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It's not healthy. For some people their OCD is so bad that they cannot pass a cyclist or pedestrian, regardless of how safe or textbook the manoeuvre, without having deep anxiety that they might have hit them.

I too started taking photos on my phone. It's not a solution, it's a safety behaviour. The trouble with safety behaviours is that they can stop working after a while and then you're in trouble.

I struggle a lot with OCD. I have a therapist. We have techniques and routines to try and reduce the anxiety and compulsions to some reasonable baseline. Some days are O.K, others are torture.

My frequent OCDs include:

1. Leaving the cooker on 2. Leaving the taps on 3. Leaving a window open or a door unlocked 4. Some kind of electrical fault burning down the house 5. Causing harm to other people, particularly when driving 6. Searching the Internet for illegal content 7. Doing something awful/unforgivable and being criminally prosecuted or losing all my savings in some kind of civil case

I never usually experience them at the same time. They come and go one at a time and some I have learned to manage better than others.

I live in a block of flats with a flat mate. I can tell when she is home before she even gets to the front door as you can hear people walking in the corridor and she has a particularly heavy, almost clumsy walk that is completely and easily distinguishable.

epoll is bad

Source please! I'm genuine - what is bad about it?

The Italian government are in a debt crisis not too different from the Greek government debt crisis of 2007/2008.

Italy currently has a slow growing economy and needs a large number of younger economic migrants to increase Italy's competitiveness and pay taxes.

Spain and Italy currently have weakened economies caused by large unemployment and government debt.

Italy in particular is at risk of defaulting on its debts (which are 131% of GDP compared to 87.7% for the U.K and 64.1% in Germany as of 2017) and the ECB and other lenders are going to be reluctant to lend to them. This is turn puts the banks and all kinds of public services at risk.

I use it whenever I don't have a local shell available.

For example, when using an iPhone or iPad, or if I need to test something real quick in language X and I don't have X installed on the machine.

Overpass Mono

I am a long time user of repl.it and I think it's great but I do wonder what the expected ROI is here? Call me short sighted, but It's still just a repl. Perhaps it could be sold to GitHub to integrate with Gist?

One of the issues is the federalisation of the European Union.

I don't know what could be done to address that though, it's not something that can be undone I would have thought without huge political and economic consequences.

The Fiat 500 is a cheap car for the masses. It competes with the Ford Fiesta, Renault Clio and other B class hatchbacks. A Fiat 500 can be had from £10,900 to £15,000 in the U.K. while the Ford Fiesta starts at just over £13,000 and can be optioned up to £20,000.

The Abarth 595 is also competitive with B class hot hatches such as the Fiesta ST, Polo GTI, Renault Clio Sport, etc.

Except that people can still breed horses which keeps the cost of horse riding reasonable.

In contrast it will no longer be legal to manufacture and sell ICE cars, and so the price of these cars will go up as demand outgrows supply, making it financially unattainable for all but the rich.

Car manufacturers are now looking at using 48v powered turbochargers to eliminate turbo lag. I wonder if that could be seen as an electrification of the powertrain?

That's a shame because there are some remarkable cars, both modern and classic, that will no longer be able to drive on the roads if we ban all ICE.

It would be the equivalent of banning steam engines, which although no longer in normal use, are still running as tourist attractions and remarkable pieces of engineering that are fantastic to see and experience.

Is this sarcasm?

I work for a US organisation in London, and not finance.

The average compensation for engineers is about £100,000 - some above and some below. This is on top of private medical and dental, generous pension contributions and a number of other benefits.

I spent a lot of time at a previous job supporting an NDB cluster and I can attest first hand that it is awful.

Single node failures cause entire cluster shutdowns, the cluster then takes forever to recover and must be done in a specific order. In fact just thinking about it makes me anxious.

I have an XPS 13 which I run Debian 9 and the coil whine is unbelievable! When I open Google Maps it sounds like how one might imagine a supercomputer in a children's TV show.

This is normal for people who work in London and live in the commuter belt around it. Most of these people have a car but walk to the station, or drive to the station, and then take a train into London. Once in London these people then take the tube, buses, bikes or walk to get around.

The car still gets used outside work to get groceries, pick up kids from schools and of course at the weekends.

https://blog.timac.org/2017/0410-analysis-of-the-facebook-ap...

I'm mid 20s and am putting just over $1000 a month into retirement, split between a private and workplace pension. I intend to do this for as long as possible!

Disclaimer: I don't live or work in the U.S

Porsche require you fit special N rated tires if you want to keep your car in warranty.

Lots of Japanese cars have been (and some still are) sold in the U.K. without sufficient rust protection from new. The MX5 is one of the worst for this and is still delivered in 2018 without underseal at all.

Hyundai and Kia and now starting to challenge even the German car manufacturers with their i30N and Stinger cars.

In fact, they specifically poached a number of former executives from BMW's M division to lead those projects.

I wonder if some of this is to do with weight reduction. To have seperate buses must add a lot of extra equipment and wiring.

This means more weight and more power required to operate the electrics and in turn means lower MPG, higher fuel consumption and a more expensive car to design and manufacture.

The net outcome is a less competitive car in a competitive market.

OCD.

Lately I've been struggling with what they call inflated responsibility. I typically ruminate that something I said, something I did, or something I did not say or do will have some large negative effect on some or something and that I will be responsible for it. It's immensely stressful to worry about.

I'm seeing a therapist to work on my issues.

Isn't the lack of wage growth the reason that most large purchases are financed?

That's such a shame! I live in the UK and I love driving - but also have had a special commute that few get to experience.

In short, living an hour outside of London in a small village meant that the drive to the station (to take the train to London) involved rolling hills and long and twisted scenic roads. It was really enjoyable - usually my favourite time of the day - even more so if like me you are into your cars and bought yourself a nice car to enjoy it with.

On summer evenings after work I would find myself taking 1 to 2 hour detours discovering new roads and sceneries, usually until the sunset which at peak was somewhere between 9 and 10pm. It was the best thing I ever did for my mental health, but now I live in London it's not something I can do anymore. I walk to and from work through a very busy, stressful and polluted city.

Can you explain that? Why would I need to lose 1/2 of my free users? I'm not sure I understand the paradox.