units of measurement are thinking bigger
Oracle Fusion rollout costs 15 times council's estimates in SAP rip-'n-replace
Tuesday 30th April 2024 23:37 GMT
Penalty clauses?
Quote 2(K/M/B)
when it is >2X quote - full refund and all additional costs at the companies expense - including any competitor that needs to remediate.
Doesn't cover scope change (cf catbert)
Not understanding the problem is too common as posted above x lots.
Councils never setting action thresholds (ok different from initial point above if needed - direction of travel not a destination) is stupid.
I do NHS and we are shit at changing process.
Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again'
Australia’s spies and cops want ‘accountable encryption’ - aka access to backdoors
Hillary Clinton: 2024 will be 'ground zero' for AI election manipulation
Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid's 'eye' is clear
Whistleblower raises alarm over UK Nursing and Midwifery Council's DB
Tech support done bad sure makes it hard to do tech support good
Systemd 255 is here with improved UKI support
Bank's datacenter died after travelling back in time to 1970
Friday 8th December 2023 19:58 GMT
Re: Time...
Where I work, the parts of diagnostics on the vlan (10*) have no access to the hospital LAN or NTP or elsewhere. Running 5 minutes or more adrift (flagged x lots to IT) meant I managed to time travel such that I issued a report on an image that had yet to be taken. According to the time stamps.
Love the NHS.
And our CT scanners will only do NTP with Japan.
I run my own NTP across the few computers at home. It just makes sense.
Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance
Excel recruitment time bomb makes top trainee doctors 'unappointable'
Thursday 12th October 2023 22:23 GMT
Re: The UK can no longer afford nor staff a viable health service.
NHS England is a government body
GMC is a government QUANGO - it s not a professional body - it is a regulator controlled by the government
AoMRC is run by those awaiting an honour (CBE/Knighthood etc)
RCoA is an independent body and nothing to do with the NHS. It deals with anaesthetists who work IN the NHS.
It fucked up
Almost as badly as the COVID excel shit.
Not my College (RCR)
And I am geek/nerd enough to do a decent job with excel.
And currently managing better SQL searches on local productivity than the flailing efforts of medical management.
Inclusive Naming Initiative limps towards release of dangerous digital dictionary
Healthcare org with over 100 clinics uses OpenAI's GPT-4 to write medical records
Tuesday 6th June 2023 22:55 GMT
VR
Several points.
I use VR for this purpose daily. Like all my colleagues it is full of strange typos. It is about the psychology of reading/dictation - you read what you said and it is *really* hard to pick up errors in your own transcribed output.
It is not just summarising the audio - it is pulling past medical history, other interesting facts and results into a report from the article.
Clinic summaries are not just a sanitised record of the consultation. There is also a synthesis of information into a diagnosis, problem lists and treatment plans.
No mention as to who or where that is happening. If only check and sign it hints at trying to be Watson.
Other wise there is a missing step of dictate outcomes.
Kyndryl, IBM sued for age discrimination by former global software director
BOFH: Ah. Company-branded merch. So much better than a bonus
Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun
Friday 12th May 2023 13:05 GMT
MEGA pedantry here
...burning gases...
There is fusion. there is NO burning, particularly no exothermic oxidation.
A suitable scientific response is on how the sun "burns" without oxygen
I shall pass over the ball of thermonuclear explosion as I bask in the warm glow of solar thermonuclear fusion.
India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios
Thursday 11th May 2023 19:33 GMT
Re: It isn't that they don't enable the FM radio
XCoverPro now obsolete due to google bloat and insisting 500mb is a shortage of space. Liked it wile it was usable. Bedside alarm now.
XCover Pro 6 looks smashing (including pogo charging but finding a base is not so easy). Would track one down if I was due to change but have a phone/pda to play with now. 2 USB C slots, and headphone socket.
Oracle's examplar win over SAP for Birmingham City Council is 3 years late
Balloon-borne telescope returns first photos in search for dark matter
Wednesday 26th April 2023 19:29 GMT 
So if it might land in water, why no airbags/floats on the project. Just asking. For the sake of a small additional weight, the ability to recover enough or it to reuse seems a missed opportunity.
[resisting voting on the ground level v above mean sea level / chart datum thing]
And if they add airbags I claim patent rights!
NASA solar satellite burns up over the Sahara desert
Sunday 23rd April 2023 22:28 GMT
Re: Proper engineering
Singer had to buy up the second hand original sewing machines and smash them to replace them with more "time limited" successors.
If you like your whisky (no e) you would know that the company that made the malt milling machines, sold 1 to each distillery (honourable exceptions of similarly long lived machines) and went bust.
Too reliable. Market saturation.
DOI been on 1 (or more) too many whisky tours in Scotland. Not like I could run one. There are 3 things you need...
Boffins think they've decoded mysterious 819-day Mayan calendar
Had enough of Android? First 'Focal' based Ubuntu Touch is out
Earth is running out of places for stargazers to do dark deeds in the name of science
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 20:18 GMT
Timed lights
Why can't we just switch off street lights 0100-0500 to give us all a break.
But also deal with light polluting domestic and farm lights.
I used to enjoy my local street light being broken. Now an ultrabright LED.
I live 10 miles (sorry I'll post the length in whales shortly as per the Reg standards) from a Dark Sky reserve,
so in the right places I can count a lot of stars in pegasus, or orion depending on which citizen science I'm doing.
Wednesday 22nd March 2023 20:14 GMT
Re: Climate small change
Thank you fir the hint, this is pertinent from NASA
--------> astronomer
Lenovo Thinkpad X13s: The stealth Arm-powered laptop
China’s Baidu claims its ERNIE chatbot reinvents the computing stack
Tech demo takes brain scan, creates a picture of what you're looking at
Tuesday 7th March 2023 19:31 GMT
Spin on article
Well MRI works by interrogating the spin of atoms.
What it *doesn't do* is spin a superconducting magnet around your body. The physics is phenomenal. TL;DR there is a gradient/shim field that alters the resonant frequency across the volume. Ping in some RF and you can read out the atomic relaxation.
What does spin 2 tonnes (230 Adult badgers or 1 1/3 skateboarding rhinocerii) around your head or body is a CT scanner, using slip ring (ooer Matron) technology - as pictured in the article.
It's my day job,,, and I'm licenced to play with the unsealed radioactive sources too
Google's big security cert log overhaul broke Android apps. Now it's hit undo
Norway finds a way to recover crypto North Korea pinched in Axie heist
Friday 17th February 2023 09:58 GMT
Return of assets
Unless it is a house in the UK.
Once the land registry is updated it is near impossible to revert the theft.
There are many stories on this.
Tenant updates land registry, sells house, runs away. There are some small protections at the registry but they don't make it easy.
Much more a threat to houses that are mortgage free.
Thunderbird email client is Go for new plumage in July
Tuesday 14th February 2023 21:10 GMT
Sink
It would be ~really~ nice if I could sync multiple accounts across devices. I mean profiles, preferences, plugins (ddone, extension whatever) etc, I don't mind getting my IMAP in real time. My Dovecot is sitting happily. But having added a number of new machines to my home, a sync like FireFox does would be 'neat' [all hail our USAsian overlords!]
No more rockstars, say Billy Idol, Joan Jett in Workday Super Bowl ad
Any iPad is foldable if you try hard enough but Apple guru says a hinged one is coming
If your Start menu or apps are freezing up on Windows, Microsoft has a suggestion
It's been 230 years since British pirates robbed the US of the metric system
Warehouse safety citations could cost Amazon seconds in revenue
Self-driving car computers may be 'as bad' for emissions as datacenters
Saturday 14th January 2023 10:48 GMT
Re: Our potential future is a carbon-heavy one
But if the business model changes to rent by the trip, the car can be used multiple times a day, scheduled for your routine.
It may even support ride sharing.
Reduces total number of vehicles on the road. Maximises benefit from a fixed resource.
As Henry Ford said, if you asked the customer what they wanted, the answer would have been faster horses
Biting the hand that feeds IT
