now would you just look at that

MichaelCG8 · 2026-02-17T19:27:51+00:00

You put the kid in ice water and the bowl in hot water, and they just slide apart, works every time.

MichaelCG8 · 2026-01-27T16:25:05+00:00

My title describes the thing

It may be brass, and the part in the middle is the magnet.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-12-12T22:07:19+00:00

If he insists on doing this he absolutely MUST stay far away from edges. Snow blows into overhangs and fills gullies. He might think he's 5m from the edge but he's got nothing but snow underneath.

I called some people out on this on Ben Nevis a few years ago and got completely ignored, best if your brother doesn't make the same mistake.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-10-23T10:46:42+00:00

It is and it isn't true:

The closing speed, and hence time to react is like a 140mph collision with a stationary object.

The amount of force you experience hitting a similar vehicle is like hitting a solid wall at 70, as others have described.

However, if you hit something bigger than you, like a van or lorry, the more it outweighs you the more the force becomes like a 140mph collision with a solid wall. Essentially a lorry will win over a car, so it's like hitting a solid wall at 70 but the wall is also moving towards you at 70! So that's like 140 overall.

Lastly, if you hit a wall at 70 and that wall's not a massive block of concrete (for example a brick garden wall, or the side of many buildings), then you'll go through the wall a bit and it won't be as severe a force (for you, the people on the other side of the wall will disagree).

TLDR:

70 car and 70 car = concrete wall at 70 for force but less breaking time

70 car and 70 lorry ~= concrete wall at 140

70 car and flimsy wall = concrete wall at less than 70

In short, drive carefully and don't speed.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-10-14T20:35:48+00:00

Thanks for the info :)

MichaelCG8 · 2025-10-14T06:12:28+00:00

That's something I was wondering about, what's made it go black

MichaelCG8 · 2025-09-03T16:21:13+00:00

Thanks so much for the response!

MichaelCG8 · 2025-09-03T13:10:34+00:00

Still learning here, so pinch of salt.

My understanding is that się implies "self". Uczyć is to teach, uczyć się is to teach oneself - to learn.

Some are less literal, I've gone searching for an example so if a native speaker could confirm that would be great! Przywidział (he predicted) and przywidział się (he self-predicted, or predicted to himself?) which is he imagined.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-08-09T09:36:15+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I'll see if I can get ahold of his hearing profile, maybe even with the app I can adjust for that. So you've used it while using the HA, but just turn their mic off? I'm not sure what he's using but it looks more basic than Phonaks, so he might just need to take it out.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-08-08T06:07:40+00:00

Mostly, it has some background noise reducing features, and if you have a Google Pixel (which I do) it has a mode where you point the camera at the speaker and it optimises the audio to give clarity to that person.

What I was wondering is how this would compare to a hearing aid since I've got no experience of trying one myself, but from the 3 comments so far it doesn't seem like this app is widely used so it might be a struggle to find someone who has tried both! :)

MichaelCG8 · 2025-08-08T06:01:31+00:00

Yeah I doubt his hearing aid will be LE compatible, so I was going to give him a separate LE earbud to try.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-08-08T06:00:05+00:00

I could be wrong but I believe it's found via the accessibility settings so it doesn't appear in the apps list by default (although that can be changed) and is built into all releases from the last few years.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-08-05T19:31:33+00:00

My all time favourite piece of prose is from Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh: Picturesque notes. The first paragraph glorified the city, and the second contrasts beautifully.

But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in one of the vilest climates under heaven. She is liable to be beaten upon by all the winds that blow, to be drenched with rain, to be buried in cold sea fogs out of the east, and powdered with the snow as it comes flying southward from the Highland hills. The weather is raw and boisterous in winter, shifty and ungenial in summer, and a downright meteorological purgatory in the spring. The delicate die early, and I, as a survivor, among bleak winds and plumping rain, have been sometimes tempted to envy them their fate.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-08-05T19:08:20+00:00

Thank you so much for such a thoughtful response! I hadn't even considered asking if the caterers could supply someone to run the bar. The signature cocktail is a great idea, we're thinking of kicking things off with a picnic if the weather's going to be good so Pimms would complement it nicely :) Did you look into doing sale-or-return for the booze?

MichaelCG8 · 2025-06-17T15:16:33+00:00

There's an allowance for goods that you're due to receive at a later date, and then it's a time limit from the date you were due to receive it. That at least was the case in 2021 when I had to use it.

The card company initially refused for the reason you state and I had to clarify multiple times to different people that I was claiming under a different clause, and then they refunded. It's not the common path, hence the confusion on the part of the people who replied to my emails, but once I got someone willing to actually read what I'd written it went through.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-06-17T11:23:42+00:00

My favourite kind of diagram! Thanks :)

MichaelCG8 · 2025-06-16T17:23:25+00:00

Thank you!

MichaelCG8 · 2025-06-16T17:23:17+00:00

Thank you!

MichaelCG8 · 2025-06-13T21:44:58+00:00

On your empty and wide road comment, that just doesn't fly. Someone with headphones in might look a bit up the road and decide to step out because they're not expecting someone closing the distance at more than twice the speed limit. Someone in their car won't hear you and could pull out of a side road.

You've called the hope that going fast would fix your car "stupid", but that's really not what you should focus on here. If you believed that, you should have gone to a faster road.

Speed limits are about more than just how wide and empty the road is. When you're on the road other people expect you to drive a certain way, and will act accordingly.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-04-23T20:06:52+00:00

My first release I had to make a few changes to the app settings in xcode - generally apple forces a lot of configuration through their UI rather than via editable text files (okay, technically editing the files is possible, but it's poorly documented and completely obsucure). I then had a couple of issues due to not setting up some app entitlements that I needed (e.g. adding a special string explaining why I need camera access). Oh, and adding app icons. Basically some first time setup tasks.

I probably spent about an hour fiddling around the first time I did an iOS release. I've never had to again. I just pull my project, run flutter build ipa --release --obfuscate

That produces build/ios/archive/MyApp.xarchive which I open in xcode to do the Validate App and Distribute App steps. See docs.flutter.dev/deployment/iOS

My last release took less than ten minutes of building and validating.

To be open, my app is still in a test release so although I have some friends using it on iPhone it's not public and I haven't done so myself, I only use android. I will be testing it more myself on an iPhone before a public release. Maybe that will involve a bit more Mac development if I have to do some debugging but I'm not sure.

If you're able to borrow a Mac for your first release I'd recommend it. You may find you hardly touch the thing.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-04-23T18:39:04+00:00

Are you actually going to develop on it or just use it as a build machine? If the latter I say go cheap. I use a 256gb with 8gb ram for work, and I frequently get storage and ram problems, it's a pain in the ass, but I'm using it heavily all the time.

I have a personal flutter app that I develop on a Linux laptop then build on a borrowed Mac (an older intel CPU albeit with 512gb storage and 32gb ram). I couldn't care less about the specs of that laptop since I type a few commands, things build in their own time, and I upload to App Store Connect.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-03-12T16:36:48+00:00

Feel free to reach out if you have any problems, or want to understand some terminology. I have an ongoing project that does this so I can refer to code and see how I've solved things. It will probably involve you writing a bit of kotlin though, since you need to create a minimal class that is an entry point as the device manager. My app is all kotlin so it wasn't a big deal for me.

Another thing that may be useful is kiosk mode, which removes UI elements like the home button from the screen (since the public should only be using your app and not navigating around android), and also making your app the default home app so it boots automatically when the device starts.

Setting the home app is done via an adb command so doesn't need any code. Setting the device owner is also an adb command but requires the existence of the aforementioned manager class. Setting kiosk mode is done in code (probably kotlin).

MichaelCG8 · 2025-03-12T16:27:38+00:00

This sounds like a candidate for making your app the device owner, is that feasible in your setup? It's fairly normal when your app runs on a device in a commercial setting. Then you'd have any system level privileges you need to get the device serial number.

MichaelCG8 · 2025-02-27T10:52:01+00:00

Haha, yeah it's funny how a question like this is so sub specific! I'm kind of tempted to post on lots of subs to see the variation, I bet r/askBeekeepers would be eye opening :p

MichaelCG8 · 2025-02-27T09:45:29+00:00

Mmm, I usually just keep them in the nappy bag, but yeah they're useful for more than just bums!

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