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“William Roper: “So, now you give the Devil the benefit of law!” Sir Thomas More: “Yes! What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?” William Roper: …

I stand corrected - that's useful to know as I only recently discovered buyer's premium when thinking about dipping my toe into the auction waters

It's probably even more than that with the "Buyer's Premium" tacked on - the Christie's cost calculator linked reckons that would be another EUR540,000 on top...

AIS is an aide to navigational safety, but cannot and is not relied upon as a sole source of data. Not every vessel is required to have it, or have redundant systems for it. As thi…

It's in the early days but this is exactly what Architecture the Hard Parts[0] is working on: finding for each system the right balance between pulling things apart and putting the…

This article explicitly goes down the "micro" in microservices route, which does have the problems you identify. There's an alternative school of thought that regrets, or at least …

Rural poverty is a real thing, and often overlooked by politics / media / society. Rural villages no longer tend to have a shop or post office, the bus services can be erratic and …

The supermarket ones are free - though only 7kW, as they're for customer use. I park up and go for a walk round the local park then do my shopping. For the rest I use Charge Place …

I live in Edinburgh, one of the more car-unfriendly cities in the UK and recently bought a Model 3. I park on the street, the city has gone nowhere with its plans to provide on str…

Looks very interesting and would be a huge win if we were able to use it - any chance Oracle support is on your roadmap?

It's more complicated than that - as the article says PE can be used to diversify an investments. If you have a few extra billion you might not want to tie it all to the performanc…

There is also BBVA's Mirrorgate that was inspired by Hygieia. It looks like Hygieia has been split out from Capital One and more connectors are being produced to make it usable by …

That may include tax credits, don't assume it is just "administration" costs.

Indeed - and there's no mention of any of this at https://hub.docker.com/_/golang - compare with https://hub.docker.com/r/bitnami/nginx that discussed non-root users and how to use…

The documentation may do but many of the official images run as root and provide little to no documentation on how to change that, the Bitnami images in comparison are light years …

It's a really satisfying thing to work with paper charts, rolling rulers and dividers. These days for proper navigational planning it is all ECDIS (or WECDIS for really fun stuff) …

Being punchy about it you've never moved on from thinking you need admin rights on your machine. Chocolatey for Business' self-service installer, SCCM jobs, and a variety of other …

The problem is that spending is at 38.95%, down from 43.75% in 2010. UK Government spending in real terms is best described at a plateau for the past 10 years rather than slashed. …

1799 originally, as a temporary tax to help pay for the Napoleonic Wars.

It also very much depends on who is doing the investing. If you're CALPERs with ~$320bn you don't want to put it all into the S&P 500. Diversification through exposure to other, id…

Good advice, I picked up some good phraseology for parts of it from the military: Your "1 up" and "2 up" (i.e your manager, and their manager) - what is your manager working toward…

Rancher has an "air gap" installation option, though requires you to be running your own on-premise registry (which you'll be doing if you're not sure you can use the public cloud.…

Drink driving rarely attracts a prison sentence. In the vast majority of cases it attracts a driving ban along with a significant fine. The sentencing guidelines have imprisonment …

Skype is / was not "a chat tool" - Skype was an opportunity to own the IP telephony space for both the business and consumer markets. That is potentially a huge revenue base, and f…

You are forgetting opportunity costs in besmirching "build fast" over optimising for TCO. If I can use the code to gain an immediate business advantage it is entirely possible that…