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Upfront costs... then running costs (in the UK at least, it has to command a premium over other energy prices, to be profitable)... afterwards costs (in the UK no private company is on the hook for decommissioning their nuclear plants, the population will pick up that cost through taxes)...

But sure, nuclear is cheap if you ignore all those things.

Where have had said I had an issue? I was just commenting on the amazon/ebay leveraging as someone about spoke about it...

Some peoolle have automated ebay/amazon leveraging set ups - for eg the cheapest I could find a brand name snorkel set on ebay was £19.99 - and since i often find ebay the cheapest, I bought without futher searching.

3 days later the package arrived from amazon, complete with packing slip, where I found it cost £16.

Searching the sellers account they had thousands of random listings - where I assume they can leverage a small profit. Items came and went quickly from their inventory, I assume as amazon prices fluctated.

I'd never make porridge with water at home - but in winter in the office I used to cover a 1/3 bowl of oats with boiling water and then microwave for just 30 seconds.

Once the oirriois cooked (it really should be already) add a teaspoon or two of salted butter to the middle and stir, then sugar to taste.

Suprisingly delicious, quick and repeatable.

I won a few people over who couldn't believe that porridge made with water would be any good, but it was a great winter staple, especially after cycling in, in the cold.

Had this recently, bought a dehumidifier for a good price, marked as new - arrived and had obviously been opened and didn't work. Out of a desire to have a dehumidifier sooner than later I was about to open it up when I saw it already had been, so I opened a return instead and sent it back.

I can only assume it is worth it for the seller to sell untested goods as new, a good number must work long enough for the buyer to be happy.

All cars in Germany need an inspection every 24 months (or 36 months from new) - so you'd expect other electric cars to have similar issues here if that was the case.

Someone posted a similar story on one of the other times the 500 mile email was posted - where a car would fail to start if the owner bought strawberry ice-cream from the store, but would work if they have vanilla. I love the processes that go into finding the actual issue (regardless of if the ice cream story is true!): https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cone-of-silence/

For me it is like an appendix - or a route we could have taken.

As a child of the 80s and 90s, all things VR held a special place in my heart, even if they were terrible.

I never had one, never even played the real hardware, but owning one would excite part of my psyche for sure!

If you are looking for a fermented foods guide/cookboard/potted history - I really recommend 'Of Cabbages and Kimchi': https://fermentingchange.substack.com/p/on-my-bookshelf-of-c...

I enjoyed 'The Art of Fermentation' by Sandor Katz, but is wasn't guide/cookery book enough for me - 'Of Cabbages' hit the right note, and I've been working my way thorough it all.

I'm a little obsessed with fermented chilli sauces, and have been using the brine to make an excellent hot ketchup, than friends keep asking for more of.

Wow, those before and after videos really are amazing - while my own scars are tiny, they aremore noticeable than some of these fairly major wounds.

I would have agreed with you for a long time (especially when I was very aware of how many pints I could drink and still work well the next day), but since homebrewing and having my own beer taps, I now drink any amount I want. I have a few half pint jugs I use, but often I'll pour myself a drink that would be less than this, as that is what I actually fancy drinking at that time.

That said, I exclusively drink pints in pubs.

When I was in Product, one of my favourite roles was at a company where there was a massive distinction between protoyping code and live code.

To the extent that no prototype could EVER end up in live - it had to be rewritten.

This allowed prototypes to move at brilliant speed, using whatever tech you wanted (I saw plenty of paper, powerpoint and flash prototypes). Once you proved the idea (and the value) then it was iteratively rebuild 'properly'.

At other companies I have seen things hacked together as a proof of concept, live years later, and barely supported.

I can see agentic working great for prototyping, especially in the hands of those with limited technical knowledge.

It has been a long time since fuel was sold here in the UK in gallons, but most cars still are spoken of in terms of MPG (miles driven per gallon of fuel). There are steps to move this to L per 100km - but most people here still use MPG.

We also use Pints in pubs, which are a different size to US pints.

Austria has 30 days leave after 25 years service (other wise 25 days) - so that is 6 weeks, plus 13 public holidays. So some people get around 8 weeks there.

Here in the UK, I get 29 days leave, I buy 5 more, plus get 8 bank holidays - so 42 days leave - or 8 weeks. Plus volunteering days and training days... but that isn't that common.

"I'll just buy one more note book, this one will be for xxx and will solve all my problems!"

(proceeds to never write in the notebook as I don't want to sully it and don't really know where to start)

The link you shared doesn't show me any public domain books. I just see a swipe left or right style interface with modern books (and no audio on my Android phone).

Is the link right?

Shame the podcast didn't play for me. An interesting story

I'm 'lucky' to live near a couple of offshore wind turbine 'fields'. From the shore these are barely visible many days of the winter, and when they are they cause me no concern or upset seeing them on the horizon. I actually find them pretty pleasing to see.

They are also building a heap of new energy transmission infrastructure here, which for now is bringing a fair few new jobs to the area - and going forwards there will continue be jobs in ongoing maintenance.

Coupled with the cheaper energy they provide, it all feels like wins for me - I hope we see much more generation planned, and I agree - if this means we need less (or none) nuclear power in the future, that feels like another win.

While other areas might receive high doses, I'd wonder if there is a link here to the amount of salmon and deer the people there eat, that itself consumed exposed plants or lived in exposed water, compared to the rest of the country? Or the impacts on aquifers?

I agree that technologists are SME of their field (so we still call them SME in my Corp)

I like it - though we use SME- Subject Matter Expert.

E.g. If you aren't an SME or a Manager, then why are you in the meeting?

(SME encompasses PM and BA roles, as they too should be experts in their domain and ideally on the domain we are working on.)

When I was commuting back to London for work I tried a hostel in Central London, I think it was about £25 a night 9 years ago. The room itself was clean and 'only' 6 people in it.

The main lobby was nice and a pint was a reasonable price - I sat there after having dinner at work, and read a book, which felt pretty nice to be honest.

The bed was comfy, with clean good smelling sheets.

But there were three issues that meant I went back to relying on friends and family until I got a local job.

1. Someone's feet smelt terrible - so bad it was hard to sleep

2. Someone snored loadly - it was even harder to sleep

3. The shower was grimy. I was lucky to have a ThirdSpace membership so showered there instead

It was a bargain and saved me traveling after a long day of work and having to be social after a very early start to get to London on the Monday. But the better option for me was to find a suitable local job and not do the extra long week commute. (I was also missing my family loads too, so it was never a longer term option for me).

There seems to he a good chunk of them here these days - I guess they are easier than ever to make. I just down vote them and flag them and hope that disuades them creators.

We recently did a stock take of all the subscriptions we've ended up with - versus the ones we actually regualrly use - and it was clear we've been wasting money for some time

FAANG maybe not, but there are heaps of horror stories from plenty of other big and medium tech players.

A seat at the board is great, but that won't stop a company making major changes like those described.

While they cannot stop something like that (a Union never gets to control the business), they can at least negotiate good terms for the departing employees, and help ensure everything is in order.

I personally downvote them, flag them and then 'minimise' with the little minus button - I think when enough people do that it helps reduce the amount of people that see the post as it is in the 'unexpanded' state.

Thset is really sad - I'd seen a review of an early model on YouTube and it seemed like a brilliant idea - really hope someone else can make something similar work.

I only just stopped using my HUAWEI P20 Pro - which I bought in 2018 - the phone was still great and handled everything I needed it to - plus the camera was amazing. I just got a new phone as the battery life was getting silly and it began restarting all the time - and I'm not loving it compared to the P20 Pro.

I think a 7 year old phone has no reason to not be suitable to 90% of what people want from a phone (in my case it was 100%). Frustrating to see them abandoned by manufacturers.