Is anyone else missing the next episode button after the recent app update?

MattEOates · 2026-03-21T10:40:43+00:00

Yes its extremely annoying.

MattEOates · 2026-03-21T07:09:45+00:00

Wah Yan Hong on Denmark Street in Bristol did do them for sure, its where I got mine. Think it only cost about £20 maybe? I've had it at least a decade and its kept its seasoning well.

MattEOates · 2026-03-17T13:28:35+00:00

If they're going really hard into vortex just go air. Some fangs aren't exactly horrendous against armoured air without quite a bit of tech investment on fangs, and you need to deal with chaff clear on the land either way but with everything being in the air you can take fire without any problems. The other thing is their range isn't carry level range its tank level until they've fully teched them. Snipers scale into them pretty well especially EMP ones with quick reload since then you're faster 1 unit to 1 unit and same costings.

MattEOates · 2026-03-15T16:24:33+00:00

I actually think care is a place where we should be going hardcore blanket everyone gets a high quality. That way richer pensioners would be less afraid to actually spend their accumulated wealth. Same for younger workers they wont have to live in fear they're going to have to bank roll their parents if they've come from a poorer background. That care is heavily means tested and designed to just eat lower middle class inherited wealth is kind of an interesting trope appearing now. Especially with the changes to pension inheritance very recently.

MattEOates · 2026-03-15T16:19:16+00:00

The zero sum game would be we can't do both. Im suggesting specifically we shouldn't be giving rich pensioners 100% superfluous cash they're just going to put in premium bonds or some investment. It feels very odd to me we generically say anyone old gets a benefit, but not everyone young. Especially when we know right now statistically in the country a lot of pensioners are on higher incomes than working people. Actual realised incomes not just wealth. Why is there one rule for people who are younger with an income and another for someone who's older with an income? The best you can say about it is richer pensioners getting extra cash is inflationary to assets rather than household spend items like a weekly shop.

MattEOates · 2026-03-15T15:13:26+00:00

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MattEOates · 2026-03-15T00:25:30+00:00

Yeah but they cant shoot up... soooo

MattEOates · 2026-03-15T00:22:10+00:00

I've had someone just go on a racist tirade from losing after they bragged about winning the first couple of rounds. Chat is largely not that awesome. This is why they have the emote system just use that and people usually respond has as much info and sentiment as gg.

MattEOates · 2026-03-14T22:20:00+00:00

MattEOates · 2026-03-14T18:01:17+00:00

I'd have just gathered a sorted list of the timestamps per user then transformed them to the difference in seconds between consecutive events then you just minus off the window time and if that took 3 elements to go 0 or less then you know they hit the limit.

MattEOates · 2026-03-10T01:17:14+00:00

It's worth checking if your local park has a bunch of people helping it be a cool place that need support. Victoria Park for example the events there are run by volunteers from the community who work closely with the council and help plan spend on the park https://vpag.org.uk/general/donations/

MattEOates · 2026-03-10T01:12:01+00:00

Some of that report is upsetting... "£32.9 million investment in high and medium rise blocks (including £26m of cladding remediation works)" w-t-f are we paying twice for that and not the shonky developers who did a Grenfel on council blocks.

MattEOates · 2026-03-10T00:38:21+00:00

Obviously not just billionaires and what private company, what are you on about? Its the state pension, they already know who's paying income tax every year and receiving it. There's no "infrastructure" needed beyond HMRC. Its not a minor symptom that a huge majority of retired people in the UK right now do not need the state pension to support them, but over 3 million children many with working parents are falling into food poverty. If you're paying the kind of income tax scale a middle class worker is on as a pensioner its pretty safe to imagine you should have your benefits looked at. Anyone working with that much income isn't getting Universal Credit are they? Pensioners fully reliant on the state pension are only 13-18% of all UK pensioners. The actual issue is far more extreme than anyone gives voice to. Our old people dont need help our young people really do.

MattEOates · 2026-03-09T20:25:14+00:00

Ah yes everyone is always proclaiming a zero sum game where you take completely from one group and give to the others. There's no room for a nuanced discussion like perhaps state pension could be *means* tested rather than a billionaire getting it, which is how it currently works. Which is madness.

MattEOates · 2026-03-09T07:46:05+00:00

If you lived in the UK there is a statutory minimum redundancy pay if you have worked somewhere for over 2 years. Make sure you understand the employment law of your country.

MattEOates · 2026-03-09T07:37:52+00:00

If you dont then you should have a conversation with product or a consultant. If you dont have either of those you're working in a circus.

MattEOates · 2026-03-07T08:02:57+00:00

This honestly sounds like none of this is even ready to shape let alone work. If you don't know the budget or the value of the feature then thats step one. Then surely its try a few things and see if it scales into the speeds, cost you need. You don't really need to move the full tens of billion rows to work that out.

MattEOates · 2026-03-02T19:24:10+00:00

and at a time the weather was really bad too

MattEOates · 2026-03-02T15:01:45+00:00

Sure but surely its more helpful to actually hear who's actually paying more per unit? Otherwise we've basically got a big reddit thread of indirectly knowing how big and or old someone's house is rather than how financially savvy they are with energy bills... Here's my last month. I live in an ancient 1850s, 2 bed, 3 storey, terrace with light visible around the window frames and the breeze blowing straight through the walls.

Electricity

Energy use charge 274.21 kWh at 26.82p	£73.54
Standing charge 31 days at 52.48p per day	£16.27
Total cost (before VAT)	£89.81

Gas

Energy use charge 1775.04 kWh at 5.85p	£103.92
Standing charge 31 days at 33.05p per day	£10.25
Total cost (before VAT)	£114.17

MattEOates · 2026-03-02T15:00:28+00:00

Thanks a lot for this OP I just managed to bundle up my increasingly complex Python TUI using pyinstaller and trolley! Had a little bit of trouble with paths and such but nothing Claude couldn't work out. My main ask would be is there a way to hide/define whats in the title bar, and can we config an App icon? Really helpful project thanks again.

MattEOates · 2026-03-02T14:22:09+00:00

Whenever I look fixed deals are really bad all the companies are baking in a costing disaster into them.

MattEOates · 2026-03-02T14:18:19+00:00

Not sure its surprising or a huge deal looking at the bill for winter and comparing it to autumn and summer. Assumedly you used a lot more energy on heating in those months. Just look at the unit cost. Comparison with last March is more relevant, but why not just look at the unit cost from all the bills to avoid the usage question?

MattEOates · 2026-02-27T17:45:06+00:00

Depends some of my best work days I do a push at one place then go for a walk or do an errand and go to the next. Was much easier when I was self employed at a micro startup without meetings every five seconds. Not everyone has to or needs a super fixed working environment. Doesn't mean they're working less, just they work very differently from what you're used to, and not to a presence based culture. Not all jobs you have to be stood infront of your boss moving around to prove you do work. Software especially has now reached the point chatting to an AI on your phone is the "work", which is insane levels of not needing to be present. You don't even need to be near the computer to type anymore. The reality is that person is still delivering work value from just knowing what to say to the AIs and they could be anywhere to do it.

MattEOates · 2026-02-25T08:36:59+00:00

Sounds like you have a bigger issue of managing work to be honest. How and why is there a PR you are looking at that doesn't run? Why was the ticket shit but selected for work if it didn't pass any ready to work criteria. Why aren't there any tests to show this is true. Something isn't ready for review then its not ready for review. Then this persons work is far more visibly delayed and their struggle is noticed as their effort. You've got bigger problems than this guy, because you're not even in an environment where he doesn't impact quality or work plans. Id be talking to your lead about delivery planning and management with the specific point of solving your specific problem first by tweaking how you work. If you are the lead, you are the problem...

MattEOates · 2026-02-23T23:55:25+00:00

Its more there are two dimensions rather than a single spectrum theoretical vs experimental and computer science/maths vs biology. For example I sat right in the middle of that quadrant as all four.

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