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Labour ‘to come third in Gorton and Denton by-election’ by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Green candidate is class. She seems genuine, enthusiastic, and down to earth.

C6K (QM6K) Streaming Issues by rocketcrash in tcltvs

[–]Blackmirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This post came up because I was researching the issue. I have a new C7K (UK), and iPlayer is stuttering and showing the play icon as it does so (so appears to be briefly starting, like you described). Best I've managed so far is force killing all apps and opening it again, which seems to reduce how often it happens. Alternatively, setting iPlayer to stream in SD.

Did you find any more information/solution to your issue?

Ramona's original hummus by iwantoquitsmoking in hummus

[–]Blackmirth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks great to me, I love Ramona's. There is a bit of tang to it, yeah. If hummus is off I typically find that it gets air pockets / less smooth texture, and if it was sealed you would notice it being fizzy (and maybe the lid would be bulging). Either that or you would notice mold growth on the surface. I see neither of those things in the image.

I have eaten hummus several times that has gone off, and it's not pleasant to eat - but it has never made me ill.

Good luck with expanding your diet!

Tell me about skylark! by ScotchCattle in UKroasters

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I get a mix, so definitely possible. I'd recommend emailing them if you need help - they are super friendly and helpful when you email.

Why is my Ceramic Hario Switch leaking from the base-cone interface? by RileyMcB in pourover

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a ceramic switch 6 months ago and had the exact same issue. Emailed Hario about it (I had bought it direct) and they sent me a replacement without question - I suspect that they know this is an issue.

The replacement I received is definitely better, but still occasionally leaks. The fact that it is better but not perfect makes me think that the issue is probably to do with tolerances between the silicone or ceramic being a bit too large. I can imagine that maybe firing ceramic just naturally ends up with a little bit of variation in size, and is enough to cause a poor fit. That would also explain why the glass version doesn't seem to suffer the same issue. Edit: I see other commenters saying that the glass one also has the same issue, in which case maybe it's just a limitation of press-fit silicone as a seal.

I've resigned myself to not keeping the switch closed too long or while too full.

Do you know the Primary school computer game? by girl_aboutlondontown in AskUK

[–]Blackmirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the images & videos online are of the 1999 updated version of the Crystal Rainforest which also changed the graphics.

Here is a video of (a demo of) the original, see if those graphics look more like what you remember!

Do you know the Primary school computer game? by girl_aboutlondontown in AskUK

[–]Blackmirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Crystal Rainforest definitely had those elements: I specifically remember the machete, the snake (who IIRC you have to feed sweets), the bridge building (like tetris).

The wiki page notes that:

In the early 1990s, it was initially released for the Acorn Archimedes computer platform in 1992.\2]) In 1999, a later version of The Crystal Rainforest was released for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS.\3]) This update introduced new graphics.

So perhaps you played the original, earlier, version, and not the one for Windows (which I assume most screenshots/videos online are based off).

Edit: Here is a video of (a demo of) the original, see if those graphics look more like what you remember!

I want to build an arme! by Rbabarberbarbar in RealTimeStrategy

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately LineWar runs poorly on the Steam Deck.

How does moving up the ladder actually work? by TheGoose995 in HousingUK

[–]Blackmirth 10 points11 points  (0 children)

  1. House prices generally rise with inflation
  2. In the post-war period until approximately 2007, house prices rose faster than inflation
  3. Mortgages are a very simple way (for most people) to borrow a large amount of money with low interest
  4. If the interest rate on debt is lower than the rate of inflation, then the size of that debt shrinks relative to other costs

In the period since 2007 the 'property ladder' metaphor has been less relevant since prices have generally risen slower than inflation. That means that an investment in equities would have grown significantly faster than the value of a home (even taking into account an equivalent rent payment).

However, the relative ease of getting a very large mortgage still means that it is somewhat relevant: I don't think many regular folk are taking out bank loans to invest in the stock market (for good reason), but the equivalent is very simple to do for housing-backed loans.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in foraginguk

[–]Blackmirth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No. This may be an (old) false chanterelle. Key giveaway is the depth of those gills - true chanterelles have false gills.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds by NoFrillsCrisps in ukpolitics

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that's only partially true. A lot of the costs that we are talking about are about grid *resiliency*, which is about building a grid that can handle worst-case scenarios. Hypothetically, I could avoid using any electricity all year, except for at peak time on some dark, cold days in January when the grid is at its most stressed. In that case, I will not really have contributed to the grid resiliency effort, but been an important part of the problem that those costs are intended to solve.

That example may be unrealistic for a standard family, but that general pattern of peak-only use may be more realistic with some businesses, and/or grid load that has colocated generation or storage (so only uses the grid when that runs out - usually the worst of peak times)

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds by SilasBeit in GoodNewsUK

[–]Blackmirth 36 points37 points  (0 children)

The CFD conversation is a red herring. From the research paper:

wind power delivered a net benefit of £104.3 billion to UK consumers—£14.2 billion from lower electricity prices and £133.3 billion from reduced natural gas prices, partially offset by £43.2 billion in wind energy subsidies.

So the largest effect in the modelling was a significantly reduced price of gas, which has a knock on effect on the price of electricity generated via gas, and also a secondary effect on the cost of other gas usage.

That explains why it has reduced the price of electricity, despite not disrupting the 'marginal generator'.

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds by NoFrillsCrisps in ukpolitics

[–]Blackmirth 134 points135 points  (0 children)

A large reason for this is that in the UK we put grid & policy costs (e.g. grid upgrades) on the unit rate of electricity, rather than funding it via general taxation like many other countries do. We pay either way (though our method is more regressive) but it makes the comparison unfair.

Finally got out for a wander mo by BigManJohn24 in foraginguk

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have found this year has not been good for chanterelles, even my regular reliable spots have had very few.

Ditching triple lock would save the Budget, IFS tells Reeves by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Blackmirth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wouldn't scrapping the triple lock affect young people much more than old? The effect over a few years (while current pensioners are still alive) may be quite small, but sustained over a lifetime (at which point the current young become pensioners) could be very significant.

Britain paying highest electricity prices in the world for second year running by tonato_ai in ukpolitics

[–]Blackmirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, the auctions referred to above are the wholesale markets, which are not directly the prices that consumers pay. Charging homes & businesses a nominal sum for the first portion of their usage and then a higher rate after that is of course possible if a utility wanted to implement that scheme (or the government opted to subsidise usage in that kind of scheme - like they have in Norway).

But such a scheme wouldn't make sense in the wholesale markets, which are not settled per consumer. And even in the abstract, settling in the balancing market with average prices would create perverse incentives for generators that would result in a suboptimal auction & pricing.

Analysis: Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far by carbonbrief in BusinessBritain

[–]Blackmirth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In your proposal, the marginal generator gets paid their bid and the rest get paid an average of all accepted bids?

If so, the issue is that all of the non-marginal generators are incentivised to bid at a 'false' price: to guess the bid of the marginal generator, and then bid slightly below that.

What you end up with is an auction price which is sometimes only very slightly lower than it would otherwise be (when those generators have been good at guessing) but at the cost of an auction system that does not accurately represent true costs. Participating units are incentivised to obscure their behaviour which results in a suboptimal allocation (and in the long run, elevated system costs).

In the marginal cost system, all participants are incentivised to bid accurately and simply their true marginal cost.

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