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In the UK, yes.

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 to 5-10km every other day (though it's a challenge in the winter, admittedly), and did my first half marathon in 2:09 a couple of months ago.

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 year, based on their CASP13 paper).

So it's not particularly surprising that we haven't heard much yet.

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 used it a few years ago.

[0] https://excel-dna.net/

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 a work-item ticket! Before that we had custom forms to fill out.

Even better, the developers worked in a different building to our users, so there would often be a couple of days lag to getting a response. If you needed a quicker answer, you had to phone them, or schedule a meeting if you needed to explain something in more detail.

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 floppies.

... and now I feel old.

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 of the main document! Whats more it seemed to re-allocate the GUIDs of the elements every time you opened a diagram, so there were always changes...

Sounds like it's improved a bit since then.

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 attitude to his classical studies... 
  Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of 
  responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School
  for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard 
  him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.

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

No - they mean hydrogen ions, which are just bare protons.

they will have to outlaw inability to decrypt.

The UK's already done that - the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 already made it an offence not to divulge encryption keys when asked. [1]

1 https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investig...

I'm somewhat surprised that I can remember that the NOP opcode was EA. Amazing what sticks in your mind for almost forty years...