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VAT is collected by the retailer and paid to the exchequer of the country of sale.

The VAT sum is recorded at the time of sale, but the whole amount sits in the company finances until the VAT is settled with the exchequer.

The company holds the VAT sum between collection and settlement, potentially benefiting from the temporary cash flow in that period.

That's how enterprise installations of windows work, and has always been a fully supported configuration.

It's just that they've been hiding it more and more for consumer installations in successive releases.

I guess their due diligence was less than stellar in that case?

That was a blast, MrStoofus waves goodnight!

Interesting, the R9's are cheaper than the previous gen. Hmmmm, that makes an upgrade tempting...

One of the videos from the well connected tech youtubers (I think it was GamersNexus) said that QA had caught the issue (if you push this bus too hard with voltage, there will be issues) but management ignored it because they needed to compete with AMD. There was also something about pushing previously binned i7 parts out as i9's by pushing the voltages to meet demand too. I'll see if I can find the reference a bit later.

That was the default for a bunch of 8bit systems, for me, the Spectrum series

What a blast from the past!

Awesome job, giving me all the warm fuzzies from when I messed around doing the odd bit of pixel art on my old A500 way back when :)

Eh, slightly faulty memory on the details, but it's here:

Part 1 - https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...

Part 2 - https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...

Still a clusterfuck all around though.

IIRC from one of the whistle-blower accounts, the main issue was that the Boeing computer system only had an option for fully removing the door, which wasn't done, only a partial removal to allow access to the parts needing work. There was then a disjoint between the Spirit work system and the Boeing one which resulted in someone saying "fuck it" and skipping it.

Let me see if I can find the account again.

I think they had a tug go out to drag it to deeper water and make sure it sunk - there was some ship (ocean) commentry I saw in a couple of places showing the tracking data.

Yes, a ship that big makes a big hole that physically allows the signals to escape the plasma envelope, but beyond that, it has to have a coherent signal with enough bandwidth for us to watch the video in high definition in near realtime, whilst thundering through the atmosphere at 20,000kph at the same time parts of the ship are being torn apart from the stresses of re-entry, which I find is astonishing.

I very much doubt that the same bandwidth and signal reliability is currently available from just "any orbiting satellite" outside of some military constellations.

4090 Founders Edition has listed Tensor TOPS at 1321 - assuming that it is actually a comparable metric

I'm quietly chomping at the bit for a Webb full deepfield survey rather than the hint of it we saw in 2022...

The government creates these laws, not the reining Monarch.

Royal assent is a ceremonial process at this point as the powers to refuse a bill are very, very rarely exercised.

Agnus got fat (then fatter and super-fat), Denise turned super, Paula remained true to herself :D

If you're near one of the plugged doors, they'll offer a premium bolt-tightening service as an upgrade, but you have to supply the torque wrench...

This. We’re using the this at my day job for the requirement for the runner to access private resources such as internal api’s etc

Eh, I messed around with it for a while - it's okay and good for beginners, but without much more effort you can get better results out of A1111 or ComfyUI

Yeah, it is, just need to set an env var of GRADIO_ANALYTICS_ENABLED=False to stop it - probably should be added into launch.py along with the other env vars being set at launch.

I think that's coming from gradio?

Yeah, looks pretty generic from a hardware point of view

The guy holds it up briefly on the video - it's clearly a prototype, but it's a small black box, open on two sides, one side with dual db9 ports, the other with the usual sbc ports, usb, hdmi, etc etc

Don't know which sbc it is, but it looks pretty simple, with the db9 looking to perhaps be a daughterboard/hat/extension hooking up to GPIO type connectivity at a guess

I suspect most of the development is in the software with the GUI, and licensing various packages etc.

I stand corrected :)

That doesn’t tell the whole story due to stock splits etc changing the unit stock price.

Yes, but there's a huge push at the moment to move to heat-pumps which will remove the need for natural gas for home heating. I did hear that there were also trials to shift from natural gas to either straight hydrogen, or a hydrogen/natural gas mix - but according to the people I had a conversation with, much of the infrastructure will need upgrading as well as all the gas engineers/plumbers needing retraining, given that hydrogen is much harder to keep contained due to the tiny size of the H2 molecule vs that of natural gas (mostly methane), as well as it burning differently so needing different internals for heating systems.

Answer is still roughly the same though, give it another 10 years or so and re-evaluate

Broadcom aren't on the list of HEVC licensors, so they haven't patented HEVC itself, but some related process of handling HEVC video...

Which begs the question, if it's an essential patent, why is it not part of the pool from MPEG-LA?

We've already had numerous periods where the UK's energy needs have been wholly met from renewables, there's actually a very good site where you can see all the stats from the National Grid in near real-time - https://grid.iamkate.com

If you adjust the time range to all time (it has data for the last eleven or so years), where you can see the total demand dropping, and the renewables overtaking all of the other production sources.

To be clear, there is still a decent demand to supply gap, but it is dropping year over year, and given that we've gone from an average of 2.5GW/day to between 10 and 13GW/day in that timeframe, another 20 years or so and we should start meeting demand with renewables alone.

I'm hopeful that newer technology in that timeframe coupled with lower costs will encourage more and more generation growth from the sector, especially if more local generation and storage is encouraged, for example home solar/wind and home battery combinations. We'd also end up with a much more resilient power grid if most of the day to day needs can be met from local power systems, with the main grid only needing to supplement high stress periods and industrial and public communal requirements.

From direct experience, this is incorrect.

The vast majority of the UK's cold winter weather comes from wind from the North-East, bringing in the much colder weather from Arctic/Siberian regions.

AMD doesn't make laptops, take it up with Acer, Asus, Lenovo, etc etc.