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Speed cameras are less liked for sure but ANPR is typically used to catch people who have not paid their vehicle tax or who have not got their annual car safety check done (MOT) bu…

I find all the reporting on cameras in the US quite interesting given we’ve had ANPR cameras in the UK for 20+ years

You'd have written Instagram which was released in 2010 in Elixir which wasn't released to the public til 2012?

In premium ice cream you'll get 18-20% dairy fat content and no gums. In ones with gums, it's typically much much lower - 5% is the minimum in the UK for "dairy ice cream" where 10…

>They do put cornflour in their fruit yogurts, but that seems less egregious than most. These are UPFs. The point of adding cornflour or starches is to make them thicker and more l…

It's interesting you note Yeo Valley because I've found their products very mixed - lots of them do have UPFs. It's interesting that their ice cream doesn't. There's no Waitrose wi…

They're basically used as you say to replace things like eggs and milk. The whole point of that from the industrial perspective is to save on cost, they weren't removed on health g…

They're all still shoving tons of emulsifiers and stabilisers and coconut and palm oil and xantham and locust bean gum and stuff in though. It's almost impossible to find ice cream…

My great uncle worked for Walls after National Service; he died this year. He emigrated to Australia in the 60s so must have been before that. Few stories I remember him telling me…

Unless they stop blasting the ads aimed at international markets e.g. "Premier Chinese Gaming Partner" around all the boards in the game this is very small fry in practice.

I think I'm too clumsy for a programme like this

I think people in the Python world just don't yet have a good mental model of async either. I recently have had conversations with a number of people who have switched to FastAPI b…

> The United States government considers US supremacy in "AI" as a national security consideration. They thought the same about SSL in the 1990s and the world didn't stop moving el…

Transfer of ownership is probably the least controversial part of owning a house in the UK too.

There is no "company" in effect and hasn't been since 2020. The government is the operator and tells companies where they can run trains and what they charge while the companies ha…

I'm a phyicist by training and have published in the past but I left academia and so haven't for a number of years now. I tried out using Claude to do some physics problem solving …

Static memory allocation is widely used in quite a bit of embedded software, particularly safety critical stuff. There it's often latency related since you don't want hangs while m…

They had a thing of encouraging talent and putting it in special schools to develop it. Then Maths reading groups etc.

Not many Cockneys in London these days, they're all in Essex

I had that when workign with a lot of other Europeans. When I moved to a company where everyone was British I had to re-adapt, particularly because I'd become more direct after wor…

The hydration breaks are a FIFA thing, we can't blame the US for that one. We're not really seeing the ads and half time crap and things as the international broadcasters don't sho…

Traditionally everyone had sash windows ("sliding windows") or casement windows ("swing open") made from wood. Nowadays sash windows are very expensive so almost everyone has casem…

This might sound ridiculous to you but in the U.K. we generally don’t have tilting windows. They are really common in Germany though.

In the UK people predominantly use debit cards but credit cards are widely available. Everyone gets a debit card with any current account (i.e. non-savings account). In March this …

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