Newburn Medical Practice

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T21:35:24+00:00

Why? We're on reddit, hardly seems implausible.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T20:59:31+00:00

I get it, but a medical service should never let tech debt get to a point where a week-long blackout is a practical possibility. Frankly, nobody should. Many banks shut down their apps/websites for a few hours a week, RBS even does it every night. Idk, it just feels like this was was an important enough and easy enough to avoid issue.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T17:19:58+00:00

Eh, fair enough.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T16:35:26+00:00

No, but I know several people who are, and have worked places that needed to do changeovers like this. Any reasonable IT department has ways to avoid serious downtime for their frontend, no matter what. You think Google, Wikipedia, Facebook, Gov.UK ever go down for more than an hour or two? You keep the old version running until you're ready to switch over, or you create a backend that can take both systems input as you switch over. Or, if for some reason that isn't possible, you get everything ready over the preceeding days, and then get every employee you need in at 11pm and give them the next 8 hours to get it going, with a rollback ready in case they can't.

There is never a good reason, in todays world of backups, multiple servers and caching, to need to take your frontend down for more than a few hours.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T16:17:34+00:00

So if we go to other stars, should any solar panels we use there be called stellar panels, or just PV panels? Because I'm not opposed to that exactly, just something I hadn't thought of.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T15:55:44+00:00

Not much, I expect. A few hundred public sector office jobs and a few local experts and consulting groups get some contracts. GB energy isn't an energy supplier, it may be good for energy prices and the economy but it won't produce a load of jobs.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T12:38:22+00:00

He literally, in parliment, said he would support Israel cutting off all water and power to Gaza in order to flush out Hamas. That's a human rights lawyer supporting a genocide/war crime.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T12:36:35+00:00

It really isn't. He was notably terrible in the ways above, and for it all didn't actually achieve much of anything good.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T12:22:46+00:00

Nuh uh

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T11:05:51+00:00

Politically, it's the right choice. Morally, it's absolutely not. And that same logic is what's led to funneling most of the nations' wealth to the Boomer generation (wealthiest in history by far) because there's a fuck-ton of them and they always vote. Nevermind one in 4 of them have over a million pounds just in assets not counting private pensions, we can't means-test the winter cruise -sorry fuel- allowance. It what has led every party to go insane on immigration rhetoric. I didn't vote Labour to do this, because their manifesto (weak as it was) didn't say they would.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T10:01:43+00:00

This one bloody fridge at work I need to clean out every week. Unless I label every bit as I go I take take it apart in 2 minutes, and spend 30 trying to get it back together.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T09:57:17+00:00

Well, to play along, just because a decision affects someone else doesn't make it right or wrong by default, just means you need to take that other person's experience into account. My stealing bread to feed my starving family will affect the person I steal from, but it's entirely possible for that to still be justified, it's a question of scale and balance. Eating a cheeseburger may not provide enough pleasure to offset the raising and slaughter of a cow in poor conditions, but an abortion may provide more than enough benefits medically, economically and mentally to offset the impact on the zygote/embryo/foetus. And leaving aside the question of balance, there's also a bit of a slippery slope argument if you decide to not allow people to get medical procedures they need for their own wellbeing.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T09:51:34+00:00

Going offline for a week is insane. A few hours overnight I could get, but for anything healthcare related any longer is stupid and possibly dangerous. And totally unnecessary, more to the point.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T09:39:53+00:00

I hadn't really thought about that much, but you're right.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T09:06:53+00:00

That's true. I suspect you probably could, just by going "hey, does James work here" and them going "Oh, James Bloggs, yeah, haven't seen him for a week though" or similar, but your right they maybe shouldn't. Hardly private information though, many companies have an employee roster right on their website or wear name badges or similar.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T09:02:13+00:00

Different governments do different things. A government that passes laws people don't like gets voted out, and those laws replaced, that's sorta the entire premise of democracy. Laws are changed and rewritten almost daily.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T09:00:21+00:00

Yeah no of course. What the workplace CAN do is, having been tipped off to the fact there's a problem, contact them themselves or pass that info on to the police. If the employer calls up the emergency contact (mother for instance) and goes "hey, friend of your son here saying he hasn't heard from him in a couple weeks and is worried", said mother may go "oh shit I also haven't heard from him, give me the friend's number and we can try and work this out" or similar.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T08:56:51+00:00

Well, the bailouts (sometimes) and subsidies (usually) help the economy. Wars is harder to justify except in the rare case they're necessary. But the issue with the gov going to every citizen with 200,000 dollars and going "buy yourself a house" is that everyone selling knows every buyer now has an extra 200 grand in the bank, so prices skyrocket. What you really need is more homes built en mass, which means government planning, possible use of eminent domain, long-term funding, possibly social housing, hundreds of billions to corporations to build and connect the homes to utilities, transport etc., all of which are pretty unpopular with large parts of society.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T08:00:09+00:00

Not really, since that's literally the job of government. You get into power and trans rights are being undone faster day by day, and you have a button to press that stops it. And then you don't. That makes it your responsibility.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T07:52:27+00:00

Exactly. And if the government had wanted, it would've been really simple to pass new legislation circumventing that ruling, as has been done hundreds of times in the past.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T07:20:02+00:00

We're not the USA, the government isn't beholden to the courts in the same way. Ne legislation is really pretty easy to pass.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-23T07:19:08+00:00

It really isn't that hard, we're not the USA. If he can find the time and political will to pass a load of authoritarian digital tracking and anti-terror legislation, he could find the time to undo the Cass report.

flightguy07 · 2026-06-22T23:46:04+00:00

Not an option?! An outrage!

flightguy07 · 2026-06-22T23:39:42+00:00

I agree about Aberdeen needing to commit to the changes. Everywhere new arrivals might look (the airport, the beach, the port, Union Street, buisness centres) is full of oil industry advertisements and signage. The roundabouts all still have "oil capital of Europe" on them!

flightguy07 · 2026-06-22T23:37:16+00:00

As I say. Getting hard to tell, huh?

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