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[SueEllen]

I thought the whole UK banking system ran on IBM 360s, fed COBOL programs on punched cards.

It's a mixture but if things can be out on excel you are in trouble.

[OwlHoot]

Don't underestimate excel. UK's whole banking system runs on it.

I thought the whole UK banking system ran on IBM 360s, fed COBOL programs on punched cards.

[BR14]

SOYMF

[AtW]

"It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, Immunity's coming home"

Do I need to sing it louder?

No, he is not actually deaf, just very dumb.

[WTFH]

Pardon? what?

"It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, Immunity's coming home"

Do I need to sing it louder?

[minestrone]

Pardon? what?

You herd.

[BR14]

Heard immunity for Euro 2021 then.

Pardon? what?

[minestrone]

Heard immunity for Euro 2021 then.

[AtW]

“ Up to 90,000 people are being infected with Covid each day, the government’s chief scientific officer revealed today, as Rishi Sunak launched a further economic support package to help workers and businesses hit by virus lockdown restrictions.

Sir Patrick Vallance said government modelling suggested that between 53,000 and 90,000 new cases of Covid were occurring every day, which would feed into hospital admissions in the coming weeks.

“The numbers speak for themselves,” he said. “They are increasing and they are not going to decrease quickly.”

Covid cases up to 90,000 a day | News | The Times

[SueEllen]

22nd September, 3,929 new cases. Wail claims they know experts who say it's not going to increase much and that the scientists are wrong.

How the wailing changes...
Coronavirus UK: 26,688 new cases and 191 deaths in daily toll | Daily Mail Online

...except now they are claiming that in May we were regularly having over 100,000 new cases per day

Well if there isn't enough testing you can make up numbers....

[WTFH]

To ensure we never get to high numbers...
Government's warning of 50,000 cases a day in October is based on few hundred positive cases | Daily Mail Online

...is it possible that the government systems are still running Excel 95 or earlier, with a limit of 16,384 rows?

22nd September, 3,929 new cases. Wail claims they know experts who say it's not going to increase much and that the scientists are wrong.

How the wailing changes...
Coronavirus UK: 26,688 new cases and 191 deaths in daily toll | Daily Mail Online

...except now they are claiming that in May we were regularly having over 100,000 new cases per day

[vetran]

The land registry download is a 3.7 gig CSV.

It's a delight to work with a flat file that size.

loaded it last night funnily enough.

[vetran]

size matters? - if you can parse 50 lines, you can parse 50G lines.

not always, some idiots limit storage !

[WTFH]

Should have thought of priority. Two others you might expect are a Y/N for healthcare worker and nursing home resident.

Priority is a list, not a Y/N, and risk is a 0-5.
There was talk of a likelihood of full recovery field and a future benefit to society, but there was no agreement on how to word those.

Triage is excel-based, DC & the statisticians control the medical advice.

...although I should add the word “allegedly” to the above.

[Old Greg]

Good guesses.

Should have thought of priority. Two others you might expect are a Y/N for healthcare worker and nursing home resident.