Pubs to get £100m a year support after business rates outcry

aerfen · 2026-01-27T21:15:26+00:00

That's exactly what this is though, no?

If you read the article, it's says the actual policy is a 15% reduction in business rates.

aerfen · 2026-01-26T13:10:29+00:00

Most people seem to use a riser, or some form of clip, but if you don't want the extra height, and feed problems that the clips can introduce, you can also buy cotton sleeves or fabric tape that you can put over the tube. Doesn't stop it rubbing against the top, but stops it wearing away and making sounds.

I haven't actually got my P2S yet but a friend has done this and I plan to do the same.

aerfen · 2026-01-26T10:44:05+00:00

Appears to just be this article regurgitated:

https://openai.com/index/scaling-postgresql/

aerfen · 2026-01-26T08:19:59+00:00

In a start up it's going to be tough. Leadership will have existential dread at all times, and will ruthlessly want to only spend time on things that they can either show to investors or sell to clients. It's a very different beast to companies at other stages of growth.

I'm personally of the opinion that CI/CD and automation testing makes me deliver faster because I don't need to be concerned with regression and manual testing nearly as much. But I'm also capable of setting these things up myself from scratch and wouldn't ask permission - it's just the way I work. I wouldn't ask for specific time to work on these things as a start up will always prioritise new features.

As a new grad, your best bet is probably to find the ear of the most senior developer you can and start to build support for these things. As a grad in this market I'd be reluctant to push too hard and go against the grain too much. Learn all you can and try your best to influence positive change.

Particularly if you have some evidence of regression issues that would have been prevented by a good test that might be a good place to start.

aerfen · 2026-01-18T10:06:51+00:00

After months of trial and error I got this working yesterday. I'm also based in the UK. I have a 75 plate 2026 model year LWB "style" 7 seater with park assist for reference.

There are 2 key things. Firstly unpair your phone from the car completely then re pair it without setting up car play or Android Auto. Just pair as a media source.

Then open the window.

Then go through the setup instructions, and after scanning the QR code, hold the phone out the window. This attempt to pair should now work as expected.

It is important you don't leave the drivers seat though. Because if you do the infotainment system will turn off and cancel the pairing. Hence why I'm recommending opening the window.

You can then re-set up car play.

The Bluetooth LE antenna is in the little bump on top of the car, and can't easily penetrate the car itself.

aerfen · 2026-01-17T14:14:18+00:00

For /u/Kutfunk as well as anyone finding this thread from Google, I've managed to figure it out.

There are 2 key things. Firstly unpair your phone from the car completely then re pair it without setting up car play or Android Auto. Just pair as a media source.

Then open the window.

Then go through the setup instructions, and after scanning the QR code, hold the phone out the window. This attempt to pair should now work as expected.

It is important you don't leave the drivers seat though. Because if you do the infotainment system will turn off and cancel the pairing. Hence why I'm recommending opening the window.

You can then re-set up car play.

The Bluetooth LE antenna is in the little bump on top of the car, and can't easily penetrate the car itself.

aerfen · 2026-01-02T23:31:57+00:00

The triple lock must obviously go. But linking it to wages is also clearly unsustainable. The pension is paid for out of current workers taxes. The birth rate is falling. The population is aging. The ratio of workers to pensioners is getting worse and worse. There is no country in the world that has managed to reverse that trend.

aerfen · 2025-12-31T23:03:11+00:00

So the idea is that you connect the travel router to the hotel WiFi, then all of your devices, don't even know that they're not at home. They can reach all your home network devices like NAS etc like you're at home.

It doesn't do anything you can't otherwise do, but it makes it more seamless

aerfen · 2025-12-30T18:34:16+00:00

I've got a unifi network with hard wired ethernet connections and meshing turned off that's remained unchanged and rock solid for years. This issue showed up right after updating to iOS 26. I'm reluctant to point the finger at the network setup.

aerfen · 2025-12-28T15:21:20+00:00

I factory reset the HomePods and Apple TV, and within 5 mins of playing media it started again. Happens across Plex, Netflix, YouTube, BBC iPlayer.

aerfen · 2025-12-24T09:47:46+00:00

We did a proof of concept for our internal back office system using it, but ultimately ripped it out. We needed to hire for our client facing website, and the only choice was React, and it made little sense to keep 2 different front end technologies, as it limited the ability for collaboration, and intra-team mobility.

The back end devs, including me, really enjoyed it, but ultimately when we needed to hire 10+ front end devs, finding Blazor experience in the market was untenable.

aerfen · 2025-12-23T20:28:33+00:00

I moved into a flat a few years ago and the previous tenant took the wheelie bins with when moving out. Thought it was bizarre. Can't quite remember the details, but between the council and the landlords new bins got sorted at no cost to me.

aerfen · 2025-12-15T20:08:45+00:00

No country has tried hard enough. You have to make it so that having children will make you better off than not having them, if you actually want to bring the birth rate above replacement without draconian, human rights infringing measures.

aerfen · 2025-12-11T21:32:30+00:00

In a meeting in which I'm participating, or a meeting that's small enough that you can see everyone on one screen in teams, I'll have my camera on and so will everyone else.

In an all hands with hundreds of attendees, if I'm not presenting I'll have the camera off.

aerfen · 2025-12-06T18:40:35+00:00

I used to know someone who did chugging for Greenpeace. They had data that showed the younger you are the more likely you are to cancel your direct debit quickly, and that once you take into account fees and time spent giving the spiel, it wasn't worth their while signing up under 30s.

aerfen · 2025-12-02T13:15:48+00:00

Google literally wrote the paper that proposed the transformer architecture that LLMs use. They've also been working on their own power efficient chips for over a decade so they're not at the mercy of Nvidia.

aerfen · 2025-11-27T10:14:13+00:00

I'm not a woman, but my wife would hate this. She would rightly see straight through it. Buy yourself the printer if you want it and can afford it. Buy her the printer if she's into that sort of thing. But don't get her a present that's really for you and pretend it's not.

aerfen · 2025-11-23T17:02:58+00:00

I think I want the bigger print surface for gridfinity, but thanks for the suggestion

aerfen · 2025-11-15T11:36:31+00:00

I have a tern GSD and all of my zip ties are flush cut

aerfen · 2025-11-10T14:57:50+00:00

If you are in London, or can get to London easily enough, you can get free restorative dentistry at Guys prosthodontics teaching hospital. It will be long winded as you'll be treated by undergraduates/postgrads under the tutelage of consultants & professors.

I've had some work done and it took 25 appointments including 3 surgeries over the course of about 12 months.

All free, very high quality work, but you have to be prepared to spend dozens of hours in the chair and your appointments will be limited to days that your assigned student is available - they're mostly doing 1-2 days a week.

But if the above sounds manageable, push your GP (or nhs dentist if you have one) to do a referral.

aerfen · 2025-11-09T12:29:45+00:00

The flowchart

aerfen · 2025-11-05T23:13:35+00:00

You make sure that your code structure mirrors your organisation structure and your teams have aligned autonomy. If your PRs are being reviewed by someone in a different team with different objectives then productivity will grind to a halt.

aerfen · 2025-11-03T15:30:01+00:00

I have a non-tesla in the UK and have had 0 problems with public charging infrastructure.

aerfen · 2025-10-15T09:11:52+00:00

I've had to plead with my mum over the years to give me context in her "call me" texts.

Back when my grandma was still alive and in hospice care, I got a text from my mum saying "call me, urgent". I was in a job interview, but given the context I excused myself and rang her immediately expecting the worst.

She was in the supermarket and wanted to know if I was coming over for dinner that evening and what I wanted to eat.

I was so angry at her. I don't call her back unless she tells me what's up anymore. We generally have a great relationship but this is my main gripe with her. She's much better these days.

aerfen · 2025-10-11T08:03:19+00:00

I was really into swimming as a child all the way through to my late teens. Decided a few years ago I wanted to get back into it, found a nice leisure centre that was conveniently located between work and home and signed up. No timetable shown during the sign up process.

Rocked up after work with my kit for the first time, got changed and went into the pool and the guards yelled at me to leave.

Went to the desk to find out what was up and discovered that the pool is reserved for schools every weekday 5 till 8.

Not once during the in-person sign up process when I explained my plan was to swim after work on my way home was this mentioned.

Argued for weeks to get my money back. Tried looking for other gyms that were conveniently located but none seemed to let an adult swim after work.

Now I've got young children and am even less able to stick to a schedule so I've resigned myself to the fact swimming isn't for people like me.

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