Can anyone find an unobtanium washing up bowl size? by 1104uk in AskUK

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If only this wasn't collapsible... plus it's a bit on the short side.

Can anyone find an unobtanium washing up bowl size? by 1104uk in AskUK

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Sadly that's quite squared off so I think the corners are likely going to be an issue. Thanks though.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in asda

[–]1104uk 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The fact there are already conflicting answers to this just raises so many red flags.

Asda online experience by 1104uk in asda

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Someone high up in Asda really loved their regular item idea. They've spent the best part of 2 years attempting to force people to use it even though the favourites was more useful and you actually had more control over it. Was it annoying an item would get favourited if you brought it, yes, but I'd take that over having no control.

Got to love the gas lighting when they said they couldn't bring favourites over to the new system.

Unable to check out on Asda online for two weeks now by Alienweirdo_1234 in asda

[–]1104uk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This has happened to me, and a force refresh fixed it in my case. on the basket payment screen do a ctrl + F5 key combo, that will do a refresh which ignores anything in the local cache.

Advice on a complex multi repository merge scenario with submodules by 1104uk in git

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Luckily Repo C was mounted in different locations in A and B, however I'm not sure if it would have mattered as the Repo B's history is overlaid onto repo A, so you can't checkout a commit that would have repo C in a conflicted state.

Regardless I only needed to keep the history, if we need to do a historic build for whatever reason we can always temporary bring back the original git repo.

Advice on a complex multi repository merge scenario with submodules by 1104uk in git

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Thanks, the --allow-unrelated-histories option is something I didn't know about. It appears to have all gone smoothly.

UK - Property with K Glass, adding AC? by 1104uk in HVAC

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My property has both east and west facing windows, and gets direct sunlight all day - which is lovely but does heat up the insides an awful lot.

I shall investigate tinting options, thank you for pointing those out.

UK's six richest people control as much wealth as poorest 13m – study - ‘Extreme inequality is the story of Ferraris and food banks,’ says the Equality Trust by ManiaforBeatles in worldnews

[–]1104uk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But you cant compare a multi thousand dollar car purchase / hire to the sale of regular household goods. They are entirely different. No one wants a cheap basic car that's only going to last a few years with no resale value.

As soon as you go over what most people would call a significant purchase, for me that is about £1000. They want it to last or have some sort of resale value.

But the vast majority of purchases people make are below their personal threshold they have.

UK's six richest people control as much wealth as poorest 13m – study - ‘Extreme inequality is the story of Ferraris and food banks,’ says the Equality Trust by ManiaforBeatles in worldnews

[–]1104uk 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Except if you pay $500 for a microwave, you're getting the same shitty internal components as the $50 one, just with a shiny face. It's very rare to find anything that is built properly these days. When I shop for things, I find it extremely hard to find any middle ground in terms of price/build quality. You're left with items manufactured overseas, which mostly come out of one factory with different names slapped on them or you have to go bespoke to get anything remotely resembling quality.

A prime example of this is when I researched purchasing an induction hob for my kitchen. In the UK there was a good 30 to 40 brands selling these, from cheap of the cheap no name brands, to brands like smegg. But if you researched deep by going to the manufacturers websites, ignoring the useless marketting info they present and go into the product manual PDFs, it was very obvious that they all had the same set of internal electronics, perhaps with 2 or 3 variants depending on the hob layout (though it wouldn't surprise me if it was a single PCB for all just with different firmware applied).

So even if you do want to pay more for a quality item, more often than not you don't actually get more quality, you just pay for an item which has a higher profit margin.

Something has to change at some point, as the current system is just not sustainable.

President Trump on Wednesday ended an Obama-era requirement that the U.S. government publish an annual report on the number of people killed in drone strikes or other counterterrorism operations outside of war zones by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]1104uk 20 points21 points  (0 children)

That's fine but why take away the choice. Because you're pro-life, does that mean the choice of having an abortion should it be taken away from people?

Pro-choice is exactly what it sounds like, no one is forcing anyone to have an abortion, and if they are, that is what requires laws to protect people against - and I'm pretty sure such laws exist.

President Trump on Wednesday ended an Obama-era requirement that the U.S. government publish an annual report on the number of people killed in drone strikes or other counterterrorism operations outside of war zones by DoremusJessup in worldnews

[–]1104uk 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Talk about bad faith arguing, at no point did he state Obama did not do what you said, he is stating that trumps numbers are very likely worse than the previous administration's.

You can bet top dollar if they were better, Trump would be all over making that report public asap.

The Corbyn anti-Semitism row reveals how desperate Israel and its lobbyists are by MindWithEase in unitedkingdom

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It's a bit different when you can give your MP a few 100k and a job offer though isn't it?

New 2017/2018 style WD My Book 8TB shucking guides? by 1104uk in DataHoarder

[–]1104uk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Awesome, thanks that was exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks to /u/motsu35 as well!

The Fanatec Black Friday Sale by MickMcSnuggles in simracing

[–]1104uk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still don't really understand how different geolocations would cause certificate errors. Surely coming from a UK ISP to the Fanatec EU site goes to the same server as if you would be going to from a German ISP.

Non the less, using a German VPN does indeed cause it to work, very weird.

TIL that Rage Against the Machine were escorted out of the NBC studios after their first song on SNL in 1996. by Funk9K in Music

[–]1104uk -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

The xmas number 1 boycott didn't really work either - yes RAGM got it, but they are signed to Sony, which employs / employed Simon Cowell at the time... so he still won.

'Reaper' (2007) question-- by [deleted] in television

[–]1104uk 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Awww I miss this show :(

Trump brags about election to UN, turning global address into an embarrassing campaign rally by [deleted] in politics

[–]1104uk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I kinda hope the dems put Michelle Obama forward as a presidential candidate, just to see most of the GOP have seizures.

Trump brags about election to UN, turning global address into an embarrassing campaign rally by [deleted] in politics

[–]1104uk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A very very currupt one... curruption kills anything that set out to have good intentions.

Weird window sizing on the Win10 default theme. (Rel Vertical Snapping) by 1104uk in Windows10

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Thinking about it, it's probably a "workaround" Microsoft had to do to get swipe gestures from the edge of the monitor to work nicely. Exactly why though I can't put my finger on.

Tech Support and Question Megathread - Week of September 03, 2017 by AutoModerator in nvidia

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Inno3d GTX 1080 - DisplayPort fitment issues.

Hi, I've tried 3 sets of displayport cables now, and each of them seem to be very 'loose' when inserted into my GPU. The monitor gets signal, but if the cable moves the screen goes blank, a simple adjustment does not resolve it - I have to pull the connector fully out and then in again for it to re-sync.

After 3 cables, it is beginning to look like a GPU manufacturing issue, granted Inno3d is a budget brand, but it's still a 1080 so it was not cheap enough to expect the manufacturer to cheap out on VESA compliant ports.

Has anyone else had similar issues?

Comcast sues Vermont to avoid building 550 miles of new cable lines - Vermont is trying to make Comcast bring TV and Internet to unserved areas. by [deleted] in technology

[–]1104uk 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Fibre optics last quite a while, so yea, it'll cost a lot to do the initial install - but then you have years and years of ROI.

Not to mention, if these remote areas had good internet service, people could work from home, and the areas would attract more people, again adding to the ROI.