Re: Radiology room colours
Well yes, reductio ad absurdum can always be demonstrated.
But I recall out of date and useless PPE material being a major news item a few years ago
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I think you mean "verbatim" , found in the Results dropdown, which is itself hidden till you click 'Tools'
And yes Google are tools.
BUT you can't make it the default AFAIK
Several years ago you could but effing Google stopped that, "Oh no, we can't make things easy, our mission is to spew garbage at you"
I went to a branch in a Surrey town and said "Why don't you look up my prescription from last year, it was done at the Chiswick branch?"
"Oh no we can't access anything else"
So the sytem isn't very integrated.
The franchise owner's daughter thought she was the boss even if she was only in a sales role and went round supervising everyone.
Watching it got very annoying.
Much simpler to use geothermal for residential heating. It has to pass more regulatory hurdles and a lot are closed loop so the circulating injected water never leaves the underground pipes.
Here's a scheme up and running in Wandsworth London:
https://www.sseenergysolutions.co.uk/news-and-insights/case-studies/wandsworth-riverside-heat-network.
They also have to remain under the property footprint so they don't extract heat from their neighbours' land.
You and I can read much faster but many people prefer a video.
I've recently been documenting a porject and have written a 36 page PDF with plentiful screen grabs.
I've now had to do videos for the damn thing.. and you know what.. they do show a lot of steps in much better ways - the watcher can follow the pointer and see exactly what happens.
But I don't make stupid jokes, play silly jingles or put up images that are meant to elicit laughs. There's no sponsor, no begging to subscribe and I keep them as short as possible.
Text for the bright ones, videos for everyone else (lol)
Or the absurd default 'search' - it uses stemming so if you search for 'wedding' it will return any mail with Weds in it - that widely used short version of Wednesday.
Stemming can't be disabled.
So you have to use the "control shift f" search feature and enter a load of filters before it will do a search.
The date field in those filters defaults to "Date is" whereas 99.99% of real life searches you want "Date from".
Then it has a horrible way to remove a folder or sender from your search results, so it can easily take a dozen clicks to filter down to a usable list.
It's like nobody ever at Moz has used Thunderbird to do real emailing - any long term user will tell you the search is garbage.
I spent several years working in Singapore thirty years ago.
All the taxis had speed warning systems. Inside the vehicle a little bell would go .... ping .... ping .... ping - and a light on the roof would blink so the rozzers could stop them.
As a passenger you got used to the incessant ping, it's not a big deal really.
>>On the other hand, I've seen several 'impossible' projects deliver eight/nine figure returns in short time with tiny teams. Done well, with a good team, it really, really works.
Yes because a small team has very little comms and management overhead - they can talk to each other.
The top person probably also trusts the colleagues not to need constant checking.
But a team of two or three in *separate* locations exponentially multiplies the coordination required and the possibilities for misunderstandings and borkage.
Nope. Once you buy a company you take on *all* their responsibilities.
It's called due diligence.
That Fushitsu sat there 20 years ago and did not say "you know what, we need to fix this at our own expense" shows them to be in it up to their necks.
And WTF were the Japanese board doing when reviewing their foreign ops?
I wonder if Fushitisu have a 'Corporate social responsibility" statement on their websites.
There were far more than that. There were plenty of cases that never got to prosecution because the subpostmaster made up the shortfall with their own money and with it was smaller sums they would often choose to ignore after giving a warning.There were problems even with the test rollout scheme done in the late 1990s.
There is no excuse - and, dammit, the developer's job is to examine those edge cases and figure out where the hell they come from.
The Reg should write a proper piece on the technical details of Horizon. There's plenty on www.postofficetrial.com
For the version in use till c2010 it seems the PO branches wrote to an xml file for each transaction - but a single free text field for date, time, amount, item detail - seemingly not node based.
At the end of each working day that lot of files got parsed and sent over to a central server - a system called Riposte was the intermediary, supplied by another company, Escher Group not Fushitsu.
Who needs experts.
The vendor of a faulty product is only liable up to a point.
When the user carries on using it after learning it's faulty, dangerous and a potential killer the blame moves up the chain.
The PO is in fact owned by the Government trade and industry department. That's right, it's owned by the Government.
When the PO sacked the external forensic auditor - put there in the first place by a parliamentary committee - then the minister would have been informed.
He would then have told his boss of the potential shitshow - and they all looked the other way.
My computer went tits up this week, weird errors and blue screens and then it lost the SSD, all in less than an hour.
I needed to get to the Macrium Reflect backup on my other HD but no SSD meant no Windows, so I had to reinstall from disk while realising the SSD was toast.
At least got the new install onto the SSD but I couldn't believe the flat screen monstrosity of W10 I was seeing, slidey this and that and big buttons everywhere. WTAF.
I must have made so many tweaks I have something that looks like W7 - classic shell of course - but then who knows what else I've switched off.
Realising something was still a bit iffy I opened the case and decided to wiggle all the wires and hey presto everything was working perfectly.
The Macrium Reflect back up worked and I only lost three days of email. I don't even need the spare SSD that's arrived.
I wish could get on with Linux.
Even the Google 'verbatim' button shovels crap.
I end up with the 'verbatim' setting on, then sets of words in quotes and it still shovels crap.
If only I could lock verbatim to 'on' - and yes there used to be a plug in that did that.
Whenever I try DDG it's no better. I've even tried Bing, it's not so annoying but results are even vaguer.