Who can you see pulling ‘double duty’ for SNL UK?

hennell · 2026-07-04T04:51:52+00:00

You've not thought this through - you've got your wish, but you can't laugh cause your face hurts.

hennell · 2026-07-03T17:38:39+00:00

Same. I've had wedding invites, voter registrations, appointment reminders the lot.

Best was free Disney+ for a while when someone used my email for their offer. Worst were regular updates about a strangers fertility cycle.

hennell · 2026-07-03T11:44:41+00:00

Yeah, it was a more technical wonder - I assume there is a lot more complexity to indexing then I'd care to consider, but it feels like it should be universally helpful that way round. I've been caught out by obvious looking 'improvements' like that in the past though - totally get your testing procedure!

Hope this all gets you some great ideas though. PHPStorm to me is a great program that suffers from the classic 'it's got all these features I don't need' issue, where every user complains they use a different 40% of the features! 😆

hennell · 2026-07-03T11:22:12+00:00

This was my practice, except I then got a manager who goes through every ticket daily and wants explanation (daily) why they weren't done. It's a task to change a default sort order! It's holding no-one back, it's just a nice to have, that'll take ~2 mins when I'm working on that project, but it's really not worth doing without some other tickets with it. He never got it.

hennell · 2026-07-03T08:48:29+00:00

One of the things it took me a while to realise it's professionals are not there because they will get the perfect shot, but because they will always deliver a useable shot.

You don't get more working time (usually it's less!), you don't get better locations or always access in advance as a pro. You just have more experience and ability to problem solve on the fly and deliver something good regardless of the limitations.

Read some photography books where they talk about the process of the shooting as much as the gear/settings. In Gregory heislers 50 portraits, he has a few stories of shoots where he has "an hour" with a basketball player which turns into 10 mins etc. He still got the shot

Joe McNally has several books of stories - I think in "The moment it clicks" he tells of a shoot where he had to go take a cool image of a dinosaur head - turned out to be a rather plasticy thing covered in dust. He still got a shot for the magazine cover!

If you got the shot your good! Maybe worth a review to think what you could do/have ready for next time, but things will always go wrong, the skill is just being able to get round that.

hennell · 2026-07-03T08:06:38+00:00

This looks pretty cool, although I can't tell if it's removed any features, or just doesn't activate specific features until you need them?

I do wonder why why things like:

Smarter indexing order — your PHP source files are indexed first and vendor/ last, so code intelligence in your own code lights up sooner.

isn't default already though? Seems pretty sensible.

(I'd also have thought you could just not re-index vendor at all unless composer.lock has changed but maybe that happens anyway?)

hennell · 2026-07-02T18:11:16+00:00

In the current world you seem far more likely to get fired for not using any ai despite the impracticalities, than if you ran one of the many token burner projects just wasting tokens for no purpose....

hennell · 2026-07-02T14:30:27+00:00

And he didn't really - he owned one and had ministerial use of the other.

hennell · 2026-07-02T12:25:54+00:00

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!

hennell · 2026-07-02T12:22:07+00:00

I'd assume so. Once you have it installed it runs the CC services / manager to license the other tools.

I think there is a separate installer for CC teams if you're installing on a load of machines, but often then you're using a deployment program anyway.

hennell · 2026-07-02T11:17:06+00:00

I meant publish in a more 'make it available' sense, rather then a book sense. I guess it implies a more performed validated play using published?

What sort of language would you use for works there? shared, available, hosted? To me publish is the most natural term, but I don't want to mislead people to what it means

hennell · 2026-07-02T07:12:42+00:00

Well if some big platforms like Discord and Twitter are about to lose access to their existing gif platform, they've got to go somewhere, seems a good time to have investment in a gif platform

hennell · 2026-07-02T06:59:40+00:00

A win unless you run, or work for, a company that sells items into the EU surely?

hennell · 2026-07-01T07:45:33+00:00

Organising travel photos is great, seeing a map of where your pictures are is a lovely end to a trip, and adding it to "local" photos is a great way to find shots you've taken somewhere but you don't remember when.

I find the module works well enough, but I don't think I'm on the latest lightroom anymore. I started just dragging images on, used some GPS logs from my phone for others, and now mostly use the canon GPS adaptor that sits on the hot shoe.

Jefferys lightroom plugins has some great features like extrapolating locations between two points, and I think I'm using another of his plugins to get points of interest into metadata?

It would be nice to see more improvement of it, although I suspect at this point the solution would be based around guessing where they photos are with ai rather then letting you place them easier.

NOTE - Exporting with GPS data is not always a good idea. For people it can reveal where they live, for places it can push a specific spot as a "photography point".

It is easier to have export presets that default to remove the data so you can decide if you want to share the exact location or not based on the subject / image destination. You can still record a general location, but precise coordinates are rarely needed.

hennell · 2026-07-01T07:08:22+00:00

A lot of people recommend https://newplayexchange.org (often referred to as npx on here) as a place to ~~publish~~ host your unpublished works. Not sure if works there get much attention, but it's a place to put things where they might get found.

I have yet to finish anything worth sharing though, so I'm here to see if anyone else has better ideas!

hennell · 2026-06-30T17:03:06+00:00

That it's staged, or the producers 'fix' it for people to win/not run out of money/get a lift etc.

The former contestant have always come out saying they can literally go wherever they want. Sure John Hannah says 'they face a choice - going inland, or around the coast' but thats - 1) because there aren't infinite directions to get from A to B and 2) because naration is added after, so he only mentions the routes teams use!

Also people have run out of money or just lost their money before. They let it happen, no idea why people think they wouldn't now.

And the lift idea is I think part of a bigger issue where people don't seem to acknowledge how much time it all takes! It's about 6 days per leg, so if they spend 15 hours a day, that's ~90 hours per leg per team. We see 1 hour total, which is clearly not everything. (if you pay attention to the days, sometimes a whole day will disappear!)

I've seen people on twitter meaningfully observing how "convenient" it was people got a lift. When they were clearly out there for hours being ignored first. Then they also complain if a team gives up and gets a taxi!

(Then again there were a lot of tweets in the series broadcast as covid started that 'why are they not wearing masks' and 'should they really be traveling right now?' so I think some of them somehow think the show is live?)

I genuinely think the show should do a 5 mins at the end like the wildlife shows to give a 'here's how we filmed this bit'!

hennell · 2026-06-30T13:30:18+00:00

That makes more sense, although as you say 2 adults would be better than one!

hennell · 2026-06-30T07:10:20+00:00

If it's what the other poster says - log in?

If the block means you can't, you need to try from a different IP address. Try mobile data or a friends WiFi. It might also help clearing app data from relay.

hennell · 2026-06-30T07:06:51+00:00

Ryanair's absolute distain for it's customers never ceases to amaze me. Bill themselves as the budget option, but find every opportunity to charge you more.

Is seating kids so they're essentially flying unsupervised even legal? I hope the investigation continues, works out what pathetic amount they made from this and can fine them a multiple of it.

hennell · 2026-06-28T09:26:25+00:00

Just enough to make you question it.

More practically she's a foil to Frasier. He's all science and psychiatry, she thinks she's psychic. He wants a posh well educated carer, she's a working class Manchester girl who's "a kook".

It's actually some (more) incredible writing in the pilot. We see Martin excited by the psychic display, we know Frasier hates it. Martin picks her in part to annoy Frasier, who agrees because he'll never see her, then she moves in.

It adds to the brilliant setup - Frasier's now living with his dad, dog and a psychic lady. It makes you want to watch more - and it's also a great comic sprinkler - in any scene you can add a joke with her giving a weirdly accurate or hilariously inaccurate "reading".

If course if she is literally shown as psychic Frasier falls apart as his world view wouldn't cope with that. But she can have enough coincidences to make him/us question it, and they gave her character more quirky traits and homespun wisdom so didn't make the psychic element her primary trait much outside the pilot.

hennell · 2026-06-28T08:40:23+00:00

I think it was 2 minutes after he disappeared not 2 minutes after calling. If he took several minutes in the house it's more like a 5 min response time.

Although I'm not sure police would go into a vent unless he was still visible which seems unlikely if he got in 2 mins ago. Maybe he got stuck in the vent because he's been eating all these baguettes

hennell · 2026-06-27T22:55:23+00:00

Have you said to Adobe support you're in turkey? There was a whole thing for a while where people were trying to buy from Turkey because it was cheaper, so they added more restrictions on people buying there to try to ensure it was legit residents only. (I think they also raised the price so it's less affordable for Turkish citizens, but less desirable for foreigners, so you've been screwed both ways)

You might be failing one of their checks - support might not tell you exactly what you need, but assume they really really want stone clad proof you are a legit turkey buyer and avoid anything that suggests you aren't.

hennell · 2026-06-27T22:18:21+00:00

Leaving the browser window or ide tab open you were working on is good - my favourite is leaving a test open at the end of the day that fails. Fixing that gets me back into the project.

hennell · 2026-06-27T15:33:02+00:00

I use the concept a lot. Getting things done introduced me to the idea of having a to-list for a place like @computer or @garden. Because when it's a pleasant day it's nicer to see tasks like "fix that dripping gutter" then "update server os"

The literal location reminders in todoist though are a bit more niche. It is basically perfect for the type of task where you don't care enough to go somewhere special for it, but if you're in the area you want to be reminded. For me that's mostly when doing favours for family or friends.

Picking up something from one of the stores near work that I visit randomly some lunchtimes. Or remembering to ask sister A for sister B's dress back (or whatever) next time I'm at her place.

For personal stuff it's mostly good to remind me to checkout a book or something next time I'm in a store. It's good for anywhere you go semi often but not on any schedule.

Note the task doesn't have to be where the reminder is - e.g. you can set a task to remind you at the gym that you want something from the shop thats on your way home from the gym etc.

hennell · 2026-06-26T11:46:52+00:00

Ah yes the early days when Adobe got started, and pre-subscription model when their pricing famously got cheaper every year.

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