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Data Guy. OakTable member and cricket fan. Loves interesting problems and thinking. Niall sounds like the river. All views are my own.
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Gillan and Blackmore going at it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGdX...
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I have 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyfl...
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You toerag!
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Been there, listened to that. I'm now at the stage where my 18 year old describes in great and partisan detail the political events of my own twenties.
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This might on the whole be good news, at least to the extent that it keeps him away from the day job.
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Ah. I was safe. It gives off will massively overcharge you and make you think you are drinking in an industrial estate unit vibes. Thanks.
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That's why they want to do the deal with Putin and grab 40% of the minerals.
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Which is this nightmare? So I know to avoid.
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Love the anger building throughout. Marvelous writing.
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With a much better bar at the end!
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I am pretty sure that most responders to this would have deplored Trump saying in 2021 "We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore" with a fair number saying he should be prosecuted. For me either both should be allowed, or neither.
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FWIW, I think there's a reasonable amount of value in this, *especially* for large organisations that want to concentrate on their proprietary IP and leave the relatively low value-add of systems admin elsewhere.
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Personally, I think we passed that point about halfway through 2024. :( I have almost no confidence left in self managed Oracle Database as a long term serious proposition.
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I think there's a case to be made for reducing US bases or forces in Europe. Perhaps also adding punitive tariffs in Tesla. Play Trump at his own childish game.
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I suspect there's a big unresolved internal argument about this. If on-prem/self-managed is dead then announcing that will just accelerate movement away from the platform, why continue paying support fees for a product that is essentially EOL.
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Amazon has recommended just the thing for when I'm done.
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It's almost a quarter of a century old and the story it was based on was from the last millenium. I'm sure that'll make everyone happier.
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I suspect there's more than a few of us who work for American owned corporations. I've only ever seen EDI meaning Electronic Data Interchange (and not that for years).
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Requires a cup of tea and a sample to check.
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Yes, I have left my account there (as a record and to prevent it being reused), but there has to be a pretty good reason to actively use X.
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Perhaps someone should ask him if he is English or a Scot? Presumably, he has to pick one parent and go with it.
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That's truly terrible. More please!
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Well the BBC covered Cottrell's convictions and the 2024 trip when they happened. Pretty much none of the Guardian story apart from the polling is new.
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Harsh. But very funny.
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Well but they are American, now if there had been mass displacement of people during the formation of America that still causes grief and distress today maybe this wouldn't have been proposed.... Oh hang on a mo.
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Including MTG maybe.
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No offence taken! It's all about the audience I would say. The History of the World which is essentially exactly what you described had a regular audience of 4m, In our Time regularly has 2m. Neither of them would do anything like that on TV.
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Sort of like In Our Time then? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...
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Nor I.
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Top 10. (I know I know). The UK is regularly in the top 10 of countries for X, almost never top, very rarely other than very good.
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Oh Yeah!
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I think arguably we tend to think in terms of cooperation rather than solidarity and the usage of both seems to be on the up - perhaps not in news. I know they aren't the same; but I suspect the former is quite a strong "British Value" as politicians like to say.
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Ditto, although I note that almost every government that I can recall has been keen on simplifying planning, but not a lot has changed. Maybe that points to a required structural change rather than rule changes.
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I'd argue that "we need less regulation" is a very different statement than "we need a UK DOGE". On Musk's revised spending success measure of 1/6th of the budget, the UK would need to cut ~210bn from spending. That's the entire health budget or UC + Pensions. That seems unserious.
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It's notable that there is essentially nothing about the last government either (that isn't when I...) and that the only obvious proposal is to dump citizenship tests. There really is no story other than 'look at me' which I suspect is er suboptimal
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What is? That the UK government should cut a third of its spending? I'd be very surprised if they really want less educated staff, less spending on infrastructure and less healthy workers.
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No way the Musks or the Jenricks etc are going to war. Absolutely can see them sending others of course.