Robadob

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Research software engineer at University of Sheffield (UK). Spend most my time developing FLAMEGPU2, a CUDA based framework for large-scale complex simulations.
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Comment · 3 years ago
I work at a university that is fully invested in Google Apps.

We did have unlimited storage, however last week they announced that's soon to change:

> A quota will soon be introduced on the amount of data that staff and students at the University can store in their Google account. This is part of a larger piece of work being carried out by the Google Workspace team in IT Services, to review the overall amount of storage being used by the University.

Makes me wonder if the timing is somehow related.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's a real shame there's not a built in way to get notified in 6 months to check this stuff out. Guess I'll add it to my calendar.
Comment · 3 years ago
There are still inconsistencies between NHS dentists, visual assessment of cavities and what justifies treatment is inherently subjective.

My first dentist retired after I'd had no fillings to date, their replacement on first appointment said I required two fillings and it continued in a similar manner.

Later on I had moved city, but was still travelling back for dental appointments. The second dentist said I needed another filling doing, but I ended up moving to a new NHS dentist in my new city. They disagreed about the filling, saying you can't fill teeth if it would go below the gum line. Pulled the tooth instead.

Even with NHS appointments, you can go 'private' a-la-carte if you can be convinced to have white fillings or similar extras and pay slightly more.

Comment · 3 years ago
I have two yubikeys too, but I definitely found services which didn't allow me to register more than one when I first set them up (a couple of years ago now).
Comment · 4 years ago
My favourite example of this in English is adjective order.

Native speakers learn that it should be "big red bus" rather than "red big bus", however most couldn't list the ~7 adjective types and order they should be used in, yet will know straight away when they're wrong.

Comment · 4 years ago
I received this email about an hour ago, so it must be being sent out progressively.
Comment · 5 years ago
If I refresh the page twice in quick succession, the same image comes up. By refreshing on my pc/phone at the same time, I managed to get the same image come up too. So it's probably seeded by time.
Comment · 5 years ago
My parents regularly throw out spare food (bread, meat, fruit) onto their lawn, local wildlife (birds, foxes, hedgehogs) always take it all within 24h.
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