Posts by Korev 6375 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Aug 2016
I've spent most of my career in a regulated industry, it's actually much easier for the ISRM/QA/Whatever to say no than to find an acceptable compromise.
The best person I ever worked with in this field was a rare exception, he used to have a great "Tell me what you want to do and I'll help you get there" approach. Luckily for him and less so for us he saw the incoming changes to the company and decided it was a good time to retire.
> Ho back to buying CD's and merch, it's the best thing anyone can do.
I've taken to buying downloads[0] on Bandcamp Friday, I almost see it as a donation to the bands I like
[0] And then streaming the songs anyway as annoyingly it's easier than playing your own downloads on my smart speakers
I used to work somewhere with an office on the border between France and Switzerland. iphones had just started to be given to people, but roaming charges were still insane. Apparently the phones belonging to people in one building with poor mobile reception flipped to the other country's network and then ran up huge phone bills.
It didn't take long for the order to go out telling people to disable roaming...
Modern science - from bioinformatics to astrophysics - depends heavily on sophisticated computer modeling, yet cloud providers' business-focused models clash with how scientific projects consume computing resources, argue Vanessa Sochat and Daniel Milroy, both post-doctoral researchers in computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
I don't know what the Astrophysics boffins get up to, but a lot of bioinformatics workflows are embarrassingly parallel[0] and work well with AWS Spot instances[1]
[0] An example would be the Fastq files from a sequencing run which need to be QCed and aligned
[1] Other clouds are available
