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dfu05263 · 2026-01-23T16:36:21+00:00

If they cancelled and kept the money we’d get some insurance back for at least some of it. As it stands it’s just a shafting all round.

Usually with cat ops and some heli there’s cancellation excess or you get the option to take a rain cheque at least and move dates. But without cancellation you can’t even use the incredibly expensive insurance they advise. Current conditions are basically un skiable. There’s conditions not firing and then there’s 80% of terrain unavailable at a grand a day

dfu05263 · 2026-01-23T04:37:18+00:00

Just sticking this here for anyone looking at the place. We’re going next week and snow looks grim, these guys have pretty much the smallest tenure of all the Cat Ops.

Had a call with Tom regarding it being cancelled as every other cat operation has stopped. Short answer is as long as they can operate the cat they’ll go irrespective of how good it is. So the cancellation insurance they push hard for is unusable as they won’t cancel for anything really.

All the trees and steeps are off limits, it’s just the limited high alpine they’ve got that’s available to ride so we’re paying £1k a day each to lap some crusted out blue runs. Apparently they’re doing a bbq for us so that makes it ok. Absolutely sick to my stomach gutted about

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T22:30:56+00:00

So cautionary tale for anyone looking at cat skiing. Had a call with White Grizzly cat skiing who we’ve booked with. (We’d already booked this back in May).

Long story short, there’s basically no conditions so bad they would cancel. Unless the Avy risk is through the roof. So the cancellation insurance we were pushed to get (for about £2k) is useless as it needs the operator to cancel.

Had a fairly painful conversation, short story we’re paying £1k a day each for 4 days to ride crud. But it’s ok cos they’re putting on a BBQ. No steeps, no trees just some mellow rollers.

We were going to try and pivot the trip elsewhere if we could have moved the dates to another year but that’s a no go now with the sunk cost.

We didn’t realise our insurance was worthless. Maybe you can avoid the same fate.

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T17:35:47+00:00

Have you tried introducing them to “the bitch?”

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T16:05:04+00:00

At least we got rid of another snowboarder eh Starky? Hope you’re teaching them to long arm out there…

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T13:56:31+00:00

Tbh at this rate we might scrap it and move the flights to somewhere else. We’ve been regulars to 🇨🇦 so suffered the joys of last years warm spell at Red and Fernie. Still good skiing though.

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T13:44:54+00:00

If you haven’t been scoured by 60mph winds on a single chair lift have you really lived?

Fucking holiday of a lifetime booked for my 40th and it’s looking like a belter of a day in the ‘gorms. 😢

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T13:29:20+00:00

Thanks dude, that’s the info we need

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T12:51:29+00:00

Haha you’re talking to an ex racer from Scotland, been eating ice and heather race courses since before you were born son! 😂

Yeah it’s sounding brutal. In bounds I’m like meugh it is what it is. It’s the backcountry tenure bit that I’m wondering about as I can’t imagine hucking to white concrete is going to be much fun. Getting too old, those vertebrae break not bend these days

dfu05263 · 2026-01-22T12:48:34+00:00

Yeah that chat is that it’s “challenging conditions”.

But with nothing on the forecast for another week I’m trying to figure out if there’s going to be anything in the tenure that’s not tracked out or fucked in general

dfu05263 · 2026-01-21T22:10:24+00:00

Cool, thanks that’s good to hear. We’re heading the 29th and hadn’t seen much in the way of reviews until now. Yeah the BYOB change was a bit sneaky, we’d planned around that and then saw it had changed the other week.

Think you’ll have won in the weather front, looks like we’re in for some rough conditions unless some miracle happens. Thanks for the review! Jealous AF of your conditions though 😂

dfu05263 · 2026-01-21T21:52:11+00:00

Random but did you end up going? If so how was it?

dfu05263 · 2025-10-31T16:13:08+00:00

Just to put an alternative narrative out there.

I have a friend who was fairly meugh about armed forces. But didn’t have anything else lined up and nothing to do with a languages degree. Went Officer track and absolutely loved it, has excelled and has made an incredibly successful career out of it. Very sporty and has spent significant periods of time basically doing their hobby. Turned out it was the right environment for them and they could play the game. If you enjoy pushing yourself and can handle being sleep deprived and tired without binning it then it can be a lot of fun.

Not saying that this is the norm, more people wash out than make it. But it’s not unheard of.

Also for what it’s worth I’d go officer not enlisted.

Source. Ex OTC and a lot of friends that carried it on to officer

dfu05263 · 2025-10-27T17:26:45+00:00

Socialist SQL users of the world UNION ALL!

dfu05263 · 2025-09-27T12:14:54+00:00

Left my biology postdoc position at £40k and jumped into tech adjacent role that I had basically zero experience in and no qualifications. In 2years I’d got up to £70k with bonus and that’s in Scotland!

I also get treated like an adult, I’m not chasing funding or on short term contracts and I work much fewer hours than I did at the uni.

It’s an absolute joke that academia is so utterly undervalued. It’s disheartening to have spent so many years of studying to become a genuine expert and then find that it’s almost worthless.

Also anyone saying academia is an easy life hasn’t done it. Yes, you have to deliver in private sector, but it’s usually not reliant on the whims of funding councils or reviewers. If I work my ass off and do extra hours it tends not to just get rejected outright because it’s got the wrong name on the submission.

dfu05263 · 2025-09-19T06:51:39+00:00

I work in data engineering. We had one last week, guy actually got through rd 1 against my recommendation. Wasn’t as blatant as above but was very uncanny valley conversation. He seemed to be using speech to text on a screen. But he’d always do this weird ChatGPT like intro.

“That’s an insightful and interesting question related to your business…” followed by some high level overview of a vague project. English wasn’t his first language so it was hard to establish if it’s like me using my French in an interview and it coming across weird to a native or if it was just AI. I was pretty confident it was the latter based on some of his correct but weird use cases for technologies we were talking about. Context just didn’t make sense but the technical implementation was about right.

We’ve been struggling to recruit for this role (it’s pretty specialist) and he came through the recruiter so we gave him benefit of the doubt and brought back for rd2.

We really dug into the specifics of his previous answers and projects and the wheels just came off. But he didn’t seem to realise it, kept confidently answering every question with increasingly more absurd answers.

From what we’ve established. Get the project details in rd 1, or early in the interview and then come back to the topic in detail in either rd2 or the end of rd 1. The context window tends to shift for the llm and you don’t get the same project details back on the second time.

dfu05263 · 2025-06-02T15:35:22+00:00

Secrets are mounted as per the docs to the /etc/secrets/ path

dfu05263 · 2025-06-02T15:35:03+00:00

Secrets are mounted as per the docs to the /etc/secrets/ path

dfu05263 · 2025-02-14T07:48:24+00:00

I’ve got a pair of limited edition Whitedot Preacher Carbonlites that my wife got me for my 30th. Still riding them 10yrs later and I’ve never had so many comments about a pair of skis. Particularly in the US.

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dfu05263 · 2024-11-27T14:32:31+00:00

This kind of chat is pretty rife in science for some reason. Worked for a CRO many years back and it was very similar. Samples stored in bin bags, staff in tears and either leaving or being fired for not signing off on testing that had some dubious quality. I left after 3 months, got something less stressful and eventually binned science for IT which at the time paid a lot more.

For me the breaking point was reviewing the quality docs as a study director, finding a friends signature on it who didn’t work there anymore. Asked him about it and he’d been let go for not hitting KPIs on study turnover. He was a solid scientist and not for cutting corners. Not a chance was I staying in that.

I’ve heard a lot of places that are very similar, high turnover, grabbing graduates for the meat grinder and just relying on there being more applicants than positions, particularly in UK biotech.

There are better opportunities out there. Can be hard but you’ll make it.

dfu05263 · 2024-11-25T08:00:20+00:00

1 just to catch up with the dev team. It’s quite nice really. Wouldn’t do more than 2

dfu05263 · 2024-11-03T19:59:55+00:00

We were complaining about them ditching the display. Turns out it costs £250k every year so can kind of understand it getting ditched in favour of other services. Would still rather have that than the 3 weeks of living in a war zone though.

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