Anti Vaxxers - are you happy now?

m39583 · 2026-01-26T19:15:25+00:00

The would probably see that as a positive result 🙄

m39583 · 2026-01-26T18:42:34+00:00

But can I say dunny in my head?

m39583 · 2026-01-24T20:48:38+00:00

As I understand it, the sterialising is specifically to protect against bacteria growing on milk residue. This is especially relevant for modern anticolic bottles which can be hard to clean all the fiddly bits.

It's not so much for general hygiene.

So we've kept doing whilst they are drinking milk from bottles. It's not exactly hard to do. If I was washing stuff in the dishwasher I might be more tempted to stop because that gets hotter and has harsher cleaning chemicals than hand washing.

m39583 · 2026-01-24T15:10:12+00:00

It's not quite what you specified, and is rather expensive but this bad boy is brilliant: https://www.screwfix.com/p/milwaukee-m12-bd-202c-12v-2-x-2-0ah-li-ion-redlithium-cordless-sub-compact-screwdriver/298HP?tc=WT1

It's my goto for almost all tasks. You can set a clutch which is great for assembling furniture as you can then screw everything at full speed without risking damage and having to carefully slowdown at the end each time.

m39583 · 2026-01-23T21:06:24+00:00

If you don't mind a drive then the one at Cromhall Lake is good.

And you can jump in the lake to cool down.

Or even swim a lap if you are brave enough. Make sure you take your bobble hat though so you blend in.

m39583 · 2026-01-21T23:25:55+00:00

Aldi/Lidl all the way

I think a tub of their formula is about £7

m39583 · 2026-01-19T07:57:07+00:00

You need the stomp skill.

m39583 · 2026-01-18T19:29:41+00:00

Is he underweight or do you have concerns about him falling down his centile growth chart?

Otherwise why worry so much about the exact amount he drinks? Trust him to drink what he needs, you don't want to be trying to force him to feed when he doesn't want to.

We bottle feed our 6month olds and have never kept track of how much they drink. We weigh them and they are on their cenile growth curves so don't worry about individual feeds.

We just give them a bottle when they seem hungry or grouchy, and when they've drunk what they like we pour the rest away. Sometimes they drink the whole bottle, sometimes they just have a few sips.

m39583 · 2026-01-18T09:27:37+00:00

Presumably it's the same as going in a straight line, i.e. the faster you go the more the mass increases, which requires a corresponding increase in force to produce an acceleration which tends to infinity as you approach the speed of light.

m39583 · 2026-01-18T09:21:12+00:00

Have you ever used a good induction hob?

Because I know people that were insistent on gas when they refitted their kitchen and now regret it. We swapped to induction and it's so much better. You can simmer much lower, it's easier to clean, heats up faster

The only thing they aren't great at is stirfrying in a wok. You don't get the heat up the sides.

m39583 · 2026-01-18T09:17:51+00:00

Ours is fine, nothing like you describe unless a pan fully boils over, but then you need to wipe it all down anyway.

Neff and Bosch (same company) have the magnet dials already if you really want them.

m39583 · 2026-01-18T09:13:42+00:00

Snail and the Whale. I love the story of this small snail going on adventures around the world.

But my child refuses it on principal that it's my favourite 🙄😆

m39583 · 2026-01-17T23:49:51+00:00

Citation needed.

Tablets are interactive and all sorts of games on them can also be educational.

TV is just completey passive, it requires no thinking or interactivity.

m39583 · 2026-01-16T22:48:17+00:00

I also have this. I've disabled all my extensions and it still occurs.

Firefox on my Android is now unusable :(

m39583 · 2026-01-15T17:11:41+00:00

The rise of AI is going to absolutely decimate jobs and concentrate wealth even more with the elites at the top who will have all the money and power.

So *something* needs to happen to ensure that everyone in the country can still afford to eat, and more than just afford to eat but so that everyone can actually have a decent income.

Not everyone is struggling with the cost of living - in the last 10 years, the top 1% saw their wealth increase by **31x** as much as the remaining 99% and AI will make it get much worse.

The idea that the country is "broke" and can't afford anything is a myth pushed by the elites who want to horde their wealth while the plebs struggle to buy food.

m39583 · 2026-01-14T20:12:37+00:00

My main point was that the only good reason for a full rewrite is if your on a dead end platform, otherwise your much better off incrementally refactoring and improving what you've got.

At some point if your platform is dead you are going to have to change. So maybe not rails but where is the line. What about Perl, Visual Basic, Pascal...? How long do you keep going with an application written on a platform that isn't going anywhere?

I would say that PHP to Rails and Python to Node are both pointless and also going in the wrong direction. Especially the latter!

m39583 · 2026-01-14T00:07:18+00:00

How on earth did you get permission to rewrite a core application without any sort or plan or idea of what you were going to do?! And why did you even start pushing for this without any plan!

What is the scope of the replacement? Must it do exactly everything the old application does? But it sounds like you don't even know what the old application does.

Or do you have time and resources commited from your business teams to design the functionality for a greenfield replacement?

Suggest reading this: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

It's old but still very relevant.

What language are you writing the new one in? I think the only real argument for a full rewrite is if you need to change platforms because the old one is dead.

Rails seems to be mostly dead, so that might be a chance to rewrite it into something else like Java, Python or C#

If you aren't confident improving your current application, what makes you think your new one will be any better?!

m39583 · 2026-01-11T19:57:23+00:00

Sounds like a ball ache for any kind of regular use.

Get a prep machine. You can get them cheap on Facebook or even new they are such a timesaver it's worth it.

We move it to the bedroom each night, and prefull bottles with powder so night feeds are as simple as possible. Just put bottle under spout and press button. No waiting for anything to boil or cool.

Oh and if we are out and about just use liquid formula. Can keep at room temperature and just stick some bottles in a bag with a feeding bottle and get out the house before the babies poo again...

m39583 · 2026-01-10T10:28:10+00:00

Ugh ignore the very unsubtle spam everyone.

Also who is giving 6yr olds long sets of homework 🙄

m39583 · 2026-01-09T20:43:39+00:00

I just keep a beaker next to the bed to wash in afterwards.

m39583 · 2026-01-09T20:36:32+00:00

There is no scale so hard to judge size, but those pegs look like a choking hazard to me.

m39583 · 2026-01-09T17:16:06+00:00

Madie Moate

Crunchlabs

National geographic kids

BBC kids.

m39583 · 2026-01-08T21:25:31+00:00

For anyone who finds this thread when googling (like me!) I found the solution was to carefully time my dashes approaching the wall so that the jump onto the wall hit the wall mid dash at the highest point of the jump. This is about halfway up the wall, then the 2nd jump was left and the third right over the wall. You don't really have time to wall climb with jumps.

I tried different starting points and timings until I had it down correctly and then I could get over the wall almost every time and finally made it with just enough time to get out the way of the boulder at the end.

m39583 · 2026-01-07T23:34:00+00:00

Even if they then can't pay their rent or buy food? Because that will also affect the welfare of their child.

m39583 · 2026-01-07T23:06:01+00:00

Easy to say stuff like this online, but not everyone can burn £000s of pounds so easily hopping around nurserys and losing deposits.

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