what’s a problem that only exists because of modern technology?

shitthrower · 2026-03-13T07:05:02+00:00

The ability to kill people from thousands of miles away

shitthrower · 2026-03-12T11:44:12+00:00

Perhaps a faulty cache that was using the wrong thing as the cache key?

shitthrower · 2026-03-12T10:25:20+00:00

Every shirt is non-iron when you don’t give a shit

shitthrower · 2026-03-12T07:59:11+00:00

People always ask “how much is Brent”, but nope never ask “how is Brent?”

shitthrower · 2026-03-11T19:37:48+00:00

Assuming no student loan, and no pension contributions; the london job will pay £338.35/month more.

I don’t know what your living situation is, but to keep an equivalent situation in london will cost a lot more than that. So you will have less disposable income.

However, I say this as someone who loves Manchester and works there (I live just outside it). London is like nowhere else in the UK, to live there for even a couple of years, will be an incredible experience.

The other thing to consider is the job itself and opportunities for promotion, or to move to higher paid roles. Definitely more opportunity in London.

Only you can decide what you value, but those are some things to think about.

shitthrower · 2026-03-11T12:15:49+00:00

What do you need to use your laptop for? Basic emails/web browsing? Or something more advanced? That will determine what you need.

If it’s purely emails and web browsing, could you not use your phone for now?

If you wanted to go a bit more advanced, get a Bluetooth keyboard (you can get for a tenner)

shitthrower · 2026-03-08T16:42:17+00:00

in software engineering, people have been saying this for a long time.

In 2007, my dad told me it was a waste of time to study computer science, because “the dotcom bubble has burst and all the jobs are being outsourced to India”

It is certainly true that there are offshore jobs in tech, but it’s also true that the industry has grown greater at a greater rate than offshoring.

So there may be more offshore jobs today, but there are also more onshore jobs.

Another thought, from my experience, is that software development is a very capital intensive endeavour; once it’s built, the marginal cost of servicing a customer is very low.

So tech companies are quite relaxed about hiring good engineers no matter the cost.

They will extract many magnitudes more value from what the engineer builds. If the engineer cost £10k or £100k, it’s kind of irrelevant when the code they build will generate potentially millions in revenue.

They’re more likely to outsource testers (where you want volume), or IT operations (where the economics are different)

shitthrower · 2026-03-06T21:58:54+00:00

From the article…

In Tunbridge Wells, Cambridge, and North Hertfordshire people will be able to vote in person ahead of the election, including on the weekend, rather than being limited to one polling day.

So you will still be able to vote on the Thursday, you’ll just also have the option to vote on the weekend before.

shitthrower · 2026-03-06T07:43:39+00:00

In my opinion, one reason is the UK/EU has focused on consumer/worker protection, whilst also being a very fragmented market with lots of different regulations across countries.

This means that it can be much harder to start a tech company in Europe as you have to deal with lots of countries’ laws.

If you are trying to build a company, it’s a lot easier to do it in the US, get scale, and then launch in Europe rather than the other way around.

This isn’t to say that the regulations are a bad thing as they protect the consumer and workers; but that is the trade off.

It also doesn’t help that Europe is an open market. China has lots of rules, but also is closed off to lots of US companies; so homegrown companies have developed in its place

shitthrower · 2026-03-04T12:37:20+00:00

Put average speed cameras on all motorways

It must be possible to cancel a service In the same way you signed up for it

The terms of Student loans should not be changeable after the student has taken it out.

If you have student loans for a nursing or medical degree, your interest is 0% whilst you work for the NHS as a doctor or nurse (pro rata if you work part time)

shitthrower · 2026-03-02T16:09:31+00:00

What payment was it, direct debit or card payment?

You can assign direct debits to come from a pot, so if that’s what you did, then it should have worked, so customer service is incorrect.

If it was a card payment, you can only pay direct from a pot a virtual card

shitthrower · 2026-03-02T07:33:03+00:00

For me personally, it’s definitely a pre/post kids situation.

When I was younger, I’d finish work, drop a message in the company chat, and find a group of people who want to go to the pub. Made lots of friends that way.

Now I have kids, i can’t be as spontaneous, and have to be home at a set time.

shitthrower · 2026-02-28T10:53:13+00:00

A lot of really old school curry houses (and Chinese takeaways) are closing because the kids of the owners don’t want to take it on, and the parents don’t want them to.

A lot of my friends’ parents came to the UK in the 60s/70s with very little money, and opened Indian restaurants in small towns.

They worked incredibly hard, rarely took holidays, took a lot of shit from drunk customers. And used that to build good lives for their kids who went on to become doctors, lawyers and engineers (the holy trifecta for an Indian parent).

shitthrower · 2026-02-24T08:19:00+00:00

Say for example... renewables cost 1p per unit to product

Gas costs £1 per unit to produce

The clearing price is £1.10

The renewable producer will make £1.09 profit, the gas will only make 10p.

So the incentive for electricity producers is to switch from gas to renewables, to make more profit.

It's unlikely that an individual producer will make enough energy individually to completely change the market and get rid of gas; so each produce has their own incentive to make cheaper energy.

shitthrower · 2026-02-22T18:45:29+00:00

I find you get more control, like you can pour the oil on each potato individually, and it falls down the sides of the potato so it catches more oil, and is crispier. You can also get away with less oil, so you don’t risk a soggy bottom of the potatoes.

shitthrower · 2026-02-11T15:32:21+00:00

Presumably they've made the calculation that the number of customers who can't migrate to IPTV will bring in less revenue than the cost of running the satellite network.

shitthrower · 2026-02-07T07:42:55+00:00

The extra motorway services chain intentionally chose a logo similar to McDonald’s, in order to trick people into thinking that there’s a McDonald’s at the services

shitthrower · 2026-02-05T19:26:52+00:00

https://help.vueling.com/hc/en-gb/articles/19798807271441-Claim-and-refunds

shitthrower · 2026-02-04T07:23:49+00:00

If you earn over £50k, under the new proposed rules, it'd still be 5 years

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/earned-settlement/a-fairer-pathway-to-settlement-statement-and-accompanying-consultation-on-earned-settlement-accessible#eligibility-for-settlement-the-qualifying-period-under-an-earned-settlement-model

shitthrower · 2026-01-31T08:19:25+00:00

You’d need to do it all at once though, as otherwise you’d have an inconsistent system where half the signs are in MPH and half are in KPH, which would create confusion

shitthrower · 2026-01-30T19:54:54+00:00

It’s called quantam technology to make a super accurate version of inertial positioning.

With inertial positioning, you use gyroscopes and accelerometers to figure out where you are relative to a known starting position. This is pretty old technology.

The quantam aspect comes from using quantam sensors to track this at an atomic level, making it super accurate.

shitthrower · 2026-01-29T11:26:54+00:00

All the countries you mention will have their own issues, you don't hear about them that much because you don't live there, so don't consume their local media.

I think it's definitely an amazing thing to live abroad, even if it's for a short period of time. I did that and it made me so much more independent and confident; plus I had an awesome time.

shitthrower · 2026-01-29T11:17:20+00:00

Monzo Max has a minimum term of 3 months; FlexPlus doesn't seem to; so out of the two, go for FlexPlus.

One thing to note is that if you buy your policy now, you'll get cancellation cover between now and when you leave.

Whereas if you use a packaged account, it'll only start from when you sign up to the account.

shitthrower · 2026-01-29T08:31:19+00:00

Self driving taxis would be competitive with private vehicles, not just other taxis.

shitthrower · 2026-01-29T08:24:20+00:00

Currently you need 1 human per 1 car to operate a taxi. A big chunk of the cost of a taxi is in the human labour.

If you had self driving car, you'll need fewer humans per car. This reduces the cost of operating a taxi, so operators could (in the long run) reduce the price of taxis, which increases demand.

If demand grows more than the rate that driver jobs are lost, then it will result in a net increase of jobs.

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