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I think this observation is true. I'm not nearly as high as you, more close to top 15% but only mid-20s still. But this is something I see with a lot of people my age too that I categorically know are not earning nearly as much as me. They'll have < 3yo BMWs, Mercedes, Audis etc. and you just know most of these are all on PCP finance probably costing upwards of £400pm

You quite often read statistics about how so few people have more than like £3k in savings and, to me, I can never understand how. But when you start to look around you at how many people are living this "buy now, pay later" lifestyle you start to realise that, actually, for many this is just the norm.

My brother's gf is the personification of this. She dropped out of A levels straight away, got accepted onto a nail salon apprenticeship which turned out just to be a way for the owner to get cheap labour, as is common with many of these I understand. So now she just works 3 days a week for a few hours at a time doing nails. But she always has the latest iPhone, always buying shed loads of clothes and other consumerist crap. No idea how she funds it, my parents think my brother's being taken for a ride

Also interested to see this

I'm being careful not to explicitly out myself to maintain some level of anonymity here :D but safety-critical, that should help narrow it down! There isn't a whole lot of tech stuff happening in Bath so I'll try and remember to keep an eye out to see if you go through with that!

As a fellow Bath resident I had to see if I recognised the name (it's a small place) and turns out we have worked at the same place in Bath (although many years apart!) Bathcamp caught my eye, may look into attending when it next comes round :)

I've recently started a part-time MSc (with no prior degree or university experience) and I've found Typst brilliant. I've been using this template - https://typst.app/universe/package/ilm/.

The UX has been simply amazing, there is a VSCode extension that allows you to have the raw text content open in one tab on the left and the pdf on the right, with it updating everytime you save.

I also think it has translated to better grades, given some of the marks come from structure and presentation! For example, in my last essay I was using Binary Search Trees, wouldn't you know, there's a package that allows you to draw them easily!

Seriously, I can't sing it's praises enough. I'm sure if I was doing some more complex writing Latex may be the more appropriate choice but Typst's plug-n-play approach has been so smooth

some unsolicited feedback, use line breaks

fwiw I wasn't able to drop down the sections on your CV site. I have strict web filtering at work though so may be a problem on my end

Anyone interested in other languages that implement this should take a look at the SPARK subset of Ada. Pre and postconditions work in the same way and enforce the same behaviour described here (or at least that's what I understand it to do from a quick skim through)

In the UK it's very common

Peak HN to clearly not even spend 1 minute to understand the content to then come in the comments ranting about how bad it is and that it's wrong. Sure, some of the ordering of difficulties may be off but a lot of it is subjective depending on what you already know I'd say. I think they're a good way of getting some motivation of projects to undertake

A procedure I’ve been impressed with is that as soon as you disclose an allergy, the manager will come over with the massive allergen booklet, help take your order and then go and feed that back to the kitchen straight away.

Of course it gets to a point of diminishing returns where you can only rule out so much if the risk but all it should take is proper labelling of ingredients in dishes and training to make sure these processes are followed.

As the other commenter noted, only dishes for those with an allergen need to be prepared separately

I don't subscribe to this take either. As the partner of someone with a server nut allergy why should we be restricted to only eating food we have prepared? Restaurants have to be able to cope with catering to common allergies, it's really not hard. Some people / establishments just don't seem to take it seriously though, like when a flight attendant told my partner she would be fine to eat the snacks they handed out and that they didn't contain nuts... the bag of roasted corn and nuts...

Why can't we blame those who prepared the food? In settings such as this, at a company as large as Disney, it's not acceptable for there to be cross contamination of allergens. If it turns out to be a mislabelling of ingredients or some other factor outside the restaurant's control then fair enough but you can't just absolve them of their responsibility claiming it's "the universes fault".

No trouble, you just have a different writing style!

They're brief but they also sound so bot-ish in the way they're written, I'm not the only one to have pointed that out in the thread

The comment history does read much like you'd expect from a bot, lots of short, generic statements that vaguely tie to the subject of the post

This reminds me of the very first project that I worked on, a warning system for rail trackside workers. There had been numerous case studies of near misses, injuries and even fatalities.

The system currently in place at the time was, unbelievably, two people (in the case of a bi-directional line) stood downline within earshot of the main crew. When they saw a train approaching they would blow whistles and wave a flag, the workers would then move out of the way until the train passed. Yeah I also couldn't believe that such an archaic system was still in use - this was in 2019 mind.

The company in charge of managing the railway lines reached out to our company and a few others to have us tender on a new design to help protect workers and reduce near misses. Our research led us to an existing system developed by a company in Switzerland which we essentially planned to modify for our national network, as there are differences in how railway lines are signalled across different regions. It consisted of units that could be placed periodically downline of the work site and would alarm when a train was approaching by use of real-time train location data.

The main issue we faced though was how to ensure an accurate reading that gave enough time to vacate the line whilst not being excessive, as research suggested workers may believe it to be a false positive if nothing approached after a couple of minutes. To understand why this is a difficult problem it first helps to understand how traffic within a railway line is managed.

The railway network is split into what is known as blocks, these are discrete sections of track separated by axle counters. Without a train the two sections of track are electronically separate, when one passes over a circuit is completed and the train's position can know be known to that exact location at that exact time. However these readings are discreet, with resolution of the trains position only being as good as the number of axle counters present on the line. This results in some tricky estimating of when "impact" will happen. Train speed is another metric that can be used in conjunction but again you only know the speed read at the last axle counter, anything could have happened between the last reading and "now".

In the end our solution was to assume maximum line speed and warn when this would be within 30s of the worksite. We created a demo that worked flawlessly and the client was visibly impressed. However they then wanted a proposal, cost and everything else for the next phase within 2 weeks - so we had to pull out as we weren't able to produce it. This was a real shame for me as I look back on this project with fond memories, one of the few projects where we were essentially left to figure it out. Already in my short career (<5y) I've been fortunate enough to work on some interesting projects and gain interesting stories to tell...

Thank you for the laugh haha

Volterra is another great place, albeit a little drive away but a beautiful one - taking you through winding mountain roads with fabulous views. One of my favourite ever drives (and done in a Fiat 500 for extra Italian-ness!)

But that isn't the intended use case for YT? How are you expecting to watch a professionally produced TV show on YT for free? YT offers a catalogue of tv shows and films that you can purchase and watch on the site but I'm confused why you think you'd be able to search for a tv show and be presented with every episode nicely catalogued in order? YT has always been focused on user generated content - however in recent years you will have noticed this shift toward more professional style videos from larger channels who can afford to employ a proper team

That wasn't the angle I got from the post at all. To me they were focusing on how un-noteworthy it actually is to be top 1%. All they had to seemingly do was take an extra couple seconds to upvote answers, perhaps post a question when a lack of existing answers necessitated it or add onto what others had already said.

The message I took from the post was that it doesn't take a lot to do your part in contributing to the wider community

Narrowboaters don't have the same reputation for a reason though. I've only had a handful of experiences with those who choose caravans as their method of itinerancy but they've all been negative. Everyone I know has had the same experience. It's disingenuous to suggest people hold differing views about them for no reason

point me to where they tried to "impose" this on others...

Not quite comparable though I would say, given that you know what you're signing up for when applying for a job. Travelling to a conference is a one-off whereas you'd be expecting to come to your job everyday (given the contract states this). You wouldn't accept a job in another country and turn round expecting them to pay for your flights, hotel etc. to be in the area during the work week

See here[0] one of Gernot Heiser's comments (part of the seL4 foundation) talking about how "there are seL4-based devices in regular use in several defence forces. And it's being built in to various products, including civilian, eg critical infrastructure protection".

There is also an interesting case study[1][2] where seL4 was shown to prevent malicious access to a drone. Using seL4 doesn't necessarily make an entire system safe but for high security applications you have to build from the ground up and having a formally proven kernel is the first step in doing that.

I have been fortunate enough to play a small role in developing some stuff to be used with seL4 and it's obvious that the team are passionate about what they've got and I wish them the best of luck

0 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25552222 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH0tDGk19_c 2 - http://loonwerks.com/publications/pdf/Steal-This-Drone-READM...

Was it this guy: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web...

2 Generals problem

Yes, from the FAQs:

What does "pwned" mean? The word "pwned" has origins in video game culture and is a leetspeak derivation of the word "owned", due to the proximity of the "o" and "p" keys. It's typically used to imply that someone has been controlled or compromised, for example "I was pwned in the Adobe data breach". Read more about how "pwned" went from hacker slang to the internet's favourite taunt.