TIL that American dishwashers tend to be completely different to the ones over here.
plumbed into the hot supply and, although they have a heater, apparently skip the pre-warm cycle.
Have plastic insides
Don't include a water softener (so no dishwasher salt)
I might have fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole...
We tried to do the right thing and switch to Ecover tablets, but they've left white powder over everything, so was looking at whether I'd missed anything.
@bazcurtis When they started, I really thought we'd only get a few. I'm hoping the rate of them is a sign they're doing what they hoped and might get expanded
@ben Uh, didn't know that they had different plans in 2021. I was mostly referring to this post from 2022 (they seemed to have changed their PoV fast): https://usebottles.com/blog/an-open-letter/
I can totally see their point though - it's essentially an example of the difficulties people used to have with long-term stable distros like CentOS, at some point you want to be able to use newer deps without breaking a chunk of your users
> The Metropolitan Police say that around one in every 33,000 people who walk by its cameras is misidentified.
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> But the error count is much higher once an someone is actually flagged. One in 40 alerts so far this year has been a false positive.
Sorry, do the Met think 1 in 33,000 is a good failure rate?
That's abysmal even before you get onto the false positive rate or before you look at outcomes and realise you may incorrectly deprive someone of their liberty
@ben we're one automated flag away from automating racial profiling and others factors to be used against people, it's frightening how much, with all the available warnings, we're still heading straight to a wall.. almost willingly.
@psfshr@danieldurrans We once lived in a house that was in a (no longer new build) estate that had done a deal with Virgin (actually it was prob Telewest)
All the houses had covenants against installing a rooftop aerial because Virgin would provide a communal link.
That link had long since broken and Virgin had no interest in fixing it. Some installed aerials, but some were jobs-worths convinced it'd affect property prices and tried to cause trouble.
My tip would be: try to not look back at smoking with nostalgia, but with hatred. You were enslaved by a murderous industry, now you're free. That mindset worked very well for me
I originally tooted about this about a month ago. Through a dose of bad luck (combined with shipping times), it's taken a month to get the #laptop up and running again.
New #Blog post: Spending an Afternoon in the Sizewell Control Room Simulator
I'm a bit late in writing something, but @popey, @8none1, @sil got to spend an afternoon in the operations training centre at #Sizewell B #nuclear power station
@ben How do you get invited to such a tour? My son is obsessed with all things nuclear and loved the tour of Sizewell B but would loved to have seen a control room. His current ambition is to one day drive a reactor for a career.