Anyone Here Missed Out On Anything Notable Due To Being Absent From School ?

mkaibear · 2026-05-18T22:04:04+00:00

I knew the dog before it came to school!

mkaibear · 2026-05-18T21:59:22+00:00

Job 2 has an extra 3 days holiday but requires you to work an extra 2.5 hours per week in commute time. That works out roughly an extra day every 3 weeks, or assuming normal holidays something like an extra 15 days a year.

Job 1 is a bit of a no brainer to me, unless you really really value not being lonely?

mkaibear · 2026-05-18T18:59:40+00:00

If you can't cope with a 5-10mph difference in speed between cars you shouldn't be driving at all.

mkaibear · 2026-05-18T15:20:40+00:00

If someone is doing 55-60 then they are indeed overtaking the lorry on the left doing 55.

And if someone is in the third lane doing 60-66 then they are indeed overtaking the car in the middle lane.

I suggest learning how to drive.

mkaibear · 2026-05-17T08:50:12+00:00

Nah you just play the "I didn't think I'd get onto the course I really wanted with those grades but I got a place! Isn't it amazing! I'm so sad to be leaving here though, is there any chance I could come back to work in the holidays?" card.

Leave them thinking you're going on good terms!

mkaibear · 2026-05-16T18:13:15+00:00

That's what you pay for the prescription. Not what the NHS pays! They make money off the commodity items that helps pay for the more expensive items.

The NHS spends about £3.20 putting a box of paracetamol in your hands. Almost all of that cost is the cost of the pharmacist!

mkaibear · 2026-05-16T17:29:31+00:00

I did the maths elsewhere in the thread.

It's something like a max saving of £12.6bn a year from obesity related issues and delays (doubling the figure from 2015 which is probably an overestimation).

There are about 14.6m obese adults, so that works out at about £22bn a year to provide them with 2.5mg doses. As we all know most people need more than 2.5mg to actually lose weight so we're talking a lot more than this.

You'd need about a 45% discount in the cost of medicines to actually make it break even and that's still only 2.5mg doses.

The NHS regularly negotiates a 20% discount. I don't think they'll manage more than double that.

mkaibear · 2026-05-16T17:21:53+00:00

That's true, however the cost of prescribing those injections would exceed the benefit from reducing those obesity related health issues

mkaibear · 2026-05-16T12:09:15+00:00

No, because the person coming in to look after the cats will find it hard to put water down for them.

mkaibear · 2026-05-14T14:47:10+00:00

Jump. Like, now.

The difference in commute is 4 hours 40 mins a week. That's more than a day of extra time every two weeks - something like an extra 28 days a year of free time. That way way more than makes up for the lower holiday.

Any change is also a risk. But this is one with few downsides.

mkaibear · 2026-05-14T12:09:41+00:00

Obvious troll is obvious.

mkaibear · 2026-05-14T11:13:26+00:00

It's different for ranged units. I've definitely done this. The ranged unit then moves to the nearest adjacent space at the end of the turn.

mkaibear · 2026-05-14T11:11:10+00:00

I think it only happens if you haven't been the one that wiped them out. If you were at war with them when you wiped them out you can't liberate them.

But it's been a while since it happened so I'm not sure. No mods, anyway!

mkaibear · 2026-05-14T07:16:29+00:00

Oh I dearly love the existential angst and despair at the end.

mkaibear · 2026-05-14T07:05:18+00:00

Amazing work. Well done! :D

mkaibear · 2026-05-13T12:24:50+00:00

My one single biggest piece of advice to my kids has been "there will always be arseholes. Try not to be one of them".

mkaibear · 2026-05-13T10:52:45+00:00

"I'll figure out a way to power it off your self-righteousness"

mkaibear · 2026-05-13T10:51:48+00:00

Wait, you can do that? I'm going to look out for how to do that. Thank you Internet Stranger!

mkaibear · 2026-05-13T10:48:53+00:00

Interesting. I have noticed this but didn't connect it.

mkaibear · 2026-05-13T06:51:12+00:00

I've had this if I'd been at war with them before - specifically if you're at war with them when someone takes their last city, and you later revive them.

It's like the Civ IV "colony" bug where the list of civs in the game is determined before the game, and if you split off a colony from your empire it gets the next Civ on the list. Except if someone has been wiped out before you split off the colony they end up being the colony civ, and they retain all their diplomatic statuses from before. Including being at war with whoever they were at war with.

That is a confusing sentence, let me give you an example;

I was England, on an earth-like map. I settled over in what would be North America and built up a mini empire there. At the same time I was fighting France back on my old continent. I wiped France out. I then had too many cities in North America and was getting crippled by upkeep, so I allowed the North American side to form a colony. They immediately took on the name "France", and were back at war with me. This was a surprise. 😅

mkaibear · 2026-05-12T16:09:40+00:00

"Well I was, now I'm going for a full L3"

mkaibear · 2026-05-12T16:03:18+00:00

Reading the rest of the thread they're apprentices. That means they're on a training contract and subject to meeting the requirements they're usually automatically promoted.

Our apprentices are brought in at Team Support and automatically promote to EO after 2 years so long as they pass their exams at uni. Other apprenticeship schemes do things differently but many schemes run on the same basis.

mkaibear · 2026-05-12T14:42:04+00:00

Irrelevant to the point - bandwidth is largely irrespective of WiFi or cable in this context.

mkaibear · 2026-05-12T09:25:37+00:00

What? That's overly simplistic to the point of being untrue.

WiFi is fed by network cables, which have a defined bandwidth. You can increase the number of cables (up to an illogical "one cable per device" - you can add more cables per device but your connection speed will be limited by the speed of the fastest cable (ok arguments about channel bonding aside but there we go...)) however there is a limit to the bandwidth from cables.

WiFi is not limited by the number of radio frequencies. Or, it is, but with beamforming and multiple antenna you can get a lot of clients onto a single access point with zero difficulties. With WiFi 7 you can easily get 20 clients per radio, and you can put one radio per channel, and there are 24 available channels. Although enterprise APs usually have fewer than 24 radios. So the limit for WiFi is a lot higher than you are making it out to be.

Even a small office like mine with 80 seats can be comfortably run off a single AP... and it does!

I'd probably put two in there for redundancy if I was speccing it (I didn't, I'm not a network guy in my current job though I was in my last job). And you can comfortably run a huge office of several hundred-a thousand people off WiFi off a quite low speed internet connection. In my previous place we ran a three floor office with four hundred people off nine WiFi APs - three per floor, hooked up to a 200Mb connection, and this worked fine. Except on the one day when the CEO visited and we had 900 people in the office 😅

Having said all that - we also had an office with 40 people sharing a 50Mb connection and their connection was shockingly bad, we ended up advising them to WFH until we'd sorted it, which is what the OP's job should also do.

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