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by alexfoo 9mo ago
As a generalisation: OpenReach prioritise areas that have no fibre. If Hyperoptic (or someone else like Community Fibre or The 4th Utility, etc) are in an area then OpenReach will put that area nearer to the bottom of their todo list. It&#x
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Take their laptops and do any big bulky downloads/uploads they have queued up.
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
https://maps.app.goo.gl/YpywKrJC4at2RwHy7 I found the coordinates on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_End_tube_station (the link is up in the top right above the photo). Doesn't appear on this
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
London tends to get that because it has never really been planned. It just grew over the course of 1600 years and absorbed other areas as it went. There are plenty of areas where a row of £20m+ homes are opposite blocks of 3-bed flats that
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Isn’t it a pounder because it’s 16oz (US fluid ounces) which is a (US) pound? (Note a US pint is about 474ml compared to the UK pint which is 568ml). Of course US fluid ounces are a different size to UK (Imperial) fluid ounces. Plus the UK
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> As a child in the 80s I was exceedingly nerdy. My loving and generous parents did nothing to discourage that. Indeed they encouraged my nascent interest in computers by regularly updating my ZX computers (80->81->Spectrum->48K
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
The proliferation and arms race of increasingly huge vehicles with poor visibility hasn't taken hold in Europe yet, but I'm not so sure that will be the case in 5 or 10 years. We have our fair share of Range Rovers and other SUV s
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
One person's junk is another person's fuel for heating. Throughout the year a friend of mine would collect any junk mail, but mostly many copies of the free daily newspapers (Metro, Evening Standard, etc) that litter the trains&#x
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
There will always be idiots, regardless of whether alcohol is involved or not, but I'm talking about the levels of hooliganism that were rife in the 80s and 90s, the things that got alcohol banned (when in view of the pitch) at footbal
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Hadn't noticed that before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SW_postcode_area SW2 to SW9 are in alphabetical order: Brixton, Chelsea, Clapham, Earls Court, Fulham, South Ken, South Lambeth, Stockwell. But then it sta
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
The UK is just weird about that. Decades of hooliganism (mostly a thing of the past thankfully) has meant that you can't be in possession of alcohol within view of the pitch in the top 5 tiers in the UK. (And by the 5th tier you'r
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Many of those lack spontaneity though. I don’t walk past a climbing gym with a friend of mine and think “fancy popping in there for an hour or so?” You need to plan a visit to many of those places so you have the right clothing/footwea
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Not really. Applebee’s is still too food oriented. Wetherspoons are definitely pubs. They just have a reputation for cheap drinks and cheap meals. But there’s still a significant proportion of people who go there for drinks only. It’s more
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
People stop visiting crappy pubs if they have diluted drinks (quite rare, UK is very strict about being served exact alcohol measures, there is very little free pouring in the UK and many people would spot other drinks being diluted), crapp
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Last call at 11pm stopped being a blanket rule in 2003. The Licensing Act 2003 (England and Wales) abolished strict closing times. Most pubs now have much longer hours (some even 24/7) although they choose their opening hours based on
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Don’t. Just don’t. There’s time for some party to sort themselves out before the next election is due (Aug 2029).
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Sometimes you have to try stuff to find out the unintended consequences. Not everything can be analysed/foreseen/predicted. Hopefully they were able to see the negative effect, realise the mistake and reverse the decision.
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
And a bit further to SW20 in Raynes Park (a.k.a. “West Wimbledon” in Estate Agent vernacular). I’ve lived somewhere in SW18/SW15/SW19 for the last 30 years. Having not grown up in London I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Appar
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
I agree with the bit about the having to enter a full postcode on some sites, I often use one nearby or, if they make me select a specific address for no valid reason I make sure I use a random address nearby. Apologies to some of my neighb
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
I think it's as simple as the fact that for a throwaway site it's considerably cheaper to get a .com domain than it is a domain that ends in .uk
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> For a generic ".com" domain that isn't American, it's generally a good idea to yes, have a kind of minimal hint that tells you at least which country it's about, and at least a single link you can follow to get
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
To be fair, I'd say that most people in the UK who would be interested in the contents of this site are aware of the context and know what phrases like "rates increases" actually mean. It's been in the news quite a bit o
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
What quietened the “thousands of competing thoughts” that used to go through my brain constantly was an ADHD diagnosis and then medication (methylphenidate / Concerta XL in my case, I tried lisdexamfetamine / Elvanse first but it
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
The USPS have been on the receiving end of it themselves back in 1916 when someone mailed a building: https://postalmuseum.si.edu/object/npm_2022.2007.1 https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-his
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> "I am spending more on this drug... I'm in the UK and got my ADHD diagnosis on the NHS (well, via Right To Choose) so the maximum I'll ever pay for my medication is about US$150/year. [1] If I had a private diagnosi
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
Yeah, that's the next best. I taught my kid to mute adverts from an early age. It really winds up one family member who works in TV advertising, so that's a bonus.
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
> Everyone knows BMI is imperfect at this point, ... Indeed. BMI is the best thing that people can readily calculate with easily available equipment (a tape measure and scales either at home, gym, pharmacy, etc) plus some relatively basi
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
It's not just GLP-1 type drugs. My grocery spending has fallen significantly since I started ADHD medication. Both lisdexamfetamine and methylphenidate absolutely zeroed my appetite. When I walk around a grocery store I'm no longe
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
And not always anything to do with the TV. I have BT TV ( https://www.bt.com/help/tv/learn-about-tv/bt-tv-boxes ) and the UI is painfully slow at times (UI response to a button press of 10-20 seconds), searchin
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by alexfoo 9mo ago
You forgot to also tie another piece of string to the new cable so that you pull the new cable AND this other bit of string through. This gives you a piece of string in the conduit run to be able to pull through the next thing days/wee

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