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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostA couple of weeks ago I did a rough check on Dublin and Kildare deaths reported on RIP.ie against the same two weeks over five years and found that other than a spike in Dublin for one of those years the overall numbers were up in line with the HSE reported deaths.
I haven't got the bandwith to do a proper job on it but I'd imagine someones already done it properly and I'd think its going to be as reliable a guide as you'll get ahead of CSO figures.
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostA couple of weeks ago I did a rough check on Dublin and Kildare deaths reported on RIP.ie against the same two weeks over five years and found that other than a spike in Dublin for one of those years the overall numbers were up in line with the HSE reported deaths.
I haven't got the bandwith to do a proper job on it but I'd imagine someones already done it properly and I'd think its going to be as reliable a guide as you'll get ahead of CSO figures.Originally posted by Denny Crane View Post
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View PostYou are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostDue to a computing capacity issue, I got a virtual machine through Azure. Have a program installed on there now that is working away with no issue. Class service. Can I just continue adding new programmes to that VM the same as a regular computer as I see fit? I tried reading on this, but all the explanations seem above my educational paygrade as they assume way too much knowledge."Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally." - John Maynard Keynes
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Originally posted by LuckyLloyd View PostThe only limitation is licensing, essentially
Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThanks! From reading a bit more, I think my doubt is:
I *think* I need VM images for each application. So e.g. Python and R would be two images. Is that right?
If so, then my follow up question is how the cost works approximately. E.g. they estimate about 50 euro a month for the VM, but surely that isn't the cost per image as otherwise it would become a dramatically excessive cost. Would that perhaps be more like the cost for continuously running a single application rather than the cost for quite limited use of a few images across a few VMs?
Seriously though be very ware of licensing costs. Its very easy for things to spiral out of control when you start adding extra resources, VMs, storage etc. Also consider scheduling your workloads to shutdown out of hours so you save cash. I'm not that knowledgeable on Azure by any means. However a while back we did a rough pricing exercise on moving from a VMware on-prem environment to Azure and it didn't make sense at the time for our workload. Our ERP system needed to be kept on-prem and there was already a big investment in DR (backup replication) amongst our other sites.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThanks! From reading a bit more, I think my doubt is:
I *think* I need VM images for each application. So e.g. Python and R would be two images. Is that right?
If so, then my follow up question is how the cost works approximately. E.g. they estimate about 50 euro a month for the VM, but surely that isn't the cost per image as otherwise it would become a dramatically excessive cost. Would that perhaps be more like the cost for continuously running a single application rather than the cost for quite limited use of a few images across a few VMs?Originally posted by coillcam View PostCouldn't advise you on how to build your app. Maybe you've a DevOps connection on Linkedin to lean on?
Seriously though be very ware of licensing costs. Its very easy for things to spiral out of control when you start adding extra resources, VMs, storage etc. Also consider scheduling your workloads to shutdown out of hours so you save cash. I'm not that knowledgeable on Azure by any means. However a while back we did a rough pricing exercise on moving from a VMware on-prem environment to Azure and it didn't make sense at the time for our workload. Our ERP system needed to be kept on-prem and there was already a big investment in DR (backup replication) amongst our other sites.
I use AWS a lot... to be fair the EC2 instance's arent that expensive, but seriously make sure you have stuff turned off, heard of a big company in Tallaght that would use a lot of AWS and there monthly bill would be about 20k and that is brought down a lot from going back through all servers and seeing if they are needed, a lot of waste people spinning up resources using them and not shutting them down!!
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Originally posted by GimmeabreakIt's almost like the emperor doesn't have the extensive wardrobe he claims to have.
People should play this game
A recent study done at the University of Cambridge showed that having people play a simple game which showed them the tricks used to disseminate fake news increased their resistance to, or skepticism about, fake news. Disinformation, or “fake news”, continues to be a problem in the era of social media and online news, andLast edited by Tar.Aldarion; 16-04-20, 14:03.
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Originally posted by dinekes View PostI entered 10 puns into a local contest thinking I'd have a better chance of winning unfortunately no pun intended
It's hard to explain puns to kleptomaniac they always take things literally
Will glass coffins be a success? Remains to be seen
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Originally posted by The Situation View PostSomething about delayed refunds that bother me far more than they should. Waiting about 6 weeks now for a few Ryanair flights to be refunded, I know they'll eventually get around to it and it doesn't make a jot of difference whether it lands today, tomorrow or in 3 months but still tilts me on some level despite any effort to reason it with myself.
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Anyone else finding that social distancing rules and WFH are eliminating certain paper-based workflows?
Our ERP guy had been trying to get people to move fully to electronic approvals for POs for months but wasn't getting support at all. Similarly quality guys' paper fetish seems to have abated and no longer is the line "the auditor loves this, they're suspicious when we've no paper" trotted out.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostAh. It does seem more complicated than I thought. I've essentially one core program (h2o.ai - a deep learning application) that I was hoping to sit on the VM and then use as needed. There's some other programmes that would be desirable and their licencing allows VM hosting - e.g. JupyterLab for Python. Once again, my thinking was the cost would be just for the times they are used - rarely enough. But I guess thats not the case, and there are some standing costs simply from having them hosted there.
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Originally posted by Wesley Harms View PostAnyone know who actually makes the money from this Pokio app? Are the different groups on a cut of the fees/rake?
Additionally once a player initially deposits and plays with a Casino, they're effectively their player. If they play elsewhere, the original casino may get an affiliate fee from the other Casino's rake.
That's a guess now, not 100% sure.
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Originally posted by coillcam View PostAnyone else finding that social distancing rules and WFH are eliminating certain paper-based workflows?
Our ERP guy had been trying to get people to move fully to electronic approvals for POs for months but wasn't getting support at all. Similarly quality guys' paper fetish seems to have abated and no longer is the line "the auditor loves this, they're suspicious when we've no paper" trotted out.
In other news Shit about to hit the Fan P&O ferries from Liverpool to Dublin has been stopped by Peel Ports, the management company demanding 600,000 stg from P&O for payment of services, the Norbay was not allowed to leave this morning!!
link hereLast edited by pgodkin; 16-04-20, 15:07.
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Originally posted by Mellor View PostI'm not fully sure what photo format you are referring to. I don't really use either for photos, mainly for document storage. But I just downloaded a test photo from my google drive just now and it was still in the same format and compression.
All my photos these days are taken on my phone, so probably best to maintain native apple raw format in icloud.
Drop boxfile sync is available with the free version too. Up to the 2GB limit.
I think you're talking about of smart sync though. Which sounds like it dynamically manages sync as space is needed. iCloud will also do that, for less.
Don't get me wrong. Dropbox is good. I'm working on a project with an firm in London, and we're using dropbox instead of local for all day to day filing. But as I said to GAB I don't think that there's any point paying for 2TB+ when you storing <2GB. And on a mac, the apple equivalent is probably a bit more seamless.
for archiving files <2GB, paying for
$30 a year and I'll never even think of it again.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWhat does one and done mean?People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostA couple of weeks ago I did a rough check on Dublin and Kildare deaths reported on RIP.ie against the same two weeks over five years and found that other than a spike in Dublin for one of those years the overall numbers were up in line with the HSE reported deaths.
I haven't got the bandwith to do a proper job on it but I'd imagine someones already done it properly and I'd think its going to be as reliable a guide as you'll get ahead of CSO figures.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by SatNav View PostI joined this this site nearly a decade ago. most of ye know my life story..
Mia turned 15 today. How mad is that!
All of ye have followed her life journey which is pretty amazing for a bunch of people I don't know, have met an odd time and made besties here.
Sometimes the net can be a wonderful place
It's mad how I felt I had to let my bbv buddies know
Originally posted by Keane View PostApparently Howard Finkel is dead.
Still the best WW moment in History
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So these portal things
How are you supposed to deal with the "Why is your Portal always off" questions
Or the "I've tried calling you on portal and it was off" questions
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Zero privacy the goal now?
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFor the last two years I've had to upgrade my Google Drive, think I'm at 200gb. Thing is a lot of that is junk. Have no desire to go through it deleting stuff. Is there any software out there that will do that for me. Something that will keep photos and vids of family and dump everything else?
Don't know about that mate but I use this program to delete duplicate files.
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Originally posted by coillcam View PostFinished up watching "The Boys" S1 on Amazon prime last night. It was absolutely excellent and way better than I expected. A real tonic to the holier than thou typical superhero genre, the absolute antithesis. The brutality and gore was disgustingly hilarious at times. Some great performances and features an Irish actress Dominique McElligott in one of the main roles. Must get onto Watchmen S1 next.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostThanks! From reading a bit more, I think my doubt is:
I *think* I need VM images for each application. So e.g. Python and R would be two images. Is that right?
If so, then my follow up question is how the cost works approximately. E.g. they estimate about 50 euro a month for the VM, but surely that isn't the cost per image as otherwise it would become a dramatically excessive cost. Would that perhaps be more like the cost for continuously running a single application rather than the cost for quite limited use of a few images across a few VMs?
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And you need to learn about docker so that you can easily spin up VMs that you need.
You could/should be able to get to the stage where a VM gets spin up for you, and you can run a script to setup exactly the image you want, the apps you need, and links to the data you have.
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Does the fact that my habits are aging beyond belief make me fall into the higher risk age groups for Covid19?
I hope I'm far too young to be comfortably happy with <1k steps per day, a bottle of wine in the evening, 12 cups of tea and a nice slice of toast being my diet.
Does my brain age => my risk?
This is brain me;
(in my defence, 12 hour work days on an absolute disaster of a chair are hugely aging my soul too)Last edited by Emmet; 16-04-20, 21:07.
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Originally posted by 6starpool View PostI see your jokes haven't improved since I last had the pleasure!
Heres one you may remember from the great Frank Hunt
In the Fitz and Frank sees this young one bending over displaying a slim ribbon of bright yellow thong.
Now let's just say she was generously proportioned and leave it at that .
It was one of those incongruous moments summed up beautifully by a lewdly grinning Frank..
"Jaysus back in my day you had to pull the knickers apart to see the cheeks now you have to pull the cheeks apart to see the knickers"
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Originally posted by hotspur View PostWonderful performance by Stephen Rae in the play Cyrpus Avenue which is watchable online for a time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptCyZYzUx4M"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by nicnicnic View PostJust catching up on bbv was Rumors the one next to The Gresham with the steel dance floor ?
Rush seems to be a movie many people I know missed at the time it came out. It's on netflix & a solid 8 for me, not a rating I give lightly.
Yeah that's the one, it was owned by the Gresham. I was a barman in Rumours back in the late 80's.
Rush is a great movie, I've been an F1 fan since I was a kid and one of my earliest F1 memories was a documentary on the 1976 season, absolutely captivating year for F1.
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Originally posted by Lazare View Post
Originally posted by Theresa View PostOn another note, I don't understand the American stock markets.
Where is this buoyancy coming from? It seems the market is totally decoupled from business performance. Snp blasted back through 2800 on open today.
Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostWe have prioritised booze over Hardware, gardening and Health and Fitness
Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI've kinda grown bored of ragging on the Yanks. Its in the same category for me as ragging on the Catholic Church.
But there's a few glaring problems here.
First the bizarre idea that "even there poorest are still richer than mostly every other citizen on the planet". Wha??? If you can't even afford healthcare you are amongst the poorest people in the world.
Originally posted by GimmeabreakJust finished McMafia Se.01. Can highly recommend.
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Nah Joe I mean it seems to be clunking along at breakeven, trending up since the big crash back in March. It’s buoyed by something.
Which to me makes no sense. Figure we should be seeing a slow decline. Agree re bargains but I also don’t if nows the time to buy said bargainsThis may or may not be an original thought of my own.
All efforts were made to make this thought original but with the abundance of thoughts in the world the originality of this thought cannot be guaranteed.
The author is not liable for any issue arising from the platitudinous nature of this post.
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Keelings in a world of shit at the momentPeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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I've been travelling the same journey in and out of the town a couple of times a day since this started. This evening there was a very noticeable uptick in the number of cars on the road, people walking in groups and cycling clearly further than 2K from home.
Just felt very different to the atmosphere of the last few weeks. Perhaps a few cooler showery days coming over the weekend will quieten things down again.Turning millions into thousands
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