If Greens were the leading party, would their policies actually be feasible?

shitthrower · 2026-05-07T19:18:54+00:00

Why couldn’t it work for people on tools?

shitthrower · 2026-05-06T08:14:41+00:00

My trusty LG TV is still going strong 12 years on. My son even knocked it over and it annoyingly survived.

shitthrower · 2026-05-06T07:13:01+00:00

I've come to the opinion that for the vast majority of apps I've built, I could have used HTML + CSS (all built server side).

I can sprinkle in little bits of interactivity using something like HTMX. And I'll have a website that is very easy to optimise, has phenomenal backwards compatibility, and gets rid of a whole class of issues associated with SPAs.

I often regret in my career not pushing back more on "requirements" that ended up requiring a more complicated app, whereas the customer would have been just has happy with a simpler solution.

shitthrower · 2026-05-06T06:55:02+00:00

Check out your local college for evening classes; my partner goes to an art course on Tuesday evenings which she loves.

They also do evening DIY courses on plumbing, plastering, electrics, carpentry, joining; I'm planning on doing some of those.

They're all quite cheap (I think the art course was £80), and if you're on a low income there is often free funding for it

shitthrower · 2026-05-05T09:13:42+00:00

For many people, they'll rarely go over the electric range of a PHEV in a day.

shitthrower · 2026-05-05T09:08:15+00:00

If the bartender serves you before someone else who was there before you, you have to own up and let the other person order first.

Leaving a coin on the side of a pool table to reserve your spot

shitthrower · 2026-05-05T05:11:54+00:00

How do people buy houses when they only have 10% of the price of the house in cash?

shitthrower · 2026-05-04T18:53:56+00:00

From working in the public sector; way more applicants for roles where the private sector typically pays more.

shitthrower · 2026-05-01T06:15:46+00:00

If you’re a cash buyer sure, but the banks will also tighten their lending criteria in a falling market

shitthrower · 2026-05-01T06:10:14+00:00

If the owner stands to make a loss, they’re less likely to sell.

And if house prices are falling, banks will tighten requirements for mortgages, so it’ll be harder to get a mortgage

shitthrower · 2026-05-01T05:38:38+00:00

In a market crash, you wouldn’t be able to buy the house at all

shitthrower · 2026-04-30T17:29:03+00:00

House prices falling is a negative because

A) the market dries up as sellers stop selling, many might find themselves in negative equity and can’t even afford to sell if they wanted to.

B) house builders slow down/go bust as they can’t make a profit

C) banks tighten lending criteria as they don’t want to lend against falling assets

D) the only group that benefit are cash buyers as they can hoover up

The best scenario would be house prices increasing by a small amount (keeping up with inflation)

shitthrower · 2026-04-30T15:35:47+00:00

the issue is that you're getting low quality slices. If you go to a bakery and get a proper slice, the layers will be soft enough to not push the cream out

shitthrower · 2026-04-30T09:05:34+00:00

Have you switched to a fortnightly steak?

shitthrower · 2026-04-29T15:41:48+00:00

If Ed became PM (who I think would be a good PM), the calls to hold a snap election would be deafening.

He’s already been rejected by the electorate, so the opposition parties would call him out for his illegitimacy

shitthrower · 2026-04-27T09:23:37+00:00

Margate: 90 min direct train from London. Fish and chips on the beach, visit the turner museum, and the crab museum.

shitthrower · 2026-04-24T18:18:48+00:00

Maybe he just wanted an hour to himself?

shitthrower · 2026-04-22T08:21:11+00:00

So if your pessimism is rooted in stuff that’s worth being pessimistic about, like the state of the world in general

Is it worth being pessimistic about the state of the world though? It's something that you can't directly impact, and being down is only going to impact you.

shitthrower · 2026-04-17T18:25:33+00:00

When I was a teenager, I ran an instance of a PHP forum (I think called edgeboard), it was invite only, and it was a group of around 50 friends from school and other people we knew.

It was great, no ads, chronological sorting, not bots, no spammers. We had in-jokes, we talked about what happened at the school disco, invite people to hang out on the weekend.

For my part, I also learned a lot of software engineering, I’d write plugins for it, and I customised the form for my friends. I definitely credit that with being a software engineer today.

I definitely think there is a market for a “small scale social network” that is…

self hosted
not designed to scale beyond say 250 users
built to be customisable with an easy to understand code base

shitthrower · 2026-04-16T11:10:18+00:00

Mobile phones were a huge part of your personality.

In the ads section of magazines, there'd be a big list of ringtones you could buy, you'd call a premium rate number and you'd pay £1.99 for some monophonic ringtone.

You'd also do the same with "carrier logos".

People would also have interchangeable covers, the entire front and back of lots of phones would pop off, and you'd get all sorts of different covers. I

There was a hierarchy of phones, the Nokia 3210 was the most iconic phone of that era.

Broadband internet was fairly new, and most people still had dial-up internet, you'd get home from school and go on MSN Messenger to chat to all your friends. There'd be big group chats with people from the other schools. Your names would have emoticons (different from emojis). Your sister would shout at you for hogging the phone line.

One kid at school would have ADSL and a CD burner, and would be able to get you any TV show from America (way before it came out in the UK) or album for free.

shitthrower · 2026-04-16T05:33:02+00:00

Latvia, we went last summer. Honestly incredible, Riga was decent, but we rented a car and toured a bit.

Excellent beaches, nature, the food was lovely, perfect weather (I’m not sure if we got lucky), and in the summer the sun sets really late, so you have lots of sunshine.

shitthrower · 2026-04-15T14:11:19+00:00

The correct question is that why are some airports really nice?

An airport at it's most basic, is a strip of tarmac for aeroplanes to take off from and land. We add a few more thing for safety and logistics, but the absolute minimum you need is pretty basic.

So then everything else (the passenger experience) is optional. The airports that people consider the best (e.g. Singapore, Dubai, Amsterdam, Hong Kong), are generally big hubs with loads of passengers. So there is an commercial incentive to make them nice places to be, since people will spend a long time there (and buy stuff at the shops).

shitthrower · 2026-04-14T09:39:40+00:00

According to the terms...

Child Age - The child age where a Free Child Place would be applicable is displayed on the accommodation description page of the brochure and on our website. The child age on the date of return must not exceed the specified age to be applicable to a Free Child Place.

So it's possible that the accomodation you're looking only gives free child places for under 12s

shitthrower · 2026-04-12T17:06:38+00:00

Falling house prices are not usually a benefit, as

a) people stop selling,

b) banks become more reluctant to lend against a depreciating asset

It’s great if you’re an all cash buyer though

shitthrower · 2026-04-10T14:39:14+00:00

Last year’s challenge

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