Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Drago]

When politicians are speaking, why do they do that thing with their hands that looks like Harry Enfield's scousers doing tai chi?

(Edit - not remotely interested in politics, only the daft hand thing they all have going on.)

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

At the first hotel I worked at, the family who owned it would drink G & T from whiskey tumblers.
It seemed very odd to me at the time as I believed that G & T should be served in a stem glass.

Yep, live a little, drink things from the wrong vessels and stop blinkering your mind! 🤣

 

[DaveReading]

At the first hotel I worked at, the family who owned it would drink G & T from whiskey tumblers.
It seemed very odd to me at the time as I believed that G & T should be served in a stem glass.

A G&T belongs in a highball glass. Gin balloons are the work of the devil.

 

[simongt]

Yep, live a little, drink things from the wrong vessels and stop blinkering your mind! 🤣

Well it was fifty three years ago and I was a cocky 19 year old at the time - !

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

A G&T belongs in a highball glass. Gin balloons are the work of the devil.

My Mum used to drink G&T

nearly always used what was actually a whiskey glass

 

[Chris S]

Plus, beer doesn't taste / feel right in a plastic container.

The same with takeaway chips. They taste different if they're wrapped in paper instead of a polystyrene box.

 

[grldtnr]

My Mum used to drink G&T

nearly always used what was actually a whiskey glass

Sister uses a teapot, cup and saucer, with a slice of lemon, says it's one f those fancy Chinese / Jap teas , she's fooling no one.

 

[mustang1]

What do you believe cloud machines to be?

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I was coming more from the angle of will new machines get deployed if demand is high, will they shut down if demand is low. I think of cloud machines to have cloud-like features which "just a machine on someone else's network" doesn't have.

 

[PeteXXX]

Why does my nose always start itching when I:
have oily or greasy hands

am washing up

need both hands to hold or assemble summat

?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I was coming more from the angle of will new machines get deployed if demand is high, will they shut down if demand is low. I think of cloud machines to have cloud-like features which "just a machine on someone else's network" doesn't have.

Very little thats runs in the cloud is an instance of a physical server. It obviously all ultimately runs on hardware but what anyone using the cloud sees is a virtual instance of a service. There may be one or more virtual instances running for a particular service for a user. Whether additional virtual instances start up and shutdown depending on demand depends on whether you’ve set it up that way and pay for it. On demand scaling like anything is an additional cost and it may be cheaper to pay for a fixed capacity. But what you don’t get is physical hardware booting up and shutting down as that is too slow for on demand scaling. Some services such a AWS lambda are just code from the user point of view and the code runs on demand based on an event trigger such as an incoming https request, and doesn’t run at any other time. Because many services are ultimately just code running on hardware thats already up and running, new instances can start up in a few hundreds of ms, maybe less. Below the surface much is just running on top of Linux on top of the base hardware.

Cloud like features is really just the scale, reliability, storage, memory , and network speed of everything that sits in their data centres across the world. Also the network speeds and latency between them. The Internet has various tiers which describe the speed and priority of the pipes. The pipes the cloud providers are connected to, and their speed can be measured in trillions of bits per second. They will be tier 1, some of the smaller providers that only offer basic website hosting will likely be connected to tier 2.

You could build cloud like services on your own computers if you had the time, energy, and skill. But many cloud services took and take 1000s of man years to design, build, test, deliver then ultimately support.

Here is a screen shot of some of the services available on AWS (Amazon Web Servuces)

 

[grldtnr]

Why does my nose always start itching when I:
have oily or greasy hands

am washing up

need both hands to hold or assemble summat

?

Just because it does, the 'fates' don't give a duff about your greasy bogies!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Just because it does, the 'fates' don't give a duff about your greasy bogies!

Bogeys are what comes out your nose.
Bogies however, are the swivelling, metal things under trains which the wheels are attached too.

That said, I must concur that yes, a bogie will not give a stuff when they snuff you out as you get run over... Even on a Duff!

Enough?

 

[grldtnr]

Bogeys are what comes out your nose.
Bogies however, are the swivelling, metal things under trains which the wheels are attached too.

That said, I must concur that yes, a bogie will not give a stuff when they snuff you out as you get run over... Even on a Duff!

Enough?

I wasn't quite sure on the spelling of plural bogey's/ bogies, still you knew what I meant,
But I wouldn't pick them!

 

[Yellow Fang]

In Star Wars IV, The New Hope. Hans Solo told Jabba the Hut, or one of his henchmen that he didn't dump the spice because he didn't like the smell. I think this was just before Hans Solo killed the henchman, but I think that bit has been edited out since, so maybe it never happened. Why all the fuss about some spice? Surely it's better just to pay the import duty. I wouldn't pay a dodgy geezer like Hans Solo to deliver a cargo of tumeric.

 

[simongt]

Bogeys are what comes out your nose.

Now I know how the tune Colonel Bogey was named - !