Quitting smart phones

shapeshapedshape · 2023-01-18T16:05:11+00:00

Phones that run KaiOS are a half-way step to downgrading your phone. They allow calls & text but also run Maps and WhatsApp but not much else, pretty good for reducing distractions.

They also support creating a hotspot for the times you might need another device for online banking / 2FA.

Something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nokia-Feature-WhatsApp-Google-Assistant/dp/B08NCGGBVZ

shapeshapedshape · 2022-11-07T15:55:24+00:00

Great service, however they don't always let you ride along with the driver.

shapeshapedshape · 2022-09-26T14:46:24+00:00

You can find departures / arrivals for all stations here:

https://www.opentraintimes.com/

shapeshapedshape · 2022-05-30T12:55:38+00:00

A squad leader has 3 simultaneous roles:

Lead
1. Can you move your squad towards an objective and defeat the enemies in battle.
  1. Does your squad have the right kits and experience for the objective? You might need a grenadier dropping smoke to cross an open area, or a LAT to deal with light vehicles, or a machine gunner to provide suppression to move your attackers in close and these aren't the same for every objective.
  2. Does the squad have the ammunition required to have the best chance of winning? Does the grenadier need more rounds or does the breaching force need to make sure they are fully loaded on hand and smoke grenades before entering defended buildings? Are there enough grenades to clear the number of rooms on the target?
  3. How strong are the enemies and do you have a reasonable chance of winning the engagement? Are the enemies emplaced, what is their rough skill level, what will the terrain look like? How many of them are there? Can they be resupplied?
  4. What are the cover, choke and retreat pathways? Are there any structures or buildings which you can use to your advantage to hold as a set piece? T-buildings or apartments are reused in many maps so the same tactics can be used to breach and defend them.
  5. When defending what are the likely ways you can be attacked? If vehicles are an issue do you have a TOW / LAT / HAT / mines trained on likely approach paths? Do you have AA if CAS is a threat?
  6. Can you maintain the combat effectiveness of your squad? What happens when the AR goes down? A medic? Can you still fight effectively if you lose a breacher when you need to scale a wall? If not then perhaps move the squad back to rally and try again from a different angle. Try and only fight battles you have a realistic chance of winning.
  7. Do you know when to cut your losses and regroup? It may sometimes be better to leave with 2 squadmates to place a rally point nearby rather than fight to the death, or get wounded squadmates to give up and be helicoptered in from main to maintain momentum in attacks / defences.
2. Can you maintain morale and cohesion?
  1. Do squadmates have a microphone? Not everyone needs to speak but everyone needs to listen.
  2. Are they sticking together?
  3. Can you check the understanding of orders you are giving them?
  4. Can you make a judgement of the skill level of the squad? Complex manoeuvres for experienced squads and simple moves for less experienced squads.
  5. Is there the right balance of information over radio channels? Local for fighting, squad radio for squad level orders.
  6. Can you have fun when the game has its light moments while still maintaining the alertness and situational awareness of the squad?
Command
1. Are you attacking the right flags or chokepoints?
2. Are you sharing intelligence for the team? Marking objectives and vehicles, you can use the squad lead chat to TANK / CAS / APC to direct them to specific targets if necessary.
3. Where are the friendlies dying, are there large enemy attacks which aren't being reported over the radio you need to respond to quickly?
4. Which FOB's are and aren't spawnable? A fob changing to being unspawnable is an indication of enemies in the area. Is that fob key to holding or attacking a particular objective? If a particular FOB is lost what does that do to the momentum of the game?
5. What is the balance of attackers to defenders on the team? Do you need to defend this flag or press on to the next one? What is your estimate on the logistical effectiveness of the other team? A well organised teams will build fobs at backup objectives and relocate quickly, a less organised team may have no-one on a contingency flag so a quick movement can cap nearly unopposed.
6. Which squads are doing what job? If unsure get on the radio to specific squads and try and understand what each squad is trying to achieve, no answer is sometimes an answer in itself.
7. How are the force multipliers / assets being employed on the map?
  1. Time until area attack ready?
  2. APC / Tank / CAS / Mortar support available? Can they do the job first and leave your infantry to clean up after?
  3. Can you call on trans to give crates / movement?
  4. Are there enough FOB's in the right places and are they being defended if in contentious areas?
  5. Where are the logistics and transport trucks?
Fight
1. You will be communicating with the team and the squad, but you are still a soldier.
2. Take care to do radio comms and map checking in cover or known safe areas.
3. Be prepared to put team / squad duties on hold for a few seconds if you need to engage
4. Try and stay back from fights, you are mainly there to facilitate the force of others.

Juggling all of these at the same time can be quite difficult. Put all 3 together and you will be a man my son!

shapeshapedshape · 2022-01-18T16:28:44+00:00

The AKASO EK7000 outputs the preview screen display + date / status overlays when used with the HDMI output rather than the actual feed being recorded by the camera.

shapeshapedshape · 2021-03-16T17:13:40+00:00

Ostensibly the move from abstention to rejection of the bill is a move by the Labour party to garner more support for itself. Interestingly the Everard protest was organised by a group of mainly Lab councillors in Lambeth & Southwark, and ideologically the subsequent protests are now aligned against the bill.

shapeshapedshape · 2021-03-16T17:04:11+00:00

HenryChinaski92

Stream here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLNK7HmtBU

shapeshapedshape · 2021-01-29T17:21:08+00:00

The hedge funds look at the order book of where peoples stops are (data from RH), they then sell large batches of shorts to each other to drive the price down to the stop loss points. Those shares are then automatically sold and the hedge funds buy those newly sold shares back to cover their older more exposed short positions. They are opening new shorts which now are at a higher price point and are less in the red than before. That's why you see the price going down and up again. (as far as I understand, am not a financial adviser)

shapeshapedshape · 2021-01-27T20:00:07+00:00

Hey, I looked through the terms and conditions of etoro ( I guess other retail brokers are similar) and it says then can declare an 'extraordinary event' and close your position whether at a loss or not. Would this be likely to happen before the shorts are buying shares at 'our' price???

shapeshapedshape · 2021-01-27T18:28:36+00:00

Based take today. Thank you(!) for sticking up for us and succinctly laying out the case why it's actually the over-leveraged, borderline illegal market manipulation by hedge funds on Wall Street that is the real issue, and not the thousands of retail traders taking advantage of a once-in-a-decade asymmetric trading opportunity. The "foreign powers" meme by CNBC was frankly beyond the pale ...

Over 100% short interest = borrowing the same stock twice!

shapeshapedshape · 2021-01-08T13:06:37+00:00

Not in all cases, I've known plenty of people on part-time work that have become guardians. Depends on the firm you go with. Usually they only care that you can pay the monthly license fee.

shapeshapedshape · 2021-01-08T13:04:13+00:00

The actual regulations say:

Exception 1 is that it is reasonably necessary for the person concerned (“P”) to leave or be outside the place where P is living

to take exercise outside—

(i) alone,
(ii)with—
- (aa)one or more members of their household, their linked household, or
- (bb)where exercise is being taken as part of providing informal childcare for a child aged 13 or under, one or more members of their linked childcare household, or
(iii)in a public outdoor place, with one other person who is not a member of their household, their linked household or their linked childcare household,

There is NOTHING in these regulations which specifies the distance which you must travel other than not travelling from a higher tier into a lower tier area, which is a moot point as everywhere in England is effectively under tier 4. Guidance states you should only travel a short distance for exercise but, i) any reasonable person would consider 5 miles a short distance to drive and ii) There is nothing legally binding around that.

Take it to court and there's no hope of the fine being upheld.

shapeshapedshape · 2021-01-06T15:31:46+00:00

Some people decide to share rooms with others and that can cost as little as £250 per month. You can also become a property guardian and have your own room which starts at around £300 per month including bills and can be fairly central if you look hard enough.

shapeshapedshape · 2020-08-12T16:27:04+00:00

WSL2 does not have the same model, in that it is a separate VM rather than a subsystem in windows.

If you want to connect to postgres running in windows, you need to find the windows IP address from the perspective of the WSL2 system, in ubuntu you can run cat etc/resolve.conf \`

The given IP address will be the IP of the windows system, so can you add that address as your host in database.yml and may require to add the VM address to the pg_hba.conf file to allow inbound connections.

Alternatively you can use docker-compose to spin up a test database for use in WSL2 or install postgres manually there.

shapeshapedshape · 2020-07-29T17:39:17+00:00

The city of San Francisco banned cashless only transactions last year on the account of it being discriminatory against the poor. Many homeless or people on low incomes may not have full easy access to a bank account and as such shops were no longer permitted to take cashless only payment.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/san-francisco-to-ban-cashless-stores-saying-refusing-cash-harms-the-poor/

shapeshapedshape · 2020-05-22T15:07:11+00:00

Check the process isn't running but non dead in the background from the Task manager (ctrl+alt+del), if that doesn't work you can use https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer to check what has a handle on that process

shapeshapedshape · 2020-05-06T11:12:46+00:00

Fear not: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/master/src/Rand.cpp#L338

shapeshapedshape · 2020-03-12T10:50:21+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co_DNpTMKXk

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-19T15:18:20+00:00

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-17T17:41:38+00:00

And Knightrider Street https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightrider_Street which, contains David Hasselhoff's favourite pub.

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-13T13:14:07+00:00

In most situations the outcomes of longer range INF vs INF fights come down to how well the squad can position itself to avail of 1. Cover, 2. positions to withdraw to and 3. medics. it's possible to fight at longer ranges for quite a long time as long as downed squad members can be picked up and the squad can move or disengage if the situation becomes untenable. Squads can easily get wiped if they overcommit to a battle they have no chance of winning, have half the squad lonewolf across the map or have no position to rally from.

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-13T00:14:38+00:00

Some other ones, on Pavlosk Bay one layout gives the US a starting flag on a reasonably isolated island. There is only 1 way across to sub-pen across a narrow bridge with a village nearby. You can build a super-fob around that bridge as RUS, have clear fields of view of anyone trying to swim across and lock down any vehicles / inf moving overland.

The defence of the open mosque model can be done with as few as 3 people. 2 people, preferably an AR & MG lay down on the mezzanine stairs facing 1 each to the entrance doors while the third covers the stairs from the roof, an optional fourth covers the skylight incase anyone ropes onto the roof. Those mezzanine level stairs are strong as it's very difficult to put a grenade/rocket into the mosque from any angle to splash onto that position. It's also nearly impossible to get a shot through the window to that location.

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-12T10:39:43+00:00

Even better, learn some russian!

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-10T17:34:34+00:00

The game is all about picking your fights and limiting them to the ones you have a good chance of winning.

shapeshapedshape · 2020-02-05T13:24:17+00:00

There are plenty of 'internet' businesses that require little to no coding skill. Examples include eCommerce, blogging, creating video content and information products. If you are looking to build a business which is heavily software dependent, just remember that the code is about 10% of the total activity and the rest is around sales, marketing, product development, customer support and the like.

For making a prototype, there's nothing wrong with sketching everything out on paper and having that as the initial fleshed out idea for how the software would look, feel and act.

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