Posts by MrRimmerSIR! 152 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Nov 2015
Olli, I'm sure it's not just you. SQL may not be a general purpose programming language in the way that C is, but it is Turing Complete and at the end of the day all languages move bits. It's just that SQL is geared to moving lots of them at the same time.
"Column stores are just more efficient full stop. At least when you're talking about reads. They're slow for writes (cf Snowflake's newly announced row-centric engine for transactions), but the ability to pack identically typed values into runs of columns significant improves compression performance, and also enables encoding schemes like dictionary encoding and run-length encoding. You can then couple that with clever techniques like zordering on write for scan/seek performance that make traditional indexes-on-rows look like a clapped out volvo from the 1950s.
Or in other words Postgres should almost certainly just adopt Parquet as its column store and be done with it.
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Or get the best of both worlds, use SQL Server and have the current table configured with standard indexes and the history table as a clustered columnstore. No need to move data to multiple locations.
(without sounding too middle class). The manufacturer you are looking for is called "Miele". It was about double the price of an equivalent Bosch, but we got a 10 year p&l warranty on our current (and first Miele) washing machine. Virtually all our previous ones have lasted 3-5 years before becoming uneconomical to repair however one family I know have had their Miele for 20, and that includes washing the rather horsey clothing of their daughter (sounds posh, smells not so).
"On the most minuscule of majorities on an advisory referendum HMG has decided unconditionally that we leave"
A simple majority where 1.2m more people voted to leave than to stay, hardly "miniscule". It's called the democratic will of the people. You might not like it. I might not like it. But ignoring it would not have been an option for whichever government was in place at the time.
Sorry 45RPM, in your political zeal and general hatred of Thatcher you seem to be a bit confused...
"The sick man of Europe" label was given to the UK long before Thatch was in power:
"Throughout the late 1960s and 1970s, the United Kingdom was frequently called the "sick man of Europe", first by foreign commentators, and later at home by critics of the third Wilson/Callaghan ministry, because of industrial strife and poor economic performance compared to other European countries.[9] This era is considered to have started with the devaluation of the pound in 1967, culminating with the Winter of Discontent of 1978–79, the period between the Three-Day Week in 1973-74 and the IMF bailout in 1976 is generally seen by Britons as one of the darkest periods in the country's modern history. At different points throughout the decade, numerous countries such as Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, and Greece were cited by the American press as being "on the verge of sickness" as well. "
"The banks were supported through deregulation" leading to the banking crisis was Brown's doing=
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13032013. In contrast, Thatchers breaking up of the cosy City old boys network injected much cash into a stagnant part of the economy, making London the financial powerhouse that it remains (so far).
You are right about the lack of investment as anyone who remembers the Transputer would recognise. Unfortunately all governments, regardless of side, seem to shy away from that sort of investment as it hits the borrowing requirement. This is one reason why the railways etc. were privatised as that allowed them to search for capital outside of government restrictions. 40 year sof state ownership did not leave British Rail in an enviable state.
You're not an anti-semite? Really?
Perhaps you should read this example of a definition then...
https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/working-definition-antisemitism
"Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor."
Tick.
"Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation."
Tick.
i could go on but I can't be arsed to trawl through your other posts on the subject.
Do tell me how you're getting on with protesting against the Turkish genocide in or what Iran/Saudi Arabia are doing to Yemen. When you start giving a shit about all the other conflicts in the world (noting that the Syrian civil war for instance has killed almost half a million people compared to the 80000 in the whole of Israel's existence), then you can stand on your moral high ground preaching.
Perhaps you can tell me if this guy is an Israeli stooge then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=9-umTdeh_bQ
I'm sure your Arabic is better than mine, so please feel free to validate the translation from this article
https://www.memri.org/tv/hamas-minister-interior-and-national-security-fathi-hammad-slams-egypt-over-fuel-shortage-gaza
At least you don't try to dress up your anti-semitism.
So only Israeli media say they were members of Hamas? I suppose this site is part of a global Jewish conspiracy then... https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/50-hamas-members-claim-does-not-justify-gaza-massacre. Please let me know if I missed the refutation.
How about CNN? https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/16/middleeast/hamas-members-gaza-deaths/index.html
"those villagers to live on land that doesn't belong to them". From the river to the sea?
I think the IT angle is that even in this situation, you're bound to find a gaggle of geeks in a corner cooing over their latest gadgets, completely oblivious to the bacchanalian activities going on around them.
Mine's the one with the Gemini in the pocket (left in the cloakroom, obviously).
shags SSDs. I had been using qBitTorrent for a while until the cache SSD started to play up. Then I found out that libtorrent doesn't cache writes like uTorrent does, so the SSD was being hammered senseless. Switched back to an old verison of utorrent, without the advertising nonsense. One write burst every 2s is much kinder to the old cells.
Does anybody know of a decent client that runs under Windows and does not use libtorrent?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel-related_animal_conspiracy_theories
Vulture
In December 2012, a Sudanese newspaper reported that the Sudan government had captured a vulture in the town of Kereinek, which they said was an Israeli spy bird and was tagged in Hebrew and equipped with electronic devices. Iran's Press TV later claimed the bird was an eagle "equipped with Mossad’s tracking and other surveillance devices."
Ohad Hazofe, the avian ecologist, told Israeli news site Ynet: "This is a young vulture that was tagged, along with 100 others, in October. He has two wing bands and a German-made GPS chip." Hazofe denied that the device had any photographic capabilities. In an interview with CNN, he stated that "I'm not an intelligence expert, but what would be learned from putting a camera onto a vulture? You cannot control it. It's not a drone that you can send where you want. What would be the benefit of watching a vulture eat the insides of a dead camel?"
Two things I wish it had, which have stopped me from ordering up to now:
1. Backlight on the keyboard (would be so nice if the letters would light up like my HP Envy laptop, rather than glowing aroud the keys).
2. Mediatek SoC... AFAIAA, they have not released all kernel source code under GPL, which stuffs up custom ROMs and future versions of Android.
Nevertheless, we'll see what happens. Thanks El Reg!
I don't understand the moaning about "headline speeds", on an IT website of all places This is a brand new chipset for an as-yet unratified standard. Of course it has to be well ahead of the curve. I'm sure that in time infrastructure will change and make these chips (or their replacements) more useful, just as it did when we were all stringing up fast ethernet and 11b and 11g/gigabit was in the horizon.
Good to hear from someone on the inside. The key here is that it is not possible to lock down the apps or OS on an individual machine, so the bext that can be done is to have firewalls and other access control mechanisms in place.
And when a supplier fails to do what they claim to have done, there should be penalty clauses invoked to make sure they don't fail again. I wonder if said crap company has had moneys withheld? (yes, that was a rhetorical question, I think we know the answer).
It's all very well blaming "the NHS" or "the DOH", but both organisations are made up of people. Again, accountability should mean the pen-pushers responsible for the failures should be personally liable.
"However one side is supposed to be a first word democratic state so imo has far less of an excuse."
And that seems like a good point to end the discussion... classic case of one side being held to a far higher - and unattainable - standard whilst the other side is allowed to practice the most vile activities with impunity. So many examples from the treatment of the LGBT community through to the very words written in their respective constitutions. How any white middle class Graun reading, left leaning patrician can sit by whilst their unelected "friends" continue to make the lives of their own people as well as those around them so miserable is a continual source of fascination and sadness.
"It was routine for many many years and likely still is."
ohreally? Likely? Proof?
"What Hamas might do is irrelevant."
Of course it is. Because they are freedom fighters? So firing rockets from civilian areas is OK then.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/hamas-quietly-admits-it-fired-rockets-from-civilian-areas/380149/
What would any other country do in this situation? Ignore the problem?
Even UNWRA complained!
https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/unrwa-condemns-placement-rockets-second-time-one-its-schools
"Most Palestinians are not members of Hamas."
The point being?
Perhaps you should read the reports you site...
""The State of the World’s Human Rights,” as the annual report is known, documents human rights violations in 159 countries. A press release attached to the report highlights 22 countries as “examples of the rise and impact of poisonous rhetoric, national crackdowns on activism and freedom of expression." The list includes – although the report notes that it was “by no means limited to” – China, Egypt, France, India, Iran, Syria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Israel does not appear on this list.
The report documents how 36 countries, including Israel, broke international law by returning refugees to countries where their safety was at risk. It documents how people in 22 countries (not including Israel) were killed for peacefully standing up for human rights and how war crimes were committed in at least 23 countries (including Israel).
The report does not spare the Palestinian governing bodies either. “Neither the Palestinian government nor the Hamas de facto administration in Gaza took steps to ensure accountability for crimes committed by Palestinians armed groups in previous conflicts, including indiscriminate rocket and mortar attacks on Israel and summary killings of alleged ‘collaborators,’” it states. According to the report, Palestinians killed 16 Israelis, most civilians, and one foreign national in stabbings, car-rammings, shootings and other attacks last year."
S'funny how of all the countries reported on, only Israel gets its legitimacy questioned.
Perhaps you should read the articles you post links to...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/03/israel-soldiers-human-shield-palestinian
"Two Israeli soldiers were today convicted of using a nine-year-old Palestinian boy as a human shield during the three-week Gaza war in 2008-9 and could face a prison sentence of up to three years.
The soldiers, who ordered the boy to open bags suspected of containing explosives, were charged with inappropriate behaviour and overstepping authority in a closed military trial.
Israeli military protocols forbid the use of human shields."
So, two soldiers were convicted BY AN ISRAELI military court for breaking Israeli law. Can you imagine the same thing happening to a Hamas operative who did the same?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jun/10/israel
"The Israeli army said it "regretted" the deaths and called a halt to the shelling. It offered help to get the survivors to Israeli hospitals. The shells that hit Beit Lahia beach were the latest of more than 6,000 fired into the Gaza Strip by Israel over the past two months. One possibility is that they had fallen short when being fired at areas on the outskirts of Beit Lahia used by armed Palestinian groups to launch rockets into Israel."
etc. etc.
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