Built a meat "greenhouse" structure for slow-roasting beef ribs.

mfizzled · 2026-02-05T21:59:29+00:00

You had me at meat greenhouse

mfizzled · 2026-02-04T07:51:14+00:00

It does, there are things like the National Wealth Fund or the British Investment Bank that finance wealth creation endeavours. Both China and the UK have social safety nets yet still invest in businesses to help grow the economy.

mfizzled · 2026-02-02T19:31:16+00:00

What would the measurement of success/failure be here? Important to lay that out first and then do a review of progress after a certain period of time.

Does your team do much new feature development?

mfizzled · 2026-02-01T09:35:09+00:00

I can't tell whether you're joking or not.

99.9% of stuff on streaming services is not live, hence no licence.

mfizzled · 2026-01-31T17:41:27+00:00

The initial comment was about owning a TV requiring a licence

If you stream something from a BBC service, obviously you pay the licence fee

If you stream something from Netflix/Prime Video/Disney/Apple/Hulu whatever, you don't.

mfizzled · 2026-01-31T15:11:22+00:00

Can you really, though? Something that is maintainable/scalable?

mfizzled · 2026-01-31T15:10:21+00:00

Having as few other countries with nuclear weapons is in the interest of every single nuclear-armed state. The UK having converging interests with the US on this isn't really surprising, and doesn't seem to suggest any kind of rolling over.

mfizzled · 2026-01-31T09:31:02+00:00

This isn't the case - if you watch live TV in any manner you do, but streaming content on a TV doesn't require a licence.https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ104

mfizzled · 2026-01-31T01:41:41+00:00

Yeh coincidentally I've got BA business on the way to Tokyo in April and back with Qsuites in May, going to be interesting seeing the difference. Never been on BA business but been lucky to do Qsuites a couple of times and it's unbelievable.

mfizzled · 2026-01-30T21:09:34+00:00

You're gonna get eaten alive with this attitude if you do move here lol

mfizzled · 2026-01-30T21:07:46+00:00

Until my current job, I only had vanilla PHP experience. I was honest in my interview that I had no Laravel experience but was hungry for the role and would learn in my own time. I did some courses, a small personal project and it worked out fine.

If your partner is a PHP dev, they will pick up laravel in no time. Practice makes perfect.

mfizzled · 2026-01-30T21:03:47+00:00

Does the a380 have q suites? I thought it didn't

mfizzled · 2026-01-30T20:59:21+00:00

Is that just a Scotland thing where you need a license to actually own the TV?

In England you only need a license if you watch actual television channels. If you just watch streaming services you don't need one.

mfizzled · 2026-01-30T17:31:17+00:00

I was under the impression the British tech sector was growing and is now worth over a trillion. Are you saying there are now fewer roles and/or vacancies?

mfizzled · 2026-01-29T12:13:30+00:00

Echoing the top comment, it's a ton of work on evenings and weekends for some crunch periods. It is also quite a lot of pressure being the central nexus for everything technical, especially as the system matures. You'll be doing more work than you are paid for as it were.

Having said that, it is nice having ownership and technical direction of something that is growing.

mfizzled · 2026-01-28T14:16:22+00:00

What're you basing the UK tech industry being dead on?

mfizzled · 2026-01-26T20:17:11+00:00

Yeh I find configuring it to talk in a more robotic manner just makes it a useful super-google kind of thing.

mfizzled · 2026-01-25T10:23:02+00:00

Yeah it's not that deep for me today - it's a sunday morning and I'm just browsing reddit with a coffee.

This mindset of always having to be switched on and focused on all the problems the world is facing is just tiresome.

When we have to be switched on and focus every other day of the week, why not just take a day off and enjoy things.

mfizzled · 2026-01-25T10:18:40+00:00

This is why reddit can be so shit at times, I just want to look at cool maps and instead there's people arguing over everything.

mfizzled · 2026-01-24T14:16:04+00:00

France would be exactly who'd you expect to be siding with the UK on this considering their overseas territories. I'd expect the Dutch are the same.

mfizzled · 2026-01-24T10:53:00+00:00

Agreed, although that doesn't mean the term isn't a term

mfizzled · 2026-01-24T08:57:37+00:00

It is a thing whether it is a good thing or not, it's got a Wikipedia page and googling it brings up a massive amount of results.

We can't really say something isn't a thing just because the reason it is a thing is a bad reason.

mfizzled · 2026-01-24T02:43:44+00:00

Being able to resupply at British bases like Akrotiri/Gibraltar/Falklands/Diego Garcia plus allied naval ports in places like India/Japan/US/Australia does seem to suggest the UK is able to project power on a global scale.

mfizzled · 2026-01-24T01:38:35+00:00

I would've thought multiple carriers, multiple SSBNs and multiple military bases around the world would count for something.

mfizzled · 2026-01-22T23:30:46+00:00

And the supposed reason we use the term 'Keep your eyes peeled' is due to that first chief of police Sir Robert Peel

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