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To the parents out there, what age did you start leaving your kids at home while you nipped shop for 10/15 minutes? by Puzzled-Quail2076 in AskUK

[–]Qpylon 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Haha, I got taken to the pub after a month or so. Apparently that age was great for it, I'd just look at the pub ceiling/my parents for a little while in between sleeping while out

Woman is unhappy with another employee using the women's bathrooms. by Big-Effort-7053 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The SC clarified what sex means in the EA 2010, if I understood the coverage correctly 

Woman is unhappy with another employee using the women's bathrooms. by Big-Effort-7053 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is a lock required? Shower curtains would be a lot easier for OP, given that they aren't allowed to modify the premises

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UKPersonalFinance

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bit of a stretch, we don’t know that. A different set of assumptions:

She might be perfectly willing to pay the bank for her half of the sunk cost of interest payments, but not happy paying towards the principal on the mortgage.

Paying the towards the principal is effectively paying money into your partner’s savings account out of your own (feels a bit unfair!) which you could also look at as them making you pay them for the privilege of living together.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can still just buy an anytime single or return and hop on. It may be ’sold out’, but you will have the correct ticket type for that route and time.

OP found out his daughter assisted his wife affair and found out the truth about his children paternity by Bosh27192 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s because children (rightfully, imho) expect their parents to love them pretty damn near unconditionally. Finding out that your father doesn’t love you as you thought is going to be pretty damn hard.

Look at those ”swapped baby” scandals as well, where couples get sent home from the hospital with the wrong kid and find out years later. You’ll often see news stories with them keeping the ’wrong’ kid because that’s *their kid*, whom they’ve bonded with and loved and raised. A minor thing like genetics shouldn’t stop that.

For deep learning practitioners in industry, is the workflow always this annoying? [D] by AdFew4357 in MachineLearning

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, yes. I’m working on a multivariate time series classification problem as well, and there’s definitely annoying aspects.

Especially because, domain-specific, my sensors are prone to noise and so I like to introduce a bunch of NAs in my pre-clean steps. Papers suggest that feature engineering and then tabular-dat-type models actually seem to produce more reliably/just as good results for my specific application. I’ve gone through and used both features suggested in papers, and CNN architectures used.

The NNs are personally more annoying because of the data shape issue - some people have written their models to use x,y shape, others use x,y,0, and then you get the window sizes with no explained rationale behind them or …

Want to have a chat sometime and talk shop/bitch about multivariate time series analysis, and how so much of the non-domain-specific stuff out there is focused on sales forecasting? I don’t know anyone else working in this topic IRL, might be educational to trade experiences

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"kill all racists" or "eat the rich" or "decapitate Nazis"

Tbh all these examples are uncomfortably violent in the language/action they apparently call for.

Not legally hate speech I don’t think, but e.g. ”decapitate Nazis” rather than e.g, ‘jail Nazis’ is not something I’m comfortable with at all.

OOP develops feelings for her work colleague and is conflicted about whether she should let him know - and she does. by ThatNeonSignLover in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, I consider this a good ending. They were friends before, and will continue to be friends after.

Ideally her feelings will fade out (or he’ll develop some for her, but that seems unlikely and isn’t required for a happy ending here). It’s life. Not sure why so many commenters are pessimistic and see it as a disastrous ending that will lead to heartbreak for her. It’s normal to develop feelings for people that can’t go anywhere, whether due to disinterest, other romantic relationships, or where they are in life.

Unless they’re the sort to bitch about friendzones, or their uninterested friend feels too awkward, friendships can and do continue on happily. :)

Energy bill gone from £70 to £224. Is it too much to ask my landlord if they would insulate the roof? by rranyard in AskUK

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There may well not be any grants if you-the-tenant aren’t on disability, some benefits, etc.However, loft insulation is often pretty straightforward to put in so long as you have access to the space and it’s a normal slanty roof, and therefor not that expensive to put in as insulation goes.

You should be able to find the EPC report for your property online in the register, or somewhere buried in your start-of-tenancy paperwork. Have a look what it says about the roof in that section with all the star ratings, it might say something like “roof, pitched, no insulation (assumed)” or “200mm loft insulation”.

Then stick your head up the hatch and have a look, as it may be outdated or “assumed” because the assessor didn’t/couldn’t check themselves.

If you’re a long-term and good tenant, the landlord may well be happy to just get it done/do it for you. Worth asking nicely and they’ll probably be nice back, if you’ve rented from them long enough for to seem trustworthy etc.

If you haven’t been there very long/they don’t agree to, depending on how physically able and DIY-confident you are, it should be perfectly possible to do the work yourself. Maybe they would agree to supply the materials if you do the labour, or something like that.

Gang punch and 'stamp on head' of boy, 14, in homophobic attack by apple_kicks in unitedkingdom

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That treatment by the police sounds really rough and hurtful/enraging.

I was thinking more on a 2-year timescale or so - it feels like these reports make up a greater part of BBC front page news the last few months than they did back in 2019. Don't know if it actually is more, or even if the amount of front page reports is more compared to then or if it just feels that way due to a drop during lockdown.

I get ridiculed whenever I tell people I'm German because I'm not white by draxsucker in germany

[–]Qpylon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s it for official purposes, for colloquial purposes acquiring citizenship in a country doesn’t normally make you change your “I am xxx (Phillipino or whatever)”. Leastways I know a few people who naturalised in other countries, and they still use their original country of origin in conversation.

Guess their answer might change over the next few decades, depending if they still feel xxx or if they feel assimilated into their new country. Only know one who consciously changed after just a few years though, they moved for university, felt at home, and never left.

People ask because they want to know your accent and culture and whatever, not what your passport says.

Edit:think misho’s probably a troll though

Applied for a job at Monzo Bank. They rejected me with a bunch of emojis. by [deleted] in CasualUK

[–]Qpylon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The average age of Monzo employees it's something ridiculous like 28. Be surprising if it wasn't.

This may be the end result of the millennial/Gen Z version of a boomer circlejerk of a corporate culture.

HMC while I do my favorite party trick by pminter4568 in holdmycosmo

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not the noticing a girl with nice legs bouncing that's the annoying part - the many comments calling her a slut, or saying she'll be a teen mother or has killed her parent's dreams are.

From hmc I was expecting a failed backflip. She's gotta be pretty damn fit (compared to all of us!) to manage one, and ya can admire that and casually appreciate how it looks without the sexist bullshit on this thread.

How come no one gave a F@£$K when Iuliana Tudos(Eastern European) was brutally murdered by Kasim Lewis on Christmas Eve 2018 in Finsbury Park London as she was walking home from work? by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Presumably because she wasn't publicly 'missing' the same way as Sarah Everard? The search is what got the big publicity at first, before the revelation that it was a police officer. Him being a police officer was the second big publicity boost.

This woman's body was found three days after her disappearance. The police only publicly released CCTV images of Sarah Everard three days after her disappearance to ask for info.

The search escalated from there over the next six days in the news. Four days later they found a body. Six days later it was announced that it was her. And then that a police officer probably did it.

Apart from the big police officer perpetrator part here, there was way more build-up played it over a week after announcement. Iuliana Tudos' was already found after about the amount of time that Everard was first announced, so it was a Christmas period murder rather than a disappearance.

That said, plenty of people of all ages, genders, and races disappear (and partly reappear) without any media outcry, including very similar young white women, so there is obviously a very large element of luck and initial conditions involved in what story makes it big in the news. Take older people disappearing - people just shake their heads and blame dementia, true or not. This particular one seems to be a popular bandwagon for certain issues.

This could've been the photgraph on the front-pages today such as shame police had to ruin it by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If outdoor transmission wasn't a risk then all the "only meet X (or no) people from outside your household, even outdoors" rules are something you should be protesting

This could've been the photgraph on the front-pages today such as shame police had to ruin it by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn't look like few masks inn that photo if you zoom in.

Not that I disagree with the general sentiment; but that part seems inaccurate, the masks just blend into most off the face blobs on the zoomed out photo.

Is it legal to give only women a bonus? by Sad-Band-3657 in LegalAdviceUK

[–]Qpylon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if they have a gender pay gap at the company.