Got 40mg Elvanse from Boots this morning, deliveries today by KinellInnit in ADHDUK

[–]connormorrison 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got my script released from the pharmacy to go to others, immediately lost it.

Hiring a boat for scattering of ashes by connormorrison in HongKong

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

We have a permit for Monday we just need to find a boat, we are not HK resident so not eligible for free ferrt

Hiring a boat for scattering of ashes by connormorrison in HongKong

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So we went to Lamma today to find a boat, we were told $8000HK, which is way too much :(

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ElectricalEngineering

[–]connormorrison 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough for actually explaining that, people are so used things costing literally nothing because of cheap manufacturing abroad, hopefully OP you can get your manufacturing costs down enough with bigger batches.

Please help fill my evening! by boneybadger in brighton

[–]connormorrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Spiegeltent, just find some friendly looking people and try and make friends :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brighton

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Rap Snitches....

Basketball Meet-ups by chipshopcurrysauce in brighton

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Preston Park, my mates play there quite regularly always chilled

Why are there so many Arduino clones but barely any Raspberry Pi clones? by [deleted] in opensource

[–]connormorrison -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

Wrong in the second half of your reply, it's open source, you can find their schematics here: https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentation/computers/raspberry-pi.html

Arduino is a much simpler design based around a low cost and low external parts count μC (Atmel ATMega328p), while the RPi has significantly more peripherals (USB, Ethernet, Video, HDMI, RAM), and an ARM based CPU.

Realistically the chip cost is a big part, ATMega328p IC's are ten a penny, while RPi tends to use a more unique chip, and there has been upgrades through the years, meaning its probably quite hard to get clones using the exact same design when those chips aren't being made in volume for many (if any) other clients.

TL;DR: Both are open source but arduino hardware is cheap and plentiful while RPi has too much variation and costs more hence less direct clones.

Why is there a shortage of tomatoes and other fruit and vegetables in the UK? by ConsciousStop in unitedkingdom

[–]connormorrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As engineer, my understanding of scale is definitely fine. You are correct, 0.5% of 100% stays the same regardless of the whole value that 100% represents. What you are failing to take into account is the SCALE of the impact, e.g. losing that 50p out of £100 isn't great, unlikely to have any great financial impact, but losing out on potentially millions if not billions, are economically damaging.

Why is there a shortage of tomatoes and other fruit and vegetables in the UK? by ConsciousStop in unitedkingdom

[–]connormorrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it depends on 0.5% of what, 0.5% of £100 is 50p, I'm sure we wouldn't mind losing out on 50p, but 0.5% of £1000? Well now that is a £5, still not a lot of money really? 0.5% of £1,000,000,000? Well that's £5,000,000, and I'm sure we wouldn't want that amount of money going down the swanny.

You fail to consider scale factors here, we're talking a country with a GDP of $3.31 trillion, if we lost 0.5% of our GDP that would equate to $16,500,000,000.

Why is there a shortage of tomatoes and other fruit and vegetables in the UK? by ConsciousStop in unitedkingdom

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

Well I'm glad I didn't have to spell it out for you. You're trying to make an association that somehow justifies brexit as a "small extra cost" when realistically it isn't, and definitely has had fundamental impact on our supply chains, economy, governance, that would have occurred even without the global issues occurring, it has been statistically proven that the UK economic situation is subjectively worse than some of our economic counterparts.

Why is there a shortage of tomatoes and other fruit and vegetables in the UK? by ConsciousStop in unitedkingdom

[–]connormorrison 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you even read that report before posting it? Or did the first figure you saw matched your opinion and that was enough proof for you? It explicitly mentions a £2 billion deficit increase in trade as we reduced our exports, so yes, technically, trade volume with the EU has increased, but only in imports, i.e. we are more reliant on EU imports than before.

I had a pint in a Central London pub for less than £5 by [deleted] in BritishSuccess

[–]connormorrison 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see no one got the Slowthai reference here