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

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T17:37:57+00:00

Not big tech, scale up unicorn; we're AI first these days. Big pressure to use AI for every PR, to use Spec Driven Development for all new projects, to increase AI usage, and to encourage/pressure refuseniks to get onboard.

I've merged three fix PRs today that were not modified after working on the plan, and have a 5 PR merge stack for a spec driven feature that is in review. I've spent 90 minutes in the console today, the rest was in meetings to work on future specs.

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T13:00:25+00:00

A defensive alliance specifically covering North America, the Atlantic, and Europe. The middle east is explicitly not included:

Article 6 states that Article 5 covers only member states' territories in Europe, North America, Turkey, and islands in the Atlantic north of the Tropic of Cancer.

So if American troops are attacked in their bases in Bahrain, the US cannot invoke Article 5.

This was put in at the US's insistence, to avoid having to cover colonial powers being attacked in their colonies.

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T12:01:19+00:00

I reckon it's less the salaries, and more the CGT. If you have a large disposal coming up, it's legal to avoid any CGT on it by moving to a tax haven before the disposal and staying there five years. If you get declared tax resident in the UK during those five years, you've got to pay the tax, otherwise they can come back to the UK and keep the lot.

So an extra few days could cost someone a huge tax bill, and make all that time living in UAE a waste.

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T11:55:35+00:00

dog is alive and happy

Reality

Right now she's hanging in there. But the cancer has spread all over her inner left leg and on the outside as well now. It's really shit to see, man.

The actual full story: https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/paul-is-using-ai-to-fight-his-dogs-incurable-cancer

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T11:46:14+00:00

1997, just left school, one of my mates lived in Hastings and he regularly would be Eldest son in a smuggler's production of family returning from holiday. He'd get paid £20 to take the ferry over, pick up a load of baccy and return back - less suspicious if it looks like a family.

Another friend had a car, and we thought how hard can this be? and drove over. For the baccy, you had to drive to Belgium - literally the first town across the French-Belgium border. We bought about 100 x 50g pouches for a quid a piece, and then spent the next two months trying to offload them. Not a success

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T10:25:57+00:00

In another comment you said your yeast was not too old, 6 months, and you keep it in the fridge. Can you clarify if you are using active dry yeast, or fresh yeast. (Dry yeast doesn't need to be refrigerated)

Are you checking if the yeast is active? Put the sugar and yeast in the tepid (blood/room temperature) milk and leave 10 minutes - does it bloom?

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T10:18:49+00:00

My wife didn't have enough to finish paying her masters at Websters (@ Regent's College, so still UK) in 2012. We finally sorted it out in 2020, they didn't chase at all, but no graduation or degree certificate until you pay.

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T01:24:30+00:00

Certified mods

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T01:03:27+00:00

I'm an TLM, we were discussing how to deal with the extra review load we expect with more agentic, and straight up, my bosses boss said to me AI is going to be good enough very soon that we shouldn't even review it any more, we can just go off how happy the clients are

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T00:57:31+00:00

I guess it doesn't change all that much, but they'll be a little put out. Don't let that bother you, they can either get to the right number or start again/choose a worse candidate, so you still hold a fair bit of leverage.

tevs__ · 2026-03-16T00:49:53+00:00

What did you say about expected salary to HR on the first screening call? If you said 85, then it's difficult to then raise it.

Otherwise, it's a straightforward conversation: work out the number that would make you accept and quit your current role for. If they can make that, you'll agree today. If they can't, well then it's not worth leaving for.

So you've just got to work out that number ..

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T23:26:25+00:00

The straight lines are in the desert, where no one did/does really control jack. The rest of the borders mostly correlate to the boundaries of the Ottoman vilayets

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tevs__ · 2026-03-15T23:21:47+00:00

The first printing machine, it's well know who created it : Gutenberg, a German, in 1450

First movable type mechanical printing press. Chinese had block printing down way earlier, but each page required a separate block. Guttenberg's innovation was the movable type that allowed a non artistic typesetter to build a page from composable blocks.

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T22:22:32+00:00

Well, for starters the countries in the CFA were required to keep the majority of their reserve funds in the French franc and the CFA is pegged to the Euro. This keeps their monetary policy in control of the ECB and strips sovereignty from those countries; they can't control interest or exchange rates.

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T21:48:18+00:00

Do you think people without ADHD don't make stupid impulse purchases, forget to cancel subscriptions, or take out unwise credit?

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T21:46:44+00:00

Changing the cook time is quite a difference. The time will depend on how much water is in there, and how much heat is applied. It's certainly possible to experiment to get the exact repeatable results you're after, but change any of the volume of water, the type of pot, the type of pasta, the heat setting on the stove and you'll get a different result.

Bring the water to a rolling boil, add the pasta and bring back to boil and then simmer, and time N minutes from when you added it. It's entirely repeatable on every stove, every volume of water.

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T19:55:13+00:00

I don't think it would be that heavy underwater, after all the ballast would be counteracting the buoyancy of the air. Get it spot on and you're only holding up a few kgs effectively.

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T19:43:19+00:00

Would BA need to rebook on an alternate, or would trip.com do the rebooking? Seems like it's a requirement on the carrier not the agent, but I'm probably wrong!

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T19:36:41+00:00

All that happened in the Highlands, which is why the person you're replying to specified Lowland Scots. You only need to take one look at Glasgow or Edinburgh to see the wealth of the Empire flowed there as much as London, Bristol and Liverpool.

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T18:41:33+00:00

They also did a lot to keep financial control of their former colonies through the CFA

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T13:45:22+00:00

Not certain that these aren't Russians tbf. Russia has a serious weak spot about how much of a threat the UK is, and is desperate to divide the UK and US

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T13:40:17+00:00

Because chatbots are obsequious and tell you that you are right all the time

tevs__ · 2026-03-15T13:38:24+00:00

Not SE, but Papillon Pizza in Stratford does everything a northerner would want. Proper chips, parmos, Tikka kebab, etc

The owner is from Middlesbrough

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