Ben Thompson

Ben Thompson

  • Commented on Strong and Stable!
    There are so few cabinet level capable MPs in the Tory party it's hardly surprising many of those being appointed are incompetent cronies....
  • Commented on London Bridge
    Got to agree with Sean - it's sounds like last hours style hospice care. Technically it's Project Unicorn rather than London Bridge because she is in Balmoral which means you are going to have a couple of day of log...
  • Commented on Quantum of Nightmares
    While it may be a gambit just to keep manufacturing going while there are no battleships to be produced the SMRs do seem to be rather competitive price wise with large stations. And there is nothing wrong in trying to...
  • Commented on Outage report
    I should point at that all but 2 of them are linuxserver.io docker images. Who are a set of people no different from say a debian maintainer, just creating and maintaining docker images rather packages....
  • Commented on Outage report
    But hours are saved if they do work. The issue I think Charlie is going to find is that there are no easy answers here anymore. The world has moved on in a lot of ways since 2010 and often...
  • Commented on Outage report
    It's worth going back to my Unraid server. The server does about 15 different things, which once upon a time required me to install and maintain 15 different programs all of which I had to manually setup and configure. Now...
  • Commented on Outage report
    NNTP is still around - but it's now mainly used for media pirating purposes......
  • Commented on Outage report
    +1 on the not using a RPI for this stuff - it's really not worth it - equally I would be looking at an Intel solution as AMD still haven't got Ryzen's idle power usage at sane levels (my newly...
  • Commented on Outage report
    No real need if you are using cloudflare (it’s what I use for things rather bigger than this blog)....
  • Commented on An update on the revolutionary experiment
    You missed out the real stupidity there. The reason why a referendum was put into the 2015 was because no-one thought the Tories would win a referendum, the Lib Dems would be needed to create another coalition Government and the...
  • Commented on PSA: Publishing supply chain shortages
    Nope - from the Harvard Business Review in 2014 https://hbr.org/2014/08/why-women-dont-apply-for-jobs-unless-theyre-100-qualified...
  • Commented on PSA: Publishing supply chain shortages
    Problem with 3 is that men have a habit / willingness to apply for jobs that they just about meet the criteria for. Women usually only apply for Jobs they 100% meet the criteria for. The number of times I've...
  • Commented on Invisible Sun: signed copies and author events
    Isn’t New Orleans CET so the event starts at 8pm UK time not 7pm?...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    I did wonder - it's about 45 miles from Darlington to York so 30 minutes by train but an hour by car and 2 days to walk https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15346535.four-days-to-london-by-coach-to-the-capital-on-the-great-north-road/ has an interesting outline of coach times - they first appeared in...
  • Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
    If you can afford it you pay them but insist they don't come in....
  • Commented on Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace?
    The first thing I would add is that AI doesn't just launder out unspoken prejudices - often those prejudices are completely unknown. As Amazon found with their AI recruitment tool - their entire structure was biased against women but not...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Not quite reasons best known to himself - the redundancy payment for an MP leaving Parliament is far higher (over £10k more) if they lose the seat in an election than by simply resigning. The Labour MPs who switched to...
  • Commented on Sucker bet (a thought experiment)
    I encountered this article earlier today regarding a different means of getting the heat needed for concreate and steel. https://www.geekwire.com/2019/company-backed-bill-gates-claims-breakthrough-concentrated-solar-energy-promising-replace-fossil-fuels-industrial-plants/ It's worth noticing that the investor is Bill Gates but I'm not sure how practical the mirrors are in Northern...
  • Commented on The Inevitable Brexit Thread (1)
    All that is required to change the date is a Statutory Instrument to amend the data and that has been published. A Statutory Instrument takes effect unless it is objected to and goes to a vote - the odds of...
  • Commented on Happy Halloween!
    In Florida - it's expected that Amendment 4 is a win for Trump as more white males are currently restricted from voting due to felony restrictions than Black males...
  • Commented on Sitrep
    Tor novella pricing doesn’t seem to make sense for either paper or kindle versions. The Murderbot Diaries are a prime example, the latest novella is £7.69 or so on the kindle for a 2 hour or so read yet John...
  • Commented on That sinking feeling
    As I commented earlier today elsewhere, all you need is a set of have-nots who don't see any downside in risking the unknown......
  • Commented on Server upgrade coming
    Only page I'm seeing a problem with is at https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/ where the stylesheet and MT.js pages have hardcoded http:// referrals. Easiest solution is to remove the http: and leave the // (utterly wrong but all browsers support it)....
  • Commented on Server upgrade coming
    My advice would be to not test https until Charlie has done all the mods_rewrite bits he needs to do (Good luck with that its why I now use S3 and cloudfront for all images and everything else I can...
  • Commented on New publication dates (and audiobook news)
    I know its far far to early to move things offtopic but I've just seen an academic paper on Algorithmic Entities which Charlie covered back in Accelerando see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2954173...
  • Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
    Just wait until Waymo or Tesla have fully automated cars and trucks and then see what happens when driving no longer requires drivers. I suspect that reality is far closer than most people expect.....
  • Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
    Not quite true. In 2007-2008 Governments bet the farm to delay a credit recession (a recession caused based by debt defaults, rather than the usual recession based on too much stock - hint the last time we saw one of...
  • Commented on Trapped in the wrong trouser-leg of time
    12 August 2026 and 2 August 2027 in Spain......
  • Commented on Book day!
    An utterly minor point and one that only a former local with a friend who has ran a catering recruitment company in Amersham would know. Depending on where Nether Stowe house is, you would bus staff in from Watford /...
  • Commented on How to get a signed copy of The Delirium Brief
    Off topic but something I've noticed over the past few weeks... I'm currently re-reading a lot of short science fiction due to travel and being up to date on most series I want to read so I'm revisiting Gardner Dozois's...
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