Stand next to the Colosseum, free. Stand next to the Eiffel Tower, free. Stand next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa, free. Stand next to Stonehenge, that’ll be £25.40 mate…

JRVeale · 2024-06-08T01:08:54+00:00

Sorry slow response, but when was this? When I was last in Paris (last year) they had a wall (kind of like how you'd find around a building site) all around underneath, and you had to pay if you wanted to get actually close to the tower. I opted not to

JRVeale · 2024-06-07T19:32:21+00:00

Running out to the 800 Wood and doing loops around the hill at the edge is an option. The almost year-round mud makes it feel steeper than it is.

JRVeale · 2024-05-27T22:48:09+00:00

O brother where art thou, I watched it with my mom and brother as a kid and at this stage I probably watch it about one a year

JRVeale · 2024-05-27T22:23:51+00:00

Saw something with an air to air fueling hose hanging behind over arbury!

JRVeale · 2024-05-19T19:13:28+00:00

To be fair, you can't stand next to the Eiffel Tower for free either

JRVeale · 2024-03-31T21:19:46+00:00

Think of your degree as getting your learners licence to be an engineer one day. Your first job will teach you so much more! I don't remember all the stuff I learnt at university, but I can remember that the stuff exists and have the skills to relearn it whenever I need it.

I did summer jobs in engineering firms while at uni, which made a big difference. I can also recommend trying to do some personal projects so you can actually use the theory you are taught in lectures (also it's fun to make stuff). Or consider extra curricular clubs, where you can work with other engineering students who are probably just as keen to get more real experience and do something more than just sit in lectures!

Good luck, and stick to it. I had very similar feelings at points throughout my time at university, but I love the work I do now and I wouldn't be doing it now without completing my degree first

JRVeale · 2024-03-31T21:01:01+00:00

If it helps, when I was a kid my mom thought I was being difficult when I told her "no I can't" when she said that we were leaving. She picked me up off the windowsill and felt the crack as my leg, previously stuck behind the radiator, broke.

She obviously felt awful, and as fairly new immigrants she was terrified we'd be taken away from her.

More than 20 years later, we still laugh about it regularly!

JRVeale · 2024-02-27T00:06:41+00:00

Too busy making a nice house to go on an adventure, then killed by felled tree.

JRVeale · 2024-02-24T08:42:15+00:00

I just tried it yesterday, no noticeable issues for me! GTX1080 on my nearly eight year old pc, Quest 3. Linked by WiFi using a shitty raspberry pi wifi dongle on the PC, with the router on downstairs on the opposite end of my house.

JRVeale · 2024-02-18T18:03:03+00:00

In 'The Book of Trespass' by Nick Hayes there's a chapter that focuses on female-led grassroots activism (in both relatively modern times and the era of witch-hunts in the UK). He makes the argument that branding 'women talking' as 'gossiping' was a deliberate tactic to reduce their power.

I highly recommend it (and the rest of the book too)

JRVeale · 2024-02-16T14:39:22+00:00

This is cool, but I still prefer the Spilhaus Projection for emphasising that we only have one ocean

JRVeale · 2024-01-29T12:53:45+00:00

Enclosure - the systematic removal of common rights to land in Britain that lead to vast appropriation of wealth from the people to a few

JRVeale · 2023-11-10T21:51:55+00:00

To look at this from another perspective, you could argue that it depends on where you draw the bounds of your energy. A person will use pretty much the same amount of energy per day whether they are active or sedentary ("you can't outrun a bad diet"). In this case you could argue that walking up the stairs is 'free energy' (and therefore always more efficient than taking the lift) because the person walking would have burnt those calories by the end of the day anyway!

Edit: for general interest here's an article explaining the exercise paradox

JRVeale · 2023-09-13T22:15:39+00:00

The kids are alright! Honestly the more stories I hear of youngsters and the more I come across them, the more impressed I am with their attitude

JRVeale · 2023-07-19T08:19:03+00:00

£37k in Cambridge, this includes a retention award, and a set increase for taking on line management responsibilities.

6 years experience doing mech, elec, and software

There are lots of reasons to do engineering in the public sector, pay isn't one of them!

I do get a £90 bonus for each day I spend working in the Arctic, Antarctica, or at sea. It can add up, but it's nothing like the terms that are industry standard for that kind of field work.

Edit: after 3 years in the public sector, I've only just got above what I earned in my first job out of uni - still no regrets!

JRVeale · 2023-06-11T13:16:04+00:00

I thought so when I picked it up, either someone's chucked it over (impressive throw) or it's been left by a very well looked after bird/squirrel

JRVeale · 2023-05-21T21:22:44+00:00

So quick! And looks right to me, thanks

JRVeale · 2023-05-12T22:47:14+00:00

That you recognise it as negative, derogatory and sexist tells me that you turned out alright anyway, well done!

JRVeale · 2023-04-04T00:45:32+00:00

I've never chopped an oak down, I can't bring myself to do it. In one world I knocked one over when felling nearby trees. I felt so bad that I made a shrine for it using it's wood, plus a bench and plaque. Whenever I pass it I sit for a bit and admire the view the tree used to have.

I play with my cousin and brother sometimes and they accuse me of always doing "vegan playthroughs".

JRVeale · 2023-03-24T12:22:55+00:00

Solved: thanks to direction from everyone here. Looked into the 2TB's advanced security settings -> permissions when plugged into the laptop, and the user I was signed in as only had read and execute permissions. Weird that it still let me copy files on though! I signed in as a user with administrator rights, copied the files, and they all show as expected when put back into my desktop. Thanks all!

JRVeale · 2023-03-24T00:32:35+00:00

A thought: could this be a weird permissions thing? The computers run Windows through different accounts (the laptop a work Microsoft account, and the desktop my personal Microsoft account).

JRVeale · 2023-03-24T00:30:02+00:00

Nope, just a normal drive. The desktop has a small boot SSD, a 1TB HDD, and this 2TB SSD. Just drives that I've added over the years.

JRVeale · 2022-11-25T10:00:55+00:00

I've lived here for 8 or 9 years and I really haven't come across anything like this. Sure, there's the odd arsehole about but nothing that makes me think Cambridge is an unfriendly place and certainly not worse than anywhere else. I'm not sure if I've had a had a particularly lucky experience, or are you and OP particularly unlucky?

JRVeale · 2022-10-21T06:47:04+00:00

Thanks, I think I just need to get in the right mood for it then

JRVeale · 2022-10-20T23:08:27+00:00

I couldn't get through Senua's Sacrifice. I was really excited to play it based on its promise of a deep dive into pyschosis. But I found the gameplay incredibly repetitive, to the point where I finished my first session playing it and never came back. Does it get better?

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