simonswords82

Not OP and I can’t speak for the entire human population but for me it was changing the relationship I have with myself.

Make a mistake? No big deal it’ll be better next time. Learn from it rather than beat myself up for it.

Hit that red traffic light? Time for self contemplation and putting the heated seats on rather than being pissed off I’m delayed 30 seconds.

Get an email that triggers my threat response? Take a breath and think about who I have around me who can help rather than take it all on myself.

Have a read of learned optimism. Great book.

Get therapy. Hit the gym. Go for walks. Brush your teeth for 2 mins. Moisturise. Show yourself as much self care as you can.

Until those who are in government are held legally responsible for fulfilling their promises (including after their term if they did not do it during) I take all of these things with a massive pinch of salt.

DINK in professional jobs and 1.5 hours from London and still can’t save money for a deposit?

Not being unreasonable towards your friends but are they responsible with money?

I never get tired of hearing people say publicly that they are tired, need a break, and will put themselves first for the foreseeable.

I hope that this continues to normalise self care and counter balance the hustle culture.

Good job they stopped you from taking that pesky cannabis /s

Seriously though that's awful, sorry to hear that and glad you came out the other side (relatively) unharmed.

But I thought Portugal did the same (decriminalise) and by all accounts they've had fantastic results?

Wow that's nuts - I did not know that.

I had heard that, I think some of our lovely politicians have got their fingers in these insanely profitable pies.

Meanwhile the UK has got it's thumb up its ass and is happily maintaining a status quo of the worst of all worlds

1) The police are still supposed to arrest people who are caught with cannabis (It's a class B drug - in the same group as codeine, ketamine, and ‘spice’ - whatever the hell that is).

In reality they typically let people off with a warning but it's still a drain on our already hamstrung police force

2) Drug dealers who sell weed tend not to declare and pay tax on their earnings. Depriving UK Gov of some seriously needed income per this article's headline.

3) Drug dealers tend to sell other drugs, usually harder drugs. Thus exposing people who want to get stoned to a plethora of other drugs that they might otherwise not have come in to contact with.

4) Those people who are hooked on weed (or any other non-prescribed drug) are criminals...and cannot seek help from anybody including their doctor. This keeps them trapped, and over a long enough period of time will do mental and potentially physical damage to them that our NHS will incur costs to fix. And when I say NHS, I mean the tax payers, and when I say tax payers - I mean me.

All of that is to say - fuck UK drug policy. I remain hopeful that it will change though...

This has got to be a troll post

Gigabit at 45 GBP per month (city fibre)

I think both things are true.

Googles results got stagnant and Google overall was complacent. ChatGPT is capitalising on this.

It has started to monetise and Microsoft’s pockets are deep enough to cover the difference until profitability is achieved.

I know nothing about the guy but nobody should die in a street like that. Tragic. I hope they find and hold person/people responsible accountable. His family must be in bits.

Totally agree. The number one rule of (most) startups is that everything takes infinitely longer than you would imagine. And then, even longer than that still...

Sadly the beacon of balanced reporting that the BBC once was is now a distant memory. It's politicised, click bait nonsense just like most of the news on the Internet. So your assessment is more than likely accurate.

I tend to agree that there are no shortcuts. However I do think you can be disciplined in one area (e.g. work) and lack discipline in another (e.g. diet and exercise).

So discipline is not an on or off switch for a person, it's more granular and nuanced than that.

My chairman calls it "eating the pain"

Miss one of those interest free payments and I suspect it gets expensive very quickly.

If they were on the inside did they not see this coming? I was reading about the incoming demise of CS about 3-4 months ago on WallStreetBets subreddit...

Impressive that you can remember all necessary info to access all your accounts in your head!

Agreed. My wife and I all but stopped drinking in 2023 except for when we go out which is maybe once a month.

We get along better. We both exercise more. We are more constructive. Output more. Enjoy life more.

I could go on. I wouldn’t be surprised if we continue to phase drinking out altogether. It’s just not worth the downside for a few hours of fun.

Is there a similar service out there for Azure? (Who just put their uk prices up by 9 percent)

Often this happens when a sales commission structure is misaligned with company profitability.

The salesperson then cares more about commission and less about profit and generates revenue at any cost.

/s?

I did lol @ Final Days. He's 47!

Domain name is worth more than most small businesses

Mushrooms or LSD

> and this is the main reason most companies overhire. It's so that engineers are less inclined to go home and build their own competitor.

This is most definitely not true.

As somebody who started my software company in 2007 and stopped coding full time around 2012/2013 I'd say if you did it long enough you never lose the abstract concepts.

I understand everything my head of engineering tells me and don't need it ELI5'd. However being told it, and being asked to do it are two different things. I would be a very useful or productive coder if I went back in to the trenches.