Andy Bennett

Data | Strategy | Delivery ⇾ Technologist & Engineer. Data-intensive systems. Founder @RegDyn. Inhabits the void between hardware, software and users.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

troff is the standard typesetter.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

.@GDSTeam The domains user https://t.co/RbT69Ohdra (for example https://t.co/7Trv6qjETA) that redirect to the Archived Registers seem to have disappeared.
Is this a temporary outage?
Thanks!

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@simoneverest @GillElderfield @thornburysaint Thanks for everything you've done Simon!
You're one of the last of the of GDS Founders and you've done so much for services across government.
You will be sorely missed but new and exciting things await you (in a good way ;-)) At DCMS.
All the best and hopefully speak soon.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@adrianbowyer @Hellhound604 If the mains fuse blows there's no potential energy left in my house.
With a battery there's still a lot of chemical potential energy so hopefully the fault isn't something that could still activate it (temperature? metal rebar falling down?).

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@MarkWheadon @adrianbowyer It's the Ah/g value that matters, not the grammes themselves.
i.e. You get more capacity for the same weight compared to Li-Ion.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

Someone just robbed Waitrose whilst I was at the till paying for my lunch.
The cashier raised his eyebrow at the monitor but couldn't do much
There were lots of middle-class cries of "He's stolen the Prosecco" from over by the door.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@amadeuspzs @TheRealRevK I'm unsure tbh. ...or at least no more knowledgable that you!
Are you finding that it's more sensitive to PCB placement than to overall placement of the device in the room?

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

There's every reason for providers being able to provide energy *cheaper* for prepay customers because they don't have to hedge the markets as much and have more committed buying power that they can plan for.

The promise of smart meters being "cheaper"/"better" is not born out.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

Some of us have been predicting the rise of "remote disconnect via smart meter" for some time but this is even more insidious and wrong:
"Rise in energy firms remotely switching homes to prepay meters"
https://t.co/y6RvvXHmMD

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

Prepay is traditionally more expensive but in this model there's absolutely no reason why it should be.
There's no extra meter to buy & no increase in infrastructure or billing costs for the provider.
...and the provider also has ahead-of-time knowledge of how much energy to buy.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@grifferz Incredible!
You'd think they'd do it at the DKIM level as that's designed for managing exactly this kind of identity-bound-reputation stuff!

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@grifferz @bitfolk I guess this also means you can't send message to their @t-online support address either?!?

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@fanf Re https://t.co/EXk8U3pCD2 do you have a couple of sample outputs (in one of the formats you have) as I'm working on some charting stuff and would love to see how easy it is to get it rendering those histograms.
See https://t.co/EA0pDXFd4t for some histos I've done already.

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

This is an excellent read for anyone who has ever wondered what all the fuss about DACs in Digital Audio is all about.

[James Deery @derkyjadex]

Randomly came across the in-depth information on DACs that I wanted about 18 months ago https://t.co/oCVl9SCoDb

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@derkyjadex Wow!
That's an excellent article.
I love the comment about a "bottomless can of worms of epic proportions".

[Register Dynamics @RegDyn]

We've updated our careers page so if you'd like to find out more about what it's like to work with us, take a peek!

https://t.co/PLHKeQouxC

#Jobs #DataJobs #WorkLifeBalance #Careers

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@alaric It was great fun and I learnt some things too!

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

"Build one to throw away. (You will anyhow.)"

[Incunabula @incunabula]

This original set of woodblocks was destroyed by fire during the Mongol invasions of Korea in 1232, although scattered volumes printed from these blocks still remain - an example printed in the 11th century is shown here. 11/

[Incunabula @incunabula]

The Tripitaka Koreana - carved on 81258 woodblocks in the 13th century - is the most successful large data transfer over time yet achieved by humankind. 52 million characters of information, transmitted over nearly 8 centuries with zero data loss - an unequalled achievement. 1/

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@thattommyhall The "two factors" are "something that went to your inbox" and "something that went to your spam folder".

[Andy Bennett @databasescaling]

@dataisawesomeo @alexbloor @cybergibbons Don't eat the rich!
As apex predators they have high concentrations of toxins in their flesh.
It's far safer to compost them!