Yep,

I’ve got a part of the house which needs new render and new capping on a pallisade wall. Cannot for the life of me find anyone that wants to do it. Whole house render, no problem. Turn up and just render every wall in site, no problem.

I had a long discussion with a builder who suggested I remove any lead flashing from the pallisade wall so he could render that. After going and investigating what I could, the lead is what’s keeping water out of the house. No, no thankyou do I want to remove that.

As it goes, I might just have to learn how to render myself as it might be easier than learning how to find a reasonable handyman.

At this point … what stops the CVE foundation moving on as a foundation and working to find an alternative funding model?

Yep… And damn I put so much effort into working that out and still got it wrong

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

If you like more light in the evening morning go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning evening, go to bed early and wake up early.

Stop fucking with the clocks and making nonsensible decisions

So… Let me check I get this right on the timeline.

America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.

Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.

Next steps boys

Something I noticed recently

The same people who quickly bemoan “everyone wants a label now” seen to be the same people who say “all kids do this like that”.

That was my initial thought.

But also, he was resisting the coup. You can’t have Marshall law with military leaders willing to resist you.

This could well be the point that we (globally) lose the “nobody would be insane enough to allow him to push the button” mindset

Who’s to bet a load of shares get bought up, then suddenly this announcement is rescinded?

The party that wants to ban abortion to “save the children” has just condemned, quite literally millions of, children around the world to slow and agonising deaths from entirely treatable illnesses.

When America gets sick, the whole world coughs.

Sadly we’re all in the inside of this one

They want an efficient government not wasting time and resources on unnecessary things …

They get a government crying over the name of a body of water.

If self-assisted euthanasia (SAE) has risen from 0% to 20% of all deaths. Then “other” methods of death must have dropped equal to 20%. If that collection of “other”, is drawn-out cancer, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s etc. then I see this as working. If those conditions have not seen a comparative reduction, and all we’ve done is replace suicide with SAE then I think this hasn’t worked as intended.

Unless it’s circumcision for religious reasons … then chopping off body parts is A’OK.

I don’t see the flow as a problem. But if you do see the flow as a problem I can see reasons a right leaning government would be the way you’d vote.

I also see why “cheap brown Labour” is a reason to allow immigration. So that one swings both ways enough I didn’t include it.

Young people were especially worried about:

• inflation (65%),
• expensive housing (54%),
• poverty in old age (48%),
• the division of society (49%)

Aaah yes, that classical list of things that a fiscally right party would solve … </sarcasm>

Depends on the “they”…

But generally, back in the day data storage, memory and processing power were expensive. Multiple factors more expensive than they are now. Storing a year with two digits instead of four was a saving worth making. Over time, some people just kept doing what they had been doing. Some people just learned from mentors to do it that way, and kept doing it.

It was somewhat expected that systems would improve and over time that saving wouldn’t be needed. Which was true. By the year 2000 “modern” systems didn’t need to make that saving. But there was a lot of old code and systems that were still running just fine, that hadn’t been updated to modern code/hardware. it became a bit of a rush job at the end to make the same upgrade.

There is a similar issue coming up in the year 2038. A lot of computing platforms store dates as the number of seconds since the beginning of 1970-01-01 UTC. As I type this comment there have been 1,710,757,161 seconds since that date. It’s a simple way to store time/date in a way that can be converted back to a human readable format quite easily. I’ve written a lot of code which does exactly this. I’ve also written lot of code and data storage systems that store this number as a 32bit integer. Without drilling down into what that means, the limit of that data storage type will be a count of 4,294,967,296. That means at 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC, some of my old code will break, because it wont be able to properly store the dates.

I no longer work for that employer, I no longer maintain that code. Back when I wrote that code, a 32bit integer made sense. If I wrote new code now, I would use a different data type that would last longer. If my old code is still in use then someone is going to have to update it. Because of the way business, software and humans work. I don’t expect anyone will patch that code until sometime around the year 2037.

Brother

So much chocolate weighed through the scales as “fresh veg potatoes”

These are hookers… just expensive ones

Blast freezer. It’s about as close as we’ll get any time soon. Not an affiliate or anything, just googled and found this bugger (about microwave sized).

https://www.nisbets.co.uk/polar-countertop-blast-chiller/ck640