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Yet Another Sale Abroad. Not a criticism of the YASA team. It’s hard to scale a company in the UK and foreign investment is a good thing in general. But still frustrating that the …

An oily Stephen Maturin.

I was hoping this was going to be a malicious MCP from the good old days of security tool naming.

"Does this belong in..." seems to be nearly the correct question.

Stephen Maturin switches from opium to coca leaves about halfway through the Master and Commander series (around 1800). Ensuring a steady supply of the leaves becomes a recurring t…

There was at least one study during the pandemic that showed efficacy of these things. The problem for studies is knowing exactly how much they're used. I've used the Boots version…

Surely they could just ask China.

It might well be neoliberal dogma but the rose that got walked through London last week by the Watermen is a reminder that it is also true. People should complain much more about d…

It's amusing that they actually use the word guild. If the medieval guilds had their way London would still only have one bridge. The irony here is that creatives have an advantage…

There’s a line in one of the Aubury Maturin books, Clarissa Oaks when pumping the ship bilges, a sailor remarks, “she flows as clear and sweet as Hobson’s conduit”. https://en.m.wi…

Yep. Grid integration is great. Engineered markets much less so. Sadly, the incentives for regulators and market participants are well aligned here...

Damn. Came to post the same. You said it better. It's the real disease of the EU. There's no problem of failed policy that shouldn't be addressed by deepening the policy and making…

Don’t shoot the message.

Reading the comments, it seems that absolutely no one is happy about this. It is either a lie, insufficient or a pointless response to a non-problem. But it’s a clear achievement. …

Ah. A simpler time when people were still able to access the operating system internals of products they bought and alter their function without first having to jump through hoops …

I remember playing Unreal for 3 days solid while working an IT service desk in the late '90s. Compaq Deskpro in software mode later upgraded to a Matrox G200 which upended my world…

The constant 15% that everyone forgets. And the U.K. is still importing French nuclear energy today.

Like I said, can of worms. There are no easy solutions.

You pass a law giving a class of inspector the right to enter premises where building works appear to be progressing. You strictly limit what they are permitted to observe and reco…

I often observe that PPE compliance in the U.K. is dramatically better than it is on the continent where I live. In part I think that’s a result of the concentration of the buildin…

There are lots of ways to define “good enough” as well. What are the costs of inferring several small experts contributing to a decomposed workflow versus using GPT4 for example. I…

These are by far the hardest kinds of fraud for banks to deal with right now. They’re so convincing that even when the bank detects them, the customer still demands the transaction…

Does it detect academic back-biting?