That sparked a memory of rewritefs, which I used when rationalising a few hundred thousand legacy mod_rewrite rules at a web hosting company in the early 2010s: https://github.com/sloonz/rewritefs
Looks like it was based on a mid-2000s system called libetc, which did a similar job but had to be LD_PRELOADed: https://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/
I think your partners were mistaken - the requirement for having a company seal and paper company register / minute book went away in both England & Wales and Scotland with the Companies Act 1985, and company formation has been done online UK-wide since the Companies Act 2006.
I'd guess the guy operating from his car was an artisan engraver who made the seal for you. They're easy to buy online too (I got one around 25 years ago), but they're mostly a curiosity rather than a necessity. I doubt more than one in a hundred new Ltd or LLP companies will bother with one.
It did have a remarkably low price, though - less than a tenth of UCSD p-System or Topspeed. Even the competitors in the hobbyist space like the original IBM/Microsoft Pascal and DRI's Pascal/MT originally cost 4-5x as much.
Really, it was responsible for as big a step change in pricing of programming tools in the 1980s as GNU, BSD, and Linux were in the 90s.
And using different ounces for metals, fluids, drugs, and, er, everything else - how does that not send people screaming into the arms of the metric system?!
And then there's the hundredweight, where "hundred" actually means "eight"...
"I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the President or the Pope or as a .400 baseball hitter. But now I'd want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody."
Sure, maybe Trump's peculiar mix of ego and ignorance might mean he's one of the few exceptions to that rule - but if he were to actually try claiming that a bond rout is somehow good news in the middle of a market panic, the reaction from distressed would be investors would be hard even for him to ignore.
I wonder if this'll turn out like the last time they published their algorithm to great fanfare, and then didn't bother to ever update it: https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm
Ubuntu is pretty strong already in that niche - either using Landscape as a first party management solution, but it also tends to be the distro most-commonly recommended by the big third-party MDM vendors like Scalefusion and Jumpcloud. Not sure what their mobile story is like, but they certainly cover laptop / desktops.
Yes, you'd still need a full forced air cooling system (especially with modern datacentre densities), so the only gain would be from the there being a higher temperature gradient for your heat exchangers to work with.
There's no way that by itself would make enough of a difference to justify building a dc there, given all the other negatives that others have mentioned.
That data center likely still uses liquid to liquid heat exchangers with a chilled water loop and cooling towers to reject heat outside, but I could be wrong. Piping refrigerant around a massive building costs way more than chilled water, same goes for filling up the system, glycol and water is cheaper than refrigerant.
That's inevitable, really, given the way power densities have been increasing. I wouldn't be surprised if people weren't also experimenting with high pressure Helium and similar technologies.
It's certainly a far cry from opening some windows and stringing a few fans together in the hope that the chilly outside air will be enough to keep things cool!
Before we go down that path, datacenters full of oil tubs seems to be a trend in some spaces. Very good cooling power, low-tech heat extraction (small pumps to make the oil move, car radiators with big simple plumbing... do the trick well).
Looks like it was based on a mid-2000s system called libetc, which did a similar job but had to be LD_PRELOADed: https://ordiluc.net/fs/libetc/
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