Posts by MrRimmerSIR!

Re: Next up....

You mean one of these? https://www.elpj.com/

Re: SQL and CSS? Programming languages?

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.

Re: *Ford Escort Mexico*

AC Cobra

"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.

They still do

(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).

Re: RE: Mooseman

"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.

Re: Is their hardware history better or worse than their software history?

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.

Re: Swiss scientists should expect to find a desire for cheese

Esuriant?

Re: If only...

You misunderstand (or maybe I wasn't clear enough). I was commenting on the OPs lack of understanding about why people commute rather than live near where they work.

Re: Democracy?

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.

@Terry 6

Just got back from Labour Live then? How was it?

If hospitals don't buy their equipment the industry might just start to listen."

If hospitals don't buy their equipment (from an industry where all the players operate very similar licence terms) people might die.

Re: Re BillG: Keep it going

Try Zoho email. I have finally succumbed to the new front end and I must say it's pretty good. Has a button on the right to view all attachments in one tab.

Re: Military operation

You actually believe the UN is impartial in this matter?

It was a stinker

I had very fond memories of watching Space 1999 as a kid so took it upon myself to acquire the complete set. They say never meet your heroes. I'd add to that, leave nostalgia where it belongs - in the past.

I haven't summoned up the courage to watch UFO yet. Could it be worse?

Re: libtorrent

I have (and used to have one) but wanted to keep the box as silent as possible without locking it away in a closed cupboard as there is nowhere else to put it. The sizzle of a continuously moving hard drive head was getting a bit irritating.

@Toilet Duk

Just like any other state. Care to explain the subtext of your sly comment?

@Christian

"payphones"

"fax"

1990 called asking for its technology back.

Re: Samsung needs to find Android buyers?

Random search found a phone with a rather similar looking screen. Obviously not the same one form out back of the factory for that price...

https://www.geekbuying.com/item/OUKITEL-U18-5-85-Inch-4GB-64GB-Smartphone-Black-392736.html

Re: Translation?

That's very naively sweet of you. You'd be surprised how many nutters there are in power - when you remove the democratic filter, all sorts of crazy get into power.

Huh

"Like Brexit, YOU LOST. "

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Re: Tax Laws

How many of the world's 5 largest economies are in the EU?

Average IQ

Presumably the average is always the same, as by definition 2/3rds are between 85 and 115.

I had a conversation with a friend recently who stated that she was sure that a larger percentage of the population had a below-average IQ now than 10 years ago.

Re: I work in the NHS

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.

Re: Confused AC

"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.