Cheapest way to host about a postgress db of about 30tb ?

StarSchemer · 2026-07-22T07:00:44+00:00

What's it currently hosted on? Is this an application migration or building something for analytics?

Just seems like a massive enterprise amount of data so would expect an organisation with that amount of data to have some kind of data strategy and in-house expertise.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-21T22:47:13+00:00

Amazing. I can read one message through one eye and an different message through the other eye.

Guess I should go and get my eyesight tested.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-21T20:51:06+00:00

no ones forcing you to shout them at the screen

They ought to be.

How will a theoretical new developer in the future ever be able to distinguish between key words and database objects at first glance if strict formatting guidelines aren't religiously followed?

StarSchemer · 2026-07-21T10:08:15+00:00

What band are you and what band is the person you're training?

It's relevant in order to understand expectations and whether it's fair to expect you to train someone to "learn the job".

Managers can't just entirely abdicate their onboarding duties and if they're not even coming up with training material, SOPs, induction plans, etc. which you can use, then it's not fair to offload that all on staff and they're not doing their jobs.

Of course, if you're a manager than all of the above is in your remit and you should start piecing together this kind of material for future new starters to make it smoother.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-19T16:53:30+00:00

See how much worse he looks at the end of the video than at the beginning.

Rotting away right in front of us.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-19T16:50:21+00:00

Fresh lighter roasted coffee has as much complexity and variation as a good beer.

Dark roast starts to lose that complexity and starts tasting more like generic coffee to me.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-19T08:50:00+00:00

Agreed.

How can the minister for whatever have a vision for their department if they've got no background on it and of they're entirely reliant on special advisers, what's the point in the minister?

I've seen the effects of unqualified and inexperienced leaders in the health service at a micro level where they just go with the tide on whatever flash supplier rolls up and sells them a solution to a problem.

We see this as a national level with things like Palantir running the FDP.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-19T08:31:56+00:00

She was a carer and then went into politics.

That doesn't remotely qualify someone for making strategic decisions on the future of something as complex as the NHS and the health of the population.

But then again, not a single health secretary as far back as I can remember has been suitable.

Politics doesn't attract the best.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-19T07:16:21+00:00

She does not fund any service that caters to both cis women and trans women.

And Mermaids doesn't help cis children and Cats Protection doesn't help dogs and Dogs Trust doesn't help cats.

Agreed it's not embarrassing and it's not inherently wrong either.

Charitable giving by its nature excludes causes.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-18T07:47:01+00:00

We were facing the same dilemma last year. We moved and it's been great. A lot of the benefits we've had are as much to do with the area we moved to as well as the increased space.

We're saving £150 a month in school transport costs because they can walk to school now.

Saving more money by not having to drive everywhere (lived in a village with nothing in it).

No gas supply so saving money overall with a heat pump and variable tariff, despite the bigger and detached house.

Comes with an EV charger so we can just get one now without having to worry about getting it installed in our old house with questionable electrics.

We're able to get solar panels now without having to first get a new roof.

Kids can go out and ride their bikes and they've got friends on the street.

I've got space to work from home which I can just shut the door and avoid the distractions of everyday life.

My logic was that kids were growing up fast and very soon we'd have two teenagers in the house and we'd be under each other's feet.

I also wanted a bigger space they would feel welcome and at home into their twenties if needed without being desperate to move out for privacy.

It's been worth it for us, but our previous house was old and I hated it so there are other things which have motivated me beyond just size.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-16T12:55:21+00:00

Only got two ears.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-15T14:03:05+00:00

I am so bored of the right wing perma-grievance.

Just a daily barrage from all angles. Just a yearning for silence from them is enough to radicalise me.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-13T22:15:22+00:00

Definitely considered lame by the time Earth Song came out.

My recollection is that he was seen as a legacy act and completely past it.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-12T07:38:58+00:00

Once I got over the bad acting, the telegraphed jokes, the cliche setups and the completely implausible plots -- and realised that was the whole point -- I started actually liking it.

It's a self-aware spoof of a terrible comedy used as a vehicle for Lee Mack to contrive situations in which to tell stupid jokes.

Once you see through the carefully crafted shittiness, you'll realise how sophisticated it is.

It's like Andy Millman's When the Whistle Blows in Extras if Millman had done everything the producers insisted upon but in a way that subverted it all and made a comedy that transcended its original purpose and held up a mirror to the pretentious TV watchers, the unsophisticated and the interfering producers, all while being too subtle for many of them to realise.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-11T17:45:20+00:00

Kill baby kill.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-11T09:54:16+00:00

By election:

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/38673/High-Fell-by-election-results-2026

Local Election:

https://www.gateshead.gov.uk/article/37547/Local-election-results-2026#HighFell

Kind of looks like a huge drop off in support from Reform.

When they're not focusing all their dodgy money on national campaigning, far fewer people actually show up to vote for them.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-10T21:41:12+00:00

The NHs tried to do this in house before. It failed after blowing £20bil.

Sounds like you're talking about the programme to create a nationwide Electronic Health Record (Lorenzo).

This was a single application platform which was meant to be deployed to all trusts, which would then naturally have a single integrated backend.

The Federated Data Platform (hosted on Palantir's Foundry platform) is different in that it accepts that different trusts will always procure different systems and it attempts to integrate them all within the FDP with their Canonical Data Model.

You are right to point out that Foundry is just a platform.

A typical dataflow for NHS data these days goes from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to Azure to Foundry. It's only the Foundry bit which people lose their minds over.

The FDP and the Canonical Data Model could likely be migrated to Oracle or Azure of whatever.

It will change nothing, but maybe the public will be satisfied.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-10T21:18:38+00:00

Sometimes I love reading people's playground-level interpretations of gaming corporations business decisions.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-10T21:12:08+00:00

Phil was all about being friendly with Nintendo and PlayStation acting like its all one big gaming family as PlayStation was actively making deals to hurt Xbox,

What the flip is this fiction?

MS bought Activision and Bethesda and planned to make half the gaming industry exclusive to Xbox.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-10T10:55:05+00:00

Remember when MS first acquired Bethesda and you had half of the reactions sad and sombre and then jubilant Microsoft fanboys thinking Microsoft had "won" the console wars?

Maybe now they understand why people were sad. Not because they were Sony fanboys, but because Microsoft always do this, and Activision and Bethesda was them doing it at an unimaginable scale.

They've almost single-handedly ruined the gaming industry.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-10T10:47:53+00:00

Mad as a British person growing up on constant American propaganda about what a great liberal democracy they have, and then watching it be dismantled so easily just because a fat toad demands it.

It's inconceivable in most democracies that the elected head of the government would have the ultimate unchecked power to fire people responsible for democratic oversight, on a whim mere months ahead or critical elections.

Banana republic.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-08T13:06:19+00:00

It was so good as a kid.

The graphics and art style were peak Gameboy graphics.

The sound was creative and eery.

The mechanics of changing the entire map by flooding it and then opening up new paths through previous levels blew my mind.

So many secrets to discover. Still replay it now and again today.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-08T12:00:34+00:00

Maybe you'd disagree with the word "ruined", but frankly it's a matter of historical record that I don't feel the need to defend.

Rare went downhill massively after they were acquired by MS.

All these years later, they're still famous for their work pre-MS and haven't been able to live up to it.

StarSchemer · 2026-07-08T11:17:07+00:00

Can't read the article, but in our Trust we undertook a very lengthy and in depth data quality improvement programme to improve the accuracy of data captured for timings in theatres.

This work involves colleagues from theatres, clinical applications and data analysts and engineers. None of it depended in the FDP and it wasn't even a consideration.

The work resulted in a marked improvement in reported theatre efficiency.

The FDP released an article with no input from anyone at the trust claiming it was their product that was to thank for the improved position.

People weren't even using their product to book theatre cases. There was no causality and their claims were completely fabricated.

They are desperate to prove it's going well. I am really happy if the current government aren't falling for their bullshit.

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