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Speed cameras are less liked for sure but ANPR is typically used to catch people who have not paid their vehicle tax or who have not got their annual car safety check done (MOT) but are continuing to drive

I find all the reporting on cameras in the US quite interesting given we’ve had ANPR cameras in the UK for 20+ years

You'd have written Instagram which was released in 2010 in Elixir which wasn't released to the public til 2012?

In premium ice cream you'll get 18-20% dairy fat content and no gums. In ones with gums, it's typically much much lower - 5% is the minimum in the UK for "dairy ice cream" where 100% of the fat must come from dairy but notably many things are just "ice cream" which allows substitution oft the dairy fat entirely for coconut or palm oils. Adding the gums allows them to do this because it gives the mouthfeel of creaminess.

>They do put cornflour in their fruit yogurts, but that seems less egregious than most.

These are UPFs. The point of adding cornflour or starches is to make them thicker and more luxurious in terms of the way they feel in your mouth without straining them like greek yoghurt to reduce water i.e. they're able to do it with less milk protein and fats = it's cheaper. They do this because you need 3-4x as much raw ingredient to do achieve the same result. Adding fruit purees which is the way they add most fruit to the yoghurts is similarly UPF.

There's a scale called NOVA which categorises products based on the amount of processing. Plain Yeo Valley yoghurt is fine and would be classed as NOVA group 1. Their yoghurts would be NOVA group 3 or 4 and so either processed or ultra processed. This isn't to say that all UPFs are bad but it's become so normalised that everything is ultraprocessed that we don't even realise it.

My wife's sister is a food scientist and this is literally her day job at a large American conglomerate with substantial UK operations - try to reduce cost of production by reformulating products while maintaining the same flavour/texture profile.

It's interesting you note Yeo Valley because I've found their products very mixed - lots of them do have UPFs. It's interesting that their ice cream doesn't.

There's no Waitrose within 50 miles of me (East Midlands) so Duchy not available. Booja Booja is all dairy free so I wouldn't really consider it ice cream. But in any case it all has coconut oil in it.

They're basically used as you say to replace things like eggs and milk. The whole point of that from the industrial perspective is to save on cost, they weren't removed on health grounds. It was pointed out in a BBC documentary recently that most supermarket ice cream is now so shelf stable that if it wasn't for rats and mice which love the sugar, it wouldn't need to be kept frozen at all during transport because of all the emulsifiers.

In any case, the whole distinction around UPF vs non-UPF is the addition of ingredients that would not form part of a human diet typically. The thread above me was basically saying all ice creams are full of UPF ingredients and then someone's counterpoint was that there's plenty of good choice of non-UPFs. My point was that even things that "look" non-UPF often are. Whether UPFs are good or bad is up for debate and discussion although countries that consume a lot of them generally have much worse health outcomes.

They're all still shoving tons of emulsifiers and stabilisers and coconut and palm oil and xantham and locust bean gum and stuff in though. It's almost impossible to find ice cream without these.

For e.g.: "100% All Natural Ingredients" still has locust bean gum: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/product/remeo-n-4-pis...

Jude's Vanilla Ice Cream: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/groceries/product/jude-s-vanill... Locust Bean Gum and Guar Gum

It's even true of small producers - for e.g. around where I live in Derbyshire you see "Bluebells" icecream everywhere - "Luxury Artisan Ice Cream": https://bluebelldairy.co.uk/ but it still has all the above.

My great uncle worked for Walls after National Service; he died this year. He emigrated to Australia in the 60s so must have been before that.

Few stories I remember him telling me... part of his job was that he went out on the road giving freezers away to shops so that they could stock Walls ice creams (and only Walls ice creams). He said they had particular difficulty with this in Ireland where shopkeepers would accept the freezer for the shop but put a cheaper competitor's product in.

Unless they stop blasting the ads aimed at international markets e.g. "Premier Chinese Gaming Partner" around all the boards in the game this is very small fry in practice.

I think I'm too clumsy for a programme like this

I think people in the Python world just don't yet have a good mental model of async either. I recently have had conversations with a number of people who have switched to FastAPI because "it's faster" even when they're using it to serve ML models which are compute bound and there's nothing you can await on.

> The United States government considers US supremacy in "AI" as a national security consideration.

They thought the same about SSL in the 1990s and the world didn't stop moving elsewhere.

Transfer of ownership is probably the least controversial part of owning a house in the UK too.

There is no "company" in effect and hasn't been since 2020. The government is the operator and tells companies where they can run trains and what they charge while the companies have levied a % of revenue. That's changing as the government is now bringing operation back in house as 'Great British Rail'.

I'm a phyicist by training and have published in the past but I left academia and so haven't for a number of years now.

I tried out using Claude to do some physics problem solving - mix of maths and simulation - and ended up with it getting in quite a mess. It's incredible at setting things up, suggesting approaches you might not have considered. I found it much much worse at interpreting things.

Static memory allocation is widely used in quite a bit of embedded software, particularly safety critical stuff. There it's often latency related since you don't want hangs while memory is allocated.

I've even seen it on some simulation software's core that was written in the 80s originally; at the time memory was much more constrained so allocating upfront meant you could check upfront whether the simulation could actually run or not vs crashing out part way through.

They had a thing of encouraging talent and putting it in special schools to develop it. Then Maths reading groups etc.

Not many Cockneys in London these days, they're all in Essex

I had that when workign with a lot of other Europeans. When I moved to a company where everyone was British I had to re-adapt, particularly because I'd become more direct after working with a lot of Germans.

The hydration breaks are a FIFA thing, we can't blame the US for that one. We're not really seeing the ads and half time crap and things as the international broadcasters don't show them.

Traditionally everyone had sash windows ("sliding windows") or casement windows ("swing open") made from wood. Nowadays sash windows are very expensive so almost everyone has casement windows, or even casement windows that look like sash windows, both constructed from UPVC. It's only in historic buildings people typically still install sash windows. I had to do that in my house because of it being a "conservation area" and it cost £14k for four timber double glazed sash windows! There are some UPVC sash windows now but they're pretty uncommon still.

This might sound ridiculous to you but in the U.K. we generally don’t have tilting windows. They are really common in Germany though.

In the UK people predominantly use debit cards but credit cards are widely available. Everyone gets a debit card with any current account (i.e. non-savings account). In March this year there were 2.3 billion debit card transactions vs 400 million credit card transactions according to this:

https://www.ukfinance.org.uk/data-and-research/data/card-spe...

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> Actually use a modern compiler

This was always a pain point in C++ embedded space, to be fair.

I think most people didn't really care enough because if they knew C++ and they cared enough, they could still effectively contribute to the kernel.

That's not really true at all though, even in very complex software it's pretty rare to have more than ~10 external dependencies in a C++ project. People tend to roll their own a lot more, partly because dependency management is a lot more painful and fragmented. Boost is effectively an extended standard library, as is abseil, but the language has got much better at incorporating back features since C++ 2011, but even so, the dependencies tend to be slow moving and fairly stable.

It's alright, just get ISO27001 and list them as risks!

> It provides legal stability compared to unpredictable arbitrary decisions by the US executive.

I don't think assuming the European commission will act rationally or stably on this is really a good idea, and I say that as a European...