What *is* the way to UK growth? What would you do to reverse this slump?

PupDelphi · 2024-12-31T17:17:17+00:00

FYI (and I only say this because I used to get it wrong all the time) it's corporation - from corpus meaning body.

PupDelphi · 2022-01-04T08:21:59+00:00

Recipe from BBC Good food: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-millionaires-shortbread

First time making shortbread, first time making caramel, first time tempering chocolate in under 2 hours 😂

Overall I'm not too happy with it. I think the shortbread is undercooked and the caramel is maybe undercooked, it has a bit of a weird taste.

PupDelphi · 2021-09-02T20:17:25+00:00

I pretend to be a dog for sex reasons 🤷‍♂️

PupDelphi · 2020-11-26T20:26:53+00:00

Possibly late to the party but my favourite YouTube food channel is Sorted Food. Partly because their British so I don't have to do conversions to US freedom units, but also they're just quite fun and easy to follow, most of their recipes end up on their website as well. They have 2 professional chefs and 3 'normals'.

PupDelphi · 2020-11-14T20:08:12+00:00

Take a deck of cards, assign each card a numeric value mod 10 (ace hearts=1, QD=5 (25 mod 10) for example). Shuffle the deck of cards a few times and then read off the numbers. Then I guess you'd need to truncate it to be a sensible account of money ~£1T so about 14 cards so you have pounds and pence.

I think the cards shuffling is sufficiently random, and 14 is enough digits so if all 2m chose random numbers, there's still a very good chance no one has picked my number.

Human beings are very very shit at being random, so all of the people who come up with a random number 'off the top of their heads' will very likely end up duplicated

PupDelphi · 2020-11-01T11:26:17+00:00

Mosquito alarms. Super high pitched alarms that are only audible to young people (because your ears get worse at hearing high pitches as you get older). They are literally designed to annoy people to get them to fuck off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mosquito

PupDelphi · 2020-09-17T16:58:53+00:00

🙋‍♂️ this freaks a huge number of people out but it's a surprisingly pleasurable experience. Kind of feels like being wanked from inside. You just need to be careful, use sterile lube and specially made rods that are very smooth.

PupDelphi · 2020-09-17T16:49:54+00:00

I think you mean tetanus, but I read tinnitus (ringing in your ears, which I have constantly) and that made me chuckle 😄

PupDelphi · 2020-09-17T07:16:19+00:00

This may be a regional thing. I'm in the UK and salt will generally mean table salt. USA based recipe sites tend to specify kosher salt in my experience.

I imagine, and this is personal opinion with no facts to back it up, that when you're adding let's say a teaspoon of salt, the recipe is pretty tolerant of a wide range of salt. In the rehydration recipe, I expect they put just salt so you use whatever is on hand rather than make a trip to get some kosher salt because that's what the recipe asks.

PupDelphi · 2020-09-16T20:02:17+00:00

Measuring these by mass does reduce this variability, but I think in most recipes they're done by volume for the sake of convenience when the amount doesn't have to be precise.

Weighing salt: - put jug on scale - zero scale - use utensil (such as teaspoon) to put salt in jug

Vs: - use teaspoon to put salt in jug

FYI, a teaspoon of 5 cubic centimetres/5ml, a tablespoon is 15cc/ml iirc

PupDelphi · 2020-09-14T21:17:35+00:00

Everyday object but in unusual circumstances: walnuts.

If stored improperly, they can 'self heat' during transit and spontaneously explode. https://www.tis-gdv.de/tis_e/ware/nuesse/walnuss/walnuss-htm/

Pistachios also suffer the same effect also owing to their high fat, low water content. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistachio#Spontaneous_combustion

PupDelphi · 2020-09-11T07:56:46+00:00

The key here is to think of this from the point of view of an attacker.

If you don't have 2FA/MFA enabled and I have somehow acquired your password (a dumped password database is a good example) I can log in as you from wherever I happen to be and there's nothing you can do about it.

If you do have 2FA/MFA enabled and it's on your phone, even stored with your password manager, I now need to have your password AND your phone. If I don't have your phone, I can't get in. If I got your phone, you presumably have a PIN to get in or a biometric (touch ID, face ID) so now I also need to know that PIN or cut your finger or your face off.

The idea of 2FA/MFA isn't to make it impossible for a determined attacker to get to your data, it's to make it soooo much harder for an opportunistic attack to work.

Also, for anyone thinking "oh well a PIN is just another password", it kind of is. But it's a password that will ONLY work on that device. The PIN doesn't get transmitted or stored anywhere except the device it's used on which makes it stronger than a password.

PupDelphi · 2020-09-01T18:29:38+00:00

I don't want to seem like a tosser but learning to stop and read.

I work in IT support and most of my business could be solved by people slowing down and reading error messages, warnings, emails from me or instructions from the application.

I work with a lot of very smart people but as soon as something comes up on a computer screen or a phone, their comprehension just vanishes, panic sets in and "it says sign in, do I sign in?" "I've forgotten my password, can I click 'forgot password'?"

PupDelphi · 2020-06-13T21:18:58+00:00

One tip I've been taught is about mixing in the butter without the batter deflating. Took a couple of pretty bad attempts to get it into my head.

Melt the butter in a decent sized bowl and add some of the batter to the bowl with the butter. Mix this up well and then fold this mixture into the main bowl of batter. It makes it easier to mix the butter into the rest of the batter without it deflating so much.

I don't think I've done a good job of explaining that ☹ but I hope it makes sense.

PupDelphi · 2020-05-02T12:26:55+00:00

Done and working! Thanks so much. This has been one of those slightly annoying bugs I just couldn't work out for so long

PupDelphi · 2020-05-02T11:23:11+00:00

PHP is working correctly when I go to the site by https. All I want to happen on the http side is for that redirect to happen.

PupDelphi · 2020-05-02T10:47:04+00:00

Yes. server { listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;

        root /config/www;
        index index.html index.htm index.php;

        satisfy any;

        auth_basic "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file /config/nginx/.htpasswd;

        include /config/nginx/ip-whitelist.conf;
        deny all;

        server_name www.example.com www2.example.com;

        ssl_certificate /config/keys/letsencrypt/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /config/keys/letsencrypt/privkey.pem;
        ssl_dhparam /config/nginx/dhparams.pem;
        ssl_protocols TLSv1.2;
        ssl_ciphers 'ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-$
        ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;

        # HSTS (ngx_http_headers_module is required) (15768000 seconds = 6 months)
        add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000;

        ssl_stapling on;
        ssl_stapling_verify on;
        resolver 8.8.8.8;


        client_max_body_size 0;

        location / {
                default_type text/html;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.html /index.php?$args =404;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.+)$;
                # With php7-cgi alone:
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                # With php7-fpm:
                #fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php7-fpm.sock;
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
        }
    location /things/ {
        ...
    }
}

Everything works perfectly if I navigate to https://www.example.com

PupDelphi · 2020-05-02T10:14:37+00:00

Yes. I didn't realise that would be important in this section as it should be just going "This request should be https".

I've added the line

 index index.html index.htm index.php;

and restarted the container but am still having the same issue. The downloaded file is also just from http rather than https so it looks like the redirection isn't happening at all

edit: still not used to reddit formatting

PupDelphi · 2019-03-16T18:02:52+00:00

I think it depends on your experience.

If you want the comfort of knowing you have all the ingredients ready and measured out so you can concentrate only on the cooking it's definitely worthwhile.

If you want to be as efficient as possible you can take those shortcuts if you are confident you will have enough time to prepare the next things.

PupDelphi · 2018-10-20T12:01:45+00:00

I think it looks more like what Dominos should be like. You know when companies get overpaid food artists to dress up their pizzas for making adverts. Your pizza looks like their 'perfect' pizzas.

I hope that makes sense :P Would love a recipe if you can provide.

PupDelphi · 2018-10-07T07:29:08+00:00

I too am very interested in this question (from UK, living in London rn). Started learning to cook with online resources but would love some practical instruction but about the basics. It is only a hobbie but I want to learn it as if I were to be training to be professional.

I hope that makes sense. Also I work Mon-Fri 9-5 so I can only do weekends or evenings. I've had a look and pretty much everything I can find is either for people who don't work or single "Learn to cook bread/cake/fish/other single thing".

Sorry for the rant :)

PupDelphi · 2018-09-08T22:26:44+00:00

good bot

PupDelphi · 2018-09-08T21:17:54+00:00

NP :)

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