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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.


I suspect there are databases that will geolocate such an address.


There are and they cost upwards of £20,000 a year for a license. There’s a reason why smaller delivery companies get the address wrong and that is probably part of the issue.


The official one provided by Royal Mail is called the Postcode Address File (PAF) [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcode_Address_File


That doesn’t provide any geolocation information (unless it’s changed recently?), for that you need OS AddressBase



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


I agree, my last role was 25+ public holidays. They also offered holiday trading, which is a real "benefit" that should be advertised in my eyes. That allowed me to go up to 30 days annual leave + public holidays which was great. Current job is setup as unlimited with a minimum of 20 + public holidays, all in all I take about the same as I did at my last place but it's a bit less hassle to track.

Advertising 20 days + public holidays in the UK is basically advertising that you give people the minimum the law will let you.


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


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