seanhandley

It depends, and that’s the point.

It’s such a wide concept. Essentially it boils down to how a brain processes sensory information and at what point it becomes overwhelmed.

We all have tolerances set at different gauges. It’s a disability if it’s at odds with the environment a person finds themselves in.

There's so much model distillation and token reselling going on, I imagine they've enabled a lot of automated checks to keep bots out. Depending on where you are and who you bank with, you might struggle to get any kind of access.

“Phraseology” is subtly different.

You mean “vocabulary”, “terminology”, possibly “nomenclature”.

Read up on the Jevons Paradox

This is already a month old. Suggest renaming to make this clear, or you've got people jumping on this as a brand new issue.

“Pieces of flair”

Processed food isn't the same as ultra processed. This is specifically about the NOVA classification of foods.

Keep it up for 20 years and let us know how it's working out for you.

A good way to think of UPF is that it's "pre-chewed" food, due to the highly refined nature of it. The food matrix (structure) is destroyed, which fundamentally changes how your body metabolises it, bearing in mind this is a system evolved over millions of years to break down a mixture of whole foods in stages.

It's not even about the macronutrients - it's completely mismatched to our physiology. The nutrients are quickly absorbed due to the lack of structure so you get big blood sugar spikes and dips, making it hard to manage appetite (invariably leading to over-eating).

UPF is generally low fibre, so the microbiome is starved. It often contains emulsifiers which have the effect of a detergent in the gut lining, further damaging the microbiome.

It shouldn't be called "food". It's industrially produced pseudo-food with increasingly convincing evidence that it's contributing significantly to heart disease, diabetes, mental health issues, etc.

Companies like Coca Cola overplay the benefits of exercise as the solution to health problems so they can continue to sell ultra processed "food" with an extremely healthy profit margin.

UPF isn't food. It's "edible food-like substances" and it exists to make money, not to keep you in good health through your life.

Would be interesting to know the cost as well as the price.

Yep. Every city I’ve visited feels like a giant machine designed to optimally extract money from people. London is no different, though I’d say markedly more expensive than most.

So the key difference is that in London the rules are more clearly shared for newcomers?

The goal is to travel through the fewest countries possible, not the most direct land route.

This reads like satire.

> Why eat vegetables when you can eat testicles?

Attention-grabbing nonsense.

Indeed. They’re both eligible.

I wonder if this is the death of public spaces. If you want community you need people to be able to leave their homes for extended periods and join each other in public. It should be stable stakes for any civilised democracy to have public conveniences IMHO

Defining the “what” is just as much a part of the intellectual property as defining the “how”. Both things are hard to do well IMHO

I met Kevin at a conference in Manchester where he cloned my HID access card and made an amazing demo of how easily this can get a company's workstations compromised with keyloggers. It was like watching a magician - he was a very skilled, funny, intelligent man with a wealth of knowledge. He gave me his business card (which is also a lock-picking kit) and I will treasure it.

Thanks for all you taught us Kevin, and thanks for being a beacon of curiosity and exploration.

It's definitely not about being friends - it's about being able to rely on each other.

You relationship with your manager is like your relationship with the company at large - it's a symbiosis, a contract, something that benefits both parties... until one day when it inevitably doesn't.

One day you will either leave the company or the company will leave you. Once the arrangement isn't mutually beneficial any more, the relationship is finished. There's nothing personal about that. In the meantime, you expect your manager to support and help you, set clear expectations, resolve disputes, etc and they expect you to meet the expectations of your role.

It's been online for 2 weeks already.

Yes, for settings personal goals it can be helpful.

KRs are just "things you can do to achieve the goal", so my process goes:

- What do I wish was different? - What would happen if that thing changed? - What's stopping it from changing? - How can I get over those obstacles?

The answers to "how can I get over those obstacles?" become the KRs that help achieve the O ("What do I wish was different?").

Managers are accountable for seeing this is done, but the whole team should be co-responsible for setting goals.

I worked as a software engineer for 12 years before becoming a manager and I can promise you that a team works better when everyone has input on what goals the team commits to and how the team plans to achieve those goals.

You never never never NEVER want to work on a team where your manager decides all of that and then just throws tickets at you. Screw that sideways.

Proper Planning Prevents P*s Poor Performance

> Potassium bromate is classified as a category 2B carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

Yeah, that's not food.

> "The search crews have quite literally found the needle in the haystack."

Apart from flagrant abuse of the word "literally", this was an interesting read.

That doesn’t detract from the validity of the post does it?

Still waiting to see the benefits of the “northern powerhouse”.

No - we expect adequate service and no obsequiousness.

It makes us uncomfortable to be pampered or if the serving staff are overly friendly or chirpy - it feels insincere to a Brit and puts us into a defensive mode.

If serving staff are polite (or at least not surly) and we get served in a reasonable amount of time then that's all we ask for and we'll tip 10% if there was nothing wrong with the meal, or put some change in a tip jar if we only ordered drinks.

Traveling to the US as a Brit is an affront when you first experience "service culture". You become desensitised to it after a while (and can even have some fun with it) but initially it's a genuinely uncomfortable experience and it blows my mind how different "normal" can be across English-speaking cultures who share a hell of a lot of history and culture.

I’m from Lancashire in the UK and we have a saying here:

> Where there’s muck, there’s brass.