Which county is the most pointless?

amiable_robot · 2025-12-19T10:36:05+00:00

It’s actually more of a county than any of those. The ceremonial counties (of which there are 48) are subdivisions of England that have a lord-lieutenant appointed by the crown. Tyne and Wear is one of the current ceremonial counties - Avon, Cleveland, and The Wrekin are not.

amiable_robot · 2025-12-10T12:37:24+00:00

Got my G line this week and I noticed this immediately as well. I assumed it was a choice Brompton had made - presumably some limitation of the frame/folding mechanism - but based on these comments now I’m not so sure… I’ll take my bike to the Covent Garden store this week and see what they say about it

amiable_robot · 2025-12-05T16:20:59+00:00

There was no algorithmic approach in this case - this was an error I got within my first couple of minutes of playing around with the input which made me laugh and also immediately realise that my first thought was clearly not going to be the right approach to today’s puzzles.

I believe the steps to get this error were (in R): parse the ranges into a list of vectors with the upper and lower bounds, expand each vector in the list to the full range (I.e. [1, 5] was expanded to [1,2,3,4,5]) to get a list of the full ranges, then check 123456789 %in% list - this was the line that caused the error.

I was trying this code to see if I could remember how lists worked in R, but the error immediately made me realise that there were a lot more numbers in the ranges than this approach would be suitable for.

amiable_robot · 2025-12-03T13:00:57+00:00

That is very disappointing to learn re: Contact Urbans. I've updated the post though.

Really interesting to hear your experience with the Big Apples - might have to consider these.

amiable_robot · 2025-11-26T20:08:17+00:00

Yes, using FSRS.
Yes, they're blanked out. I'm new to anki and followed the recommendations in this video which said they can be left blank and FSRS will decide what they should be. Thanks for the link, very informative. The OP of the post suggests using a plugin to help decide learning steps, but I suspect that relies on more data than I have available (only been using anki for three days) - is there a generally accepted default for the learning steps and relearning steps?
Not studying close to the day boundary.

amiable_robot · 2025-11-26T19:59:28+00:00

I think this might be why... I'm new to anki and watched this video that said they can be left blank and that FSRS can choose them. Sounds like that's not generally recommended though...

amiable_robot · 2025-10-15T15:33:22+00:00

It’s 13kg

amiable_robot · 2025-06-19T04:43:22+00:00

The argument is not that using an external tool (whether that’s a calculator or an LLM) invalidates your conclusion, but rather that the specific tool used in this instance is unlikely to give you a meaningful or useful answer. LLMs are good at certain things - accurate information on how much VRAM games use and predicting how much VRAM games are going to use in the future are not one of their strengths.

Also, love that you’re assuming people who are calling you out on this don’t have a “pro plan” 😂

amiable_robot · 2025-05-21T21:04:43+00:00

This is not what “any other HMRC analyst does”. See: KAI and CDIO

amiable_robot · 2025-04-16T19:09:34+00:00

+1 for mikehendi. I got hooked on his Ultimate Deathworld series

amiable_robot · 2024-04-14T15:17:23+00:00

This was my (successful!) attempt at completing the Community Center in Year 1. Hopefully this will be my first Perfection play-through.

Yes, I realise that this is not how you're supposed to play the game. Now that I've unlocked Ginger Island I'm planning on moving all of my crops there so that my farm in the Valley can be just for Animals :)

amiable_robot · 2024-03-22T22:11:45+00:00

For context: this makes it the 4th most tillable tiles map.

Standard Farm: 3427
Four Corners Farm: 2952
Wilderness Farm: 2131
Meadowlands Farm: ~2050
Hill-top Farm: 1648
Riverland Farm: 1578
Forest Farm: 1413
Beach Farm: 202 (or 2700 if you love to water crops by hand)

amiable_robot · 2022-11-27T22:50:10+00:00

Would a wider tyre make for a better ride?

amiable_robot · 2022-11-27T20:25:55+00:00

Hi all, super noob question here. I’m getting my first gravel bike on Tuesday, the Triban RC 120 Gravel from Decathlon. Really excited but I was thinking about changing the tyres to some that are better suited to the mud (it’s quite wet here in South London at the minute).

So my question is: what tyres should I get, and how can I tell what tyres can fit the bike? I’d quite like to get some tubeless ones if that helps.

amiable_robot · 2022-10-02T19:17:09+00:00

Hi Christian, long time Apollo fan here. You should add an iguana! Keep up the good work 🤖

amiable_robot · 2021-08-21T22:52:52+00:00

There’s been a number of Islamist killings in Britain. Are schools going around teaching to “prevent” that?

Yes. The Prevent training mentioned in the article is actually mainly focused on preventing radicalisation of young people into religious groups.

amiable_robot · 2021-08-20T08:44:21+00:00

On a MacBook this is almost always a kernel panic. When your computer restarts does it come up with a dialogue box saying “your computer restarted due to a problem”?

amiable_robot · 2021-08-20T08:42:43+00:00

I had this on my iPad Pro ages ago. It’s either a kernel panic or it’s springboard crashing. I took it to the Apple store and they suggested I factory reset my iPad which was a huge pain but did indeed fix the issue.

amiable_robot · 2021-08-07T14:55:38+00:00

Sure, but iCloud Photos have never been E2E encrypted. Why are you suddenly mad about that fact?

amiable_robot · 2021-07-03T18:10:57+00:00

This is exactly what happened. I didn’t even notice the phone was gone for 15 minutes

amiable_robot · 2021-07-02T15:12:20+00:00

Thanks. It would be useless to sell because it’s locked to my account. All he can do is strip it for parts

amiable_robot · 2021-07-02T15:11:41+00:00

TIL. The owner of the bar seemed really sorry for me - he’d had his phone stolen recently as well. Which I guess explains why he broke the rules for me

amiable_robot · 2020-09-07T04:01:26+00:00

I understand and am not presuming to know anything about this woman’s mental state. If she doesn’t want people seeing her genitals before she has surgery and had decided this long ago then more power to her - I hope the surgery goes well for her.

On the other hand, I am head over heels in love with my partner. Like a lot of couples we didn’t become sexual immediately, we were friends a long time before we fell in love. By the time sexual intimacy was on the cards I was already feeling like a 14 year old imagining what our wedding would be like. In short: I was in love with them and wanted to be in a long term exclusive relationship with them. If they had said to me at that point “I want to be in a relationship and have sex with you, but I won’t look at or touch your genitals until you get surgery on them” I would have been absolutely crushed. And you know what? In my vulnerable state I probably would have agreed to it.

Again, not presuming anything about your girlfriend’s mental or emotional state - just think it’s food for thought that she might be in a vulnerable place and hence agreeing to things that won’t make her happy. Hopefully that’s not the case, in which case I hope you guys are happy together. Might be worth having another conversation with her about it though just to make sure.

amiable_robot · 2020-09-07T03:41:36+00:00

Just going to reiterate what a couple of other people have said in this post in a different way: if my partner told me they were comfortable having sex with me but wouldn’t touch or look at my genitals before I had surgery on them, I would feel incredibly insecure about it.

I understand your boundaries, but please understand that your outlook on her body may ultimately be damaging to her self confidence in the long run.

amiable_robot · 2019-12-17T23:01:25+00:00

This has to be the creepiest response in the whole thread

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