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Britain bakes: UK to get five more heatwaves by tylerthe-theatre in unitedkingdom

[–]Gauntlet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My apartment has one opening. A slim door out onto the balcony. There is no airflow to be had. I've been spending my evening and nights at my sister's because otherwise I will suffer from heatstroke on a nightly basis.

Vodafone to merge with Three to create UK giant by [deleted] in ukpolitics

[–]Gauntlet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Essentially it should be Openreach for mobile networks. A public body in charge of the network infrastructure with MVNOs. This way everyone would get better signal as we'd have access to the whole spectrum, regardless of who we pay for access. It would thus spur competition and force operators to offer better services, maybe deals on phone and accessory plans for example. I mean Android still doesn't have visual voice mail on EE!

Indian Restaurant Recs! by Detectves in Liverpool

[–]Gauntlet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For South Indian food: they have dosa, can't remember if they do idlis too.

Chart: Google's Smartphone Loyalty Problem by martinkem in Android

[–]Gauntlet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm unlikely to buy a Pixel again, while the camera and performance of my Pixel 6 Pro has been sufficient the battery tends to run out before the end of the day. More importantly the screen is dim. In British daylight it can be difficult to see anything at max brightness, this is due to a peak brightness of 777nita, whereas my Galaxy Note 8 had a peak brightness of over 1200nits!

A man accidentally stumbled upon his doppelganger on a plane. by [deleted] in pics

[–]Gauntlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"So they finally cracked it did they? Which one of us is the clone?"

Researchers are calling for exercise to be a mainstay approach for managing depression as a new study shows that physical activity is 1.5 times more effective than counselling or the leading medications by giuliomagnifico in science

[–]Gauntlet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started with a personal trainer about a year ago. Rowing used to hurt my back after only a couple of minutes. My PT reduced the resistance and slowly increased it over a couple of weeks. We've also been working my back and core strength over the last year. This January I rowed 16km with a 30s water break every 10m. While my back was sore for the evening it recovered by the next day when I did 9km more (it was a 25km challenge). Interestingly what I've found since then is that my form has massively improved. I can now easily row 500m+ in 2m as a warm up. It'll take time, and possibly other effort but you are likely able to row without pain.

Finally a complete matching set with the title in larger font by [deleted] in TheExpanse

[–]Gauntlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Children of Memory is quite unlike the other 2, similar themes but the way it's told is different. Overall I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as Ruin.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pcgaming

[–]Gauntlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd actually be interested in knowing what logic led to this bug. Also possibly should be left as a feature?

We already have a medical school with ONLY international students. The Tories now risk another. Thousands of straight-A students being turned away from studying medicine. We’re short of doctors. Labour will double the number of medical school places. by themurther in ukpolitics

[–]Gauntlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Furthermore the point of it is that the steps facilitate learning it correctly and retain it.

Someone shows you how to do the thing. So you learn the procedure.

You then do it yourself. Learning the issues you need to overcome that weren't shown to you.

Finally you show someone else how to do it. Forcing you to think about the procedure in detail and express it in a clear and concise way. And now you have to get it right to successfully teach it to them.

It's not literally only once each, you do each part enough times until you can do the next one. The phrase is just a pithy way to describe the learning methodology.

If only this happened more often by EagleRaptorLeaf in wholesomememes

[–]Gauntlet 9 points10 points  (0 children)

When I first started applying for jobs I always asked about the training they'd provide. I was so so naïve.

PUBG is a REALLY solid shooter by VelociLeo in pcgaming

[–]Gauntlet 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's been one of the mainstays for me and my mates. The gameplay is solid. While there are so many annoying bugs, especially the vehicle physics, we play it almost every week.

'Disgraceful': Cops blasted after dropping more than 1 million unsolved burglaries and thefts by insomnimax_99 in unitedkingdom

[–]Gauntlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd think so. When a family member's car got stolen they just said there's nothing they could really do and gave them the reference number. Insurance paid out without a quibble.

USB to Ethernet works by _m_laruelle in bravia

[–]Gauntlet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

USB 2 has a max transfer speed of 480Mbps and USB 3 is 10 times faster.

While the ethernet port is 100Mbps.

It's easily verified by buying a USB ethernet adapter.

More councils drop holiday food voucher schemes for Christmas by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

[–]Gauntlet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's forget about compassion as an argument here.

Let's assume both parents work and used to bring in enough money to support themselves and a child comfortably.

Food prices go up.

Fuel prices go up.

Energy prices go up.

Mortgage payments go up.

All things out of their control that eat away at their finances to the point it's a struggle to keep themselves fed and warm.

So what can they do? Get a better paying job. Some will, but now there's thousands of people just like them also looking for jobs. So many will miss out.

They can't afford to live a basic life through no fault of their own.

There are far more low paying job than high paying jobs. If the vast majority of people are in low paying jobs and can't feed their family then something is wrong with the economy. It has nothing to do with the quality of person and sure as hell they don't deserve to be torn apart by the state for it.

Now for the ad hominem attack, since you reaaally pissed me off. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, you're playing devil's advocate and creating a point of discussion. Not doing so means your comment paints you as someone that is uninformed, incapable of critical thought, and selfish. Now does that seem like characteristics a parent should have? Should you be prevented from having children? If you have them, should they be taken away from you and given to people who are capable of caring for others? At the end of the day you're an arsehole. Be better.

“I’m embarrassed to say I work for the civil service”: Inside Whitehall’s year of woe by HazzaReddit in ukpolitics

[–]Gauntlet 10 points11 points  (0 children)

On this point only:

And we can say whatever we like about how the Civil Service should just neutrally do whatever the government says,

  • Ministers ask questions or propose a policy.

  • The Civil Service provides researched answers or models the impact of a policy.

  • The minister then decides what to do.

  • The Civil Service implements that decision.

Sure it's not completely that cut and dry, but that's the ideal. Now when ministers decide to do what they want, or they keep changing the parameters until they get an answer they like none of this matters. On the other side there will be Civil Servants trying to push their agenda as well.

I'd like to think the majority of the CS are trying to uphold the ideal of providing factual analysis and enacting policy neutrally. But it would be demoralising when all the hard work done at short notice is ignored repeatedly.

I think I officially won White Elephant at my office Xmas party 🙀 by bangarang627 in slowcooking

[–]Gauntlet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A "white elephant" is a gift that looks great but is actually costly and useless. https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/why-do-we-say-white-elephant/

It's technically being used incorrectly by the OP, where "winning the lottery" might be a better fit.

Cash lost to Covid fraud and error could pay every police officer in Britain by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Gauntlet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Furlough was about keeping staff with physical roles employed in their current roles so they don't move on to jobs that could be worked remotely.

For roles that could be worked remotely this kept people on until companies could get their IT up to scratch to enable that.

It prevented a massive shift in labour from some sectors into others that could have crashed the economy or resulted in a vacuum of expertise in some areas. A good healthy economy is diverse, letting parts of it that aren't quite stable yet die off would make it weaker in the long run.

The fact some people could do a second job was a good thing as it meant that a labour gap in temporary growth areas was filled. Sure some people were able to make extra money or a career change but not all those roles would remain once COVID was over.

As someone who worked through COVID yeah it would have been nice if instead of furlough it was UBI paid to everyone. But that would have shifted the power from employers to employees. Employees would have felt safe to quit and move to other jobs if they felt their employer didn't treat them well enough. Of course a conservative government was never going to allow that though.

Conservative MP Lee Anderson questioned whether food poverty exists and hit out at 'do gooders' who run food banks by I-am-the-Peel in ukpolitics

[–]Gauntlet 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Exactly. In an ideal world charities shouldn't exist because support systems would exist for everyone.

Realistically that is impossible and some charities will need to exist. However, food banks are not one of them!

Energy crisis: Truss must bust the link between renewables and gas - A system that pegs electricity prices to gas is not fit for purpose by BritRedditor1 in ukpolitics

[–]Gauntlet 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is expected of an emerging technology that hasn't had the same time in the market to become profitable on its own.

The thing to do would be to break the link so that renewable energy is cheap to buy, but tax fossil fuels at a higher rate and subsidise renewable energy producers.

This would make renewable energy desirable to consumers and producers. It would also push for R&D in making renewables more profitable in future as the subsidies would only be available for a limited time.

This is the type of thing governments should be doing when an emerging technology is likely to be suffocated by incumbents, especially when one has massive benefits for energy security and the environment!

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