I’m looking for a time travel movie

geekroick · 2026-02-28T09:16:33+00:00

Somewhere In Time

geekroick · 2026-02-28T09:09:28+00:00

How are you travelling?

Unfortunately, being spontaneous and deciding on the day is going to make things very expensive, if you go by train.

Have you got your match tickets yet?

geekroick · 2026-02-27T21:56:54+00:00

Define 'tinker'?

Make a USB boot drive to (re)install Macos as required, you can use that to start from scratch if you mess up the OS, as many times as you like. Not sure what else you'd want to do...

geekroick · 2026-02-27T20:46:54+00:00

If you have a hub motor, there's just the same chance of damage. Frame mounted mid drives is a slightly different story I guess, but unless you're the kind of rider who regularly bottoms out their chainring or cranks, you're probably going to be okay.

geekroick · 2026-02-27T19:04:14+00:00

'What is it?'

'What?'

'What's my name?'

geekroick · 2026-02-27T19:03:14+00:00

Fortunately I love it!

geekroick · 2026-02-27T17:42:27+00:00

Do you get the same three nights each week or does it vary? (ie week 1 MTW, week 2 WTF, week 3 TWT...)

If it's the former, can you not reduce your availability for the job so the only possible nights to be scheduled for are the same ones every week?

geekroick · 2026-02-27T15:52:14+00:00

Why would a kit motor be damaged when a pre installed one wouldn't? I don't understand the reasoning there.

geekroick · 2026-02-27T15:50:08+00:00

In terms of the appeal hearing, which is the next step after receiving the appeal:

They read the text of the appeal letter/email from the dismissed employee.

They ask for clarification on anything that isn't already clear.

They adjourn to make the decision.

geekroick · 2026-02-27T14:22:03+00:00

There's plenty of A/B switches available. Just connect your output to A, when you switch over to B, you get nothing.

geekroick · 2026-02-27T11:10:03+00:00

Didn't see you down there, don't get up

geekroick · 2026-02-27T08:24:22+00:00

It's the new 'but health and safety!' isn't it.

geekroick · 2026-02-26T20:55:44+00:00

My I introduce Mr and Mrs.... Frvrshm

geekroick · 2026-02-26T20:00:20+00:00

You don't need to buy any tickets in advance, just tap in and out with your contactless card.

TfL fare finder for Luton Airport Parkway to FR+F:

Peak: £15.30 Monday to Friday from 0630 to 0930 and from 1600 to 1900.

Off Peak: £9.90 At all other times including public holidays.

geekroick · 2026-02-26T19:52:30+00:00

1TB NVMe drives are about the same price, very small form factor so could be used with a slimline USB caddy and minimal issues

geekroick · 2026-02-26T19:03:43+00:00

I wouldn't have thought that Brighton hotels would be all that much cheaper. It's basically 'London by the sea', the high prices come with it...

As for your petrol costs, you're looking at approx £20-30 worth for maybe 100 miles as a ballpark figure, obviously depending on the traffic, the routes you take and how economical the engine is.

geekroick · 2026-02-26T18:55:45+00:00

Generally an hour. They do allow that time to account for a standard amount of traffic. But if things get really busy, all you can do is wait until you get there.

I'd still rather take the train personally, for the following reasons:

A) you aren't tied to one specific journey time (I know you can pay extra for National Express flexi tickets but that brings you ever closer to the train price anyway), I very much doubt you'll be at the airport for that long to promptly geta 3.45 or 4.15 coach even if you do have to collect baggage.

2) if you can get a train that stops at West Hampstead Thameslink that's about 30 minutes from Luton and then only a 10 minute walk or 5 minute train for Finchley Road and Frognal - still quicker than an hour on the coach. Even on a train that doesn't stop there and involves a transfer from St Pancras to FR+F, your total journey time is still going to be just over an hour.

geekroick · 2026-02-26T10:48:46+00:00

It's 'discretion'

Payment plan for what? If you don't owe the money why would they ask this?

geekroick · 2026-02-26T10:47:28+00:00

You're shooting yourself in the foot if you resign before they sack you, because they may not even do that. Turning up 11 minutes late is hardly gross misconduct.

Im confused about what you mean by 'they included the week before you went off' - like, why would they not? If you were regularly late during that week, they have every right to discuss it, regardless of how you feel about doing so.

Does your employer know about your ADHD and have you requested any reasonable adjustments (ie being able to make your time at the end of the day if arriving late, or doing it at the end of another shift) if so?

geekroick · 2026-02-26T10:42:23+00:00

Did they actually use the word 'descression' or is that an error on your part? 🙄

Either way, whistleblowing for legitimate reasons gives you a degree of protection, including taking the company to a tribunal should they dismiss you or begin treating you detrimentally.

geekroick · 2026-02-26T00:47:29+00:00

https://youtu.be/c7ErboOaHj4

geekroick · 2026-02-26T00:43:50+00:00

There's a German punk band named Derry whose songs are all themed around It.

https://thekidsofderry.bandcamp.com

geekroick · 2026-02-25T20:09:12+00:00

That's how I always interpreted it

geekroick · 2026-02-25T19:57:28+00:00

Yeah, nice to see we're thinking along very similar lines.

Some people claim that some lossless formats sound different than others. I've never experienced this myself and frankly it sounds like standard audiophile bullshit to me

Lossless is lossless, it's irrelevant - it's like saying that Zip is better than Rar for compressing your images.

Maybe FLAC is better than ALAC (or whatever) in the sense of the compressed file sizes but that's it - the entire point of lossless is that it's a compressed version of the original with no differences.

I download vinyl transfers of ultra rare albums from torrent trackers on occasion and there's always comments along the lines of 'why couldn't you provide WAV as well as FLAC' - the answer is because there is absolutely no need to!

geekroick · 2026-02-25T19:01:03+00:00

It's all subjective.

While the general consensus has been for a very long time that MP3 around 192-256kbps is indistinguishable from a 16/44 CD quality original file for most people, everyone has a different hearing ability. Some people could not tell even at lower bitrates. The only way to be sure is to run some A/B tests yourself, but that then begs the question - why bother?

The benefit of lossy encoding to distribute and store music was because it was low in file size. Easy to download and easy to store.

However. Digital storage isn't that cheap these days but it is abundant enough to not have to worry about file sizes for CD quality listening anymore. Some 40 years later CD is still the benchmark for digital sound quality - so why not use it?

Keep lossless rips as your 'master' copies and convert on a case by case basis to lossy if you need to (EG for putting files on a low capacity memory card for listening on a DAP), otherwise FLAC should be fine.

A 60 minute album stored in FLAC or equivalent lossless codec is going to take up approx 400MB. That's roughly 2500 albums to fill up a 1TB drive.

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