More energy saving tips

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No, forums are dead.

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Or move to the highlands of Scotland is the pathetic heat of southern England bothers you.

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Another thing to consider is that ideally you want a balance of money in the SIPP and money in stocks and shares ISA.

Two reasons, SIPP rules mean you don't know what min retirement age will be in 20 years (possibly 60 to 65), and income from a SIPP is taxable once you access it at retirement....

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I chuckle at the fact no one here can agree on where tax should be paid, and how much. I also smile when I think that the big tech companies achieve the goal of paying almost no tax anywhere, regardless of where the business is located, and regardless of where the income is generated. Then a bigger...

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This is so true. I've worked contracts where at renewal the client has totally agreed that I was one of the top performers, but unless I was prepared to walk, there was not chance of a rate increase. Rate they said was fixed by the finance dept, everyone gets the same amount for a given role.
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Where does retirement fit into that? Not really earning a living, living off investment income.

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Anyone who thought Brexit would reduce immigration was a Brexidiot.

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Brexit Britons will be eating bugs, not lamb or even mice.

https://www.ft.com/content/252c7358-...0-4b06922d7f6c...

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Anything that doesn't integrate with Git by default is not going to last long.

Locking and checking out files doesn't really cut it with a globally distributed and large development team making constant commits with continuous deployment...

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2003 was 18 years ago. Git was released 16 years ago and has pretty much wiped out the old fashioned centralised version control. I am just amazed people have only started using something that is nearly as old as .Net and older than the invention of the iPhone ...

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It's called a distributed source control system. This isn't your grandads source control.

https://www.oshyn.com/blog/2012/06/v...vs-centralized

You guys been living under a rock? ...

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It sounds to me like people are using Git wrong. I've used it solidly for about 5 years, never lost a commit or overwritten anyone else's work. You are using something like Git flow yes? Branch and merge? Nothing is ever lost, you only have to deal with conflicts.

If you are getting...

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If you are using Visual Studio Code as your code editor it has Git source control built in. Just add something like Git lens and you can see file history etc in the code editor directly.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com...amodio.gitlens...

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Git is great, sourcetree is not a great UI.

This is a better GUI for Git.

https://www.gitkraken.com/...

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Browser / Javascript data charting and visualisations seem miles ahead in terms of speed and features these days.

This is one of the best ones, and I think you can free license for own non commercial usage:

https://www.highcharts.com/download/

https://shop.hig...

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As we enter the final days before the Climate Catastrophe takes all our lives, here's some energy saving tips to push the day of reckoning out another few days or so.

https://www.theguardian.com/big-ener...onge-letterbox

Hope this...

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I thought it was about those who leave their too long in the milk....

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But the youth of today expect the parents to pay the house deposit. I mean they get the parents to stump up 20 or £30K as a gift. If they don't they basically hate the parents and hope they die asap....

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5w and night vision goggles is more than anyone needs for a whole house.

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Please don't think about replying if you have < £50K of skin in the game, your opinion is worthless at those levels.