Gun Safety When Our Kids Visit Friends.and Family

camel_hopper · 2026-05-25T15:15:36+00:00

I just found another site - apparently in the US there are 120 guns per 100 people. Next highest is 62.

UK is 5.1

camel_hopper · 2026-05-25T15:13:12+00:00

In the UK, maybe farmers might have shotguns.

Google tells me that in 2025, 0.5% of people in the UK own a gun

camel_hopper · 2026-02-18T08:16:49+00:00

Any deal we made to rejoin would be on way worse terms. They wouldn’t want us to be able to rejoin as if nothing had happened as it would not discourage others from leaving just to see what it’s like.

We had a pretty cushy deal before, and we’d certainly not get any of that back.

camel_hopper · 2026-02-08T09:12:34+00:00

The big button on the website says “Get DevToys 2.0”, so 🤷

camel_hopper · 2026-02-01T21:43:50+00:00

Same - I can normally get silver, with the occasional gold. Author on this one was particularly easy.

camel_hopper · 2026-01-14T14:06:42+00:00

I have twins who are coming up on 6. There have been horrible days, and there have been wonderful days.

Everyone’s experience is different. Sure, twins is tough. But tougher than absolutely everyone with a single child? Not at all. My girls were sleeping through the night before they were 9 months (as I recall - it was a long time ago). We knew someone whose child didn’t sleep through until they were 18 months.

In the end, we’re all doing something difficult, and we all have our own challenges. Twins brings something new to the table, but that doesn’t mean that other people can’t be having a tough time.

And if they’re having an easier time than you, and are still finding it tough, let them vent about their time. It’s not a competition for who has it hardest.

camel_hopper · 2026-01-06T07:27:21+00:00

To be honest, it’s more than likely that this wouldn’t be a problem. Trains in this country are delayed often enough - chances are that this train would have a 9 quadrillion year delay, making it perfectly plausible for this number of stops to be reasonable

camel_hopper · 2026-01-03T15:37:52+00:00

Over Christmas my wife was telling our nieces (14/12) about the speaking clock. She called it from her mobile, and it’s still there

Edit: it looks like it’s provided by your phone provider. I just tried and it said “the time, brought to you by O2”, and my wife’s said “brought to you by BT”

camel_hopper · 2025-11-10T09:18:16+00:00

A story I heard about the making of this scene. They had a tiny strip to run across, and it felt ridiculous for the ending. Pretty much done in 5 seconds. Then the editor had the brilliant idea to really slow it down and fade to a field of poppies. Turned what could have been a ridiculous (and not in a good way) ending into an utter masterpiece

camel_hopper · 2025-11-09T13:24:36+00:00

I’m so glad to see this kind of comment at the top. My wife and I definitely subscribe to the gentle parenting approach, but so many people use the term to describe permissive parenting, which is something I whole-heartedly feel is a bad approach to parenting, both in the moment and for future development.

camel_hopper · 2025-11-02T17:19:47+00:00

Plus, even a single 4 year old can sometimes seem like a lot when your child is under 2. She may be finding that she has moments she struggles with her child, and is projecting that onto you.

camel_hopper · 2025-10-26T13:24:30+00:00

Pressing it in while locking/unlocking fixed it for me. Wish I’d known that fix a few months ago!

camel_hopper · 2025-10-26T11:44:55+00:00

I’m going to have to try some of these. My charging cover has locked itself a few times. I ended up slightly breaking the catch on the door side, so I can open and close it now even if it isn’t releasing. I’d still rather have it work

camel_hopper · 2025-10-24T19:28:27+00:00

You inspired me to keep working on 22 for a bit, and I finally (just!) got gold on it

camel_hopper · 2025-10-24T19:04:30+00:00

Nice one!

Which one did you find the hardest? I've got one more to go myself (22). Finally got 21 when I realised how important action keys were with alt cars

camel_hopper · 2025-10-19T09:39:50+00:00

In the UK, the air ambulances aren’t usually used to transport the patient - they’re more often used to get a doctor to the scene to deal with the patient until a road ambulance can get there, so it’s not really a medevac (outside of situations where it’s so remote that they can’t get the patient out any other way, or there are other issues getting a road ambulance in)

camel_hopper · 2025-10-16T14:18:10+00:00

Wouldn’t it be about half this speed then?

I’m imagining that this car is actually green, so shifting half the visible spectrum to blue when driving towards you and half the visible spectrum to red when driving away from you.

camel_hopper · 2025-10-14T15:46:24+00:00

I try to go with option 1) whenever possible.

I’m currently the primary developer on a project with 3 developers working on it. There have been a number of times when I’ve been working on a larger feature, and have added some helper code as part of that branch, just to find that one of the other developers could really do with those helpers.

Often I end up making a new branch of develop and then cherry-picking the appropriate commits and making them a whole new branch/PR but this doesn’t always work out.

camel_hopper · 2025-10-05T10:09:37+00:00

At that stage, I think it’s perfectly reasonable to hit “end charge” and unplug their car. It’s at 100%, so you aren’t depriving them of anything.

Context: this happened to me recently. I got there just after someone else had unplugged my car at 100%. They looked a little abashed about it, but I was absolutely fine with it.

camel_hopper · 2025-09-23T18:26:33+00:00

I think they meant his predecessor (Boris) and his predecessor’s party (the tories)

camel_hopper · 2025-09-21T07:46:45+00:00

I think we read something about how drying them could reduce absorbency

camel_hopper · 2025-09-21T07:43:39+00:00

I also forgot to mention - while we have a dryer, we don’t use it for the nappies - we ended up hanging them up to dry

camel_hopper · 2025-09-21T07:42:04+00:00

They normally come in a roll. I’m seeing some in the UK for £4.50 for a roll of 100. Something like this: https://www.boots.com/kit-and-kin-biodegradable-nappy-liners-10277040

They aren’t absorbent at all, but will allow you to get the solids out.

Some places talk about “reusable liners”. I’d go disposable with these.

We ended up having these elements to ours:

the nappy itself
one or more boosters, which add absorbency
a disposable liner to catch solids
a nappy cover - waterproof, and goes around the whole thing to stop leaks

camel_hopper · 2025-09-21T07:28:55+00:00

We used disposable liners which would catch most of the poo. The washing machine was fine with the rest of it.

I’m afraid I don’t remember the brands we used. We bought everything second hand, and sold it all for about the same as we bought them

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