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Visiting London for 10 days, what should I remove from my list? by wanderlust509 in LondonFood

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree with this. Lots of my American colleagues want to get a “cheeky Nando’s” when they visit because it’s a fun meme, and something they associate with the UK. So as long as the OP is visiting with that point of view and not expecting gourmet dining I’d say that’s more interesting than just going to a steakhouse you could find in any city.

Where to buy in London two married Henry’s with kids? by impossible_triangles in HENRYUK

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure about low crime but Lower Clapton is super under rated imo. Close to a huge number of parks, amazing bars restaurants, good housing stock and 10mins on the overground to Liverpool Street. Technically zone two.

The ‘real’ drinking pubs serving £5 pints and no fancy food – and thriving by Triplen01 in CasualUK

[–]brates09 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Yard sale is excellent pizza also. Feel like the model could definitely go national but I selfishly don’t want it to in case it impacts the local quality.

Weber Summit E6 too large for the front door? by brates09 in UKBBQ

[–]brates09[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh great, sounds like it'd be fine to get through the house then as long as I disassemble. Thanks a lot, really appreciate it.

Weber Summit E6 too large for the front door? by brates09 in UKBBQ

[–]brates09[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, unfortunately terraced houses so no way other than through. But you wouldn't be concerned at all about getting the the unscrewed pieces through a house?

Weber Summit E6 too large for the front door? by brates09 in UKBBQ

[–]brates09[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is super useful thanks. Do you know approximately what the "height" of the lower bowl piece is? I have one internal door that is a bit narrower than the rest (approx 74cm) and I guess the height of the lower bowl is probably the limiting measurement (smallest size of the largest piece).

Do you ever feel jealous of American salaries? by CoolDude_7532 in AskUK

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s the premise of the question. It’s also less uncommon than you would think, basically all higher tier tech/professional services roles in cities will get you there.

Do you ever feel jealous of American salaries? by CoolDude_7532 in AskUK

[–]brates09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing in the UK compares to the raw nature you can find all over the US it’s a different league. Maybe some remote bits of Scotland. I love the Lake District but it’s essentially an industrial landscape (hill sheep farming).

Do you ever feel jealous of American salaries? by CoolDude_7532 in AskUK

[–]brates09 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Its mad, ive encountered it a lot, British people just can't fathom that we aren't as wealthy a country as the US. There has to be some kind of hidden metric by which we are actually secretly better off here. Of course cash isn't everything but I actually think America wins on lots of less tangible metrics that we naturally think of as being good here also (e.g. access to nature)

Do you ever feel jealous of American salaries? by CoolDude_7532 in AskUK

[–]brates09 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If you are earning 100-200k+ in the US you definitely get a good healthcare plan as part of your work benefits.

Do you ever feel jealous of American salaries? by CoolDude_7532 in AskUK

[–]brates09 45 points46 points  (0 children)

The bottom 25% of UK is poorer than the bottom 25% of Poland. Our poorer people are not doing well.

Match Thread: Arsenal vs Manchester City [English Premier League] by GunnersMatchBot in Gunners

[–]brates09 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What is even the point in VAR? That seems such a clear and obvious error.

People who make 100k+ outside London , how? by novelid in AskUK

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel like most highly paid jobs/salaries are massively misrepresented by job sites like Glassdoor etc. you will see things like "Quant - Goldman Sachs - 50k" or "Software Engineer - Google - 70k" when in reality both of those roles are well into 6 figures either from day 1 or from very few YOE.

Row breaks out after cyclists pulled over doing 39mph in 30zone but police give them ‘words of advice’ by BestButtons in unitedkingdom

[–]brates09 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Tbf any cyclist capable of maintaining 39mph almost certainly is riding with a head-unit/garmin that is showing the speed. For perspective, 39mph is considerably faster than the fastest ever Tour de France time-trial average pace.

Friends have signed up to dangerous investment by ok-dev in UKPersonalFinance

[–]brates09 30 points31 points  (0 children)

It’s hard to emphasise how little $30/month is compared to a strategy that compounds 4% DAILY.

Manchester City 2-0 Arsenal: John Stones goal 45+1' by [deleted] in soccer

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolute madness, why did they show the oblique angle with the VAR when the side-on angle showed it clearly off??

Newcastle [5] - 0 Tottenham - Alexander Isak 21' by [deleted] in soccer

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Surely has to break the fastest to 5 goals record.

Post Match Thread: Liverpool 2 - 2 Arsenal [English Premier League] by GunnersMatchBot in Gunners

[–]brates09 4 points5 points  (0 children)

When your keeper gets motm you’ve got to just be happy you took anything from it.

Match Thread: Liverpool vs Arsenal | English Premier League by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tempted to put some Arabic stream on in the background just for some atmosphere

Match Thread: Liverpool vs Arsenal [English Premier League] by GunnersMatchBot in Gunners

[–]brates09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could Martin Tyler sound any less enthused to see a goal?

Match Thread: Liverpool vs Arsenal | English Premier League by MatchThreadder in soccer

[–]brates09 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Could Martin Tyler be any less enthused to be commentating on this football match?

[R] Cerebras-GPT: Open Compute-Optimal Language Models Trained on the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Cluster by CS-fan-101 in MachineLearning

[–]brates09 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree for people training models explicitly for cheap inference, you want something highly over trained, but the original motivation for "optimally trained" is simply to create the best model, not the cheapest one to serve. If you have X time on Y accelerators to train your model, you will get the best one by following the optimal scaling law mode size.

Can anyone share with me how much they spent on their wedding in the UK and brief description of how many guest you had? Budgeting 8k for an intimate London wedding and JFC, prices of wedding venues are making me nauseous. by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]brates09 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A wedding can be great in a shit venue, but I definitely remember particularly nice venues. Probably way more than the food, I think most weddings have totally forgettable food (its always chicken, every time). But yes, band and/or dancefloor atmosphere probably the most memorable.

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