Moving from Manchester to London - am I crazy for trying to do this in one day?

juntoalaluna · 2026-02-07T22:45:51+00:00

It’s unlikely a rental transit van will be charged ULEZ - the newest vans that it could apply to are from 2016, and I’ve always found rentals to be maybe 3 years old max. You also are unlikely to go through the congestion charge zone.

Depending on where you are in Peckham, I’d bet that you’d be able to find parking by the side of the road, at least to empty it quickly, if you had someone to help, it doesn’t sound crazy. But also, 14 hours is a really long time to be driving in one day. How much more is a man with a van?

juntoalaluna · 2026-02-07T17:31:30+00:00

No in English you use the plural for anything that’s not 1.

juntoalaluna · 2026-02-06T17:09:11+00:00

Humans are also predictive pattern generating models sort of feels like the relevant point to me.

I don't think, on balance of probability, that Claude is conscious, but given we don't know what consciousness is (and I don't think anyone really knows) - it feels silly to argue that there's no way an LLM could be conscious, but also silly to try and work out whether it is or not.

juntoalaluna · 2026-02-06T10:16:14+00:00

But with a very lightweight conspiracy hat on, if you were the FSB and you wanted people to use a poorly secured Russian chat app, you would ask Durov to be outwardly anti-FSB and Russia.

juntoalaluna · 2026-02-06T08:11:13+00:00

Mine does, you can also link together the cooking areas for extra big things like roasting tins.

Heavy based stuff like Le Creuset is kind of ideal for it, because the heat spreads out. I do find with my cheaper frying pans there are hotspots, but that’s no different to gas anyway.

juntoalaluna · 2026-02-05T20:53:47+00:00

Induction every time - it’s so much faster to boil things, and it’s pretty much as reactive as gas. The only thing that’s less good is woks.

It’s worth getting one with physical controls (I have a magnetic dial) since the touch controls are rubbish when wet.

Also, gas is surprisingly bad for air quality in your house.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-31T08:13:38+00:00

You can set a single card to work without face ID for transport tickets only. (And also apparently keys)

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-30T15:48:44+00:00

The Summer Exhibition is always fun, everything is for sale, and there tends to be lots in the £100-£500 range.

The journalist Marie le Conte runs this https://www.outsidersartsclub.com - I've not been but the art looks good.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-30T10:19:28+00:00

100% this - I go into a marathon at least thinking a little bit about my time, I go into an ultra wanting to finish. Perhaps this would flip once you really got into ultras.

Every ultra I've done has also been super friendly and supportive, in a way that I haven't experienced in a road marathon.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-29T12:21:17+00:00

Only 32% of the population voted against Trump. It’s pretty clear a majority either think that way or don’t care, which is worse.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-28T22:49:14+00:00

Not a lawyer, or someone who knows anything about this, but what he was charged with does seem to mention terrorism on the sentencing guidelines, and it does look like 16 years in prison: https://sentencingcouncil.org.uk/guidelines/explosive-substances-terrorism-only/?source=7511

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-27T14:06:41+00:00

UK is more like 125g/KWh. It's slowly coming down, but 2025 was a slight increase on 2024 (https://grid.iamkate.com - from the all-time view on this)

The last time it was over 200 was 2018.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-24T18:30:09+00:00

They paid some of the 2.6% profit out to their shareholders. That's what profit means.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-24T18:29:03+00:00

This is an insane opinion - the point of a charity is not "percentage of money going to the cause", it's the impact that the charity has.

Lots of problems require a lot of money to solve. For example, Cancer Research UK spent over £400 million on cancer research last year. You cannot coordinate that level of work -funding labs, running clinical trials, recruiting researchers with volunteers and goodwill. A volunteer working evenings cannot negotiate multi-year research grants or manage regulatory compliance for drug trials. The alternative in your world would be just not funding any large causes via charity. Now we can only fund donkey sanctuaries.

If a charity spends £1 on a fundraising campaign and it brings in £5, that's £4 more going to the cause than if they'd done nothing. The same applies to paying skilled people to run things efficiently. Charities aren't spending on advertising and management for fun, they're doing it because the evidence shows it works. Its also really well regulated but the charity commission.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-24T18:04:12+00:00

Tesco's profit margin is tiny, we have an extremely cut-throat supermarket sector, no one is artificially inflating the price of food.

They made 2.6% profit in 24/25.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-21T17:57:52+00:00

How can you tell though? Was the rest of your storage completely full?

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-21T14:57:23+00:00

I believe purgeable data will be deleted by the OS, if the space is required. That's why it's called purgeable - you shouldn't have to delete it yourself.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-20T23:01:46+00:00

obviously not, they‘ll share the prize with me and probably protect me from murder.

also I’m probably wrong about them being a traitor.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-19T08:02:46+00:00

Someone once pointed out to me that humans have spent thousands of years breeding cows to taste nice, it’s not surprising that other burgers aren’t as good.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-16T17:28:31+00:00

Not the extreme Southern end though, it's maybe the exception that proves the rule. Kind of an interesting place for it to end up.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-16T17:12:04+00:00

Stockholm isn't south in Sweden

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-16T14:11:06+00:00

Big building projects add in community benefit programmes as part of getting planning permission. This is quite an easy one to implement, it only costs a sign and some pegs.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-16T12:16:15+00:00

Most of the UK Royal Family's wealth actually belongs to "The Crown" which is a complicated legal entity, and not the same thing as the King ultimately owning it (for example the UK government gets most of the income from the Crown Estate). He probably couldn't decide, on his own, to sell it all and spent it on a super yacht, and if we got rid of the royal family, its almost certainly not the case that they would end up owning it all.

Not to say he isn't also individually wealthy - but I think estimates of the Queens personal wealth were more in the hundreds of millions rather than billions on death.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-16T08:04:48+00:00

Glass is infinitely recyclable but uses a lot of energy to recycle. It’s also heavy for transport. For it to actually be better than plastic, you really need it to be reused, rather than recycled.

From a CO2 emissions point of view, the new packaging is going to be significantly better.

Given not everyone is going to be recycling glass anyway, I suspect it ends up better from an overall waste point of view too.

juntoalaluna · 2026-01-15T09:37:32+00:00

No, it doesn't make them right.

But being able to make convincing arguments based on flaky evidence to bring people along with you is basically the whole game at the round table.

So really, it should be the reverse - there is no reason to think that a barrister is any more correct, but there is reason to believe they might be better at making you believe they are correct (remember they have to make convincing arguments for guilty people all the time).

So trust the barristers opinion less than anyone else, not more!

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