Sheer size of mercantile shipbuilding industry also very very important enabler

And having a legislature that will grumble but ultimately cough up, *hard stare* at the US Congress

Yes, and he was ahead of other people at that point, at least in terms of the path that was eventually taken. But I’m not sure that the RN is always in the lead in warship design in the late C19/early C20. But they were always in the lead of actually building stuff and that was what mattered.

I think it was less ‘design’ than ‘realisation’ (and replication). France could build Gloire but Britain could realise Warrior (and Black Prince), Italy could design Carraciolo but Britain could realise Dreadnought

No. Those lines are about Goschen (who ‘had no notion of the motion of the ocean’). He was first First Lord of the Admiralty, a civilian, Government, position. The Sea Lords were professional Naval Officers. White, was a Civil Servant, a third status but highly professionalised and very experienced

Yes, there’s an interesting area around Trade Unions in an organisation which officially doesn’t recognise them, but really finds it useful to work with (some of) them to boost productivity.

Yes, although during her service lifetime Powerful was mostly famous for landing her guns and their crews to intervene in the Boer war. Naval warfare is very often a case of ‘run what you brung

No. White was a professional shipwright who rose to the top at roughly the same time as ‘up and at ‘em’ naval officers like Cowper-Coles were advocating the building of ships that literally had holes in their sides

Essentially a Civil Servant, although the Royal Dockyards can be a bit a grey area

Well #lofc know how to destroy optimism.
0-2, that was terrible

3-1
Ballard x2
Connolly

Chin like a ram bow

The level/proximity struck me at the time

With the hip height info panel included

Rep of a very leading edge tech company described what they are doing with their, walled garden, proprietary system. Jaws on the floor time…
This is a different conversation from ‘AI adoption’.

Further observation: participants, in a poll, thought that marketing would be the business function most affected by AI. There were no marketeers in the room. If marketeers had been asked, would they have made software engineers obsolete? AI is taking over the functions we don’t understand (value).

‘AI’ may not be useful as a category anymore. Companies at the leading edge are doing different things to everyone else.

Spent yesterday at a conf on manufacturing Innovation policy. The contrast between conversations about AI there and a lot of academia (espec humanities) is striking. But the divide is also between what is happening in OEMs or leading tech companies and the rest of industry.

Tbf, last night it was already quite a lot like this. We had to make our own entertainment somehow.

Real world manifestation of the Jedi mind trick

To be accompanied by the return of some sort of Salute to the Flag requirement

“How do you sleep at night? You c—-“

Today in odd genealogical discoveries, my Great x9 Grandmother’s sister married Rembrandt’s great nephew.
I still can’t draw though.

Well right scoreline but conceding a winner in the 16th (sixteenth) minute of stoppage time stings a bit.
I think the ref just decided to play until Huddersfield scored.
#lofc

1-2 to Huddersfield
Ballard for the Os

For a Dollar

Would that be the same James Dyson who has invested heavily in industrial farming in the UK?

The East end of a beautiful neoclassical church with choir dressed in black singing. They are overlooked by a memorial to Josiah Childs, the sculpture is as good as he was bad

To St Mary’s Wanstead for a choral performance of Stabat Mater, wonderfully sung by local choirs

A very young Orient XI playing a Dulwich Hamlet at their Champion Hill ground. The main stand is illuminated against a grey sky flecked with light.

At Dulwich Hamlet to see Orient lose 2-1 in the London Senior Cup
Good first half performance but it was a bit men v boys in the second.
Nice ground, good beer, good souvlaki, decent atmosphere
#lofc

1-2 Ballard, Wellens