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The table linked here seems like a reasonable starting point. I can't remember where I found this, so it might be up-thread 😅

Anyway, even ignoring Mac compatibility, 4K 27" falls in the badlands that are more likely to need fractional scaling/less likely applications are tested against.

27" 5K should work for anything tested on retina displays or with integer (2x) scaling.

Trump isn't going to change any of that is he?

Of course not. If you solve a problem, you can't keep telling people who to blame for it.

Admittedly "the markets" liked it, but that's not enough to make it neoliberal.

... his pro-market reforms

1. BoE independence

   Doesn't reduce the size of the state, it just puts a chunk under technocratic rather than political control.

   It was popular with markets because it reduced the risk of politicians fiddling with interest rates capriciously. It wasn't abolished or privatised.

2. Foundation hospitals

   Still part of the NHS, still not reducing the size of the state. The inspiration was allegedly a hospital in Spain which is partly governed by trade unions and community groups, which sounds like the least neoliberal thing imaginable.

3. academies

   Are still state-funded, just outside local government control. Again, not reducing the size of the state. Arguably expanding it slightly.

don’t think you can dismiss his neoliberal tendencies

Mostly these are examples of a turf war with local government. None of them reduced the size of the state, or privatised anything, or replaced any state activity with free markets.

They did have other pro-market policies, I just don't think these are good examples, and certainly not enough to justify calling them "neoliberal".

In the sense that overheating causes sweating, and sweating causes low salt and dehydration, and dehydration increases the risk of overheating because you can't keep sweating at the same rate?

That all sounds related. There may also be some relationship between hydration and fat metabolism, but I really don't remember.

Ready brek is to real porridge what smash is to mash potato.

That's an exaggeration, I'd eat ready brek more willing than powdered potato, but it's the same idea. The oats have been processed more to make them quicker to prepare, and lost some flavour (and all texture) along the way.

Steel cut definitely need longer cooking, because they have a smaller surface area/the liquid has further to travel. If you have the time though, they definitely have more flavour.

Yeah, leaving loads of metadata in a special undocumented cache breaks the Linux NTFS driver completely.

Was it really the only way to improve startup time, or was breaking compatibility a goal? Your guess is as good as mine.

I don't think the majority of bankers are even in favour of it - it's either entirely token, or aimed at the bankers' bosses.

I've just remembered I have had a code to get a free steam key for Starfield. Edit - gone!

I'm not going to get round to it for ages, if at all, and I've decided I don't really like Bethesda RPGs that much.

Is it just one assassin's creed, or is it several assassins' creed or creeds?

... tax cigarettes to a level that would cover all of the cost of the harm they did ...

That's just pricing in a negative externality. Like, in principle, carbon pricing.

Can your router run its own speed test? You can usually find one on the web interface or in the app, if it has one.

Also what's so great about community fibre and hyperopic compared to other providers?

I think it's pretty great that ...

I'm paying Community Fibre £27 a month for 920Mbps symmetric FTTP with a 1ms ping.

Can you see how many chimney pots you have, compared to the number of fireplaces?

There's probably a separate flue for each fireplace running side by side up the stack.

According to this (PDF) SPAB Technical Advice Note on Fireplaces, Flues and Chimneys, they're probably separated by "withes" or "mid-feathers" which are fairly thin, but not necessarily easy to get through without opening the whole thing up.

Oh, and 1910 is Edwardian. I have a book on Edwardian houses but sadly flue structure isn't touched on.

Sweet Jesus that cupboard is terrifying

Extremely NSFW

Take the lift. It might smell of piss, but that's probably a bonus to her.

I can carry mine, but not one-handed, so it's non-moving stairs or lifts only on the tube.

I'll be gutted to go way over what the other potential buyer offers, but also gutted to miss out on the property if I go too low.
... any wisdom to impart?

Only that a sealed-bid second-price auction should be revenue-equivalent (to the sealed-bit first price version) and specifically avoids the fear of over-bidding and all the second-guessing around that.

I don't know what the odds are that estate agents are keen on auction theory, though.

Do you mean the DWR has worn off the outer face of a hardshell (goretex, etc)? Because that's just to keep it breathable in the rain, and shouldn't let water in.

Anyway, I assume it's still Nikwax or Granger's unless something new has come along.

That's all fair, I know she'd returned to Earthsea deliberately, but the last time I re-read it was straight through with the new additions and short stories, which I think did a decent job of re-framing the earlier ones. Maybe I was just being too generous as interpreting the obvious misogyny as belonging to the characters rather than the author.

I'd agree that LHOD has some, uh, gender stereotyping language, but I don't really feel it outweighs the more deliberate treatment of gender roles in the rest of it. Maybe I need to read it again!

The Dispossessed I think is actually worse, in that the discussion of gender roles and how characters actually behave is more at odds.

Likewise. It's hard to believe the author of The Left Hand of Darkness did a bit of accidental misogyny, rather than choosing to comment on misogyny in the culture she was describing.

Speaking of which, she also wrote some excellent sci-fi, not least that one I just mentioned.

I haven't actually used it except with a proper work profile set up by an employer - the Island app @aggi mentioned is probably a better bet than the test proof-of-concept. Same idea though!

Download all the photos to your phone, disconnect the work account, and then delete the photos from the work account in a browser?

If you want to add a work Google account to a personal Android phone in future and your employer doesn't provide a managed work profile, you can create your own with the Test DPC app. Just create a new profile and add the work account in there.

Probably wise. I gave it a quick try to see how it looked, and I'm already 16 hours in.

Nobody playing Baldur's Gate 3 yet then?