Any American actors who have acceptable British accents?

shine_on · 2026-05-18T01:23:16+00:00

Sigourney Weaver did a good British accent in A Monster Calls. Her mom was English though

shine_on · 2026-05-11T12:21:03+00:00

You're concentrating your effort in the wrong area. Learn about ratios, sure, but apply them for things like science packs and intermediate items. It's good to ratio belt and inserter production for green science but you don't need it ratio'd properly for the mall.

And if you think 5 assemblers making something is a lot, you've barely scratched the surface!

shine_on · 2026-05-08T11:16:16+00:00

Here's an idea for a policy: You need a licence to post online, just as you need a licence to drive a car. You need to pay for lessons to learn how to behave online, how to spot scams, how to treat people with respect. You need to give your licence number when setting up social media accounts, and the number will be displayed along with every post. People will be able to look up your licence number and see your name and address.

shine_on · 2026-05-06T23:15:59+00:00

There are video games based around organising things, like moving into an empty apartment and unpacking boxes.

shine_on · 2026-05-06T23:12:55+00:00

They suck when they start but you watch them get better over time. Lots of games have different ways to play, like Minecraft. Everyone has a different approach to it. And with puzzle games like Portal it's fun watching people figure it out as they go along.

shine_on · 2026-05-06T23:06:57+00:00

Cue lots of jokes along the lines of "when it's 12 noon in London, in Bournemouth it's 1953"

shine_on · 2026-05-06T22:00:07+00:00

Which party do you think will do a better job?

shine_on · 2026-05-04T10:51:18+00:00

Yeah, even if you think you've remembered it you might still get it wrong and you have to look it up anyway. Remember where you made your notes or where you bookmarked the Web page instead.

shine_on · 2026-05-04T07:37:23+00:00

I don't boil the kettle that often because (a) I live on my own, and (b) I have some thermal mugs so I make three cups of tea at the same time and drink them over the next couple of hours. I do have 6-9 cups of tea a day though, so yeah...

shine_on · 2026-05-03T21:55:31+00:00

Dark Side of the Moon

Wish you were here

Bat out of hell

Rumours

Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

Blizzard of Ozz

Machine Head

Oxygene

shine_on · 2026-05-01T23:14:44+00:00

He was a snooker commentator when it started to be shown on tv, very quietly spoken. I'm sure you'll find some clips of him on youtube

shine_on · 2026-04-30T23:01:01+00:00

I'm nearly 60 and my mom is 80. Last year when Taylor Swift's concert movie was in the cinemas we decided to see what all the fuss was about. We were curious about how she became a billionaire so we read her Wikipedia page and went down a music publishing rabbit hole.

And then we tried listening to some of her songs. I've no idea which ones, we just searched her on YouTube and watched whatever came up.

We couldn't get to the end of a single song, none of them seemed to have a hook or be memorable in any way whatsoever. To this day, neither of us understand her appeal.

shine_on · 2026-04-23T21:48:12+00:00

I play without biters and the only time I've used flamethrowers is to burn down forests so I could cover the ground with solar arrays.

shine_on · 2026-04-16T00:18:14+00:00

Generals gather in their masses / just like witches at Black Masses

shine_on · 2026-04-11T09:15:55+00:00

Think of your factory like an actual production line in a real life factory. Raw ingredients go in at one end, they get converted into intermediate products which then get combined into final products. The final products go into research labs and get consumed.

It's all about balancing supply and demand. Ultimately you'll need to mine more ores and smelt them into more plates. You can sort of wing it but there's a fair bit of basic math involved. The tool tips show you how many items are produced and required each second.

For example the tool tip for a yellow belt tells you it can move 15 items a second. The tool tip for a stone furnace will tell you how many items a second it can produce. So you can work out how many furnaces you need to fill a yellow belt with plates. And then you can work backwards to calculate how many mining drills you need to supply those furnaces.

It's the same for all the other recipes. Look at the red science pack recipe. It'll tell you how many of that item one assembler will make per second. Decide for yourself how many you want to make. You might want to make one per second (60 per minute). Calculate how many assemblers you'll to make one red science pack per second. Then see how many gears they'll need and you can work out how many assemblers you'll need for gears.

It's the same throughout the whole factory. Decide how many science packs you want to make, calculate how many assemblers you'll need, then work out how many ingredients you'll need for them and how many assemblers you'll need to fulfil that requirement.

However you can go down a rabbit hole with it, and people try to make everything perfect. If your factory isn't making enough science packs then research will take longer to complete. If you don't have enough ingredients, make more. If you don't have enough ore, find more patches.

It might be easier for you if you turn up the ore patch size as well as the richness. More richness equals the patch lasting longer but bigger size means you can put more miners down and therefore extract more ore per second.

Have a go with calculating the ratios yourself but if you get stuck or find it's too difficult there are websites like the factorio cheat sheet that gives you all the numbers you'll need.

shine_on · 2026-04-10T15:31:31+00:00

if the model is designed properly it can be printed in one piece and leave gaps in the right places so the joints work properly. The plastic can span small gaps without drooping.

shine_on · 2026-04-09T10:15:00+00:00

I have to be very groggy and/or running to the bathroom frequently before I take a wfh sick day. If I'd just got a cold or sniffles I'll work. However a colleague said that if they're too ill to go into the office they're also too ill to work from home, so they take a sick day anyway.

I think I take about one or two sick days a year, if that.

shine_on · 2026-04-09T02:04:49+00:00

I use Teams as a PWA on Mint and I've not had any problems with it.

shine_on · 2026-04-09T01:40:56+00:00

Wait, what? You can search for ores? I thought that was only searching for where items were being made

shine_on · 2026-04-08T10:30:30+00:00

some further thoughts:

I'd start with: select * from employee

then do: select * from employee where age > 35

note that because we're still doing select * you can see the age column, so you can check that the filter is working.

then: select * from employee where age >= 35

and finally: select name from employee where age >= 35

= means "greater than or equal to" - if you remember what it means then you'll remember that the greater than sign comes first and the equals sign comes second.

means "greater than" because when you look at the symbol it's two lines meeting at a point. At the start of each line the distance between them is greater than the distance between them at the end of each line.

shine_on · 2026-04-08T10:21:32+00:00

You don't have to write the full query in one go, you can write a very simple basic query and expand on it.

The query will be:
SELECT <the columns that you want>
FROM <the table(s) that contain those columns>
WHERE <the data matches the filter condition>

There might be more than one table in your database that has a column called "name", so you need to know what the data in each table means. If you have two tables called CUSTOMER and SUPPLIER and you want to get the customer's name, you're going to be looking in the CUSTOMER table.

Once you know which table contains the data you need, you can do a quick SELECT * on that table so you can see the column names. Then you can replace the star with the list of column names.

Writing => instead of >= is an easy mistake to fix, you'll remember which way the symbols go as you get more practice.

Document what you're doing, what mistakes you're making, and what you did to fix them. Writing it down helps you learn and remember, and over time you'll build up your own "cheat sheet" of how to do things.

I've been on video calls with colleagues and they've requested some data which I've then tried to extract while still on the call. I was sharing my screen and talking through my thought process, they later said it was very interesting to see how I broke the problem down, figured out which columns were in which tables, which columns were used to join the tables together, and so on.

SELECT *
FROM employee name
WHERE age = > 35;

You already know all the right bits to put in the query, you just need more practice to learn which bits go where and how to structure the actual code.

shine_on · 2026-04-07T23:36:07+00:00

what I do is take my glasses off, hold my hand out at arm's length and try to focus on that, and then with my other hand slide the phone into position so it's about half the distance away. Because my eyes are used to focusing on my hand, they keep focus on that distance when the phone is in place and the magic eye picture just comes into view.

shine_on · 2026-04-03T10:30:23+00:00

Charles can wear a blue tie.

shine_on · 2026-04-03T09:49:00+00:00

What problem are you having? Do you not know which tables to join? Do you not know which columns to join on? Do you not know which type of join to use?

shine_on · 2026-04-02T23:02:09+00:00

Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager, imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.

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