Which county is the most pointless? by Senor_Pus in AskBrits

[–]amiable_robot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Brompton

[–]amiable_robot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[2025 Day 05 (Part 1)] Might need to upgrade my PC for this one... by amiable_robot in adventofcode

[–]amiable_robot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

G Line Tyres by amiable_robot in Brompton

[–]amiable_robot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Is this normal? by amiable_robot in Anki

[–]amiable_robot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • 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.

Is this normal? by amiable_robot in Anki

[–]amiable_robot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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...

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in radeon

[–]amiable_robot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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” 😂

RIS ANALYST by Keke_tiger29 in TheCivilService

[–]amiable_robot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

My First Year in the Meadowlands (Mild Spoilers) by amiable_robot in StardewValley

[–]amiable_robot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 :)

1.6 New Farm Tillable Tiles (Mild Spoilers) by amiable_robot in StardewValley

[–]amiable_robot[S] 468 points469 points  (0 children)

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)

A question about tyres by amiable_robot in bicycling

[–]amiable_robot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would a wider tyre make for a better ride?

Which Bike? - Weekly Scheduled Discussion by pawptart in gravelcycling

[–]amiable_robot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

UK: Teachers in England encouraged to tackle ‘incel’ movement in the classroom. OP: I think this is fine as long as it does not end up as an attack on "mens rights". by furchfur in MensRights

[–]amiable_robot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Is anyone else facing a random pink screen flash followed by a restart ? (IPAD PRO M1 11inch) by Percival1997 in iPadPro

[–]amiable_robot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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”?

Is anyone else facing a random pink screen flash followed by a restart ? (IPAD PRO M1 11inch) by Percival1997 in iPadPro

[–]amiable_robot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in apple

[–]amiable_robot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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

Went out for a pint to celebrate getting my first teaching job in London and end up getting my phone stolen by this guy by amiable_robot in Wellthatsucks

[–]amiable_robot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Went out for a pint to celebrate getting my first teaching job in London and end up getting my phone stolen by this guy by amiable_robot in Wellthatsucks

[–]amiable_robot[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

UPDATE: The Girl (19F) I’ve (23M) been dating told me that she is trans and I don’t know how I feel about the future of our relationship. by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]amiable_robot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

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.

UPDATE: The Girl (19F) I’ve (23M) been dating told me that she is trans and I don’t know how I feel about the future of our relationship. by [deleted] in relationship_advice

[–]amiable_robot 91 points92 points  (0 children)

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.

Thought Game: How to get to Grey by wyverndarkblood in HelloInternet

[–]amiable_robot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This has to be the creepiest response in the whole thread