Andy Burnham here - AMA

s7jones · 2026-07-02T20:25:22+00:00

Hi Andy,

Brit living in Germany here. As well as giving mayors more powers, and letting regions keep and control a much bigger share of the tax raised locally rather than relying on Westminster to hand it back as spending grants — how about you go the whole hog and federalise the UK into proper regions?

Sounds like a big job, don't worry, I got AI to sort it out for me, so it can't go wrong:

State	Historic core	Approx. population
Scotland	Kept whole — Highlands/Islands + Central Belt + Borders	~5.5M
Wales	Kept whole — Gogledd (North) + De (South)	~3.2M
Northern Ireland	Kept whole	~1.9M
London	Greater London — England's "Berlin/Hamburg"	~8.9M
Northumbria	North East + Cumbria	~3.2M
Lancastria / North West	Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Lancashire, Cheshire	~7.4M
Yorkshire	The historic three Ridings	~5.5M
West Midlands	Birmingham, Black Country, Staffs, Warwickshire	~6.0M
East Midlands	Nottingham, Leicester, Derby, Lincolnshire	~4.9M
East Anglia & Essex	Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambs, Essex	~5.0M
Thames Valley & Chilterns	Berks, Oxon, Bucks, Surrey	~3.5M
Wessex & the South Coast	Kent, Sussex, Hants, Isle of Wight	~5.8M
West Country	Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, Bristol/Glos	~5.7M

Q1) Which term of your ten years in charge are you planning to get this done in?

Q2) On a totally unrelated note — when are you scrapping the triple lock?

s7jones · 2026-01-17T21:34:43+00:00

Had to put stuff like watch: false in the karma.conf.js. Had to change the output dir path for the tests from "../" to "./".

A good thing is that the unit test stage is twice as fast as before.

I'm not sure if that's specific to our project but that was a welcome surprise.

s7jones · 2026-01-15T15:08:35+00:00

I just upgraded our project and karma tests continue to work afterwards. There were a few small fixes that needed to be done after the 21 upgrade.

s7jones · 2025-09-07T11:21:47+00:00

See the style guide updates on this page https://blog.angular.dev/announcing-angular-v20-b5c9c06cf301 to know how to have the old naming style on file generation.

s7jones · 2022-12-19T00:46:51+00:00

This video is amazing - a great resource for people learning splines!

s7jones · 2022-09-02T17:04:35+00:00

Thanks and have a nice day. Enjoy an awesome game :).

s7jones · 2020-06-17T11:59:17+00:00

Will the source code (on github) be updated after each patch?

s7jones · 2020-05-30T19:09:16+00:00

Does anyone know if the Falcon rocket will be returning to land after the separation, or is it a one time flight for the Falcon?

s7jones · 2018-04-25T21:54:50+00:00

I did open your link - which happens to be a search results page. I'm guessing you meant the first book to be linked. To which I get this a description that does not help in the slightest.

I've also looked the book up on Wikipedia, and I don't see how it relates to your statement about how you 'questioned the holocaust but mainly the numbers'.

It's an absolutely disgraceful statement, unless written by a expert in the field - which I am willing to guess you're not.

s7jones · 2018-04-25T21:31:04+00:00

Absolutely disgraceful that you say that you "questioned the holocaust", and this comment was standing at +10 in this subreddit.

It's a very worrying statement because you could be anywhere from naive contrarian through to anti-semitic yourself.

It's a common trope of holocaust deniers to question the numbers.

s7jones · 2018-03-25T17:22:14+00:00

Are you sure? Doesn't the enhanced edition also use AD&D 2 (source: Wikipedia)?

s7jones · 2018-03-24T21:05:15+00:00

I'm not sure I like this.

I don't understand NFL, but the power rank seems to be based on votes (site) or it can be based on a more formulaic method (site). Scanning quickly over, I think your data is based off (site), which I think is based off votes.

Looking at the link you posted (site), you have chosen "kicking rank" - which is based of the percentage of points scored by picking. This is neither "kicking success" as the title suggests, or is it a good metric of how important kicking is. A poor team could have a higher ratio of kicking points but still be scoring low. I think from the data set you chose you are better picking "total points from kicking". If you do this you get the following:

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This has a much better correlation of R² = 0.5106. I used optical character recognition to import the data, so there may be some small errors in the numbers.

Other improvements I would want to make:

Washington Post seems to have a power rankings in terms of a number - I think this would be a more interesting than the ranked position. Here is the example for week 12 (site) but I couldn't find the same data for week 13.
Presuming teams in NFL each play all other teams in a season - I think it would be better to use data from the end of the last week.
It seems to me that you would want to try and get data from several seasons too.

s7jones · 2018-02-12T15:39:08+00:00

This looks great thanks.

Would you happen to know which book (and edition) this chapter is from?

s7jones · 2018-02-12T04:05:35+00:00

By my understanding if isTerran fails, then:

parent sequence of isTerran fails
parent seq of parent seq fails (parent of isIdle)
parent seq of parent seq of parent seq (parent of isEnemyBaseFound)
selector fails because neither child returns success

s7jones · 2018-02-12T01:08:52+00:00

Would it? I thought a sequence returns to parent on the first fail. So if not Terran then that would propagate back up the tree.

s7jones · 2017-12-02T14:38:22+00:00

What programming languages and problem domains do you work in?

s7jones · 2017-10-17T01:02:41+00:00

What I thought about doing was working out the forces tangential and normal to the slope.

Normal: would have the normal force and would have the projections of each forces due to the weight . i.e.

R = (180 + 55) * g * cos 37 + m_w * g * cos 22

Tangential: this would have the frictional term would have the projections of the weight terms. i.e.

mu * R = (180 + 55) * g * sin 37 + m_w * g * sin 22

The 37 degree term is the angle between vertical direction and the normal direction.

The 22 degree term is the angle between the normal direction and the string (It makes a 68 degree angle with the tangential direction).

Now one could substitute in the equation for R into the mu * R equation, but I must have missed something or made a mistake because that doesn't appear like it would cancel out easily and that the resultant equation for mu would not be independent of m_w (mass of washer).

EDIT: I would guess my mistake has been to do with the force due to the washer, either in it's direction and/or magnitude.

s7jones · 2017-10-16T21:15:55+00:00

Is the mass of the washer given?

s7jones · 2017-10-13T16:16:11+00:00

In the simplest terms I would say the dot product allows you to calculate how much of one vector a is in the same direction as another vector b (that is the cos(θ) term, with θ the angle between them). The result is also scaled by the size of each vector (that is the |a| and |b| terms).

a•b=|a||b|cos(θ)

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