>>94599

Well, mine aren't. Not of the stuff I buy at least. Which remains packet noodles and frozen pizzas, but still.

I'll get back to making my own pasta sauces and fresh meat and veg one day.

>>94599
I've barely noticed the shortages that are meant to be going on at the minute. Lidl have been light on cucumbers but there's nothing else I've been unable to get.

We really are going back to the good old days. Crowns on pint glasses. Mad cow disease.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-58602051

>>94602
Bushels need to come back too - proper bushels, with variations per county.

>>94577
>CON 49 (+5)

Just a three point swing in Opinium's latest poll.

>>14036
Thanks for your insight. To be honest a DevOps role is something I've had my eye on. Not just for the pay but because as said, my role as a (mostly) manual tester is rote by nature, boring and stagnant. Do you have any advice please for someone with my skillset (or lack thereof) in pursuing a devops career?

It feels incredibly daunting, but on places like reddit I'm seeing people 'go from qa to devops in a year' so it can't be impossible...

>>14050
I can help with that; my job title is Head of DevOps for a big organisation.

1. Learn to script - python is great. You need to be able to automate almost anything you used to do on a command line. I can recommend educative.io

2. Do cloud stuff in your spare time. Get both the basic AWS and Azure accounts. Learn how to deploy a basic Windows and Linux server - then do it purely via code. You'll want to learn Terraform as it's almost an industry standard now, but Pulumi is also being strongly adopted. AWS is still way better than Azure and used in more companies, but in the beginning that matters less.

3. Learn how to build pipelines and run CI/CD toolchains - again, you can do this in Azure DevOps or AWS CodePipeline.

4. Learn to Docker and Kubernetes.

>>14051
There's lucky that the other two of you work in incredibly relevant roles.

Thanks a lot for the help, really appreciate it. It feels good to have point 1, mostly, down already. I also have the AWS Cloud Practitioner although that's quite the meme cert I'm aware.

One question; I was told there is no such thing as a 'junior' dev-ops engineer, as the field itself requires a level of knowledge that a typical junior XYZ wouldn't have yet. Is that true? Or are there some forgiving entry level devops roles?

>>14051
Just a tiny question: what's the diffrerence between sys admin, DevOps and SRE in your mind?

>>14053
Version 0. System Administration
Version 1. DevOps
Version 2. DevSecOps
Version 3. Site Reliabilty Engineering

I have absolutely no doubt whatsoever that SRE is a better practice than DevOps, because it is very well defined - there is an actual book and set of definitions - Google have done a superb job with it. There are huge overlap in the ideas - SRE is an instance of DevOps.

SRE solves some of the problems that people have conceptually when they encounter DevOps ideas for the first time. Most advanced technology organisations who have adopted DevOps principles have seen the issues around information security (and have therefore adopted a more DevSecOps mindset) and are rapidly moving toward SRE, because operationally it is better.

So to answer your question precisely - it's a progession and it's somewhat difficult to skip the stages. If you know nothing about the challenges around development and system administration, then you're unlikely to appreciate DevOps. If you haven't done DevOps, then you're unlikely to appreciate why you want to quickly get to DevSecOps. If you haven't seen any of these challenges in a production environment, then SRE will seem quite academic.

>>24005

Testes.

>>24005

Balls

>>24298
Buttery biscuit.

>>24299
BOLLOCKS

>>5480
I knew his lot were around today. You can smell them if you've got the nose for it.

I've started going to the gym since I got my second vaccination.

I used to be in alright shape in my twenties, but have neglected my body in recent years.

I've been trying to eat a caloric surplus to build muscle but I am getting mad night sweats as a result. Like I don't feel particularly warm at any point through the night, but I wake up to drenched pillows pretty consistently. If I eat based on my appetite I don't experience the sweats, so I'm pretty confident it's just due to the diet and not something else more sinister.

I'd like to stop this because it would be well awk if I have a girl sleeping in my bed and it happens.

Also I was eating that Bulk brand gainer but have recently switched over to Mutant Mass the latter being the most obnoxiously marketed protein I could find. Apparently the two shakes are pretty much identical in terms of nutritional content, but the Mutant Mass feels so much thinner. Why? I thought it was maybe that the Bulk one was using more fibre, but even this number is pretty consistent across the two products.

>>5877
>feels so much thinner
They didn't put as much thickening agent in.

Just eat more normal food, skinnylad.

My workout app rotates through focus areas (arm & shoulder, back & chest, abs, leg) each "session", so I was going to do one every weekday, maybe more than once if I have the time and energy.

But there's some crossover in the exercises it'll tell you to do. So I might end up doing renegade rows (for example) five days in a row. There's no guarantee of a rest day for that muscle until the weekend.

Would it be best to:
A) Continue doing a session every weekday, never mind the occasional repeats.
B) Only work out M/T/W but do the same session twice (or more) each day.
C) Only work out M/T/W but do more than one, different sessions following the app's rotation.
D) Other?

The added complication is that none of these are cardio or very hard on the legs so I've been alternating runs and weighted marches on week days, but if those both use too many of the same muscles it's probably not ideal.

>>5899

It strikes me as suboptimal to entrust your training to a workout app that randomises the exercise. If your goal is to grow muscle as efficiently as possible, it's really better to have some sort of structured programme with hypertrophy in mind.

It's okay to target muscles more than once per week (it happens with most compound movements), but unless you're really trying to focus on a skill (e.g. getting your bench press form right) doing the same exercise repeatedly in the same week has diminishing returns.

>Former Stoke-on-Trent councillor Randy Conteh appears in court charged with rape
https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/former-stoke-trent-councillor-randy-5546709

Normative determinism is a thing.

Charlie Elphicke has been released from prison and The Mail are reporting his wife has taken him back. Reckon their separation was for show so she could take his seat?

>>69078

*nominative

But yes it is, I can attest because it's also the reason i'm a furfag.

>>69583
Oh Rex Yifferson.

>>69582
Please call him by his proper name, Tory sex pest Charlie Elphicke.

If Natalie has taken Tory sex pest Charlie back then I wouldn't be surprised to see Tory sex pest Charlie making another run for the seat in future.

Think about a simple 2d vector in cartesian coordinates.

We can represent it as a contravariant vector as in (1) or a covariant vector as in (2).

But what if we split it equally between the covariant and contravariant bases as in (3)?

Is there any use for this in quantum physics or something?

>>35336
If he loves her then it wouldn't be a sham marriage.

>>35337
What does love have to do with marriage?

>>35338
It's the most important part of it.

>>35338
That's like asking what does a horse have to do with a carriage.

>>35340
We have horseless carriages these days...

>>445750
I woke up to the feeling of something crawling on my arm, which turned out to be a spider.

I was selling some retro games to CEX, and the girl who served me was the typical mosher/goth/emo type, dyed purple hair, pale and spotty, heavy eyeliner. Anyway, I got £83 for my games which was alright, and then she asked if I was free in the evening. I met up with her after she finished work, and she said "you're either gonna cum up my arse, or I'll cum up yours", and I cheated on my gf with her.

I was at my dentist's to have one or two cavities taken care of. He then suddenly handed me a written estimate that said it would cost over £10,000 which I had to pay myself. I said, "Oh you're having a fucking laugh!" and left.

Last night I had my first experience with sleep paralysis.
Must have just drifted off then woke up soon after but I couldn't move. The strange part was I could hear a noise, similar to music being played through earphones rather loud and it was getting closer.
Felt like 10 seconds before I could move and the noise suddenly went.

I keep having a dream that my girlfriend and I break up, she sleeps with someone else and then we get back together. It's happened so often I'm finding it hard to know for certain that this didn't happen, but I can't plausibly think when this would have happened.

>>446200
The ZX80 and ZX81 were steps along the way to Sinclair's goal of having a reasonably functional colour computer for under £100. The original ZX Spectrum was the result of that. Markedly better than the previous two, but still notably limited compared to others on the market. You can definitely see why Sugar went in. He had been building his business on the idea that cheap doesn't have to be crap, and the strides that Sinclair Research was making made it clear they were at some point going to be able to deliver something that fit that pattern in the home computer space, and that was borne out in the 1986 sale of those assets to Amstrad.

For the best part of three decades, Sir Clive really was years ahead of his time. Adjusted for inflation, that £100 price point is now £360, which is in the range of budget laptops.

>>446204
>the 1986 sale of those assets to Amstrad

I agree - there's a very strong link between Amstrad/Sugar and Sinclair at that time. I believe the Sinclair purchase actually taught Sugar a great deal about the technology market - a year later, he was producing very cheap word processors and very early PC clones, such as the one picture here, which is also the first PC I ever owned.

>>446204

I guess you always get what you pay for. You can buy a cheap car, which will mean you will own a car, but just don't expect much for your limited amount of money.

You can always design products to a price point, and that was always a large part of Sugar's success. And it can help democratise the market for a product because you are making that type of product available to the masses who can't afford the more high-end variants. But in the end, it's not always a good idea to buy cheap, as a consumer. Even with a small budget.

I'd almost forgotten about the loading screens.
(For those of you not used to waiting, the game starts at 3:27)

>>446191
http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html

This is really good too - a working model of the original calculator, with code.

In the current climate, employers in most fields are desperate for staff and can't afford to be picky. I think you're better off being straight rather than trying to hide anything - it won't come back to bite you in the arse, you probably don't want to work for someone who would discriminate on health grounds and there are loads of jobs going at the moment if it falls through.

>all the time with doctor's notes, for a long term disability that my managers were aware of

I would still tell a prospective new employer. What else are you going to tell them that you did all day the last few years or however long you were at your old job. You didn't just play hooky, you had valid reasons to be off work. Even if they let you go. Honesty is still a currency at job interviews, at least if you can offer a reasonable explanation.

Do make sure to emphasize that your health problems are behind you now, and that it was really just some improbably bad luck that you were gone from your work repeatedly. Maybe even get a note from your doctor confirming that you're all better now.

>>14031
> Do make sure to emphasize that your health problems are behind you now

I would lead with that when/if you bring it up. Something to the effect of "Though it is behind me now thanks to the fantastic treatmeant I received from XYZ, I was forced to take extended time off which I communicated to my managers at the time". Rephrase that, of course, but you get the gist. Depending on how competitive your field is you want to make sure that the person reading your CV (if it's a machine, then god help you) is forwarned of any red flags so they can contextualise them before they form an unfavourable opinion.

We (more or less) only hire people with a few years experience, and for those we only call on the references if they make extraordinary claims: "I worked in the maintenance crew for the Eiffel Tower and single-handedly dismantled and re-riveted the structure in under 6 hours while a team of painters did their thing to keep up".

But your mileage may vary by a country mile depending on your industry.

>>14032

>if it's a machine, then god help you

I generally don't apply for jobs where HR think they can't even be arsed to have a human working out if you're a promising candidate. I know that that increasingly rules out a lot of major companies these days, but I've found that I am most comfortable working for smaller companies anyway, where people are a tight-knit group and aren't at the whim of management many levels of hierarchy above them. Smaller companies haven't quite adopted that technology yet in large numbers.

I applied for a job at a big tech service provider before the pandemic, and I got an e-mail telling me to call a number for a phone interview. Which turned out to be fully computerised. What the actual fuck. I hung up about four or five minutes in, after a few somewhat inane questions their computer saw fit to ask me, because if they can't find the time to talk to you on the phone in person, i.e. if no actual fucking human at their company can manage to take ten minutes out of their day to have a personal chat with you, then they aren't worth my time either.


Self sage for thread derailment.

>>14029
Don't you have a work mate? Give their details and let them act as your previous manager.

Personally I'm very sanguine about noted rational person Dominic Raab being made Justice Minister a day after Borison Johnson proundly joked that the UK is becoming the "Saudi Arabia of penal policy", to an audience of Tory donors.

>>91877
The right has always strove to create caricatures of what a "leftist" is like and by and large it works.
There is a minority on the left who do stupid things and make stupid choices but the public has by and large been successfully convinced that these people are the mainstream left.
Liz complains that the left are crudely treating people as groups, doing so crudely treating the left as a group.

>>94564
>This happens repeatedly with anyone that tries to bring up the issue of class too close to the centers of power

ARE Liz done it in the OP.

>>94568
>There is a minority on the left who do stupid things and make stupid choices

I think you're being a bit disingenuous here. It's a sizeable minority at minimum within political parties (or embracing extremism) that you wouldn't want to be cornered in a pub by and when you have a minority of very determined people in power there's no limit to doing stupid things and making stupid choices.

Call it the decline of mass politics if you want. One that I think everyone accepts has been especially traumatic to the left following deindustrialisation.

>>94569
>ARE Liz done it in the OP.

She gets tantalisingly close, but carefully skirts the issue. If you pay attention, it's the same old social mobility rhetoric that doesn't recognise any real economic inequalities. Children from disadvantaged backgrounds were being let down, yes, but why? Generations of inequality exacerbated by neoliberal economics? Increasingly precarious work for their parents? Completely different league tables for schools? No, they were just focusing too much on racism and sexism, and didn't have enough lessons in maths and English.

She mentions geographic inequality, but what does that mean if you don't recognise some regions have less money than others? She explicitly says equal opportunity, rather than equality of outcome. She also makes the point to repeat the smear of antisemitism about the only recent version of the left to recognise class, Corbyn's Labour.

This is just posturing against the "woke" enemy that the right themselves have constructed, trying to assuage a working class with vague niceties and score a few points without actually mentioning anything concrete.

>>94569
>Call it the decline of mass politics if you want. One that I think everyone accepts has been especially traumatic to the left following deindustrialisation.

Sorry mate, but have you been asleep the past few decades? Deindustrialisation could have been handled multiple ways, but we chose to outdo Reagan on Reaganomics and utterly destroyed our trade unions. This has broken the back of the organisations which the left was centred around. It was a power grab for the right, a pattern that repeated itself throughout the 20th and 19th centuries as soon as "mass politics" threatened to gain any relevance at all.

>>35305
The only thing I'd really heard about it was people telling Are Nice he can't celebrate her success because he once said he wouldn't want to have a group of Romanian men move in next door.

Rupert Murdoch’s News UK has announced plans to launch a national television station called talkTV, which will be a rival to the floundering rightwing channel GB News and provide a platform for the return of Piers Morgan.

In a U-turn after similar plans were cancelled this year, News UK said it would hire “exceptional talent” for the station. Bosses believe Morgan fits in that category and is the biggest name to have signed up to the project.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/sep/16/piers-morgan-hired-to-launch-rupert-murdoch-tv-station-talktv

>>35327
I don't see how this can possibly work. If it was a good idea, GB News would have done better. Sure, they've had bloopers due to incompetent staff behind the scenes, but BBC News can't spell or done grammer rite in countless onscreen messages and updates, and nobody cares about that. GB News faced boycotts from advertisers; won't talkTV have that too?

And why can't we just have a generic highly-oppositional news channel? Have a few anti-woke stories, but also get ISIS warriors and communists and inc*ls. Let's oppose gay marriage but support sex changes for children. How would that not be exciting? I'm onto a winner here; I guarantee it.

>>35328
>I don't see how this can possibly work.

Totally agree - it would be like launching a new physical newspaper. But then, Murdoch has money to burn, so maybe we should let him.

>>35328

Remember Squarials? Murdoch does. He murdered it, with great big barrowloads of newspaper money and a Luxembourgish satellite.

>>8970
Britain has one of the worst state pension systems in the developed world, possibly the worst, but overall it's broadly in line with everywhere else once private pensions are factored in. The problem with that is there are huge disparities in what people can build up privately, so you really are fucked unless your employer offers a good workplace scheme.

>>8973
Throw in that the people currently retiring are basically the last of the final salary cohort, and benefits from private pensions are going to fall quite dramatically in future.

>>8974
On the other hand, the number of people actively in a private sector pension scheme has increased from 3.6million in 2008 to 11million in 2018, largely thanks to auto enrolment.

>>8975
On the one hand, that is true. On the other hand, most auto enrolment provision is shit with no matching. "Want to increase your contribution? Sure. Will we be matching that? Fuck you, take 5% and be grateful."

>>8976
That's why you ask about pension contributions during the job interview. I always bring it up and use it as a negotiating tactic.

It's surprising more people don't ask about employee benefits beyond salary. I worked with someone who left for a job paying more money, but he didn't realise until he got his contract he'd be working 40 hours per week instead of 35; his hourly pay went down and he ended up noticeably worse off than if he'd just do 5 hours a week overtime where he already was.

>>446149
>pretty much hypothetical in reality

It absolutely isn't. I work in a bank and get all the same training; I've also worked in an AML/KYC department of a very well known ecommerce site. In that role I was, briefly, personally liable for any financial crime on that site - they chuck the fucking book at you if you mess around.

Look at some of the fines banks have had recently (eg HSBC).

>>446151

KYC, "know your customer", is indeed an important part of AML regulation. In short, you have to not only establish and store personal info on your customer as to their identity and their motivation to spend or keep money with you, but if your customer is a business or a corporation, you also have to work out who owns that company, and who are the beneficiaries of its profits.

And then if you believe you have spotted suspicious activity in dealing with that client, you have to report the attempted money laundering or militant daft woggery financing behind your client's back to UKFIU, who will take it from there. Failure to secretly report suspicious activity can result in substantial fines either against your employer or you as an employee.

It means a lot of additional paperwork, and the larger your company, the more you have to have organisational structures in place that do nothing else all day. As a small business, you will get away with either doing it all yourself or naming one of your four or five employees who will be responsible on top of their usual daily work. But I guess it's for a common good, because any ease of money laundering promotes organised crime, it means lost tax revenue, and it's an unfair advantage towards competitors who stay within the law.

>>446152

Are you telling me Paddy Power has an MI5 dossier on ever Stever, Daz and Gaz who bets there?

>>446162
Yep.

>>446162

Not really. But they keep your name and personal info, and keep tabs on how much money you win or lose.

I'm not sure online casinoes are a good way to launder money though. At least not for the end consumer. The risk of losing large chunks of your illegal money is just too high.

"Real" casinoes, on the other hand, have always been a great way for organised crime to launder its proceeds. Especially in places like pre-revolution Cuba, with a corrupt military government looking the other way and the Mafia itself owning and operating dozens of casinoes up and down the island. There were lorry loads of cash money flown in from the U.S. to be laundered and turned into legitimate profits.

Ask for an advance on your salary.

>>8958
>My credit score is about 975.

You'll easily get an overdraft.

You will get an overdraft. If you don't, you'll still almost certainly score a 0% interest (for a limited time only!) credit card to get you by.

>>8959
>>8961

Thanks for the good suggestions

>>90255
ABOUT FUCKING TIME

>>90336

Al Gore's office, circa 2006.

>>94556
Oh thats incredible. A Mac Pro with 3x30" screens - I used to have exactly the same setup.

>>94557
That must have cost forty billion pounds at the time.

Good riddance to this utter fucking cunt. Not only is he a pillock, he's a class traitor. Despise this little creep.

>>14022
You wouldn't?

>>14022
>Femlins
This is the kind of shit i expect to see at the moment of my death, when life flashes before the eyes and you realise above all else the reason of your being.

I've been working in a snack factory for about two months now and I'm impressed that their workers on the primary production machinery consist of 3 longer term employees, myself and one other new guy...that just quit.
I don't expect all that much from factory work but a coherent plan to get and keep employees that run their production machinery might be one of the few things I do expect. It's a fair bit of stress being told to look after finnicky machines that all the production is reliant on, while hauling around tons of ingredients - often multiple times for one batch because their genius solution to get things from a mixer to a hopper is hauling it in a fucking bin.

otoh it was the easiest hiring process ever, I practically just walked in and I get paid on time.

>>14026
Oh come on, what sort of snacks???

>>14027

Wotsits and wotsit accessories

>>31004

It might be worth digging into the psychology of why you feel so compelled towards other women.

You mention a craving for variety, but what does this really mean? I think as blokes we tend to oversimplify ourselves with, "just biology innit", but you may be able to alleviate what you're feeling by reflecting on exactly what it is you're looking for.

For me, my need for attention from other girls was primarily a craving for validation and an ego boost rather than pure sex.

For you, it sounds like it may stem from the fact that your sex life has inevitably become a bit predictable and/or routine. There's a lot you can do about this, from seeking more harmless (and non-sexual) interactions with women to introducing a bit more variety with your current lass. If you love her as you say, it'll be worth trying before you go installing Tinder and nobbing the entire neighbourhood.

>>31004

Try this.

Get a few female mates you can flirt and banter with, maybe take out on pseudo-dates. Don't cross the line of shagging them, but have a friendship where flirting and a bit of naughty conversation isn't off the table. The chase is better than the catch as they say, and what I've analysed about myself is that it's that part I miss. Everything that's exciting about the early days of a relationship.

In my younger years I did cheat on my partners a couple of times, and while I don't really regret it, the interesting thing is that as I've got older, I've not felt compelled to go through with it. I've been in the position to plenty of times. For example, last year (before the virus and all) I went out with an old flame, stayed over in a hotel room with her, we even both kept it a sort of secret from our partners like there was a mutual understanding we might shag. But when we got there in the moment? I sort of just didn't really feel like it.

I still have the urge to prowl around and chat birds up like the sly dog I may well be, but I am no longer so desperate about it that I'm willing to go through that risky step where you lean in for the kiss, slip your hand up their thigh, and all that.

And it's weird, because my missus is shit in bed. She just doesn't put the effort in, and I can't really sugar coat it as shyness or whatever anymore, she just isn't interested in pleasing someone other than herself. She wants to get off and that's about it. In my mind I'd be quite well justified to actually cheat on her (I know I WOULDN'T be justified, but you know what I mean. The little devil on my shoulder says so), but I just can't really be bothered.

Once life has settled down a bit I'm probably going to bring it up as a sort of "look, I'm not going to sugar coat this anymore. Either you put more effort in or I go start shagging other lasses" ultimatum. But for the time being I'm actually not all that arsed. Or maybe you'll want to go down this route.

Maybe one day you'll be less arsed too. Maybe not. You never know. But just don't do anything rash.

Thank you guys, these are thoughtful posts to my silly thread. I think you are into something with that idea. If I'm honest, I've been speaking to an American girl on Reddit. She's beautiful and funny but I feel this is taking it further than you lot intended. The talk started off sexual but has moved onto the definition of biscuits. But all it makes me want to do is fuck the hell out of her. It's been so difficult working from home . I started a new role and I don't even have any female colleagues, let alone have the opportunity to see them face to face.

>>31008
>The talk started off sexual but has moved onto the definition of biscuits.

My mind is boggling at the idea you don't see this as sexual progression.

>>31008
>but has moved onto the definition of biscuits.
I really can't believe you'd do this kind of thing behind your girlfriend's back.

Wow, I must be in a weird mood because usually I threaten to kill people who want to cheat on their SO.

>>5016
Thankfully, the very first sentence in the video explains who its for: people who study physics. If you don't, it is irrelevant for you.

Not sure how "Tood Terje - Inspector Norse" relates to physics studies, but okay, OP, you keep dreaming, big man.

>>5018

Sometimes the site code glitches out on phones and all of the videos get switched with other videos.

>>5019
You honestly think I don't know that? Did you really just say that to me? The fucking hubris.

>>5020
I'm still laughing at this post.

>>94539
Obviously compared to your average 12-year-old Afghan girl right now, I'm absolutely crushing it. But my life has taken a hopefully temporary turn for the /emo/ and I was comparing myself to how I assume most of you live.

>>94537
Look on the bright side, lad. When your posho parents snuff it you'll be rich.

>>94535
You're not doing well, lad. I wouldn't call myself as doing well because I went to public sector in London instead of earning 3-4x times the money in the private sector, but I still have about 30k net worth.

How did you manage to not save buckets of money when it was literally illegal to go outside?

>>94538
>the only extra requirement is sticktuitiveness.

I think this is something sorely underrated in our society. I wouldn't say I'm particularly bright, I'm just a weirdo who has a bit of self-discipline but that discipline has made a world of difference compared to my peers.

>>94542
>How did you manage to not save buckets of money when it was literally illegal to go outside?

I only landed this job in January, so virtually the entire 6k I mention has come from that.

Before that, I was buried in an overdraft and small loan taken to pay for paying for accommodation while studying for a postgraduate qualification in another country. Prior to that again, I was an NHSlad on a relatively mediocre payband, saving for the said move.

Basically, I've doubled down on my career and future earnings over current savings at every point of my young adult life, and I also didn't get any transfer of wealth from my parents (not implying you did, but it's a factor here). The result is that I've doubled my salary twice and have set myself up well for the future, but should probably stick around and just earn cash for the time being.

>>94542

>How did you manage to not save buckets of money when it was literally illegal to go outside?

Big telly.