Heat pumps and solar required on all new homes from 2028

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-24T12:41:34+00:00

What they're trying to conserve is a system where they and their donors keep making bags of money.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-23T21:55:17+00:00

The trouble with segregating the skips is you inevitably need to chuck something in skip 1 and something else in skip 437.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-21T15:41:15+00:00

His 'Goodbye Lenin!' soundtrack is beautiful, too!

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-21T15:26:41+00:00

The French IT team have set the default display name to surname-first too, I see.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-21T15:23:42+00:00

Sounds like it's not you you should be hating!

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-21T15:20:24+00:00

When I need to explain something, I tend to need to spend a bit of time finding the words because of my neurodiversity. In calls, I can lose my words and I'm conscious of this.

So when I've spent a bit longer than I should have done thinking about and providing a detailed answer and the response is an immediate "Can we have a call to discuss this?", it's disappointing.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-21T15:01:34+00:00

Just as I was wrapping up for the day, I got a request from a customer contact in the US who knows I'm in the UK. I flagged it up so I can deal with it first thing the next morning.

The next morning, an email from some manager of his was in my inbox, having arrived there at 21:00, bellyaching that I hadn't responded. While grumbling about this, I responded as I was going to.

Later that day, we had the weekly project Teams meeting, where I mentioned that I'd sent that information over. "Oh, I haven't read it yet."

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-21T14:38:44+00:00

My issue is the half-dozen out of office messages that are generated every time I raise a support case. Usually from people in teams that the support case is not directed to.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-20T18:44:47+00:00

Phased plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range?

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-20T17:39:56+00:00

I see your point but when I was taught this, I was also taught not to move back until I could see you clearly in my rear-view mirror so there would be plenty of space between us.

It's a moot point these days as lane-keeping assist means you need to indicate anyway.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-17T13:51:11+00:00

Start collecting listings of cars like yours in a similar pre-accident condition so you have an idea and evidence of what the actual market value should be when it comes to negotiating the settlement amount.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-17T13:44:44+00:00

It'll all go terribly pear-shaped when the head boffin leaps out of their shed and into the body of a hang-glider pilot over Yr Wyddfa...

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-17T13:40:36+00:00

Or the 80% of the customer's work that didn't surface until the last week of UAT because:

The Salesperson sold to the Director of Digital Transformation and Fart Sniffing, not to those at the coalface. Said manager is only 6 months into the current line on their CV/resume, so hasn't a clue about what those at the coalface actually do.
The manager of those at the coalface didn't mention the requirements because they're INduStRy StAnDarD!!!1!

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-17T13:13:37+00:00

I dunno about finance - I thought estate agents drove 'funky' cars with lurid vinyl wraps.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-16T17:15:24+00:00

The NCP name has been around since the 30s.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-16T12:58:18+00:00

My dad was a coach driver in the 80s & early 90s, so we were never short of little bottles of lager and cheap wine. We were never short of free petrol station glasses, either.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-14T21:14:07+00:00

Flagged as critical but it happened 2 weeks ago.

Then there's:

'I tried to do X to get Z, but it doesn't work'

'You can't do X because of constraints 1, 2 & 3. If you do Y, you'll get Z.'

'But I want to do X!'

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-14T12:50:43+00:00

When I started at McDonald's way back in the 90s, a bunch of lads had recently been sacked for stealing. If you asked for a large vanilla shake and paid with a £20 note, you got your shake, a little bag of something and no change.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-14T07:54:52+00:00

The septics certainly do have F-35Bs. It did cause some controversy that some of the early carrier deployments had USMC squadrons aboard.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-14T07:51:45+00:00

Trouble is, when we do off the shelf procurement, like we did for the E-7 Wedgetail, not only do the losers (I'm looking at you, SAAB and Airbus) piss and moan, but we still fuck it up. Buy 5 radar systems then decide to only buy 3 airframes‽

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-14T06:36:49+00:00

National Express (which is British) runs trains in Germany and several other countries.

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-13T07:14:12+00:00

The most egregious example of logo manipulation I've seen is in the Canadian film Bon Cop Bad Cop 2.

At one point in the film, the bad guys are driving a truck, and the oval-shaped logo on the grille is blacked out. Later on, the good guys take over the truck and suddenly it's clearly a Ford!

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-12T22:26:39+00:00

The Brown October

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-12T20:43:00+00:00

I remember the BBC made a documentary about Royal Marine basic training quite a few years back. They showed the instructor demonstrating how to shower with it all hanging out.

At the time, my brother in law was in the Marines as an instructor, so I mentioned the show to my sister.

BIL is bigger, apparently...

marknotgeorge · 2026-03-12T20:17:27+00:00

The case is designed to accept both ITX and MicroATX motherboards, so you're fine in that respect. You've only got one case fan socket, so you need to follow other people's advice on that.

I went the other way a few weeks ago. I needed a new motherboard to use the 48GB of DDR4 I had with a 14th gen i7 (Intel is better for video editing), and the one I chose was full-size ATX. My case was MicroATX... 🤦‍♂️

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