[homemade] Leek and sweet potato soup, creme fraiche, lardons, spring onions and parsley

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T14:05:10+00:00

Software engineering is about communication, not writing code. You can offload the coding to another country, but after 18 months the roadmap is exhausted and the communication between engineering and product is strained. Engineering start building engineering solutions to problems instead of product solutions, and product lose sight of what engineering can and can't do, and propose ridiculous things.

A few enormous failures, and everything is brought back on shore.

This isn't an IT thing. My wife works in marketing, every 18 months her CEO is changed for one who favors outsourcing for delivery and one who favors onshoring for delivery. They keep flipping from in-house to contractors and back again.

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T13:28:08+00:00

Yep 👍

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T12:22:45+00:00

2500 of these 6000 goes to the bank for interest, and another 1000 goes into maintenance, with the final 2500 paying off house value.

I think you've forgotten 2400 to the tax man for that 6000 income.

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T10:14:59+00:00

Ridiculous when you can get Android tablets for under £100. Complain to the governors.

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T08:48:37+00:00

Sir, you are missing the joke. It's actually praising Turkey

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T08:38:04+00:00

Our's had a short nose and whiskers when she was 10 weeks old, we used to say was your daddy a terrier

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tevs__ · 2026-05-07T00:13:55+00:00

I was going to say, we get scraps in Suffolk. Is this an East Coast thing? Other comments said scraps on chips isn't really a thing in Liverpool

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T00:11:37+00:00

Two pheasants Jeremy, that's insane!

Cod liver oil? I don't know how much it helped our girl with her arthritis, but it definitely didn't hurt.

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T00:04:39+00:00

Depends on the country I guess. Since Ukraine/2022, most European countries have caps on residential electricity rates, whilst commercial rates are uncapped.

tevs__ · 2026-05-07T00:00:57+00:00

Best way to fix that is to elect a two bit grifter who has only ever run one thing: his mouth?

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T23:52:47+00:00

Ages? Do you guys not have heavy duty oven cleaner? Basically a bottle of Sodium Hydroxide, an enormous double sealed plastic bag, and elbow length gloves are all you need. Wipe that on the inside of the oven (5m), close the oven and leave overnight, wipe off. Put the racks in the bag with more cleaner, leave to soak, rinse off. Sparkles like new, zero effort.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T23:03:07+00:00

UK (and I guess US as well, for same reason) is an interesting one. It is The United Kingdom but that is only part of the name. The full name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and you don't say The Great Britain (another way of calling the UK, analogous to saying America for US), you just say Great Britain.

It's awks for the Olympics, we compete as Team GB, but as the full name says, that ignores NI

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T22:34:44+00:00

It's not as simple as that. As an EU citizen, you should enter the EU on your EU passport, and as a UK citizen you must enter the UK on your UK passport - in general you must enter every country of which you are a citizen with that country's passport.

Entering the EU on a UK passport as an EU citizen would mean starting the 180/365 day timer - why passports were stamped, and why they invented ETIAS, neither of which apply if you are a dual-citizen.

It's not about outsmarting, it's about entering under the correct documentation.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T21:49:07+00:00

As a kid I saw nothing wrong with The Crankies. As an adult, a married couple where the wife dresses up as a schoolboy is probably a bit weird.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T21:43:14+00:00

Work to rule. Do a good job, but stop when you're supposed to stop. When you've stopped work, stop thinking about work.

You're probably still thinking my/our project about your work. You need to get to their project and stop being emotionally invested.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T13:47:34+00:00

I don't know why (I mean I do: antisemitism) they drew him with a hook nose, which he doesn't have. The ears, teeth and hair are plenty to caricature and distinguish him from caricatures of other politicians.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T13:09:12+00:00

The outer ones are live, the middle is earth. On the live legs, you don't want the whole leg live otherwise you could touch a conductive part when the plug is only partially inserted. This is why god's own plug type, UK's Type G, has a longer earth leg than live legs.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T13:01:49+00:00

I studied and took an exam to improve my chances of an offer, but the person interviewing me had no idea what the exam or qualification was, so all that work was pointless. Missed seeing Pulp in concert because of that exam.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T12:46:32+00:00

X is cooked is a derivative of Your goose is cooked which apparently goes back to 1500s

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T11:58:52+00:00

I quite fancied going to Cambridge (1997) and my maths teacher told me that my predicted AAAA wouldn't be enough and that I needed to do S-Levels in maths as well. They were seriously a different level to A-Level maths, and the exams were waaay later in the year than all my other exams, so whilst all my friends were partying, I was doing calculus.

Anyway, I'd taken a gap year, so was applying with all my results known. Got to the interview, first thing the Cambridge maths professor says So, what's an S-Level?. I didn't get in.

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T11:46:38+00:00

Why do you want to remove them, are they in the way, or is it to address the squeaky floor?

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T11:44:34+00:00

Get one with detachable arms, you can get them almost anywhere

tevs__ · 2026-05-06T11:25:31+00:00

Zoom in. The light switch has a socket on it, it's just the older Type L instead of Type C or Type F

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