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> 1 - ((1-45000)/45000)^(36510) = 0.08

I think you mean:

    1 - ((45000-1)/45000)^(365*10) = 0.08
Whilst it doesn't matter if the exponent is even (such as 3650 above) using (1-45000)/45000 will give a wrong estimation for odd exponents.

Taxis exist.


The parking minimum is for taxis?


It's pretty common for people drive to the bar, get drunk, taxi/Uber/Lyft/DD home, and then return the following day to get their vehicle. I don't think it makes sense personally, but I also don't drink at all so I'm not a great judge here.


Makes perfect sense if people are not planning on having a big night and then do.

You can see people taxi/uber into a place if they are definitely planning to get blathered.


I live in an apartment in London.

In daily/weekly use:

2 x Outer front door keys (shared with apartment above) - one Yale type, one deadbolt type 2 x Apartment front door keys- one Yale type, one deadbolt 1 x Bicycle storage key 2 x Bicycle lock keys

Monthly use is another 5 keys (2 more keys for other bicycle storage plus 2 more bicycle locks, shed door lock)

Even less frequently (but more than yearly) there are another 5 more keys that I’ll need to use.

Keyless would be great but it is pretty impossible right now.

Looking at my key ring I have keys oriented in the same direction and the similar looking keys have plastic “hats” that match the colour of the doors/locks they open.


Infomercial is one existing word for it.


The UK has a concept of a BritRail pass for people from outside the UK. It's currently £568 for a month long pass.

That would be £6816 for a year, although (again) "You can use a BritRail Pass if you’re not a UK citizen and have not lived in the UK for the last six months or more.". I guess you'd have to go home before the end of the 6th consecutive month of using the passes otherwise you'd disqualify yourself.

https://www.thetrainline.com/trains/rail-passes/britrail-pas...

The All-Line-Rover would be the version for anyone who does live in the UK: http://www.railrover.org/pages/all-line.html and it is much more expensive.


Finally Year of the Linux Desktop?


1534 was the port used by the license manager (elmd - Elan license manager). The bane of many a Netcool installation until we joyfully ripped it out post IBM acquisition.

-Alex (Micromuse 1997 to 2021).


I was wondering what it was. I only worked on Proviso out of Massachusetts so I never even touched anything that was Netcool proper.


I think I was in Lowell for a few weeks helping out on some App Packs when I heard about the acquisition. Working with JFK? and another guy with a short nickname that escapes me right now. Wedge?


I know who JFK is— rad dude— but Wedge doesn’t ring a bell. I was in support though so my exposure to most of the dev crew was infrequent enough to make a lot of those memory recall threads pretty thin. I went to Dallas in 2006 to get the official Micromuse company training because we were basically still operating as Quallaby when I got hired. It was for… a week I think? Maybe two? Nice folks down there. Plus great barbecue for lunch and great tequila after work. Hard to argue with that.


I’m guessing this will continue to happen until, I dunno, some the execs at Experian continually have their accounts compromised in the same way again and again.


Unfortunately, the people in charge of these systems have enough money to hire people to do all of this crap for them. They don't do their own taxes, they don't open their own credit cards, they don't negotiate their own mortgages or car loans, nothing. They just tell their butler or financier or real estate agent or whatever "Go get me an X" and that other person deals with all the shit. Being the target of identity fraud just means they hire another gofer to deal with it full time for six months which costs them so little money, relative to their wealth, that's it's not even worth thinking about. And they're not even using their own credit, most of the time, they're using the "credit" of some shell corporation or limited liability corporation or trust or whatever other financial bullshit they hired a dozen lawyers to set up to commit tax fraud. So no, they experience none of the shit they perpetrate.


Yes, it sure would be a shame if, I dunno, some execs at Experian were to experience some of the same issues that so many others have - due to the existence and ... 'management' of their own business ...

Why, going through such trials, ex opere operantis, might just sour a 'true believer' in the "invisible hand" on the whole novus ordo seclorum.*

Hahahhahahaha! Urghk, briefly part-swallowed my tongue from laughter, excuse me...

* As the undoubtedly distinguished graduates of Yale SOM, for example, might phrase it


The execs may be incompetent, they're probably not stupid, though- they don't use that shit.


This isn’t an opt-in service. It’s a dragnet surveillance system. All it knows is slurping up data. Are there case statements all over the codebases to exclude the execs of three different companies and congress?


If you have any sort of Experian bureau activity, you're at risk by this issue whether you manage your profile with this site or not


Have you tried Couch to 5k? (C25K)

FWIW I did it a few years back after coming back from an ankle fracture that had stopped me doing any exercise for 6 months. Looking at my Week 1 Day 1 activity on Strava my HR was ~105bpm when initially walking, but then up to 160bpm when running for a minute, and only dropped to ~130bpm when walking for the next minute. This see-saw repeated; up to ~160bpm when running, down to ~130bpm when walking. At the end it dropped from 160bpm to 115bpm over the course of the final 5 minute "cool down" walk. There's quite a "lag" between exercise intensity and HR.

My point is that if you're not regularly running then your CV system is inefficient, and so even walking may put your HR up quite high. If you stick at it it should improve.

I'm 47 and my HR when I go for a run is ~170bpm. If I go for a gentle run I try and keep it below 150bpm, but when I was just getting back into it I'd struggle to keep my HR under 165bpm even on a "gentle" run. As you get fitter (or lighter) you can do the same kind of runs with a lower HR than before. When I really want to push it I can average 180bpm-190bpm for a 5k (although it feels grim at the time).

If you get through a few weeks of C25K and you're still having trouble running for more than a minute or so at a time then I'd go see a doctor. If you're concerned/nervous about the idea of trying C25K with a possibility that there may be something amiss then go and see a doctor about it now.

(This is not medical advice. I am not a doctor.)


I’m in the UK. Picked up a bad case of what I thought was food poisoning at the start of October.

Symptoms started two days after I went swimming in my local council/municipal swimming pool, and lasted about 9 days. Wont go into details but at one point I’d lost 7kg. I didn’t eat any solid food for 8 of those days and had under 100kcal a day for about 7 days. Electrolyte tablets, water and Imodium was it for a while.

One night I had an amazing fever with delirious dreams. Had an average HR of 150bpm for 9 hours of “sleep”.

Took two weeks before I was back to normal, still 4kg down on where I was before - which is nice.

Sounds very much like it could have been cryptosporidium. I’ll never know for sure as I didn’t send a sample off (had a chance to via my doctor but didn’t see the point).

Haven’t been back to my local pool yet though.


>had an amazing fever with delirious dreams

Where did we travel to, enLightened oNe..?


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