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I normally watch some of the Olympics or have it in the background on events that took my interest. This time I've not bothered. Because the media rights were sold the BBC can't do that much coverage.

I have a feeling this is probably going to have one of the lowest viewing figures ever for the games

I would have thought they'd need to put sections of cooling in, if not maybe they have some form of oil or other liquid to help dissipate the heat? I thought one of the many reasons why the UK still does overhead between chunks of the grid is for cooling and easier maintenance.

You lost me at equation

I understand where you are coming from, but for me the issue is more about affordable housing. It's basically gentrification of an area and forcing poor people out.

I cannot remember by law how much % of a development has to be deemed social housing, but it is generally a requirement now days since councils cannot really purchase or build properties. Now days you will not see any sort of massive council estates being built any more, which is why these developments have to have social housing.

You can trace this all back to the 80s when the government privatised council housing stock and allowed people to buy their social housing.

I grew up on a council estate and it can be hell, it's the same families and group of people which cause most of the issues and it comes in waves as they get rotated around the various council estates in the region. The estates are generally neglected by the council as well.

Near me an ex 3 bed council house, with a dodgy raft foundation, breeze block ends and a timber frame goes for £210,000! You'd be looking at a mortgage of around £800 per month, and if renting it will cost more. You've now also got to deal with the housing benefit (from the government) changes. Before it would be straight up paid by the council or government to the property owner, recent changes means people are given the money to pay for the rent (I think you can opt in for it to go directly to landlord) which has reduced the social housing stock even more as landlords do not want deal with the payment issues. With how bad the benefit system has become and is being run, after reforms, people are often in arrears or not getting the money because the system is just borked.

Poor people are very much getting priced out of areas where they live, with a lack of social housing stock available combined with a chaotic benefit system, they are very much forced out into other areas, if they they do get somewhere, then bare minimum will be done to maintain it.

I pretty much got rid of my bash scripts and just replaced them using shelljs. Makes it a lot easier and quicker to maintain, it means any developer can jump in fix it and add to it.

To be honest I don't see the point of the nose. In Europe, lorries and busses have flat front and have since I was born.

TDLR I am now convinced I've had Fibromyalgia/Chronic fatigue syndrome for years but covid has seriously kicked it up a level making the symptoms worse.

I've suffered from chronic pain syndrome in my legs/hips for years, in fact since I was like 10 and has had a big affect on my life. As a result of chronic pain I've then mentally suffered as well, done CBT a few times as well. I've had countless sessions of physio and hydrotherapy.

Before covid was even a thing (Like 2-3 years) I've reported fatigue issues to my GP multiple times, I had IBS, concentration issues and chest pains. The GP's did ECGs and said I was fine. My rheumatology kicked me of the patient list, but got me physio and a sleep study (I have mild sleep apnea)

Jan 2020 I had the flu as well, my Father was the first one and did lose his taste and sense of smell.

Come April 2020 I was just getting out of breath walking in my garden and slight chest pains at the bottom of my lungs, the fatigue got worse. Doctor was like "You've not got symptoms of covid, but it could be covid, some of my colleagues have felt wiped out" Come June/July 2020 I took part in the NHS home antibody test and I had a faint line that indicated I had antibodies for covid-19, at this point things had gone back to normal for me.

Come December 2020, my concentration levels were the worst they've ever been. The brain fog was horrendous, I was now getting worse chest pains and feeling rather fed up with it. GP was doing nothing other than saying get a covid test. In the end I went to a walk in clinic and they thought I may have had clots on my lungs. Got sent to A&E (Yes sent to A&E during a pandemic, the worst place anyone can be) They came to the conclusion after looking at my medical record and symptoms I had Fibromyalgia/Chronic fatigue syndrome. I now take fluoxetine in the morning alongside my amitriptyline in the evening (been on it for 10+ years), I'm doing a lot better but do have days where I've got no get up and go, it got worse in 2020 and I think covid made things worse. Also interestingly my mother ME, so do wonder if there is a genetic factor.

It's amazing how government comes around in a circle. There was DERA(Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) which the government pretty much privatised by spinning it off as Qinetiq

For me the issue is they intend to invest into 'projects', why phrase it like that? If it's research, then you're finding out new information, proving theories etc, so to deem it as high risk project is strange, just treat it as research, it's allowed to fail!

Another one is the FOI. This is just stupid, we should know what the money is being spent on, what the outcomes, things learnt etc. It doesn't have to be the costings down to how much a tea bag costs. Just the top level stuff. I'm happy for top secret projects to be exempt if there is serious national security concerns. But if the public aren't allowed to see it, then who is getting the benefit? Could very well be private companies (which isn't a bad thing, but we've paid for them to gain advantage...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Evaluation_and_Researc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qinetiq

Would sure love something browser or phone based that's quick and something I can hop in and out when not busy. I'm currently on a factorio binge...

I believe the UK contract is along the lines of "once you've met our order, you can ship UK made vaccines elsewhere" If the EU commission used their head, the sooner this was met they'd get it sooner and MORE vaccines. The EU had dropped the ball, stabbed it and ran it over. They make it seem the pharmaceutical companies are out to screw them. Far from it, the risk is being taken by government's and fully funded.

Doesn't launching from a plane rather than a launch pad indicate you need less infrastructure (a launch pad), fuel differences etc. I can imagine this is a good way to quickly get a satellite in the air from any location and into a preferred orbit. Although this means you need the rocket and satellite already made and stored.

NoSQL, I always understand it as Not Only SQL. At our place we use MongoDB (Main store), SQL, Big Query, Redis, ElasticSearch, then we also store data in S3 that we don't want to query or have the cost of storing in the DB.

Pick the right DB for your requirements. Management of them isn't that hard as they're hosted solutions, we've only got to deal with the cost of when a version is EOL, so upgrades or when certain queries will no longer work.

I generally buy Nissan because the local dealer is good. Generally the base models have what people want, it's only fancy interior or exterior add-ons that make you wait. Base models have ac, sat nav, cameras etc already. Generally you don't have to wait too long because the car is already built or there is one to that spec being built soon. I think the most I had to wait was 2 months

Shame I really liked this. I could watch stormy weather in the South of the USA, hurricanes rolling in. I even saw someone live streaming driving about in it.

The best ever use I got from it was watching the attempted coup in Turkey. I was able to see a news station get overrun, I saw bullets fired from helicopters against protests. The worse one was an armoured personal carrier getting surrounded and then other soldiers fire into the open APC after the occupants opened up.

This does make sense. If you look at some post world war 2 projects like Dounreay managed by United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, things can happen. But with how advanced things are now, can a single government entity manage projects which will require skills from many other countries?

We do need these, simply just to help provide a base. Only the other day the National Grid was worried we didn't have enough power for peak times because wind wasn't generating enough due to not enough wind. https://www.ft.com/content/f5e8995f-00c8-4c74-8738-55b47a871...

Yeah and it's because of people like me. When there are 2 items, both pretty much the same, if not from the same factory. If one is sold directly by amazon then I'd pick that one over the third party. Why? It's so much easier to get a replacement/refund/return with amazon than third party sellers.

If third parties are all selling the same thing then amazon can probably make more profit than the third party as well, so that's why amazon will also do it.

Now I do wish Amazon would pay more tax etc etc, but people like me make it easy for them to operate and do things like this.

We have the same way, a main monolith to do the basics, create and update. But other parts of the system handled by a server. A lot of it is queue consumption based. E.g a server for sending emails, another server for file exporting. Our main system also shares a module for connecting to the DB, which makes it easier to handle database upgrades or changes.

I took part in this test. In April/May I had a slight cough, tight chest and got breathless when walking. I had a very faint line indicating short term antibodies, then the second test I had no signs.

Now if I had covid is another question. Everyone has been pretty damning of the testing system. Phone up doctors or an NHS help line, it's pretty much 'You may have mild symptoms' well how about we just do some testing yeah?

I have no faith in the government stats for covid, if they're not even sending people to get tests then how on earth do they know what's really going on?

I can understand why so many issues get created. I've had to read through quite a few issues for node.js debugging issues because they've made changes to the feature.

Before I could just do `node --inspect index.js` and get the debugger to auto attach with my node version set using NVM. There's a few different flags to try. I ended up wasting a few hours to just get debugging working again. Now I have to actually set a launch profile (I've got one which works) but wading through all the issues because they've changed, to me, a fundamental feature was just plan frustrating.

I do wonder what atlassian do some days with their cloud offerings. I find they tend to muck about with the UI more than fixing bugs or new features. I tend to find we have downtime with pipelines a lot as well.

Jira is ok, it can be slow. Confluence seems to be playing catch-up with notion.

If I were to start a startup, I'd probably avoid atlassian.

That makes more sense. I wonder how long before they increase capacity

I have a HP ENVY x360 15-ee0002na. I like it a lot. Battery is ok, screen even is ok and it has 16gbof ram

Trying to find a Ryzen 4xxx with 16gb of ram in the UK is quite hard! Plenty of Intel's though, it's almost like Intel flooded the market or no one wants Intel

They could be concentrating on isolating muscles. Doing dumbbells to build up some strength before doing bodyweight is also another possibility.

But yeah if you can't get what you want you'll just have to make do and work around it.

I like the current logo, it's almost like a classic computer peripherals logo from the 80s. The tramp stamp is tacky and cheap, I'd expect the items to last less than a year

We use to shop at lidls and Sainsbury's before the pandemic. We'd do the bulk at Lidl and top up at Sainsbury's. When it hit we physically went to Sainsbury's as we could get any slots. Lidls in store response was poor and the store often crowded at choke points. Now that lidl are launching their own cloud services and delivery in the next 2 years we'd probably start using Lidl again

Probably out of good faith. Can't be accused of not helping the US government. Also sets a bar of how much help they'll willing to offer. Maybe also wanted control over who had access to their information, rather give it to them then have it stolen

I cannot remember where I saw it a few days ago. They basically just use an emulator and a fake floppy disk, just like people could play cd's over a cassette player.

I assume they don't have to go through certification for the loading device(the floppy drive), just the process of loading data instead (through the emulator)

Ugh I follow a dutch guy (Master Milo) if he doesn't do the subs then one of his followers will. When watching on a tv or phone I rely on these subtitles as there is no option to auto translate the auto generated subtitles. This will be bad for him as it will no doubt have an affect on his viewing numbers and his revenue.

I can understand this. Portsmouth at home is pretty loud and vocal. After watching Pompey fail in the play offs, it might have helped, but then again that's probably because Kenny Jacket football style is horrible. #JacketOut