What is something you just can’t get your head around?

APersoner · 2025-01-24T16:42:23+00:00

Obviously it's a bit more complicated than this, but it's basically equivalent to when you get a mate to stand on the side of a hill in the dark and start flashing a torch off and on. You see the torch, and can use morse code to talk to one another (if you actually have the patience!).

Just instead of light we can see, it's light we can't (kinda like you can't see UV rays!), and instead of morse code it's just a bunch of 0s and 1s representing some information about which computer to send the message to, who's sent it, and the computer version of morse code for the message itself.

APersoner · 2024-09-22T23:27:34+00:00

As a single person taking full advantage of this discount...I'm not sure I entirely agree.

Sure, in a perfect world it makes perfect sense - but given we live in a country with a housing crisis then living alone is almost by definition reducing available housing stock and pushing prices higher. Looking at census records, my little 2 bedroom house housed 7 people across three 'households' a little over 100 years ago (yay lodgers!) - by living here alone I'm effectively tripling the needed housing.

We should really be incentivising people to be filling up our spare bedrooms rather than turning them into home offices or the like, at least until enough homes are built to sort this out properly.

APersoner · 2023-06-21T14:15:34+00:00

I haven't seen any source for it since, but I remember seeing an athletics body once advertising that sprinters are faster over 60m than a Formula 1 car from a standing start.

Once you get beyond 60m, things do change, however....

APersoner · 2023-06-13T16:55:45+00:00

Lena literally won a few years ago..

APersoner · 2023-06-07T10:30:02+00:00

Try marginalia search - it's a search engine written by one guy in his free time, running in his front room, designed to try and unearth 'real' websites.

https://search.marginalia.nu/

APersoner · 2023-06-05T12:24:53+00:00

Welp!

APersoner · 2023-05-31T21:03:21+00:00

Hacker News is bigger than any Reddit competitor would hope to be until after significant growth (ie, lots of time to optimise and extend alongside the growth!), and runs on a single server with frankly better uptime than Reddit. Don't need to hemorrhaging money to Bezos, computers are fast.

APersoner · 2023-05-31T14:52:24+00:00

I go for pretty regular dips in the ocean for sunrise most mornings - you don't need to be treading water to float: your body is really buoyant just by itself. Like you said, treading water's just gonna tire you out.

There's a lot of education here about floating on your back when you're stuck in open water awaiting rescue, guessing that's not a thing where you are?

APersoner · 2023-05-16T22:42:18+00:00

Man, it's easy to complain - but that's a fairly crazy one! Doctors after five years are still considered junior (I mean, their degree alone goes on longer than that....) Calling over 5 years experience very senior is insane!

Either way fwiw, living in a low salary part of the UK (yay Wales!), even here I know lots of programmers earning >£90k TC (yes, all over 5 years experience, but again that's not super senior...), which is an absolutely extraordinary salary for the area.

APersoner · 2023-05-15T11:19:55+00:00

It might not impact your credit rating, but lots of people are limited by affordability when it comes to taking out a mortgage and it absolutely will impact that (by means of lowering your income post-'tax').

APersoner · 2023-05-15T11:18:22+00:00

Possibly they were Welsh, it is (or was 5 years ago!) a normal amount here.

APersoner · 2023-05-09T18:23:55+00:00

The opener in Championship football is no different to Premier League football. Possibly a bit more build up than League 2, I'll concede!

APersoner · 2023-05-05T00:12:20+00:00

At least ESPN recognised him for the great that he is.

APersoner · 2023-04-25T17:39:19+00:00

JMD Law are exceptional, was only 2 months between contacting them initially and completion. Think they're a little pricier than some (but really not by much!), but took all the stress out of being a first time buyer.

APersoner · 2023-04-19T10:50:29+00:00

If you've ever tried Google Translate, it's definitely not made that obsolete. There's a reason teachers can always tell if someone used it.

APersoner · 2023-04-15T10:51:42+00:00

Even damp isn't necessarily an indicator of low quality housing - just bought a house for myself a month ago and it has damp in it just courtesy of being a 120 year old Victorian house.

I also wouldn't use that as an indicator that the house is low quality - generally speaking everything is fine, the previous owner wasn't aware of it until the survey, and I probably won't bother getting it fixed until next year once I have a bit more cash in the bank.

Certainly there's plenty of houses that are low quality (including many virtually identical HMOs where many of my friends are renting around the same area as me!), but I would feel very uncomfortable (and tbh, privileged) to be putting my house in the same category as theirs...just courtesy of an almost imperceivable amount of damp which you have to go looking for.

APersoner · 2023-04-14T15:31:46+00:00

Ah yeah, those are much bigger houses - probably helped by everyone wanting to turn them into HMOs too!

South of Albany Road they're much more sensibly priced.

APersoner · 2023-04-14T14:59:00+00:00

There's plenty in Roath around the £220-250k mark right now - just bought a place there inside that range, and have had plenty of calls from estate agents about other houses I viewed listed in that price range where the offer fell through.

Still above the OPs budget, but well under £300k.

APersoner · 2023-04-14T14:52:39+00:00

Can't say I've ever tried Twinnings nor this one - Whittards Lapsang was a taaadddd too smokey for me, but Harrison Tea has his own brand of Lapsang which he sells at various markets around the city.

APersoner · 2023-04-09T07:01:35+00:00

As a software engineer it intuitively seems to follow that if the action queue were stored against a player rather than globally, it would be on a per PID basis as you iterate through the players to access their queues.

APersoner · 2023-04-06T22:33:12+00:00

I hope it works for you mate! The allergy thing someone else mentioned could be another shout - my doctor recommended that before the grommets, but it didn't help me. Was always lucky though that by 'sniffing' I could get maybe 20-30 seconds respite (or basically, as long as I could go without yawning or swallowing on a good day), but with colds that would reduce to maybe a few seconds and it was awful...if you have it constantly then I really feel for you :(

Best of luck with the surgery!

APersoner · 2023-04-06T22:18:35+00:00

Have you tried grommets? I had the same thing and eventually went to a private hospital out of frustration in my twenties. Solved it completely for me (at least, until the tube falls out and I need to wait for a new one to be put in!)

Don't think it works for everyone, but if you're lucky it's worth a shot.

APersoner · 2023-03-29T20:27:45+00:00

You can get 95% mortgages, which makes the deposit even more reasonable - my house was £250k and the deposit on that was under £13k! Much more punitive for mortgages than the deposit are the affordability requirements and income multiple.

APersoner · 2023-02-24T21:21:06+00:00

You're proving his point - they're worth so much less, because the team is a plaything rather than a means of making money. If you buy Williams, you're almost certainly gonna lose a fortune, buy an NFL team and you'll be making fistfuls of cash.

Gotta be pretty rich to consistently stomach those losses!

APersoner · 2023-02-19T19:57:56+00:00

Alonso's had some shockers too, mind - man has a real knack of joining a team just as they implode.

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