phaemon

Looks like: https://fosshost.org/news/ampere-computing-fosshost-partners...

Not due till December.

Very similar comments were made when a 25GB HDD was announced: http://web.archive.org/web/20001219170800/http://slashdot.or...

I like the look of the Cybertruck. It's like the truck Automan would drive!

That isn't what democratic means. It has nothing to do with which laws are passed, it's about how they're passed.

Well, they say "Our English masks this", which suggests they're talking about contemporary English and offering the lack of past division as an explanation for a lack of current division. I don't buy it. In fact, prior to broadcasting, the differences were greater I reckon.

> Our English masks this because anciently it seems never to have had such a high-low division

What an odd assertion. There's a massive difference between "proper English" and how it's commonly spoken. Reading something like Trainspotting makes that evidently clear if you happen not to chat with ordinary people regularly.

I think that example just emphasises Reelin's point. Perhaps there was a temporary effect of more tellers, but now they've been entirely replaced with software - to the point there are many Internet only banks with no physical branches - and bank branches are closing down all over.

I'm pretty sure that "24 hr of food deprivation on a daily basis" would leave you dead!

> £40/MWh estimate for wind included gas power generation

No, they're totally separate things. It's not "wind and gas" as a single entity, it's "wind farms supply power to the grid at £40/MWh and gas plants also provide power to the grid at £40/MWh". In other words, it just means they cost about the same which is half the cost of nuclear. There is no 30/70 split as you imagined.

Which makes sense. Scotland gets around 90% of it's electricity from renewables, of which around 70% is wind power. It couldn't possibly do that if your figures were correct.

It's described in the article linked above:

"Some of these drinks are unfamiliar to us. “Lisbon” was probably a white wine from Carcavelos, near Lisbon. “Mountain” is a sweet and luscious wine from Malaga, in southern Spain. “Sitgis” is probably a muscatel or malvasia wine from Sitges, a port 20 miles southwest of Barcelona. "

(it's unlikely to be that non-alcoholic drink, as he's specifically recording the alcoholic ones he's consuming)

> This is why I can't take HN seriously

You've had your HN account nearly twice as long as the person you're replying to. Why do you think they are HN, but you are not?

They weren't wrong at all; they were right.

I suspect you are the one who is confused: the UK is on BST in the summer, and GMT in the winter. GMT is identical to UTC to the nearest second. GMT is not defined as "the current time in Greenwich", and I suspect your confusion is because you think it's "Greenwich Meridian Time". It's actually "Greenwich Mean Time".

The maritime museum at Greenwich is pretty cool though, as is the old observatory. You can see Harrison's clocks there.

Or, nobody cares about fractions of a second when organising a meeting, so to all intents and purposes they are the same.

A pun that actually works better in the English translation as Dogmatix.

As has been explained in the other comments, Door A has a 1/3 chance of being the right choice and Door C (the unopened door) has a 2/3 chance of being the right choice.

All true... but if you toss a coin to choose whether to switch or not, the odds are 50:50...

Paper is at https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article-abstract/495/3/3403/5...

(Not free I'm afraid)

Perhaps just a typo, but since I've seen this mistake before: it's "tenet" rather than "tenant".

Except it isn't. I assume you're referring to the Norway Oil Fund, but literally the entire point is that it wasn't simply spent in country, to avoid the "Dutch Disease". You can read the McCrone report to see the principles. It was written for Scotland but Norway actually followed the principles.

Also, you're ignoring Sweden and Denmark. Many countries have discovered oil - the USA is a massive producer, far more than Norway - they just didn't create a fund with it, preferring to give the profits to the few.

The Greenland icesheet has not stopped melting. It's currently losing around 200 billion tons a year:

https://files.springernature.com/getResource/Shepherd%204158...

I'm not aware of any shortage of masks in the UK now. There was at the start. You can buy a pack of 10 FFP2 masks (the EU equivalent of N95) on Amazon right now (ships from Germany): https://smile.amazon.co.uk/medisana-Respiratory-Protection-3...

Perhaps they've not got the US certification and therefore US hospitals can't legally use them? Doesn't stop anyone buying some for their family though.

But Linux Magazine still exists? I ended up with a subscription to it when Linux Voice closed and got folded into it. I get a copy once a month in the mail.

EDIT: Ah, it seems it's called "Linux Pro Magazine" in the US. Maybe a different "Linux Magazine" you got?

Yes, that's why we only get 90% from renewable. 10% is not.

Out of interest, what percentage are you at?

Interesting. I suppose "insulation effect" would be more accurate, but I guess it's too late to change it now.

Well, we don't have"randomish power cuts" so I guess someone solved that problem.

While your point is accurate, I'm not sure it's in any way relevant to this. Perhaps a different discussion on bigotry within tech would be the place for this.

No, it's opposed by people who are numerate enough to understand that nuclear is ludicrously expensive and completely unnecessary.

I live in Scotland. In the past 20 years we've gone from around 12% electricity from renewable to around 90%. The last coal fired station closed in 2016 and we've not added any new nuclear in that time.

This is usually the point that someone handwaves that having more money and more people makes you less capable than Scotland...

We don't know the full story because the V devs deleted it. Experience tells me that people tend not to delete stories that paint them in the better light.

It's vaporware until it we exists. Perhaps it would be kinder to call it "conceptware" but who really cares?

Oh, and the vast majority of commercial software firms have absolutely terrible communication. And, yes, they do not work effectively.

I feel like I am destroying an optimistic world view here, which is the last thing I wanted. There are many excellent and exciting places to work. Don't let an old man's cynicism put you off!

No, the best response, if the devs truly felt the criticism was non constructive, was to ignore it.

Having read the posts, it seems perfectly reasonable criticism, with enactable improvement. The dev response seems immature (at best) to me.

To put it another way: if this was a commercial product and my team came whining to me about this, I'd tell them to grow up.

When given criticism, banning the critic from ever contributing is a ludicrously adolescent response.

I'm going to guess (at least I hope!) that you're inexperienced in the professional world. Well, in the adult world you will face criticism for what you produce constantly.

Some of that criticism will be fair and you'll be able to act on it - you can improve what you've done. Some will be fair but you can't act on it - you can't change it in time or on budget and that's not your fault. And some will be completely unfair - it's simply not accurate.

You need to develop a mature response to all these scenarios. But sticking your fingers in your ears and going, "lalala I can't hear you" is not one of them.

Fair point. I think I'll take a short break from commenting as clearly I'm getting a bit snappy.