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BBC defends Doctor Who ratings as show is "top drama for under-35s this year"
  • I feel like some part of that episode hasn't been fully explained yet >!there was a reference in the finale for sure!<

    I've quite enjoyed this season for the most part. Episodes have built a bit more tension/actually got me excited. Hope Ruby makes a largely permanent return in the future too.

    What I will say is the episode conclusions have been a bit anticlimactic - builds well and then fizzles a bit, but on the whole I'm enjoying the return of RTD. I think 13 off episodes is a better length for the series too though, allows for a few more monster of the week episodes and a few more clues seeded through the series.

  • Asian BrewDog Worker Sacked After Raising Concerns About EDL Presence
  • They gave the appearance to the outside for sure - BBC podcast is what put me off them. That and the Parma Violet beer they did in an advent calendar the other year, just because you can doesn't mean you should lads.

  • Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp
  • Thanks I'll have to check them out - are these going to be gateway AIs that will end up with me talking myself into buying 2x3090s? I'm just asking now to know how much I'm going to test the bounds of WAF in the near future.

  • Outstanding idea.
  • There's 2 main reasons spacex gets shit. First one is Musk. Second one is the weird competitive thing SpaceX fanbois do where they criticise the shit out of all other rocket manufacturers and endlessly praise everything spaceX do.

  • Confound you, WSUS!
  • Ha, I recently upgraded to an nvme drive from SATA, cloned the drive and then realised I need to move the windows partition all the way to the end to let me expand the Linux partition. Which broke windows. After about 2-3 hours of troubleshooting it was working again. It was around then I realised I hadn't booted into windows in 2 years!

  • YouTube is experimenting with server-side ads
  • Probably MS and Azure too, I suspect YouTube has some serious optimisations going on on the back end too, not that I don't think MS/Amazon engineers could overcome them, but I suspect it would take quite a while for their offerings not to be a bit janky in comparison. YouTube had the advantage of scaling as the users did and overcoming the problems as they arose.

    The scale of YouTube is just mind boggling to me, like I work with big data by any reasonable definition of the term, but YouTube is on another level altogether - they ingest petabytes of data every day and make that available globally basically forever. There's no stutter or latency when I load a 10 year old video, which suggests they're keeping this all reasonably live and with multiple 9s availability. It's staggering.

    The other issue I have with another big corp entering the market is the sheer waste of it all, creators probably won't want to be exclusive to a platform - which means we're going to triple an already huge data platform.

    The other drawback for newcomers is the history YouTube has, nobody is going to reupload an ancient video on how to tear down my washing machine to a new platform, but I'm damned if that didn't save me £100 on getting a repair man to replace a gasket, which is to say there's an awful lot of knowledge tied up in YouTube and I think that needs protecting.