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In the UK, yes.

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FWIW, the UK Met Office's models are described here: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/modelling-sys...

Yeah, it was definitely inspired by the Eye.

Blimey, that's an address I haven't seen in a long time. Happy times downloading Amiga shareware from a university computer lab. And now I feel old...

Try this from Fermilab's Dr Don Lincoln: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Zspu7ziA8Y

Next stop, Arisia!

Yep, after years of being a couch- and desk-potato, this got me out and running. That, and having a young and energetic dog in the early stages of lock-down! I've managed to stick …

Astrophysicist YouTuber Dr Becky covered this last month: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNJR3lenz1I

Yeah, I've seen "Vitamin D enriched" mushrooms at the Coop supermarket in the UK.

As the old saying goes, "normalize until it hurts; denormalize until it works".

So pretty much the Blazor Server approach in the Dot Net world then?

As the article says > The details of how AlphaFold 2 works are still unknown, and we may not have full access to them until their paper is peer-reviewed (which may take more than a…

Yeah, it's practically archaeology now! It is very fast for doing some things, though. If anyone's interested in it from a Dot Net perspective, ExcelDNA [0] was excellent when I us…

Try this episode of PBS SpaceTime which goes into the dichotomy between GR and QM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNEBhwimJWs .

No, but now I'm thinking about the early days of Slashdot, when "imagine a beowulf cluster of those" was a common in-joke. Along with the obligatory dozen claiming to be "frist".

Pretty much - I started work before even internal email was a thing, so everything was done on paper. And often hand-written paper at that. Hell, I made the first Word template for…

I spent most of the money I'd saved from my summer job during my first year at university on a 42MB hard drive for my Amiga just so I could play Civ I without continually swapping …

Or use something like Nexus or Artifactory to host a private copy of dependencies.

I haven't used SSIS since about SQL2008 - back then it terrible to use with version control - not only was it a huge blob of XML, it had more xml escaped and shoved into attributes…

Aren't things like $filter, $orderBy etc. straight out of the OData standard[1]. [1] https://www.odata.org/

I think it uses it: https://thenextweb.com/security/2018/06/26/mozilla-bakes-hav...

Maybe, but he's always been lazy and unwilling to do much actual work, apparently [1] his headmaster wrote to his father in 1982: Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier …

Yeah, but there's no local variables or dynamic memory allocation (from what I remember of COBOL85 on Tandems, anyway)

There's a good episode of PBS SpaceTime about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ORLN_KwAgs