A couple of grim articles in BCC about UK homes that have been fitted with insulation under a grant scheme and are now inflicted with chronic mould.
I wonder what on Earth is going on here?
There's definitely a sense that the occupiers are getting the run around with no one taking responsibility or providing a central "we'll fix this" point.
What the science or best practice is here also seems very unclear. Does the product just not work? Does it work great, but not in some homes? Does it work great but the homes should have ventilation fitted, or some other remediation? Assuming this approach is deployable at scale then these questions must have very clear answers.
Or is this a cooked up scandal to try to prevent insulation schemes getting off the ground?
Gatwick are now charging £6 to drop passengers off. As in, park for 60 seconds while they get out of the car and take their bags and you say “Bye, hope the doors won’t fall off your plane and it isn’t delayed 7 hours and you’re given tokens it turns out you can’t spend anywhere.” before you head off to McDonalds and eat breakfast at 4am while waiting to see if they need a lift home because everything’s fucked up in some new and exciting way.
@benjohn I could applaud their desire to reduce car journeys to the airport, but it's funny how they always do this in a way that makes them more money. (And for demands that are very price-inelastic, i.e. most people will keep doing it once the price goes up.)
I am a software professional of 25 years. I believe I'm considered pretty good at this – people say nice things about the work I do.
I quite regularly come close to tears in frustration with how broken, demeaning and awful computers are to use. Either trying to help others make them work, or just for me.
I'm not sure if this is helpful to know for anyone, but I think it's probably worth being honest about.
A submission to your garden of folks' git confusions…
One that gets me so regularly (probably more than every week) is how the stage lets me be selective about which file modifications are added to a commit. But it doesn't (I think?!) let me be selective about which file renames / moves are added to a commit? They're always in, as far as I can tell?
My work patterns often includes me making various changes and then adding a few at a time with a meaningful name.
I always forget, and it's quite disconcerting, that file renames / moves don't seem to be compatible with this workflow.