The Yorkshire Ranter – Page 366 – A non-kinetic onslaught

January 1, 1970 by yorksranter 0 comments

Miners’ Strike 20th anniversary

Is today. What can I say? The very first political event I remember – I was 4 years old, but I do recall the “day counter” on Look North and everyone being Deeply Concerned. Some people – and I remember this in the blood after a nasty confrontation with one of them – say Scargill…

Should James Cleverly try to choose his opponent in final round?
My general view: life is too short to play silly tactical games. Given the parliamentary party is not large, at 121 MPs, you can always end up in a situation where the campaign tries to lend votes to a preferred opponent, some individual MPs freelance and you end up finishing third in embarrassing circumstances. (In […]
Reach bosses in drive to increase websites' story volumes - Journalism News from HoldtheFrontPage
And at the risk of reducing journalism to pure maths, the page views we generate are a compound of the number of articles we produce, and the number of times that each one is read...To increase page views, we need to increase either the number of articles we produce, or the number of people who […]
Inside a ferroelectric RAM chip
I've found FRAM chips in photocopiers and other interesting places. I've designed it into several embedded products since it has a practically infinite cycle life and has no need for a flash translation layer or wear leveling. This provides constant access time performance and reduced code complexity. It also allows the system state to be […]
Crossing the Sava River - Think Defence
The crossing of the Sava River and Task Force Hawk had both exposed critical flaws in US Army capability. It was perceived as slow, lumbering and completely lacking in any kind of strategic agility. Meanwhile, the USAF and USN were getting into their ‘precision effects’ stride, and the US Army knew it had to do […]
Army officer sexually assaulted colleague after asking if she liked sausages, court martial hears
WO2 Francis Kavwenje is accused of putting his hand up the woman’s skirt and rubbing her thigh while they sat together during an “inclusivity” pub event // DEI FAIL
What’s the ROI? Getting the Most Out of LLM Inference | NVIDIA Blog
if lowest latency is the priority, tensor parallelism is critical, as the combined compute performance of multiple GPUs can be used to serve tokens to users more quickly. However, for use cases where peak throughput across all users is prioritized, pipeline parallelism can efficiently boost overall server throughput. The table below shows that tensor parallelism […]
Designer economies. How much freedom do we really have when imagining believable economic systems? | Contrordine compagni
Science fiction, but the science is economics!
Patronage vs. Constituent Parties (Or Why Republican Party Leaders Matter More Than Democratic Ones) – The Scholar's Stage
For Freeman the most important fact about the Democratic Party is that its representative constituent groups exist in an organized form independent of the party apparatus proper. This means that the position (and to a lesser extent the power) of the men and women who lead these constituencies is not dependent on the favor of […]
Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile
Aligning the missile was a tedious process that used the North Star to determine North. Since the star was not visible from inside the silo, a complex surveying technique was used, using a surveyor's theodolite to measure the angles between the North Star and three concrete monuments outside the silo. Inside the silo, the closest […]
Age of Invention: How the Steam Engine was Invented
almost inventing the steam engine, over and over again