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by noneeeed 2y ago
Yes, it's been a big issue here. I've not been actively tracking the price of eggs, but I know it's causing a lot of problems for egg producers.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I'd forgotten all about that film, it was delightful.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Ah, well now I feel old :D
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Likewise. I will happily work in the vast majority of legal industries in the UK, they all have varying degrees of social good about them. I might not get a warm fuzzy feeling about all of them, but a job's a job. But I won't touc
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Thanks, I had no idea. It was the standard when I was growing up in the UK. It looks like it is no longer standard issue here.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Oh hey fellow Bathonain! I've worked at a lot of places in my career, you've not narrowed it down :D Thanks for the reminder. At some point I should try and get BathCamp going again.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Likewise. I grew up in the UK and there was no pushback at all from what I remember. Although I do remember school being very strict about anyone whacking someone elses BCG arm.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
What's the issue with the BCG? My understanding was that it had been sucessful, is that a bit of a myth?
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Hah, very true. I never drive there for a reason.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I live in Bath, so quite a bit smaller than Bristol, but I really apprecaite the fact that we can be in the city centre in half an hour, or in the countryside in 15 minutes. If I didn't live in Bath I'd probably live in Bristol, i
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I was just writing about these when I saw your comment. The museum at the Roman Baths has some of these on display. If you visit Bath and are interested in history* then the Baths are well worth a visit. The whole site is rather larger than
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by noneeeed 2y ago
This absolutely isn't looking down on people. I didn't say that people couldn't do these things. I am absolutely ignorant of how the vast majority of the world actually works. I would never look down on someone because they
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I love this comic. There's an idea in psychology called the illusion of explanitory depth. It's the idea that everyone has much more confidence in their understanding of how things work, even the most mundane and apparantly simple
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by noneeeed 2y ago
There is a decent BBC documentary "The Secret History of Writing" which is all about the origins of writing. If you are interested in how it developed in all its different forms it's worth a watch.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I found the same when the first Falcon Heavy executed the simultaneous booster landing. Watching them both come down, within moments of each other at neighbouring pads was incredibly cool. Its sad that Gerry Anderson never got to see this.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I'm ok with video calls, but likewise, I've been wondering about a change of career if every dev job is going to be sat at home staring at the same walls every day. Phone calls are the ones I find hardest. There's no body lan
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by noneeeed 2y ago
True. Meet always shows you your camera view before you start the call, it would be nice to have two buttons when joining, one with your camera on and one off. Either way, it would be nice if they put a bit more effort into these things. Vi
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Interesting that I have almost always done item 1 from the beginning of using video calls (which was before covid hit). I generally shrink the window so that individual video feeds are no more than a couple of inches high on my monitor, whi
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by noneeeed 2y ago
We use Google Meet and this is one of the big things I miss from Zoom, there appears to be no way to turn the self view off. On every call I have to turn it off manually. I find that a lot of people who say they turn their camera off say th
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I love In Our Time so much. I often wonder who, if anyone, could take over from Melvin when he's gone.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
They have another article about a more conventional tunnel idea that addresses that issue. They were well aware of the issue. The only way to make this work at that time would have been something like Brunel's atmospheric railway. That
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by noneeeed 2y ago
We really don't appreciate how little time we get with our parents once we grow up and move away. It comes in snatches and moments, and then they are no more. I wish I'd spent more quality time with mine while I could. I feel like
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Yeah, I don't think it was mentioned when I was diagnosed, but the pharmacist asked about it when I next went to buy some more. That was a very sad day. I miss being able to take Night Nurse and then sleep like a baby.
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Yep! OTC medicines here are really limited. Although you can always get something stronger from the pharmacist. I remember being ill in Switzerland and getting something for a nasty cold. I have no idea what it was other than magic in pill
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by noneeeed 2y ago
I've noticed that in the UK all phenylephrine based OTC medications also contain paracetamol (acetaminophen) and often caffine. They are just an expensive way to buy two very cheap compounds with an added bit of placebo effect from the
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by noneeeed 2y ago
For anyone thinking of visitng Petra, try and allow more than a couple of hours. When we went it was for two days, going in and out each day. A lot of people just go down the entry canyon, take a look at the Treasury (the bit in Indiana Jon
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by noneeeed 2y ago
There were a lot of repeats when I was a kid (80-90s). Shows like Thunderbirds and the like were mainstays of my TV watching. They were really good for their time, and hadn't really aged too badly by the 80s and 90s, so it made good fi
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by noneeeed 2y ago
What do/did you use your Hololens for? I tried out the first gen version at a meetup and it was really nifty (the latency was fantastic), but I just couldn't work out what anyone would use it for in real life, it seemed too limite
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by noneeeed 2y ago
The interesting thing for me is how this mission underscore the difference between SpaceX and other space companies. SpaceX have become an entire commercial space agency, able to supply everything from the rockets and capsules, to the groun
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by noneeeed 2y ago
Hah, I had something similar when travelling in Norway. The keyboard was almost identical but I think two keys were the other way round. It took me far too long to work out why I kept miss-typing things.

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