Recent content by dolabriform

We're in Dover right now, the dredger is massive and takes up almost the full width of the marina aisle so would be difficult to pass. I'll try an get a photo of it and post here.

We had a similar experience coming back from Dieppe, couldn't believe how powerful the shock wave was at 2 miles.

I've just had an email about permission to travel checks when arriving in the UK. TLDR: If anyone on board doesn't have a UK or Irish passport there is a new procedure: Webinar info here: Home Office FBIS sPCR Engagement Event

Knox Johnston, cheapest out of all the quotes I had

Dover are dredging: Mariners are advised that from the 5th March until the 8th March, The David Church will be dredging in the Outer Marina between the times of 0830 and 1500. No vessels will be permitted to pass near the dredger without express permission directly from the dredger Master...

Of course it works all the time, it's just sometimes the given value of "work" might be different to what one is expecting ;)

In response to That's it. Sorry, couldn't resist it 🤣

you sure?

Great find, thanks Paul :)

This sums up the issue. I've played with it, and I can see lots of possible benefits, but it is not a simple case of plug this into that, which is the technical level of most people. In order to gain proper traction beyond hobbyists, then it needs to be productised. Take open plotter, the...

The XC40 is an impressive bit of kit, but nearly 8 years old now. This is from September 2021: Running the Harmonie numerical weather prediction model on AWS | Amazon Web Services TLDR: Comparing across the systems AWS c5n.18xlarge (Intel Skylake based) has a 43% performance advantage over...

Understood, I'm just surprised and not really surprised that they are not taking advantage of the big data processing and analytics that AWS has developed. It's leaps and bounds ahead of M$ and Google.

Modern cloud computing is very different to monolithic mainframes, I also worked on a mainframe and now work with serverless, scalable, on demand systems. The architectures are very different. If you are talking about lift & shift, then I would agree with you, it's the same, but building real...

Nah, that's just wishful thinking !

It's a bit early in the year, but I agree it's a tough act to follow