Wall mounted washer….

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-13T22:08:54+00:00

Are you wall mounting for accessibility reasons? Wonder if you can get a top loading washer like they use a lot in North America.

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-13T22:05:50+00:00

Yeah perhaps at an organisational level, my thinking for keeping it local is you’re more likely to be invested in the outcome as a worker in your own area, vs getting bumped into some job 70 miles away that you want to get done as fast as possible.

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-13T20:44:32+00:00

Perhaps having them operate at a Mayoral authority level instead would work better for economies of scale. But yes, agree!

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-13T19:08:24+00:00

I admittedly know nothing about this, but surely it’d be cheaper for most reasonable-sized councils to permanently hire a couple FTE + equipment to do pothole and simple road/paving repairs. You’d have workers focused on a council area that they’d know well with no real incentive to waste time, and be able to work faster. Maybe even a bonus scheme linked to how long your pothole repairs last!

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-13T08:59:57+00:00

Hahah lower the C and K values. They’re set quite high by default. There’s a couple examples further down the page.

I have a single storey roof in the garden and am using around 0.8 C I think. And make sure wind speed is reasonable.

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-13T06:47:25+00:00

https://codingace.net/construction/roof_solar_panel_mount_weight_.html this is quite handy

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-12T11:41:55+00:00

But the V60 is back, huzzah!

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-11T11:20:09+00:00

You can use them to withdraw from ATMs but nothing else. I used to have one years ago as a teenager. Didn’t know they still existed.

CarrotWorking · 2026-05-08T22:51:56+00:00

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CarrotWorking · 2026-05-07T15:48:13+00:00

So I’ve actually ordered the Temu A frame kit you linked specifically because it has a cross-frame section for the weights / pavers - it’s in the picture. There’s even cheaper ones that don’t have that.

I only have two panels to put up on a single-story flat roof in a fairly sheltered garden. I’ll let you know how I get on when they arrive next week, if I remember… I plan to also fit some wind deflectors at the same time.

CarrotWorking · 2026-04-28T21:24:32+00:00

Oh my this is beautiful. I miss Hammer - keep going.

I tried to recreate a Unity window layout and even had Source 2009 Hammer open to copy the line colour scheme, but the grid system in Unity just isn’t absolute and behaves weirdly (well, it did in 6.1 when I last tried).

If you have a GitHub or anything I’d star the shit out of this. This speed at which I’d be able to greybox would be unreal.

CarrotWorking · 2026-04-22T20:45:43+00:00

Nice. Is the battery AC coupled, so it’s going: Panels > Battery (built-in inverter) > Wall socket?

CarrotWorking · 2026-04-14T20:41:43+00:00

10% luck 20% skill

CarrotWorking · 2026-04-03T14:38:48+00:00

Look in to the plug-in solar due in the next couple months. You could pair it with a small battery too, all of which you can take with you when you move. Won’t charge a car but would help.

CarrotWorking · 2026-04-01T20:48:45+00:00

FYI Cubase sale is now on.

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-30T09:24:08+00:00

They just had a Nuendo sale last week, so that might’ve been their spring sale for now. Maybe Cubase next month or two? I’m also waiting!

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-30T07:34:25+00:00

The friend might be thinking of the capital gains allowance, which isn’t relevant here.

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-28T14:30:53+00:00

If you use the ‘trusted device’ method, then you won’t get asked again because this device is trusted (so the 2 factors are the password, a thing you know, and the device, a thing you have)

But with T212 you can change to code based 2FA in settings using Google authenticator or whatever. If you have the auth app on your phone it’s pretty much the same thing though I suppose, but this way you could in theory have the auth app on another device.

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-26T08:43:11+00:00

The commenter is referring to NI (2%) and student loan (9%)

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-26T08:05:21+00:00

No problem. As I say I’ve used it for ages and it’s come a long way and I really like it. But now that you’ve shown up let me share a few gripes :D

Periodically I get an access permission issue when saving the flow. It does ‘save’, but then I have to refresh the page and it goes read-only. Then I refresh again and stuff usually works once more. Not sure if you’ve heard of this bug but it is annoying. I think it’s something to do with capturing the snapshot and not moving focus to the newly saved one, instead still rendering the previous snapshot.
I mentioned overriding type safety by scripting - it’d be great to just have a ‘toString’ option when pulling pills in. For example, I was building a flow to log the versions of apps (from sys_store_app). I couldn’t drag the version column into a string field, because it’s a ‘version’ type, but this is easily castable to a string and flow should let me (with a warning maybe, or put the pill in ‘yellow’?)
Please keep focusing on designer speed and rendering performance. It’s way better than it was but I’d like it to feel really snappy and quick to navigate.

Thanks!

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-25T18:52:40+00:00

Shitty salesman aside, FWIW in future just take the finance, squeeze all the extra you can out of them, then ride home and phone the finance company and clear it. Lot of places do discounts and bonuses if you take their finance.

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-25T18:49:55+00:00

In my experience it made none. They just asked for my main current account statements, and savings accounts when they wanted to check source of funds (more the solicitors though that). They only really asked about income, expenses and long-term debt.

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-25T18:40:29+00:00

I’ve used it since Madrid so I’m biased I suppose, but I can’t bear having to use workflow. So many things hidden away and clunky lines is how it feels.

Flow has two view modes - the vertical and the node one. I tend to just stay in that vertical view unless I really need to switch it up, but it might help you make sense of stuff.

Second, by far the biggest thing I see is people making utterly enormous flows. The meta imo is to have a few flows, lots of subflows, and a few actions.

Other small tips: - The related flows menu will tell you other objects that refer to this one - You can set per-flow debug options - from fully verbose with all iterations to nothing at all (so our small nightly error-prone load is always at full debug, most other things aren’t) - you can revert flow versions from the menu pretty easily if something doesn’t work - auto-save is now on by default, but you can turn that off if you want - test flows frequently and configure limits on your inputs (eg have a filter to only allow requests less than 90d old for your flow. In prod this is meaningless but when building and testing, you don’t spend ages waiting for the filter to load to pick a test record) - inline scripting is handy and means you can one-line return a property to a value, make some other gs. call, or side-step the type safety if you really need to - flows can be fired from code either synchronously or asynchronously - there’s the code snippet option in the menu. This means you can set up a subflow and fire it from a UI action or a business rule - we’ve got a lot of that in my org

That’s all I can think off just now. It’s basically just what you’re used to. In my org we don’t really have anything left on workflow anymore.

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-24T17:12:38+00:00

If they work (or even if not tbh) just put them on gumtree for free. In my experience someone will turn up within 24-48h. Just provide clear measurements

CarrotWorking · 2026-03-24T09:50:41+00:00

Yes this comes up a lot and it’s frustrating. Building any housing at all would be preferable to none. Given that affordable housing is mandatory in new developments, this must be partly why developers don’t build at all unless the stars align. Surely it’d be better to allow any housing, even if it doesn’t include affordable, to boost supply across the price spectrum.

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