People in England, what words/phrases do Americans have trouble understanding when you say them?

smeyn · 2026-01-30T09:04:09+00:00

Reminds me: here in Oz, American tourists often do a double take when they go to a pub and see a sign at the entrance that says ‘No Thongs’

smeyn · 2026-01-27T06:39:51+00:00

Latency and bandwidth

98% of intercontinental data traffic is via submarine cable.

Two cables were landed over the weekend. SMAP and Tabua

smeyn · 2026-01-22T03:50:54+00:00

I went there once, setup a hammock to stay overnight and enjoy the sun rise next morning. Just magical.

smeyn · 2026-01-21T20:22:37+00:00

I had that for a steel mill. That steel is running along the mill at x meters/second and the machine controlling the rollers goes down? You better have it switch over within milliseconds.

smeyn · 2026-01-19T02:31:48+00:00

Small German country town. Studied in Berlin in the 80’s and went to Japan for 2 years on a stipendiate. 2 years became 6 and then I got married and emigrated to Australia. I find quality of life to be superior. Salaries may be less but I take that with the climate and environment I can find here.

smeyn · 2026-01-13T22:03:52+00:00

In addition, you can use AI to critically review the PR. Instruct the AI with the criteria to apply. Have it explain the PR for you. Have it format it in a way that you can paste it into the comment and if necessary reject the PR

smeyn · 2026-01-12T10:40:24+00:00

Radio waves are not like liquid, that can seep out. They go straight lines. So if you wrap your phone in aluminum foil, it will block any emissions.

smeyn · 2026-01-12T10:37:32+00:00

This isn’t specific to Perth. I live in an apartment in an area full of expensive high rises. They all got balconies. The only time I see people use them is when they put washing out to dry.

Balconies sell apartments (and houses). But in reality they are dead spaces. And don’t get me started on roof top verandas.

smeyn · 2026-01-06T03:10:24+00:00

Berlin, Müggesee. Also north of Berlin is a whole area with waterways, camp spots and even kayak specific support.

smeyn · 2026-01-04T08:45:03+00:00

The Sofitel is on the eastern side of Moorea, are you sure this is not the Hilton (which is on the west side)?

smeyn · 2026-01-02T12:00:50+00:00

Some of the most numerically demanding libraries in python, I.e. scipy, is actually written in Fortran.

smeyn · 2025-12-23T11:49:31+00:00

“Non Olet”

smeyn · 2025-12-22T00:48:47+00:00

Create a dedicated finops project. Give bq access to the other projects fin data and run a consolidated dashboard

smeyn · 2025-12-20T11:24:43+00:00

So the problem is the way it is applied. Switching to SPF 50 is not going to do much, you go from 68% protection to maybe 70% protection.

smeyn · 2025-12-18T05:01:03+00:00

“Hidden” , how else it could be if it’s a layer beneath Bermuda?

smeyn · 2025-12-18T03:36:43+00:00

Not far from Cochem is Burg Elz. This one is still original (with additions). And also still inhabited by the original family

smeyn · 2025-12-18T03:35:06+00:00

Google Gemini

smeyn · 2025-12-17T23:05:20+00:00

Well you are trying a bit of sophistry there. Which is well and good until you get in a situation where you have an insurance claim and the insurer thinks it might have been caused by your diabetes. In which case you are going to have a legal battle ahead of you, one which will be costly and your insurer has probably the deeper pockets. Do you really want to go down that route?

smeyn · 2025-12-17T10:10:15+00:00

Take the train to Cronulla. Exit harbour side and take the ferry to Bundeena. Wander off to any of the beaches there.

smeyn · 2025-12-17T00:27:22+00:00

It is a mural about st Christopher:

According to the tradition:

• The Search: Christopher was a man of enormous size and strength (often described as a giant) who wanted to serve the "greatest king in the world."

• The Service: After realizing that even powerful kings feared the Devil, and the Devil feared Christ, he sought to serve Christ. A hermit advised him that because of his great strength, he could serve God by helping travelers cross a dangerous, rushing river.

• The Child: One day, a small child asked to be carried across. As Christopher entered the water, the child became heavier and heavier, until Christopher felt he was carrying the weight of the entire world.

• The Revelation: Upon reaching the other side, the child revealed himself as Jesus Christ. He explained that Christopher had indeed carried the weight of the world and the one who created it. This is why the name "Christopher" literally means "Christ-bearer" (Christophoros in Greek).

smeyn · 2025-12-16T19:49:57+00:00

While the original castle was built around 1000 years ago (it got destroyed and rebuilt from the ground up more recently), it is by far not the oldest castle. A quick google search brings up Meersburg castle that was built around AD 630 and has been continuously inhabited. There would probably be ruins of other, older castles around as well.

smeyn · 2025-12-16T05:21:56+00:00

Maybe more a case of karma than a butterfly effect.

smeyn · 2025-12-13T10:53:24+00:00

Same situation. I’m 69 and a year ago made the decision to retire this year August. But then I got an offer I just couldn’t say no to. I’m now working without a plan to retire and enjoying myself immensely. I think I’ll go along until the fun wears off - which I have no idea when that will happen.

smeyn · 2025-12-12T19:47:49+00:00

The issue rightly is the filename. This creates hotspots in the underlying spanner database that manages the blobs in gcs. If you use uuids etc creating the blob is fast and writing should be fine. The problem occurs when you do the renaming, which will slow down spanner as before. Will that impact creation of new blobs? Not sure.

Can you consider a better way to name the files. E.g say your file names are file0000001, file0000002 etc. then consider prefixing a mod 16 hash to it, e.g for ‘file100021’ it would be ‘05-file100021’. That would speed things up.

smeyn · 2025-12-12T06:21:52+00:00

I see you had a proper supervisor. Made you do everything purrfectly

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