Re: It seems to have a bit of a lean going on
To me it seems it's only due to the camera angles, not every picture shows leaning
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In America, you pay to have a clean sheet.
It's just a modern form of indulgence...
Re: "Supercomputers can certainly do that. However The Register wonders if India might not be able to achieve those benefits rather sooner by using off-the-shelf kit rather than waiting to develop its own stack."
Yes, because depending on other's willingness to sell you cutting edge technology has absolutely no drawbacks. Just ask Huawei.
I had absolutely no fun with Access in the (late) 90's. I was called to "rescue" a largish occupational health company that had all of their information (I really mean everything, clients, contracts, test results, payroll) in a single Access 700 MB application. They had an hardware failure that crashed the .mdb and their most recent backup copy was over a month old. Unfortunately (for them), we were unable to restore it, we only managed to salvage parts of tables, unlinked to anything else. They ended up losing several contracts over the issue.
Think they learned the lesson? Think again, they rebuilt from the backup copy and manually reinputed all that could be saved from the crashed file...
It's only good until people realise the problems that may come with second-hand ownership of Teslas
A colleague of mine used to have a book to read while stuck in traffic. Once she was interviewed by a TV reporter who was doing a piece about the really bad traffic jams on that particular road As you might guess, she wasn't moving much if a reporter managed to have a conversation while standing outside her car...
Mercury, gallium and indium are all liquid at NTP, and all are metals too. In physics, being a metal is more commonly regarded as being electrically conductive. Lots of elements not classified as metals become metallic under high pressures and temperatures, while other lose their metallic properties under those conditions (like sodium)
Don't forget the grudge for the empty seats on his comeback rally in Tulsa, which many attribute to a campaign launched on TikTok
When there was at thing called ‘tourism’ in the world, I did a cruise on the Nile river.
Enjoying myself on the top deck, I didn't understand what the fuss was about when the boat's employees started dismantling the tents that provided some well needed shade.
Then we passed under a bridge that I could touch with my hand if I'd wished to.
Watching more carefully, I noticed that every other boat we passed by also had those removable tents on top.
Never read about any accident resulting from that particular set-up, though.
Just an example of one of those subscription scams a close friend fell for: https://www.trustpilot.com/review/bilablau.com
She had to cancel her credit card to stop payments being sent
They've been going on at it for years and the authorities don't seem able to stop them - although they've been reported to the police in 2018 (and probably earlier, they most probably are the one that has complaints from across Europe)
Just the other day I was talking to a friend about derivatives (the calculus type) and she asked how I'd define them. After I gave her a brief expo, I picked my phone to look for a more exact definition.
I typed d-e-f- into the google search box and the first suggestion was "Definition of derivative"
What are the odds?
On a side note, I don't have google's voice assistant enabled
ah yes, I remember sometime ago a coworker learning that deleting records from an in-memory array meant it could also delete them from the database, depending on the parameters used for creating the damn thing.... not a fun weekend for him, recovering information from backups and transaction logs.... at least he learned (as did others - natch - by example) that everything should be thoroughly tested before deploying in production, even seemingly small changes.
"(...)111 who will transfer to Capgemini under the Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE) regulations.
The Register understands that of the 111, 80 former Partners could be made redundant."
Funny how the part about "protection of employment" doesn't seem to mean what it says...
What I really had on the back of my mind was this Ren & Stimpy episode...