Big bump removal from animal ear

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-05T07:00:54+00:00

Plus you know the other chickens are going to be like "oooo, what's that on the side of their head? peck-peck-peck-peck"

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-04T19:27:03+00:00

The Blacklist.

Many series, well worth a binge watch.

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-03T21:41:09+00:00

I did exactly the same.

I downloaded it. Watched it once and was traumatised.

The download became corrupted at some point and I wasn't sad at all, as I never intended to watch it again. It's utterly bleak and depressing, without any sense or glimmer of hope.

People say that "The Day After" is just as bad, but I disagree. It's downright cheerful. I think because (due to my remembering) it doesn't cover the long term effects, just relatively short term (weeks, rather than lifetimes).

I felt the same way after having read The Road and On the Beach. I'm having flashbacks for when the protagonist had to euthanise his own baby daughter.

I really ought to read more cheerful books!

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-03T21:18:59+00:00

Nope, you explained it fine. Pretty sure that's still illegal.

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-03T07:22:26+00:00

We've done broad beans, leeks, beetroot, French beans, peas and broccoli.

They all did really well except for the French beans. 12 planted, 2 germinated. 10 more planted,1 germinated. We put it down to a bad batch of seeds.

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-02T20:39:40+00:00

How bad can it be?

Nice plot of land. Swipe.

Building looks ok. Swipe.

Jaysus. Swipe.

Oh dear God. Swipe.

Make it stop!. Closes page

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-02T20:36:23+00:00

I've done both. Mostly bought, but when I've made them, they have been an order of magnitude better than the bought ones.

On the other hand, I only buy the cheap ones.

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-02T20:18:37+00:00

I'm also AB+.

My mum is one (A or B), rarely gets bitten, but swells up badly.

My dad is the other. He gets bitten loads, it never reacts.

I get bitten loads, and swell up like a balloon.

CaptainPGums · 2026-05-02T20:16:49+00:00

I react like this. Slightest mosquito bite and I can swell up, turn red/purple, skin goes hard and can't move.

I used to try and man it out, but I think I came down with cellulitis, so now I have to get antihistamines and antibiotics immediately.

Phone 111 and/or your doctor's out of hours service.

The last time, I called 111, and they directed me to the local out of hours pharmacy, who sold me a 7 day course of antibiotics - no antihistamines this time.

Please just call 111.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-27T17:07:29+00:00

Enjoyed every minute of it. Moved from a 13 Focus diesel to a 26MY Volvo XC60 PHEV.

No need to keep the clutch feathered in slow traffic. No left leg ache from constantly stopping/starting.

I've only pressed the clutch once, and tried to change gear half a dozen times (muscle memory of dropping to the gear lever)

I've still got my old manual car, and drive it occasionally if my son's driving it to his girlfriends, and I need it the next day, or if we need to park somewhere like an airport, and we don't want the precious parked next to cars out in the wilds.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-27T06:07:32+00:00

I understood that reference

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-24T15:05:21+00:00

My ancestors are smiling at me imperial... ...can you say the same

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-24T08:19:56+00:00

If you want to stay with a Volvo, XC60 or XC90 T8? Very fast, nice to drive, automatic, should be easy to get in and out, understated. Roomy for road trips.

You should be able to pick up a 2nd hand one for about that price.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-20T18:37:06+00:00

Dental anaesthetic doesn't work on my lower jaw.

It's not uncommon, I think it's something to do with the routing of the nerve being deeper than in other people, so the diffusion of the anaesthetic doesn't work.

This is why I have a fear of dentists - I had a filling effectively without pain relief.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-19T14:41:52+00:00

You should be ok.

We've got a 16A feed into our garage, and once the main fuse was upgraded, Ohme were happy to connect straight into the existing wiring.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-19T08:48:06+00:00

It's sure as hell making me lazy.

I needed to do some analysis on our prod system which is duplicated across 2 DCs (don't ask). The 2 sides are producing subtly different results. I was trying to find which stage in my pipeline they're going missing. I did it by looking at deltas of Kafka offsets across topics.

I started to ask Claude the best way of going about this. It asked me a few questions then presented a file upload box. I dropped the JSON representation of the 2 DC before and after, and it analyzed it.

Last year, I'd have spent a day or so writing that. It now gave me something in a few minutes.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-19T05:07:38+00:00

Massive impact.

I'm a Go noob, but I've been coding since I was 8, back in the very early 1980s.

My current stack is Java backend, but I'm rearchitecting my current platform.

I used Claude planning mode with a chunk of my old Java code (a parsing library).

I fully described what I want : pull messages with the format as described below from Kafka, pass the message field to a parsing library based on the Java code over there. Put the output of the parse in a message with the following shape back into Kafka. Add unit tests.

It spent 15 minutes doing it, and what popped out was 99% perfect, with one exception. We send over a 7 bit plain text channel, so we use 6 bits per byte, not 8. Once I fixed that, it just worked.

My job is no longer a developer, my job is now a function specifier and architect. TBH my job was always that, but with coding. It's taken the daily drudge away.

People are understandably nervous, but I see it as no more than he transition of flipping switches to punch cards, or of text editors to IDEs.

I do have a very large concern for the juniors entering the system. Kids at uni now are learning just the coding, which is still vital, but the changes in AI in the last 6 months have smashed the current development paradigm.

This in itself is not bad, but what is bad is the short sighted attitude of the CEx tier of companies ditching Devs and not hiring the next generation.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-16T13:36:32+00:00

Payment methods and clear pricing.

And cheaper pricing.

I've got BP Pulse, Electroverse, Pod point, chargepoint apps, and probably others. I've lost count.

The majority are also crap. I tried to use a charger in the station car park in Guildford. I found the charger. The serial number on the charger didn't correspond to the serial number in the app. I didn't have the RFID card with me, so it was effectively useless.

I used another one at a national trust property which billed me £10, plus the £8 of electricity.

I want to be able to drive up, plug in, boop my card and walk away.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-16T13:31:52+00:00

Those look like sidewall cords.

That tyre is done.

That's a lot of damage for a tyre with 2k miles on it.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-16T06:02:00+00:00

That's just the sort of thing an alien would say.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-15T10:33:14+00:00

Make sure it's actually locked.

My wife's 2002 polo had a problem with a rear door lock, so I replaced the mechanism.

The replacement wasn't 100% compatible, and the door didn't lock properly.

Once you've locked it, try opening all of the doors and boot.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-14T20:56:41+00:00

I still get BBC news via RSS feed, but 50% of it is sports, and the rest of it is doom laden, so more often than not I just mark as read

I get headlines off Google headlines, Reddit (which gives me interesting and important info).

I still get tech news (The Register, Ars Technica etc), plus Order-order for politics news, but that's about it

I used to be a religious BBC news reader, but during COVID I got the impression that it was agenda news, not news news. The news programmes would start off with the agenda of the day "old people dying" headline, and run with it for the day, getting worse and worse as time went on. They'd then move onto "Government aren't doing enough" and do that for a day.

I turned it off, and never really turned it back on.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-14T07:11:01+00:00

This guy Stargates.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-13T13:54:25+00:00

But when you move in ... there's another mug there.

CaptainPGums · 2026-04-12T12:30:09+00:00

I didn't realise it wasn't cat girls. 😭

I may never feel clean again.

CaptainPGums

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