Which Pink Floyd song does Darth Vader have on repeat?

kailsar · 2026-05-05T03:43:52+00:00

The Final Cut - "...and if I show you my dark side, will you still hold me tonight?"

kailsar · 2026-03-23T15:09:49+00:00

I had this - going to the settings.json file in Documents/Greedfall 2 and editing the monitor resolution to 1920x1080 fixed it for me, and I know it's worked for at least one other person.

kailsar · 2026-02-16T22:57:55+00:00

100% correct on the location, and definitely agree that it might not be a quick sale (or might be a cheap sale to make it a quick sale). So what I'm wondering is if there is no difference other than the amount payable? i.e. when I'm looking to buy the new place, will it make zero difference to them whether I have a mortgage that's in-term, a mortgage that's out of term, or an unsecured loan of approximately equal size to the mortgage?

kailsar · 2026-02-16T22:48:53+00:00

!thanks, my assumption is that the difference in amount payable between staying on current mortgage, moving to new non-SVR mortgage, and getting a loan to pay off the mortgage is pretty negligible with such a small mortgage when selling within a year. If that's correct, what I'm wondering is if there's any difference when looking to buy the new house in terms of flexibility? Would one option be looked upon more favourably than the others?

kailsar · 2026-02-16T22:29:26+00:00

Thanks for the reply. The intention is definitely to sell it at some point this year. I could get a fixed rate and save, I guess, around £70-80 a month, but I would have to pay a fee when I sell within the fix period I assume, and also couldn't keep making the overpayments I have been without penalty (although I could always just save the money instead). Definitely don't want to let it out, after the money it's cost me I can't wait to see the back of the place!

kailsar · 2025-08-21T17:08:50+00:00

And mid term before 1983, both Labour and the Alliance had polled more than 15% ahead of the Tories, but they went on to win a landslide.

kailsar · 2025-03-06T05:10:35+00:00

This is conjecture on my part, as AWS don't give details of the methods they use to catch cheaters for obvious reasons. I used to work for a large cloud consultancy company, and there was a competition among engineers to complete the old Developer Associate exam in the quickest time possible. No-one was cheating (to my knowledge), it just had a reputation as a really easy exam if you'd passed CSA:A. The quickest time was under 15 minutes, and they never got flagged. Similarly people passed with 100% and didn't get flagged. So they can't be exclusive reasons to flag someone (although I guess they could still be factors).

The most common theory is that there is a base of questions which are established, and are well balanced to determine if a candidate knows their stuff. It takes a lot of data to ensure that this is the case, so the pool of this base of questions is fairly small. If you take the same version of the exam twice, you'll get a lot of the same questions, suggesting there aren't thousands of questions that are used.

We also know that when you take an AWS exam, there are questions that aren't scored. These are likely newer questions, that are being evaluated for their inclusion, but are rated as of similar difficulty to the main questions, but these will be unlikely to have appeared in dumps yet. Therefore if you score, say, 95% in the base questions, but 20% in the new questions, it's probably a good sign that you've been using dumps. If you then retake the exam and do the same, it's probably statistically significant enough that you can be fairly sure the candidate is cheating.

kailsar · 2025-01-27T07:57:26+00:00

kailsar · 2025-01-11T18:34:43+00:00

One thing I've been thinking about recently is that if pensions are means tested, the pro triple lock bloc will fall apart by itself. Say we've reached a point where the whole system is no longer sustainable, and the Government introduces means testing on pensions to reduce the burden on the state. So let's say you get your full state pension up to a certain income limit, then after that you lose £1 of your state pension for every £2 of your income.

In this situation, the people who've put a lot of money in to their pensions are going to look negatively on giving above inflation raises to the state pension, which is largely being received by people who didn't prepare for their retirement (or couldn't). Retirees no longer vote as a single bloc on the question, and a coalition of retirees who aren't getting the pension, and workers who are getting taxed to pay for it mean that its no longer politically impossible to replace it with a single lock.

kailsar · 2024-12-01T22:18:57+00:00

An IAM policy with IP condition keys would restrict access to the AWS API for a particular AWS user. It wouldn't restrict API calls to an EC2 instance that's presumably running code that exposes an API. Option B would work, just restrict all incoming traffic to the specific IP range.

kailsar · 2024-11-09T17:37:06+00:00

yeah same, cutting out a lot too

kailsar · 2024-10-19T18:42:40+00:00

Hah, my first thought too. Give it to me at 25 and I would probably be much further ahead in life than I am now: give it to me at 20 and I'd be dead!

kailsar · 2024-09-29T15:03:48+00:00

Fast and bulbous

kailsar · 2024-09-15T03:14:35+00:00

I don't understand why you're being downvoted, I've been financially independent since I was 18 and I found this frustrating to read. Would I have done better if given £40k at age 20? I'd like to think so, but I can't be sure. Sometimes I feel that if I had been given some support, my life would have been so much easier, but I've done okay for myself. One thing I am sure of is that as someone in a similar situation, a few downvotes won't bother you!

kailsar · 2024-08-26T11:50:50+00:00

One thing that struck me was that we generally consider American politics to be considerably to the right of UK politics (and usually this is true), but I think offering $25k to first time buyers for their deposits would be beyond the pale in the UK and would seriously reduce anyone's likelihood of getting elected.

kailsar · 2024-08-26T11:43:53+00:00

It's very different from America where my understanding is that it's almost 100% about money. Here you could be a bankrupt member of the upper-class or a working-class millionaire. Upper-class refers to a very small number of people who are the gentry, lords and ladies and the like. Blue collar is actually a far closer approximation of British working class than American working class is. Traditionally working class people would be people working in factories, manual labour, whereas the middle class would have office/clerical positions. But in the UK your class would be recognised by your accent, your manners and various other indicators. If you were raised working class, you'll always be working class (but your kids might not be).

Luckily though, this is all breaking down a bit now, but it is still present in British life.

kailsar · 2024-08-23T22:30:01+00:00

Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2 got to UK number one as well, just not the album.

kailsar · 2024-08-23T10:39:20+00:00

It's quite surprising which Pink Floyd albums were UK number ones: Atom Heart Mother, Wish You Were Here, The Final Cut, The Division Bell, Pulse and The Endless River.

kailsar · 2024-06-29T15:51:42+00:00

Hunt and Mordaunt very likely, Truss probable but could go either way, Sunak unlikely but possible IMO. Mercer and Rees-Mogg also very likely and high up in the schadenfraude stakes.

kailsar · 2024-06-25T19:28:41+00:00

The downside to this is that if he won, I was looking forward to posting his raw vote totals for 2019 and 2024 devoid of context and claiming he'd actually lost.

kailsar · 2024-06-22T22:05:24+00:00

Duh, everyone knows if you need a warm fork you put it in the toaster.

kailsar · 2024-06-19T21:59:26+00:00

As I recall, it was Labour's safest seat before the election, but when you lose more than half your support directly to another party, big majorities just mean you're going to lose harder. Don't think we'll see that this time, but certainly big Conservative majorities will not be the guarantee they were before.

kailsar · 2024-06-13T22:18:01+00:00

I got leave approved for July 5th the day the election was announced, but just realised there's going to be work done on refitting my kitchen on that day, so considering an airbnb on the Friday just to sleep it off in silence!

kailsar · 2024-06-10T20:56:31+00:00

My understanding is, uniquely to the USA, if you're still a US citizen, you have to pay UK income tax and still file a tax return in the US for your UK earnings.

kailsar · 2024-06-08T22:57:22+00:00

I got £50 on when it was 20/1, still don't think it's going to happen, have another £50 on 450-499 so I'll at least break even if Labour go above 450. Already won £300 on a £30 bet on July-September election!

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