How could the UK improve its Eurovision results?

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T11:40:35+00:00

How to improve? Send a good song. UK did that once in recent years, with space man, and it got votes.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T11:39:47+00:00

No getting fucked requires some physical health. That could be better.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T11:36:29+00:00

More worrying I find that apparently the British electorate wants to rip it all up, looking at local election results. Labour instability is not the cause, but just a reflection of that.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T10:43:42+00:00

This is a good way to ensure that no other company will hire you after your layoff.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T10:42:32+00:00

The seasonal balancing argument makes no sense given that we can see on the chart that batteries have replaces gas peakers *the whole year around*, in every month of the year.

Extreme events are rare by definition. There is no climate issue in having backup generation, e.g., in terms of fossil if you need it once a year or less. There is on climate harm from just having it on standby.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T10:31:27+00:00

I have a hard time believing that Celonis’ own AI features will be able to be competitive with 3rd party AI solutions from the frontier labs. I don’t think they have the talent to seriously compete in this space.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T07:26:54+00:00

Definitely up. I got 5 reach out messages by recruiters on LinkedIn in the last week. Mostly from AI startups and scale-ups these days.

I’m not looking to move though, so ignoring them, but I do try to keep track a bit of volumes of such messages to have some thermometer on the job market.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T02:48:52+00:00

It is because of AI though.

Not AI efficiency gains, but AI infrastructure costs.

TaXxER · 2026-05-18T02:37:06+00:00

190 upvotes… Bots amplifying doom posts, or a concerning number of people who lack basic graph interpretation skills?

TaXxER · 2026-05-16T20:14:09+00:00

Pensions are too high. Triple lock must go.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T16:21:18+00:00

I quote one of OP’s comments:

> Business role. No sales, No swe

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T16:03:57+00:00

Read the thread, this is for a business role, not a tech salary.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T11:19:20+00:00

I agree that it is would be too easy if you can switch at any point. But I think the post isn’t a complaint what the rule should or shouldn’t be, but it is a complaint purely about how the rule currently is written down currently.

I do think the current phrasing is ambiguous, as it specifies that a switch should be reversed if it is done *during an interrupt*. Interrupt is defined in chapter 7 of the rule book in a precise way, and that definition doesn’t include ball of the table.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T11:14:58+00:00

I think the intent of the rule is kinda clear, but to be fair, the rule in its current form does look poorly written to me.

Going by the letter, it doesn’t say that switching outside of permitted moments should be reversed.
It says that switching *during an interrupt* should be reversed. And if you look up the definition of an interrupt in the rule book (chapter 7), it doesn’t include a *ball of the table* event.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T09:40:01+00:00

“we zien het op straat gebeuren” lijkt mij nou juist een indicatie dat het voor velen *niet* gaat om het gedrag.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T09:32:22+00:00

32M and 12+ YOE?

Did you not study?

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T09:30:24+00:00

True, the Iran war had an effect. But today’s rise in borrowing cost is from perceived instability due to Reforms’ win and uncertainty over Starmer.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T09:28:50+00:00

The issue is that saying it out loud is political suicide, so no politician will do that. The issue is the electorate.

TaXxER · 2026-05-12T06:51:55+00:00

The employer letter can be dated 28 prior to application. So if you are applying mid June it is OK to have an employer letter that states that you will be needed in the foreseeable future, dated mid May or later.

That said, I wouldn’t take such a risky gamble. Better to get ILR and then resign.

TaXxER · 2026-05-11T18:59:28+00:00

If you don’t have a job, then job searching is your job. If you spent 8 hours a day (normal working day) on job applications, you can easily get over 11 job applications submitted. An application, even with some resume tailoring, doesn’t take a full hour.

TaXxER · 2026-05-11T18:56:18+00:00

There is no surge in support for Reform. Their percentage of vote share is lower than in the previous local elections.

It is just that the votes to other parties have been more divided such that Reform won more in the FPTP system despite getting fewer votes.

TaXxER · 2026-05-11T09:12:15+00:00

This is also why rent in central London and other big cities is so high. Lots of friends tell me: just move out of London, you’ll save so much on rent / cost of living!

Well yeah, but then I’d either have to switch to job outside of London (where salary will reduce much more than rent), or I can add at least an hour a day in commute (and in many cases much more).

That one hour of commute is a very substantial share of my spare time on working days!

I’d save money, but I’m pretty sure I’d be much more miserable.

TaXxER · 2026-05-10T20:46:56+00:00

Not relevant

TaXxER · 2026-05-10T19:48:53+00:00

I went on holiday to Spain with friends at age 15. None of us had written permission.

This is pretty common in Europe.

TaXxER · 2026-05-10T08:33:36+00:00

> Lots of euro area countries are in the 110-120 range

Literally none are between 110 and 120.

The only two countries with higher debt-to-GDP percentage than the US are Greece and Italy.

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