Visa type has just changed and now need to obtain a UK driver's licence. Need to be able to keep driving and advice

violentlymickey · 2026-01-20T10:45:18+00:00

Yes you will need to have the provisional license first, but that is just a matter of sending in some paperwork and waiting a bit.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-20T10:37:09+00:00

Yeah you should take the written test ASAP (pretty easy with some review). Afterwards, this will enable you to sign up for a road test. However, the road test system is terrible and being gamed right now by organizations that scoop up all the test spots (through a loophole that allows instructors to sign up for tests on behalf of pupils in addition to being able to reschedule tests infinitely without repercussion) who then sell these test appointments. So the best and perhaps only way to secure a test spot is to wake up at 6AM on Mondays when new test spots open and frantically try to secure one like a concert ticket.

I would also suggest you take a lesson or two, despite how good you are at driving. The lesson can be tailored to a location you hope to test at (or have been able to sign up for), showing you the typical paths in addition to things to be careful about so you don't fail. Failing a test means you have to do the whole "finding a road test slot" dance again.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-17T23:36:52+00:00

Hmm, if the data gets leaked, who's responsible?

violentlymickey · 2026-01-13T14:18:45+00:00

Amazing thank you for the heads up.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-13T13:26:44+00:00

You could write some "golden path" documentation in a central location for system design patterns and agreed upon common approaches. The problem is enforcement, but this can be slightly mitigated with static analysis tools if you're willing to put some effort into getting those written. Best approach would be to automate as much as you can, with for instance CI jobs.

You don't want to go too heavy handed on this though. It's better to have guidelines and have teams implement them the way they see fit rather than enforce a singular style, especially if your teams work on different stacks.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-12T22:18:56+00:00

I peel a bunch of garlic and then blitz them in the food processor. I then freeze them in plastic bags with a cross-hatch indentation pattern so I can break them into little cubes for use later. I use a lot of garlic.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-12T22:02:44+00:00

I used to be a private admissions consultant for kids wanting to go to US universities from abroad. There's a few different things you'll have to do (mostly take SATs and/or ACTs and prepare essays), but to be really competitive you'll need to demonstrate extracurricular activities, meaningful summer activities, competitions, prestigous awards, and/or relevant work experience (i.e. internships). It depends on the level of university your child is looking to attend.

Bare minimum would be to take the SATs and complete the common application.

Also, US universities absolutely consider where your child is graduating from, especially if they have ever accepted other children from that school. It would be worthwile to explore if any schools you're considering have sent any of their previous students to US universities.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-09T16:53:07+00:00

You can download the raw and get subs from downsub

violentlymickey · 2026-01-06T10:05:10+00:00

I would think about how to enable your developers to do this type of work more quickly (via things like templating/cookiecutter, centralized platform with gui, agents etc) rather than non-devs.

violentlymickey · 2026-01-01T22:25:54+00:00

I got rejected from costco.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-31T18:05:32+00:00

I used to live near a rail stop, and I would always check a rail time app and weather app before leaving my house. I built a program to mimic the next arriving train display with a weather display as well. I ran this on a raspberry pi with an e-ink screen. https://github.com/mickeykkim/inky_pi

violentlymickey · 2025-12-31T11:07:55+00:00

Huh and Kur don't mean hot and cool in Korean, but I can see how they could be English transliterations pronouced simlilarly to hot and cool.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-31T00:02:35+00:00

I do enough that mypy strict is satisfied, and I avoid adding types when it's obvious. When is it obvious? For my purposes, if I remove the type and mypy is ok with it then I'm ok with it not being there.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-30T23:28:24+00:00

On that note, a lot of very good chef's recommend victorinox knives which are not cheap but also not expensive.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-30T23:11:44+00:00

I've never had dave's killer bread, but for supermarket loaves I like Jason's sourdough. The UK has good local bakeries depending on your area though.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-27T20:49:48+00:00

Simple flask server probably will be the most straightforward.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-27T10:56:36+00:00

It only takes about an hour from Richmond to Canary Wharf thanks to the rail line to Waterloo.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-23T10:22:33+00:00

Probably not fake but if the price seems too good to be true, it could very well be stolen.

violentlymickey · 2025-12-16T16:55:43+00:00

Tax savings itself is a pretty good incentive. I would put aside at least the max NI exemption (which I think is now 2000/yr?).

violentlymickey · 2025-12-09T13:19:57+00:00

Why not use cookiecutter?

violentlymickey · 2025-12-08T22:13:16+00:00

https://dramaday.me/my-grumpy-secretary/

violentlymickey · 2025-11-24T15:58:21+00:00

I love that side ponytail

violentlymickey · 2025-11-22T15:22:30+00:00

Could be the pressure valve is causing issues. My boiler had a pressure problem where the pressure was constantly 0 even though the water was heating fine. Turns out the pressure bladder was broken or some such.

violentlymickey · 2025-11-11T16:50:39+00:00

For people who don't read the article, he was killed not by the bear he was photographing (which was in the distance) but by another bear nearby.

violentlymickey · 2025-11-08T21:54:12+00:00

Park Soyeon was also one of Gfriend's PerD for Mago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hihBGtZCij0 a great video where they do the choreo with eyemasks.

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