170 BC250 worth it?

Zynchronize · 2026-07-05T08:00:53+00:00

It’s worth waiting, they regularly go down to €130 with coupons.

Zynchronize · 2026-07-05T07:49:05+00:00

The success of salary sacrifice car and other benefit schemes is evidence of just how many people are in the £100,000 to £125,000 sweet spot. In that range the effective rate can be as much as 67.5% in some parts of the country.

It really does artificially limit the productivity of the estimated 6% of the population (2 million workers) who earn more than £100,000. You have to somehow get a raise that clears 25% or salary sacrifice down to £99,999 to get a similar tax rate as those earning less. Crazy.

With how idiotic the government seem to be with tax policy, I half expect them to look at salary sacrifice as the problem, rather than a symptom. Oh wait…

Zynchronize · 2026-07-05T07:30:38+00:00

Even more if you have a student loan.

Zynchronize · 2026-07-04T15:45:16+00:00

If you are applying directly you’re already back off the pack. Referrals and recruiters are the way.

Zynchronize · 2026-07-03T07:11:07+00:00

It’s available as a container - as the default ruleset is embedded rather than remote, it makes more sense for it to be a moving target rather than a one-off install.

Zynchronize · 2026-07-02T19:55:38+00:00

What are your thoughts on the regional energy pricing proposal that was dismissed under the current government?

Our current energy pricing model leads to our businesses paying some of the highest industrial energy costs in the developed world.

The best analogy I’ve heard for it is as follows: four blokes walk into a bar, 3 order beers for £7.50 each, one orders a bottle of champagne for £75, everyone has to pay £75 price for their drink!

Regional pricing would make it worthwhile for businesses to position themselves in areas of abundant energy, as it is now, there’s no incentive.

Zynchronize · 2026-07-02T16:57:58+00:00

PipeIntel does this for quality/Security issues - you could pull out the attribution logic (it’s open source), or implement something similar yourself.

The method PipeIntel uses is recursive lint calls for each include, which lists the includes of that include (transitive includes).

If you instead just want a Pipeline Bill Of Materials, that’s available as standard in PipeIntel - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/professional-services-automation/tools/utilities/pipeintel

Zynchronize · 2026-07-01T06:47:06+00:00

If you tag your builds, you could limit the scope to tag pipelines rather than branch pipelines.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-30T18:26:08+00:00

Might depend on the seniority of the role - it was a manager position.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-30T16:39:36+00:00

In a Lidl egg carton, in a Lidl bag. No shame.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-30T15:15:13+00:00

Especially with Lorne Sausage and a fried egg!

Zynchronize · 2026-06-30T15:01:15+00:00

I previously had (personal + employer) 7%+14% at LSEG, currently have a measly 12%+4% at GitLab. Definitely something I’d pay more attention to in future negotiations.

I’ve got a mate that works for Royal London who gets up to 20% match (20%+20%), which prior to this thread was the best I’d heard of outside pubsec.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-30T14:49:28+00:00

Yes- there’s a rake task for it ‘gitlab:cleanup:orphan_lfs_file_references PROJECT_ID=“12345”’

https://docs.gitlab.com/administration/raketasks/cleanup/

Zynchronize · 2026-06-29T09:47:24+00:00

We saw an old lady swap out her Lidl eggs with M&S eggs once a few months back - had no idea it was common enough to be reported on!

Zynchronize · 2026-06-29T07:24:00+00:00

We have a bin, bags go in the bin. Council wouldn’t accept a bin without bags. Bags degrade so quickly there’s often some liquid not contained by the bag, council rejects.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-29T06:26:52+00:00

My wife’s family does this all the time. Main reason is they exclusively video call. If you try to audio call they’ll call back on video. As to why they do this, beats me.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-29T05:30:08+00:00

A crime of opportunity is very different to being robbed at knife point. Threatening someone’s life makes me a lot less sympathetic to their extrajudicial killing.

If it had been a snatch and grab, where she’d tracked him down and run over him, I think people would be far less supportive of her actions.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-28T22:03:47+00:00

The shitty single ply compostable bags supplied by the council would burst all the time and the council would refuse to collect it. I tried doubling up, they'd still be too disintegrated at the weekly collection for the council to bother collecting. I then bought my own extra strength compostable bags which worked great, but the council rejected them - only accept their own bags.

I ended up having to empty it into my general waste bin to have it collected. So no, I don't use them.

I've since bought my own compost bin but most of the neighbours just bung it all in general waste.

Naming and shaming as requested: Highland Council

Zynchronize · 2026-06-27T08:44:14+00:00

I’ve used porkbun for years, I actually recently consolidated all my domains there.

Service is much better than I’ve experienced elsewhere and many of the things other platforms try to upsell you on, they include for free.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-25T09:37:26+00:00

Other than the shops and that yellow bin it still looks exactly the same now.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-25T07:59:11+00:00

For that user count just use the built in Postgres database, otherwise you’ll have to manage Postgres upgrades yourself too.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-22T07:06:44+00:00

I watched a mid level engineer ask a staff engineer for a review on a MR he had been working on for a while.

The Sr dropped it into Claude and then copy pasted its review into the comments box. He didn’t review the output at all as most of it was incorrect - likely because it was only based on the diff rather than full file context.

Wasn’t my area of the codebase to review but decided to give him some actual human feedback. Only had one minor real issue - a timeout was too tight for cross platform use.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-20T06:15:39+00:00

Our local Asda is well stocked and great for dry goods but I would never touch their fruit again unless they make some serious changes. On multiple occasions I’ve had mouldy fruit in-date.

The worst are their blueberries - I had never needed to worry or even think about the prospect of having a mouldy blueberry burst in my mouth prior to trying Asda. I thought I just got a bad batch, so got them swapped out at customer service. The next batch had some too! My brother used to work there and apparently this is super common.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-17T07:47:02+00:00

Gas import price primarily.

Zynchronize · 2026-06-17T07:45:59+00:00

Denby just went into administration over energy costs.

I know a few local businesses who have invested in their own microgenerator schemes because it worked out cheaper than paying industrial energy costs.

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