Tarantino & Nolan already got shouts in the thread, so:

John Carpenter for some of the best practical effects in cinema history

You’ve also got the likes of Stanley Kubrick & David Lynch, of course

Talking of Davids, David Fincher feels like he has enough good to make the list

I feel like you could go on a great journey through 80s-00s cinema with films having either Bill Murray or Arnold Schwarzenegger in the cast

There’s probably a lot I’m forgetting

6ish, I’d like 8 but I can’t really fall asleep until after midnight unless I’m truly exhausted, then work means I usually need to be up around 7ish

I’m in a middle-terrace house with relatively modern windows and insulation, so I’m lucky that there’s only really a few places that heat can actually leak out.

Basically all I do is use a draft excluder for the gap under the front door and be selective about opening windows. Then I basically set the thermostat to 19/20 degrees (and the timer on the boiler set to stop it coming on overnight) and that keeps things warm enough without the heating needing to come on for that long during the day. Obviously in the middle of winter it needs to come on a bit longer, but those would be the days I’d be using the heating whatever approach I went for.

Weirdly I half do it for the house plants, I can always throw a jumper on to a point, but I’ve got a few plants that really don’t seem to like the cold. Might as well make it comfortable for all of us if my house doesn’t cost a bomb to keep at a good level.

Not necessary preppers as that is someone who’s motivation is to mitigate some hypothetical future bad thing happening

I think most self-hosters are doing it out of a combination of technical exploration and mitigating real issues that exist today, e.g. cloud service outages or market exits causing something previously bought to be useful to become a temporary brick or permanent e-waste. Well, and cost in some cases, no one particularly enjoys having an extra bill for hosting.

Of course the, now owned by the daily mail group, i uses a sensationalist headline to imply that the ID will be required for this

Rather than another option for people who have to carry a physical ID for age check purposes already

For anyone that’s not twigged it yet

They’re already turning this into another culture war to ensure they can continue to enrich the establishment.

The petrochemical industry has a lot of money to burn on propaganda if it’s facing an existential threat.

Remember this when you read anything other than “we should be decarbonising as quickly as possible”

The best thing for everyone (in basically every possible way) except petrochemical shareholders is heavy investment in renewable technology and the ending of petrochemical subsidies.

I wonder if it’s like those scam emails that deliberately have mistakes so that morons end up self selecting as anyone with their head screwed on sees the obvious scam

… OTOH that’s a level of intellect that would be surprising from a Tory

Worm even when dead

Get in the sea

I have 3 as my phone carrier with a high end modern phone (pixel 9 pro), so my experience shouldn’t be limited by hardware.

I’d say in a city (Manchester, Liverpool & London mostly) I get 5g about 30% of the time, that’ll get speeds around 50-80mbps. The rest of the time I get their oversubscribed 4g which struggles to do 1mbps. I used to get around 200-300mbps occasionally when 5G was relatively new, but I can’t remember the last time I saw those speeds

The more rural you get the chances of 5G shrink to like 5% of the time, though the 4g speeds improve a bit closer to the 10mbps mark.

Of course YMMV, but it might be worth getting a 3 PAYG ESIM or something on your phone just to see what the signal is like by you

I was on call during a work team night out at a darts place and had to get on the WiFi there to check it out an incident

It was one of those ones that has a camera for action replays and I’m in the background of one tapping away

That was always allowed

[We] would like to get rid of the clawback scheme … which charges us for our own success,

Your own exploitation, you mean?

Something like 95% of all meaningful pharmaceutical breakthroughs come from public academia

More than anyone else, I really struggle to see any humanity in spin-doctors from the pharmaceutical industry. I’d say it’s pretty clearly inhumane to gouge the sick for profit.

I wish Aldi Nordpak compared to Lurpak, but it doesn’t come close in terms of spreadability and creaminess.

It’s honestly baffling how tone deaf his government is

“immigration is why our lives are getting worse”

Very clear indicator that someone has barely attempted to understand how the world works

Too fucking late

If I see anyone with a flag and it’s not currently the world cup or euros, I will always assume they’re a flag shagger and they have nothing of value to contribute to existence.

Both are possible

Dystopia is just more likely because it can be achieved through inaction

If the ultra-rich fund the racists saying immigrants are causing all the problems, they might ensure that enough people don’t realise the existence of the ultra-rich themselves is what’s causing all of the problems.

I don’t either, but it’s the same hand waving they do every time

Genuinely surprised to see this exists, SOLIDWORKS seems to always be in the same “hard no” category as Adobe software in every one of these kinds of threads I’ve seen over the years. This is literally the first time I’ve ever seen a response with a potential solution.

I wonder how well it works (Just out of curiosity, I don’t do CAD myself)