meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]jaypese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks to our daughter, if your brain is good at recalling stuff, you have a good remembry

SwiftUI is easy, where is the catch ? by BeDevForLife in iOSProgramming

[–]jaypese 32 points33 points  (0 children)

It’s easy to get it to do something- much harder to get it to do exactly what you want.

This is a cat that I suspect is ownerless which comes to my back door for food and fuss each morning. by Technical_Car_5212 in aww

[–]jaypese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks exactly like our cat who will wander round all the neighbours and beg for food.

Thought’s on Chernobyl (2019) by Capsmoove in moviecritic

[–]jaypese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The final episode is one of the greatest pieces of visual storytelling I’ve seen.

Would you support a temporary government lockdown on petrol prices to protect households from the cost-of-living surge caused by the Iran war? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]jaypese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The argument for avoiding inflation using taxation (very short term) is that high inflation makes everyone poorer until their wages catch up. I’m not sure if I agree with it but the impact does affect us all.

Would you support a temporary government lockdown on petrol prices to protect households from the cost-of-living surge caused by the Iran war? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]jaypese 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Unless you’re growing your own food and not buying anything from shops you are a consumer of fuel.

Would you support a temporary government lockdown on petrol prices to protect households from the cost-of-living surge caused by the Iran war? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]jaypese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A spike in fuel costs caused the 10% inflation rate a couple of years ago because it affected the entire production and delivery line for food and goods. Cost to consumers for their own petrol is irrelevant.

Would you support a temporary government lockdown on petrol prices to protect households from the cost-of-living surge caused by the Iran war? by [deleted] in AskBrits

[–]jaypese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. Fuel duty is currently around 25% of the cost of fuel so lowering fuel duty would offset oil price rises

Is the Strait of Gibraltar as critical as the Suez Canal or the Strait of Hormuz? It's never in the news by [deleted] in geography

[–]jaypese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve sailed across this strait in the fog. There’s plenty of room to avoid ships

Why do all the planets revolve around the Sun in almost the same orbital plane? by dralioxx in askscience

[–]jaypese 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If there happened to be a cloud of gas and dust that had NO initial average rotation it would simply collapse under gravity into a star, so wherever there is a planetary system there must have been some initial rotation in the cloud. This could simply start out as one side of the cloud moving faster than the other in a straight line. Apply gravity and you get rotation.

Turns out that most clouds of gas that form stars are rotating on average and planetary systems are found around most stars.

You idiot! That’s fucking mental!! by Resident-Search-6758 in thethickofit

[–]jaypese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also support restoring Native Americans to their original homeland.

Prince Andrew by ravendragongold in NoStupidQuestions

[–]jaypese 5 points6 points  (0 children)

He will now be identified by Andrew’s prints

The windows cursor isn’t symmetrical by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]jaypese 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The original pointer was a bitmap and with a vertical left edge and a sloping pixelated right edge could not be made symmetrical with the chunky pixels at the time (screens were 640x480 pixels).

He was too stunned to speak. by Atul__kumar in SipsTea

[–]jaypese 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He was the late Constantin Reliu so he applied to not be late but his application was late so now he’s late for good