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a few of these have opened in the UK but after visiting a number of them in Tokyo they just don’t work here.

people are loud and they mostly are just trendy up-market bars, rather than a place to enjoy the music.

staff in two of the places i visited in tokyo actively shushed you if you were too loud, which is actually a feature, to me

I live in London too, but I really don't think this would work well for most things, Royal Mail, sure. But if I give a this to a private parcel company, theres no way they are going to figure out that, despite being the only #9 in my postcode, there are 3 streets that my postcode covers, google maps doesn't locate my house specicically if I put "9 <postcode>', it will absolutely be marked as could not locate.

living the dream!

Yep i live on a managed estate full of old people who’ve lived here since they were built, only get VDSL. Management comittee wouldn’t even let Virgin install cable, so going to have to wait for them all to age out of the committee so we can get somewhere

I didn’t really even think about this properly until just now.. these days I am looking at Reddit, Facebook groups and if needs be, YouTube (videos not by ‘creators’ as far as possible) to find information I used to google. Ads and referral links have totally ruined the usefulness of so much information.

its also.. actually quite bad, I can't remember the last 'professional' job listing I saw that wasn't at least 25+holidays

good? landlording isn’t and shouldn’t be pitched as a risk free investment strategy. I’m glad some landlords have finally realised this.

my original airpods were bought feb 2018 and mine still last hours on output only, they last maybe 90 minutes using the microphone on calls though

if only that works bring back target display mode.

such a waste that it can’t be used as an external display.

in the UK it would be’ the front steps’ or ‘front paving’

stoop has a totally different meaning

But Tennis isn't dictated on who has the most billions to invest in new technologies, its pretty limited to the amount of money you can spend on coaching.

Apples demolition of their entire universe of music products is unbelievably frustrating.

I know iTunes never got a great rep but it worked, and iTunes Match was fantastic. Now however they still charge for it, except its totally broken unless you instead pay for Apple Music (9.99/mo instead of 24.99/year).

Annoyed but there really isn’t much alternative on that front.

One thing I've noticed as I've got more experienced was that when I started out, a PM or senior engineer would give me a task to do.

I achieved the outcome, mostly with bad to average code that slowly improved over time.

When I finally understood the domain to make bigger scoped decisions, I started doing design docs beforehand and my code continued to improve greatly.

Now when assigning out work to more junior engineers I find myself giving them a high-level design doc, with some detail missing, they deliver higher quality work than I did at that stage, and they also seem to upskill faster.

This however depends on me making the right decisions at this stage, which is not always the case, so not fool-proof but an overall software quality improvement has definitely occured.

Similar experience working with Uniqlo UK staff, they would call us for support on trivial issues late at night, demanding that is was of the utmost importance some buried marketing text was changed on random content pages.

They mostly sounded like they had no choice but to do as they were told, and looked very exhausted when we met them in person.