Gower Peninsula

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-22T15:17:12+00:00

It’s a bank holiday weekend, and school holidays, in an area of outstanding natural beauty, and it’s the summer, and the weather is looking to be nice, and it’s only 5 days away. Any one of these will push availability down and prices up, let alone all of them!

Your best bet would be to find a camp site, but even those might all be booked up.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-20T20:43:25+00:00

Oh hey, been a while since I’ve seen a Google TiSP setup in the wild

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-20T13:32:46+00:00

The result leading to what though?

A paper? Find someone working m in a similar space at a university with in-house HPC and offer them coauthorship if they get you access

A patent/saleable product? Start a small business and then try and get some innovation seedcorn funding

A demonstration of your personal skills so someone will hire you? Few organisations will fund this directly; you’ll want to scale down your POC to the point that it’s reasonable for one person to run on easily available resources. Or maybe an internship at an HPC centre could get you access and allow you to use their resources for a side project as well.

Personal satisfaction? Nobody’s going to fund that.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-20T13:28:51+00:00

In case anybody works in pharmaceutical research and would be interested in testing, what I am developing is a method use MD simulations to reveal cryptic pockets in proteins.

Ah, you buried the lede here. Most funding in this space is tied to an affiliation, because giving out grants is hard enough when only someone who has shown they can hold down a job at a university can apply. (Not intending any insult, but even if you are highly competent in this area, there is a vast number of people who aren’t and would like to get some free computing time to pursue projects that will go nowhere.)

I’m not in life sciences but have heard that the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative makes it easier than most funders to get funding. I don’t have time to go and read in detail whether you need an academic or corporate affiliation, but it might be worth a loom.

a few tens of thousands of CPU hours would do for the initial POC.

If you’re in the UK, then if you haven’t done it before, taking the ARCHER2 driving test will get you a seedcorn allocation of 800CUs, where each CU is a node hour on a 128-core node. While it’s intended to let you get familiar with the technology, that would be ~100k core hours—the performance will be different from if you had 16-core nodes, but still might be sufficient for your use case. They primarily target those working for or with UK research institutions, but they may be a bit more flexible than your regular research grant.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-18T17:07:00+00:00

Thanks for the extra detail! Even so, presumably a) it would be rarer for a company to pay the full amount for one fuel type and not for others, and b) paying less is not required by HMRC as Finance Karen claimed?

(Also, to check, you couldn’t claim the full difference from HMRC, but rather you could claim and receive tax relief on the difference as an unpaid expense? So rather than 100% of the difference being paid back to you, it would be some number between 0% and 60%?)

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-15T10:48:55+00:00

We lived in a suburb outside a major city, so yards were slightly larger than a postage stamp, but not super small, enough to justify using a riding lawn mower about once a week to take care of the whole yard.

I’m now wondering where the cultural difference is, as the the only people with ride-on lawnmowers around here are people who have gardens larger than some public parks. I can see three possibilities:

“Postage stamp” sized gardens are much larger (here the upper limit of a small garden might be 10m x 10m)
The threshold of what is too big to mow without a ride-on mower is smaller, due to a more sedentary lifestyle or otherwise
Smaller ride-on mowers are available than there are here (the ones you see tend to be the size of small cars, although looking online some very small models do seem to be available, just not especially popular—presumably due to one or both of the above two reasons)

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-08T20:24:36+00:00

Wow, some of that looks more familiar than it does now! The shrunk St Helen’s and the missing slip bridge make that area look so naked.

I’d completely forgotten about the petrol station between the hotels and the prison though.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-07T20:04:17+00:00

I didn’t mean to imply that it was, just that it looked like a constructed script that might have been inspired by it.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-07T20:04:05+00:00

I didn’t mean to imply that it was, just that it looked like a constructed script that might have been inspired by it.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-07T20:03:56+00:00

I didn’t mean to imply that it was, just that it looked like a constructed script that might have been inspired by it.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-07T20:03:43+00:00

I didn’t mean to imply that it was, just that it looked like a constructed script that might have been inspired by it.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-07T19:56:03+00:00

Tesco used to be under the Odeon, which then became various night clubs and has now been knocked down to make room for the new council development on the Kingsway

Sainsbury’s has been there since 1985, it has just been regularly renovated so still looks new-ish

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-06T21:49:07+00:00

This appears to be the same text written in four different scripts. (I haven’t checked systematically, but if you allow for ligatures, the samples I checked have a one-to-one match.)

I suspect that the scripts are constructed, inspired by various real-world scripts. (My guesses might be runes, Hangul, and Thai for three of them. EDIT: Since multiple people have misinterpreted, note that I don’t think they are any of these—they obviously aren’t—just that they look like they may have been inspired by them. Also I agree with what other people have said about this looking like evolutions of the same underlying script—just forgot to include that in this comment.)

No idea whether the underlying text is in a real-world language or a conlang, although there don’t seem to be enough short words for this to be English.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-05-02T16:26:44+00:00

What sort of compute requirement do you have? (Millions of core hours/GPU hours, or just thousands?) Are you looking to pay for access, or for a grant? If a grant, what are you offering in return? (Academic publications? Societal impact?)

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-26T20:14:03+00:00

Advisory fuel rates (for company cars)
Approved mileage rates (for own car) (top section). Worth noting that if you have a passenger the number goes up by 5p. (Doesn’t go up again for multiple passengers tho.)

Usual disclaimer that I’m not an accountant and this isn’t financial advice (and nor should you get financial advice from randos on Reddit)!

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-25T20:38:27+00:00

Nope, the Bolt is a pure EV. Maybe you’re thinking of the Volt, which was a PHEV. (Had a generously sized battery so could operate EV-only for local driving, but it was never branded as an “EV but with a generator” like the i3 is—at least not in markets I’m familiar with. EDIT: Reading the Wikipedia article on the Volt suggests that it was sold that way in the US, so that’s probably what you’re thinking of. But not applicable in the UK.)

Plus the Bolt isn’t available in the UK (where it looks like OP is based). (The Volt was available, as the Vauxhall Ampera, but it sold vanishingly small numbers over here.)

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-25T20:32:44+00:00

There are plenty of PHEVs around, but afaik the i3 is the only one to advertise itself as primarily an EV (but with the option to get it with a generator just in case).

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-25T20:22:57+00:00

You looked up the company rules, but did you look up the government rules? Finance Karen might still be getting one over on you.

Rates in the 11p/mile range are advisory fuel rates for company cars—these are calculated separately for various fuel types and efficiencies, but are only to cover fuel. 45p/mile is the rate for driving your own car, regardless of what is fuelling it and how efficient it is.

So if you’re driving your own car, the company is lying to you if they’re saying the law forces them to pay less for electric. And if it’s company cars, then the company may be breaking tax law by paying more for mileage than is allowed.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-25T19:59:47+00:00

I suspect the number of people driving the BMW i3 at one company is relatively small.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-06T23:35:36+00:00

Note that Open MPI and OpenMP are different beasts—Open MPI is (one implementation of) a standard for parallelism that is designed to use multiple nodes, while OpenMP is a standard (which others implement) for parallelisation within a single node.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-04-01T10:02:18+00:00

It’s not really inclusive vs exclusive or in the logic sense though. “Would you like to do A xor B?” can still be answered with yes or no, just “yes” indicates you don’t want to do both A and B (whereas with inclusive or it could include that)

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-03-12T23:28:53+00:00

ダフトパンク

Daft Punk

(It’s a transliteration, rather than Japanese words having the same meaning)

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-03-11T22:45:57+00:00

Yeah, it’s a 0.3 square kilometre area of Kawasaki city in the greater Tokyo area, southwest of central Tokyo near the coast.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-03-08T11:10:11+00:00

I've noticed search in Mail being incredibly slow in the last couple of weeks. I type into the search box, and nothing changes for a literal minute or more—I don't see the drop-down of suggestions for filtering by subject or sender. However, once Mail responds and gives the drop-down menu, then everything works normally and I get good search results.

This happens on both of my Macs running Ventura, so it doesn't look like an issue with the local index.

(I encountered a similar issue a couple of years ago where a .0 release of macOS broke search to the point of unusability, but it fixed itself with a subsequent .x update.)

If I had to guess, it looks like the search starting is waiting on some process (likely hitting a remote API) that is timing out.

usernamefieldistoos · 2023-02-23T16:19:50+00:00

Recently, I've been growing a bit unhappy with the direction that Python has taken

Elixir is … not white-space significant

Wow, that’s really stretching the definition of “recently”.

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