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As in, having observed the UG experience at Edinburgh first-hand but at Cambridge only second-hand. Whereas the GP did the reverse.

This was also my observation but in the reverse direction. I turned down a place at Cambridge to do my undergrad at Edinburgh a few years ago (for various reasons, not relevant her…

Some counties in England still have state grammar schools and still follow the 11+ process. The 163 that the poster above you is referring to are state, selective, schools, rather …

My first job out of college was like this. My manager knew I had no work and had no particular interest in letting me take on anything I proposed or found. I ended up quitting a fe…

Same situation for me (albeit left the job at the end of the contract, not laid off). I’ve had the laptop for over a year now because IT refused to pay return shipping. I’ve follow…

Yeah, I wish I'd had "free time" in college. 60-70 hour work weeks were normal - 20 hours a week in class and then a full-time load of courseworks / readings / labs etc. I couldn't…

I've put them in a Gist for you: https://gist.github.com/andmikey/4da65e0085104e514286678c431... . The script I run is wiktionary_scraper.py, it assumes you've got a vocab_main.xls…

Yeah, it's something I can time myself: I'm on about 6 years of daily usage at this point so it comes very easily. Anki also lets you set a time-out on cards as well. I'll know jus…

CSV import (from Excel / Google Sheets) is my go-to for this as well. Added bonus is being able to script things - I have some Python scripts that will do a lot of the hard work fo…

One way you can achieve this using SRS is forcing very short recall times. I average under 2 seconds a card in review: my view is that if I can't recall it in under 2 seconds (what…

I’ve just graduated in Computer Science and I’m trying this pivot as well, but without the b-school (yet). ~2 years of tech work experience during my degree and I realised tech jus…

UK unis are a lot better at using the full grading scale, in my experience. 70% gets you a 'first class' [0], but there's a lot of room in the 70-100 range to differentiate perform…

Not sure how long ago this was - photos on resumes is definitely not a thing in the UK anymore. Very common in some European countries (e.g. Germany), though.

For my Thinkpad (Thinkpad 13, I think it's called L-series now) installing Ubuntu was no trouble at all - set up a bootable USB, install, and done. Ubuntu actually runs much better…

Government apps no - both require a 'modern' Android or iPhone. Banking apps partially - I can't use the web browser on my phone (it doesn't support modern enough crypto) but I can…

I've been using a Blackberry Passport since early 2019 - as a replacement for the "dumb" phone I used for many years. I love it! The build quality is fantastic. The keyboard is a b…

> They make offers expecting that the vast majority of them will be met, rather than over-offering and expecting A-level results to prune the numbers significantly. Notable excepti…

Huh. I'm in the UK and no problems... moving to Germany in a few weeks so we'll see if I have the same problem! Such a lovely phone though. Now that I have it I can't imagine using…

Interesting. I bought a Passport cheap last year to replace my old feature phone - works a treat, no problems with signal. I wonder if it's a US vs EU thing...?

Basically everything described above is in Anki / AnkiWeb [0]: - Pre-made decks of cards on a range of subjects available on the web ("shared decks"). - Cloud storage of cards (Ank…