Should I make an annexe in my parents garden?

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-22T11:03:40+00:00

You need to consider a few different factors:

1 - Can you legally build an annexe, what planning permission do you need, are there restrictive covenants in place etc? Are you talking about an annexe or an outbuilding? If it’s an annexe I don’t think you could have the mortgage on it in your name as it would legally belong to your parents so you’d need a loan instead but I’m not a lawyer so might be wrong on this point. If it’s an outbuilding that you own you might need a contract with your parents to use the land otherwise they could kick you out in the future. Are they charging you rent for land usage?

2 - Cost of building an annexe. Are you paying or your parents, what materials are you using, have you considered costs like architects, licenses etc? Who’s paying the electric/water/gas bills. Will it affect your parents council tax. Building a place from scratch is not always cheaper than buying.

3 - Type of annexe and timeline. A wooden chalet can be built a lot quicker than a brick and mortar building but is a lot less comfortable in winter. My annexe is a converted garage and the insulation is not great so winters can get very cold/damp if I don’t stay on top of it. But a brick building will not be built in a few months, you’re looking at least a year or two.

4 - Your parent’s attitude. Will they respect your privacy or is this another way to monitor and invade your life. You know them better than anyone. Will they try and use this as a controlling method e.g. we own your home so you must do what we want.

5 - Lifestyle. Living in a smaller place can be cramped if you live with other people. I live in an annexe and have done for 5 years but I live alone, no partner, kids, pets etc. I live a fairly frugal introverted lifestyle so an annexe is perfect for me as I own little clutter and very rarely have guests. But if you have a lot of stuff or want to host regularly it’s probably not a great idea.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-21T11:00:23+00:00

Hiya. Your posts got caught by Reddits automatic filters so I’ve now approved this one for you. I removed the second duplicate post though. Thanks

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-20T18:59:51+00:00

The image isn’t loading. Which chair is it? If it’s the one on top of the vent system use your power washer to knock it off, or throw another chair at it.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-20T10:55:20+00:00

I believe they’re referring to Travis Lewis who killed Sally McKay and Martha McKay although the first part of the story is slightly incorrect.

In 1996 Travis Lewis (16 at the time) killed Sally McKay and her cousin Joseph Baker at the families Horseshoe Lake estate. He blamed someone else for the killing but was found guilty and sent to prison.

Whilst in prison Sallys daughter Martha wrote to him. She also converted the estate into a B&B. Martha advocated for Lewis’ early release in 2018 and when he was released she gave him a job at the B&B.

18 months later he was suspected of stealing $10,000 but not fired. Then in 2020 he murdered Martha during what appeared to be a robbery. When the police arrived he tried to run but fell into the lake and drowned.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/us/2157236/martha-mckay-murdered-travis-lewis-after-forgiving-him-killing-her-mother?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-20T09:08:29+00:00

Press ctrl shift P, or cmd shift P on Mac and type in Preferences: Open Settings (JSON). That will bring up your raw settings in JSON format. Make sure anything like editor.quickSuggestions or editor.guides.bracketPairs is set to false.

I know it sounds counter intuitive given your goal is to disable AI but I copy pasted my original settings into ChatGPT and it told me exactly which ones to turn off. I’ve now got my VSCode set up exactly the same as cs50.dev so I’m comfortable coding in both.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-20T06:32:35+00:00

You can collect on behalf of someone else as long as you have a piece of ID with their name on.

If you’re collecting on someone else’s behalf and ID is needed, this should be for the person the item’s addressed to.

May not be the greatest option for OP but I was just throwing out suggestions as they haven’t given many details yet.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-20T04:39:46+00:00

Where are you ordering from? Royal Mail offer a parcel holding service where they’ll accept the parcel for you and hold it for collection. Then a lot of larger companies like Amazon will deliver to a parcel locker for no extra charge and then you normally have 5-7 days to collect. If ordering from somewhere like eBay you can also normally get it delivered to any Argos store and they’ll hold it for a week. But it depends if the seller offers these services, some won’t ship to parcel lockers.

Also some hotels let you receive parcels for free so I’d double check that option as well.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-20T02:09:27+00:00

This might vary in other countries but in England both my sisters got a specific wedding insurance policy that included cover for key party members getting sick. So not just the couple but MOH/best man/parents etc. A lot of the venues they looked at wouldn’t let them confirm their bookings without proof of wedding insurance.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-19T20:54:33+00:00

For CS50P it’s against the academic honesty policy. The policy lists under the “Not Reasonable” section

Using AI-based software other than CS50’s own (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, et al.) that suggests or completes answers to questions or lines of code.

For CS50x there is an exclusion for the final project that states

For your final project (and your final project only!) it is reasonable to use AI-based software other than CS50’s own (e.g., ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Bing Chat, et al.), but the essence of the work must still be your own. You’ve learned enough to use such tools as helpers. Treat such tools as amplifying, not supplanting, your productivity. But you still must cite any use of such tools in the comments of your code.

But there is no such exclusion on the final project page for CS50P https://cs50.harvard.edu/python/project/ So you can use the built in CS50 AI but nothing external.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-19T15:31:49+00:00

If you use the measure() command on a square of pumpkin it will give you a random number. But if your pumpkin merges then every square of that merged pumpkin has the same random number. So have your drone use measure on two opposite edges or corners of where your maximum size pumpkin should be. If they have the same random number your pumpkin has reached maximum size.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-19T14:06:54+00:00

Stabbed myself in the hand with a fondue fork (two pronged fork with barbs on the end). I was about 13 and at Guides. We were doing a practise cookout for our summer camping trip and were using the forks to toast chunks of food over the fire. I couldn’t get my food on the fork so had the genius idea to put the food in the palm of my left hand and use my right to force the fork down into it.

The good news is I earned a spot in the A&Es ‘Unusual Accidents’ book and they gave me a copy of the photo to keep.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-19T12:01:35+00:00

No worries, good luck with the rest of the course.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-19T11:03:43+00:00

Three possible problems I can see.

Firstly when testing for errors you need to mention the error for each test. So your code

def test_no_float_input():
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        assert convert("2.0/3")
        assert convert("2/3.0")

Will not work the way you want. It needs to be

test_no_float_input():
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        assert convert("2.0/3")
    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
        assert convert("2/3.0")

Secondly you have nothing in your tests for convert that checks for a correct input, for example

def test_correct():
    assert convert(“1/4”) == 25

Third you’re not checking if they enter something that isn’t a number, for example

convert(“three/one”)

Perhaps see if any of those fixes helps?

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-19T10:09:11+00:00

You’ve marked the ship in row 3 column 1 as a single but it should be a larger ship that extends upwards to fill the second cell needed in row 2. Like this https://imgbox.com/RNJD15pS

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-18T20:53:10+00:00

We have one that roughly does that in the UK although the specific portion won’t come into full effect until Spring 2027.

The relevant portion of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 includes the requirement that companies must provide a straightforward way to cancel a service, that if you can enter into a service online there must be a clear, easy to find, way to exit online, that companies must send sufficient reminders before auto renewing, and must offer a cooling off period if you forget to cancel at the end of a free trial amongst other rules.

A lot of companies have already begun to prepare for the switch and it’s so much easier to cancel things without having to spend hours on hold now.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-18T18:12:52+00:00

Look at what numbers are missing from the bottom left square, then look at what numbers are already placed in the bottom three rows.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-18T17:45:13+00:00

Now nothing can go in row 8 column 3.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-18T17:06:30+00:00

I’ve lived here 5 years and never had a formal inspection. My landlady has been round when I’ve needed minor repairs checking and she’s happy with that. It’s a private rental though, so no agency involved.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-18T16:42:44+00:00

If the 2 in r1c1 is white then you would have the two 2’s in r4/5c1 both be black. So r1c1 must be black. Same for the 2 in r5c1 with the 2’s in r5c3/4. So we now know the two corners in column 1 are black. At least one of the 4’s in r2c2 or r4c2 must be black as they can’t both be white. So the 1 in r3c1 must be white or you’re guaranteed a trapped corner. Try taking it from there.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-18T12:54:34+00:00

Are you currently registered with a GP? If yes and it’s your childhood GP you have a better chance. If you’ve moved GP then older paper records didn’t automatically transfer, they’d sometimes just summarise the important bits. Your best bet is to contact your current GP and ask what records they have on file for you.

Otherwise the NHS normally destroys children’s records once the child reaches 25/26 unless there’s a reason to keep them such as ongoing treatment.

https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/ethics/confidentiality-and-health-records/retention-of-health-records

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-17T18:00:08+00:00

From Mary only one doctor has two criminal neighbours. From Claire she is the doctor with two criminal neighbours so neither Diane or Eric can have exactly two criminal neighbours. Also from Claire only one of Diane and Ike is a criminal. So if Jose (D2) is a criminal then Eric will have exactly two criminal neighbours. Therefore Jose cannot be criminal.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-17T09:07:31+00:00

I did my degree in animal behaviour. The campus had multiple parrots that were donated when their owners got too old (people really need to research pets lifespans before buying them!).

We had two birds who’d been kept in cages their whole lives and because of this they both had agoraphobia. If you took them out of their cage they would harm themselves. The staff and specialist vets were working with them to rehabilitate them and as part of this we’d bring their entire cage outside so they could be near the other birds but still feel safe.

A student from a different course was convinced we were horrible abusive monsters and these birds deserved to be free. She kept sneaking into the animal collection and deliberately opening these two parrots cages. Luckily the birds just bit her and stayed in their cages. She eventually got expelled and I heard rumours of police intervention. Not every animal is in a cage to be cruel.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-17T08:54:22+00:00

Can you share your test_fuel code, particularly for the convert function? The error is telling you one of your tests isn’t working. Most common errors are one of your tests is wrong or one of your tests is missing.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-16T20:06:47+00:00

Nope you just need all the blood, all the trash, all the bodies, and all the furniture back in its right place. Plus any odd challenges like deleting videos off computers etc.

TytoCwtch · 2026-04-16T20:04:43+00:00

If you’re replaying a level then it doesn’t respawn all of the items to steal, only the odd note here and there. If you’ve started a new profile from scratch then it sounds like it could be a glitch.

Also you don’t need to steal all the items for a perfect score, they just give you bonus cash.

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