RLN

One problem I've encountered in Munich is they essentially have a single trunk that runs through the centre. In the case of problems on one line you can often find multiple other lines are also affected. London always seems to have a redundancy in the case of a line being unusable.

I suppose this is more a problem of sharing track than through running, but I just found it funny to see Munich public transport described so positively.

>I knew when I left (I was the last of my school year to do so) it was going to get bad once Elizabeth died

How small was your school year?! What does Elizabeth (presumably the 2nd) dying have to do with anything?

I've just switched from DigitalOcean to Hetzner purely for cost. I'm getting more resources for less money. Features seem pretty comparable to me but I don't need anything more than a standard VPS. The only thing I've found weird is SELinux being set to permissive by default.

I'm not sure why anyone would be patriotic about a private company.

This is less than half of my rent in London. That's not including gas and electric bills, as well as council tax! I do enjoy having a kitchen though.

"technically has no fixed abode" I think here probably actually means he's registered at his parents house. This would likely be a lot more difficult if you were truly homeless.

Apart from being incredibly optimisic about clouds and light pollution, this is really cool. Showing where the satellite should pass from a streetview perspective is a really nice addition I've not seen before.

This seems a little inaccurate. I've found John Pearse for my hometown in Hook, Hampshire. However Wikipedia indicates he's from Hook in Yorkshire.

I imagine this could be repeated quite often as there are so many reused place names. Hook in Yorkshire doesn't even get a look in on this map!

I have several times. Generally I can just say "you can write anything before the @ and it still comes to me" and people understand it though. It doesn't need to become a big discussion about how email works and they've probably forgotten by the end of the interaction.

Maybe once or twice I've given my address to a new friend as newfriend@domain.com and it's lead to at least a small discussion about it.

In the Netherlands it's not terribly uncommon. It used to be more the other direction in the UK but it has become more common to be card only here as well.

I'm not really sure where class comes into accepted forms of payment? But I'm also not sure what class you're talking about.

It looks like the flat she referred to still exists, Addison Park Mansions in Hammersmith. So we can make quite good comparison presuming one is rented out still. Though I wouldn't be suprised if they've been parted out into smaller flats, or rented as shared.

Funnily enough I'm sat in my flat about 10 minutes walk away. My building appears to have been built sometime in the late 1800s, and is somewhat falling apart. So the value for money might be even less now.

>“What’s the moral of the story?” he asked. “You can make up your own, but for me, this is public service in its finest form – unseen, largely unknown and rarely heralded – but done with selfless dedication year after year simply because of what would happen to the rest of us if it wasn’t.”

This is my big takeaway, I know a lot of people are against government projects. But in this case especially, where is the profit motive to fix this problem? I can't see any other solution than long term investment in the long term interest of the country. What other entity could ensure long term commitment to such an unprofitable project?

Is it not? Or do you just not feel that's a negative?

>I think straight black hair often implies non-european ancestry

What? I better tell some friends they aren't European.

I love the Paddy Losty (45 pints) reference in the old man chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkcXjholnGk

I did Amsterdam to London by bus overnight once. From memory via Rotterdam, Antwerp and Lille. It was appalling but really something to be experienced. The next day was a write off but I suppose we didn't help ourselves with pints on the ferry and arriving just in time to wait outside Wetherspoons for it to open.

I can't wait for Europe to reopen and travel in a more civilised manner!

It's very well known in some areas of Europe, from Wikipedia:

"Keeping Up Appearances was a great success in the UK, and also captured large audiences in the US, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ireland, Belgium, and the Netherlands. By February 2016, it had been sold nearly 1,000 times to overseas broadcasters, making it BBC Worldwide's most exported television programme."

  Location: Currently in Sydney Australia, but will move anywhere
  Remote: Willing
  Willing to relocate: Yes
  Technologies: General systems administrator, ready to get to grips with anything that is needed
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dancottam/
  Email: hiring at dancottam.nl

I've worked in a few different industries normally supporting mixed environments with a focus on Linux. Looking to move in a more devops direction and find somewhere I can keep learning.

I found it a bit odd that the author differentiated between Britons and Europeans. Britons are Europeans!

I wonder why Europeans were so well represented. I wouldn't have necessarily imagined that would be the case. Is it simply because most European countries are relatively wealthy?

My girlfriend used to work for a reasonably well known mattress company. Apparently returned mattresses there were given to charity for use in homeless shelters and such.

I'd go as far to generally say it just means United States culture.

I'd imagine the Benelux countries would stay together as there is so much cooperation between them.

They had a group for this when I was living in Hoofddorp. From memory they called it "Buurtpreventie" which I suppose translates into "Neighbourhood Watch" really. It's just a new evolution of what has existed for ages. It allows faster communication rather than Jan calling Sanne who calls Peter to inform that someone isn't taking their bins out on the correct day.

When I lived in the Netherlands it always seemed like anyone over 30 had a war story of how they used to cycle in such harsh conditions.

I used to cycle 18km to get to work and if I would tell a Dutch person it was always "Oh that's nothing, I used to cycle twice that distance in the snow uphill when I was younger!"

Generally the rain was fine, it was the wind that can make you feel like someone is pushing against your bike that really got to me.

Very striking for me is listing of height, health and birth date. I would never put these on a CV. All irrelevant.

I'd love to give it a try but it looks like you only ship to the US. Are you planning to expand in the future?

I'd say the market is certainly there, and not just from Indians. In the UK curry is very widely eaten and many consider some dishes to be part of our national cuisine. While I've been abroad I've often struggled to find decent curry.

It's quite common to not have air-conditioning in Sydney despite the temperature reaching over 40c in summer. The only really noticeable thing for me compared to Northern European housing is double glazing doesn't seem to be as prevalent.

Have you considered living an another EU country? The Netherlands for example is very easy to live and work in as an English speaker and the language is not too difficult. Ireland is also English speaking.

By living in an EU country with you, your girlfriend should not have any visa problems.

"Mr. Hoopes put his convictions into practice at group gatherings when he took over a team of about 25 people at the aerospace defense company three years ago. “Every time someone’s phone went off, they had to stand for the rest of the meeting,” he says."

That sounds very unprofessional, it's like a punishment a teacher would give out. I'm not even sure how I'd react to being told to do that but I think it's unlikely I would be staying in the meeting.

Do you mean the privately run overground lines? The tube is to me a bit of a marvel, with the newer lines having a train come every 3 minutes at peak times.

Even the overground lines which used to be not so great have been taken over by TfL and are quite good in my opinion.

I can see how the tube could be a bit difficult to navigate for a newcomer but once you're used to it I believe it's got some of the best signposting I've seen on a metro system.

Looks like Tesla self driving cars 'dry steer', something that my driving instructor always told me not to do.

Whenever I read a story about using sails for propulsion in space I'm reminded of the short story Sunjammer by Arthur C. Clarke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer