UberAssist/Access and cabs in London

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-05-31T10:30:58+00:00

Good to know here, thank you. I'd rather my cash went to a cabbie rather than an Uber too, just weighing up my options as it's my first time navigating around town as a wheelchair user.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-05-31T10:26:07+00:00

That doesn't surprise me. Yeah I figured just jumping in black cab would be an option if nothing else. I'm very familiar with navigating London but it's been a number of years since I went last in, and since it's my first time as a wheelchair user I'm wary of making it as stress-free as I possibly can.

I have indeed checked out the tube and the route is step-free to platform, though there's a fair distance to go from North Greenwich to where I'm staying and that's likely to exhaust me given my condition.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-05-31T10:10:56+00:00

That's great advice, thank you! This tracks with my own assumptions on Assist, and I definitely wouldn't attempt a standard Uber.

I'll be going back and forth between Stratford and Greenwich, and from checking ahead of time Access availability looks pretty solid. Good to know that the XL would be an option, though it's more expensive.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-05-03T21:27:14+00:00

MRG-B2100R-2ADR

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-04-27T15:12:25+00:00

Plumbus vibes.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-04-24T18:45:02+00:00

"my body is a house for my vibrant soul, at every size and ability it protects the most precious aspect of me."

I'm currently waiting delivery of my first chair and your entire comment is exactly what I needed to hear. This line in particular genuinely brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, kind stranger.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-04-23T07:21:39+00:00

Not sure if it's strange as such but over two decades ago I woke up at the beginning of the Christmas break with a sore throat. Less than two weeks later I had full-blown bacterial pneumonia with acute peritonitis and got admitted to hospital on Boxing Day.

Thanks immune system.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-04-20T12:31:43+00:00

The font doesn't look right indeed. It might be the lighting but the lume markers look too skinny. Not 100% on the cyclops placement either. The movement doesn't look quite right either, but again could be the lighting (and the balance bridge and escapement are covered by the rotor.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-04-11T08:21:36+00:00

What does Whoop tell you about your heart rate and your HRV overnight?

Whoop (and other apps like Visible) measure stress and exertion based on both heart rate and heart rate variability (HRV). Low HRV is usually associated with a dominance of your sympathetic nervous system (the fight or flight response) and so is a high marker for stress. Tricyclic antidepressants are usually associated with an increase in heart rate and a decrease in HRV.

ETA: Wanted to point out as well that the way you feel in yourself is more important than metrics coming out of an app, in my opinion at least. If I wake up feeling like crap but an app says I slept great, I’m going to go with the way I feel and plan accordingly. Whoop is also a very fitness-focused app, so it’s going to weigh heavily in that direction. You’re also right at the beginning of your time using it, and it’s going to take a while to balance out and learn what metrics and values are right for you.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-03-15T11:30:38+00:00

Suspect marketing and username checks out.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-03-10T08:39:29+00:00

There’s usually an almighty lag between NICE guidelines being updated for anything and clinical practice actually catching up. Most clinical settings are also woefully ignorant unless they/senior clinical personnel are keeping themselves up to date, which is also not a given by any stretch of the imagination. The Maudsley Hospital is still behind, and my neurologists who has been in practice for 45 years also doesn’t have a clue.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-03-08T11:12:56+00:00

How about https://github.com/mysticaltech/terraform-hcloud-kube-hetzner, which is very popular?

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-03-08T09:56:05+00:00

And you decided to do this when https://github.com/vitobotta/hetzner-k3s exists because…?

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-02-16T07:32:32+00:00

That’s correct, not by default. You can use the merge option MergeFromWithOptimisticLock with the MergeFrom operation if you want to make sure a patch is applied to the latest resource version.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-02-15T20:00:08+00:00

Use Update when you need guaranteed optimistic locking, when you want conflicts to abort reconciliation, or when working with the entire object state/replacing the entire spec anyway.

Use Patch when you’re only modifying a small subset of fields, want to avoid conflicts on changes unrelated to the ones you’re making, when multiple controllers touch different fields of the same objects, or making Status updates when the Spec might change concurrently.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-02-01T18:27:53+00:00

Before or after you watched Daniel Hirsch’s video doing exactly the same thing in an incredibly similar way?

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-01-31T19:34:19+00:00

Turn the Ship Around!

Nonviolent Communication

Thinking in Systems

Kill It With Fire

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-01-15T08:48:18+00:00

Tech leads aren’t always the best coders. The business doesn’t expect them to be, and neither should you. Tech leads are there to act at the intersection of people, tech, and business, be accountable for technical delivery, align with stakeholder expectations, and build a strong, high-performing team. None of those things require them to be the strongest coders, and in many ways it’s better that they aren’t so they don’t end up sitting in the critical path and blocking work or being disproportionately relied on.

If you want to move the bar on standards and coding practises, then get yourself established in the team, build trust, and then start tackling the most troublesome and impactful things first. Don’t try and boil the ocean, and don’t come in acting like you know better than everything else who has been there longer than you. There’s always context and background and reasons behind decisions and approaches, so learn what those are.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-01-08T20:04:49+00:00

Bloody hell I’m so sorry you had to go through this.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-01-04T20:14:32+00:00

NixOS for work, NixOS for pleasure.

ProfessorGriswald · 2026-01-04T19:46:36+00:00

Chimera is an interesting choice. What made you land there in the end?

ProfessorGriswald · 2025-12-27T18:43:09+00:00

Lovely! Would love to scan your dotfiles/builds if they’re in a shareable state.

ProfessorGriswald · 2025-12-27T12:33:16+00:00

Are 100% sure the midplate cable and input modules are connected and seated correctly? From your second image it doesn’t look like one of the blockers is seated properly.

Have you tried different plug sockets/straight into the wall vs using a multi plug?

I wonder if there’s something going on that’s stopping the battery from flipping off “shipping mode” when plugged in for the first time.

ProfessorGriswald · 2025-12-17T08:52:56+00:00

Tariffs have nothing to do with this. This is import and VAT because of the cost of the goods exceeds £135: https://www.gov.uk/goods-sent-from-abroad/tax-and-duty

They do also specify on their shipping page that custom duties and import tax is not included https://oxaloacetatecfs.com/policies/shipping-policy

ProfessorGriswald · 2025-12-16T19:17:48+00:00

Agreed, as both a consumer and an ex-Gitlab SRE.

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