They ask if you have a licence with a Yes / No choice. They don't ask for the licence number, which I'd be surprised if anyone in these islands could recall. Rather charmingly, they assume you will be honest in your answer.
I hear this a lot. I've got quite a leaky 400+ year old Welsh farmhouse (long and thin, heat-sucking 4ft deep stone walls) and I'm one of those who installed last year with the grant.
It's bloody brilliant. Way, way more comfortable than the oil-fired system it replaced. The smart meter looked a bit scary during the cold patch in January but even then, it's coming in cheaper than the oil did and without the scary price variability.
I honestly love it. Getting the size of heat pump right for the property is probably the most critical thing.
I live on an old farm. I'm connected to a neighbour by a track that is narrow, has a steep drop with no barrier and a ford at the bottom. After decent rain, the ford is more like a full-blown river. It is a public footpath but otherwise is only suitable for quads or farm machinery. There's no way of turning around when you're committed. There is not a road or bridleway, there is no public access unless on foot.
At some point, presumably from satellite imagery, Google decided this was a road.
Now google maps regularly directs folk down my private drive and on to the track where they have a terrifying journey or end up having to be towed by a tractor. No amount of 'report a problem' tickets have resolved this and it's been going on for years now.
To be strictly serious we are talking about block parameters in ruby which contain the values yielded to it which, in an enumeration, is likely to be a value object from a collection and only occasionally an index (where you've explicitly chained `#with_index` for e.g.). If you are nesting deep enough in ruby to call for `k` then, yes, it would be bad practice.
I work in an environment which has dozens of products, very significant complexity and legislative needs. Cucumber works very well for us because we use it for specifying outcomes. There's way to much Gherkin out there which tries to use it for describing a journey (I click this, then this, and this....)
It works really well for us to get a shared understanding between a non-technical business, devs and QA.
That said, we then hand it the Gherkin over to the SDETs who fettle it according to our house style (which is strict and must pass enforced linting) and it does take gardening as the product matures. It's our SDETs who write the test code: we wouldn't dream of letting a non-technical person actually drive the test logic itself.
In what way? From mini skirts to punk rock to gay liberation to extinction rebellion to pro- and anti-brexit protests, we seem to be comfortable with challenge. Citation required.
Well, it would be a lot harder to sack president Boris /s.
I defer to the historian Niall Ferguson who said (I paraphrase) that purpose of monarchy is to protect the people from its government. From a UK perspective, it seems to work.
> The dominant paradigm is "if it is not permitted it is forbidden".
Oh gosh. It’s the exact opposite. The a principle of Common Law is ‘everything which is not forbidden is allowed’ (the US for example has done reasonably well on that principle).
I live in a smallholding. When the Milford Haven gas transit pipeline was being layed just by the corner of my field they found a henge. Yep, a stone circle, or the remains of it burried right in my back garden, along with countless Beaker People artefacts. The archeologists came, measured and sampled, and the pipeline now runs right through the middle of it. (It did make a curve around a badger sett though).
This is a little but old island. Spit and you'll hit history which is pretty awesome but you've got to build for the folk who are living here now.
I love (and donate to) mailcow, it's an amazing piece of work which makes it simple to get up and running and to maintain a email stack.
The problems you end up with is dealing with the big fish in this space. For instance, Microsoft are currently blocking all/most/a lot-of mail from Linode IPs and have been since 21 Dec regardless of individual server reputation[0].
I live in a reasonably rural part of the UK in an old farmhouse with historic public rights of way criss-crossing the land around here. One day google decided that a footpath through a wooded area just wide enough for a quad was public highway and started giving driving directions through it. There's no place to turn, the gradient is steep and, once you're committed, the road surface is, errr, mud. Cue umpteen drivers getting stuck, panicing or grounding out on the occassionally fast flowing ford at the bottom.
I'm guessing image rec on some new satellite imagery convinced it it must be a road.
No amount of reporting a mapping problem to google has changed anything. When I reported something similar in Apple maps a couple of years ago, the change was reflected within a couple of weeks.
The Async gem and Ruby 3+ is an incredible piece of work. If you need to coordinate 3rd party services, it's the way to go in ruby and it just reads beautifully.
I went to an agreed petrol station, they'd authorised spend there. From memory, I think I just told them my name and that was all I needed to do: fill up, thank the staff, drive off.
I had my wallet nicked in Padstow on the last day of a trip there and was just about take the 3.5 hour drive home. Problem was I didn't have enough fuel to make it. My CC providers took ages to even answer the phone and cancel the cards. Amex dealt with it a just a few mins, arranged to courier a replacement card to me by the next day and authorised a fuelling stop for me on my way home. I'll never be without one, ever.
Research I grant you, but for treatment, quality is very unevenly distributed. The Welsh NHS is appalling enough that I've considered relocating to England for this reason alone.