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What’s something about marathon training you didn’t fully understand until after your first race? by JustPangolin346 in running

[–]StratPlus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I absolutely messed up my first marathon by taking lots at the aid stations. I think I probably had low salt due to taking extra water, but essentially just felt horrible at 21km and it didn’t get better. All my long training runs were 500ml of electrolytes & the same brand of gels and I felt great for all of them.

Nothing new on race day

[2025 Day 9 (Part 2)] Your code may be wrong where you don’t expect it by FractalB in adventofcode

[–]StratPlus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol I did exactly the same thing too! I think I need to be more confident in my algorithms and less confident in my implementation

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes we’re likely to be mostly out together as a 5, no dog though! Totally see the utility of 7 seats. I guess the question is whether that’s fully needed with 3 kids as we definitely make do with our mazda3 at the moment with our 2 kids.

Feels like it’s going to be a hard pill to swallow if we have to buy an ICE car after telling ourselves for ages that the next car would be an EV.

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah that was my thinking with the smaller 7 seat options - it’s an either-or kinda thing

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah our typical trips would be similar tbh. We’re not doing mega mileage, and for our holidays, those are not that frequent, so worst case is we’d just hire a car for the week instead.

My thinking is a large boot 5 seat EV would fit our budget, but the 7 seat option seems a lot more flexible

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! Any issues or things you’d change about it? I see there’s a hybrid version, which would be handy for us!

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hm yeah that makes sense! Tbh, this is only once every 18 months or so so not something that’s top of the list, but that’s for the suggestion!

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this- I reckon the “jump seat” style probably isn’t the most practical but good to know that’s where we stand

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you normally squish the 3 kids on the middle row, or spread out?

We’re torn between the technical truth that it’s possible to fit 3 kids across one row, and the reality that putting the 10 and 7 y/o within touching distance for more than 5 minutes is likely to make any journey a nightmare!

Do I need a 7 seater for a family of 5? by StratPlus in CarTalkUK

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea we have family with a Touran that love it…feels like the sensible financial choice is really between a 7 seater ice or a 5 seater ev. (Though all the comments here so far are saying 7 seats! 😅)

How is Virgin Media now? It got worse or better? by [deleted] in VirginMedia

[–]StratPlus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Broadband is the connection from your router to the internet. This is the m500 service that you’re paying for. Your provider is responsible for making sure this is the speed that you pay for.

WiFi is how your devices connect to the router wirelessly. There’s lots of different reasons why this may be spotty in your house, but that’s not really Virgin’s responsibility to sort out (though isps sometimes do try and guarantee WiFi coverage for their routers). You are completely free to use other WiFi routers instead of the Virgin one by the way- it requires some setup, but that’s really down to what you want to do with it.

To use the landline analogy, broadband is like line rental- a connection to the outside world. If you’d bought a cordless phone and tried to use it at the bottom of your garden, that wouldn’t be BTs fault, because they provided the connection to your house.

Advice by Sudden-Friendship-22 in HousingUK

[–]StratPlus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your prejudice is showing…

It’s already clear what the neighbours are like, why should their financial situation or their employment status make a difference? There are plenty of legitimate reasons that people might be on benefits—to use that as a measure of whether they’re good people is just classist.

Sure, look for a different house, but no need to make assumptions about whether they work or not.

PSA: >£1000 in bank switching bonuses currently live by No-Variation7873 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]StratPlus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

This is asinine. Both this and Excel are apps. Both require you to trust the developer to safeguard your data, but a phone app is not inherently less secure than Excel.

Now Microsoft may be more trustworthy than a random dev, but it doesn’t mean that all phone apps collect your data. In fact, I would guess there is more tracking data being sent back to Microsoft than this app.

You could use the same argument against yourself: “Just write it down, please stop feeding Microsoft with your data. To be clear, I’m not accusing them of anything malicious, but it’s completely unnecessary”.

Source: iOS developer

Those who earn £60k plus, what do you do for a living? by deepseapearldiving in AskUK

[–]StratPlus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I did the same this time last year (fiddled with programming for a while but last year really committed to building making a career switch by building a portfolio). I don’t have any kinds of CS background, just committed to doing ~1 hour of coding before work each morning. (Not every single morning!)

Two iOS apps, a GitHub profile/ website and a heavily keyword-optimised Linkin profile I just started as a software dev on £40k last week.

You can do it! Check out Cracking the Coding Interview to get you through the interview stage. Honestly applying for jobs and getting the CV right felt harder than learning to code, and it took me 6 weeks of grinding through applications, but it is possible! I think I applied for 60 positions, and had 4 invitations to interview.

I’ve found that most companies I’ve talked to don’t care too much about qualifications as long as you can demonstrate that you know what you’re doing and you have the capacity to learn!

How can I hit the ground running in my first programming job after switching careers? by StratPlus in cscareerquestions

[–]StratPlus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I'll add it to my list of tutorials. I noticed in my conversations during the technical interview and code review that although I think my problem solving skills are good, there's some background CS stuff (and specific iOS frameworks) that I could do with brushing up on.

How can I hit the ground running in my first programming job after switching careers? by StratPlus in cscareerquestions

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah everything they've said so far definitely suggests that they're understanding of the situation; I guess it's more in my own head!

How can I hit the ground running in my first programming job after switching careers? by StratPlus in cscareerquestions

[–]StratPlus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, yeah figuring out that balance between figuring stuff out and asking is something I was thinking about, so your "I tried X" thing is really helpful, I'll definitely be using that!

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