Rant Of The Day

[briantrumpet]

AI-slop posters for just about everything on Facebook. Please make them go away.

 

[Beebo]

Tipping etiquette.
It’s hardly a world exclusive rant, but my current beef is the suggestion that the fixed percentage we tip should rise due to economic pressures.
This is economically illiterate as if prices go up the overall value of a tip as a fixed percentage goes up anyway. So increasing the fixed percentage when prices are high is effectively a double increase.
I will always pay a fixed service charge of 12.5%, but rarely tip on top of service. I would struggle to justify a 20% service charge.

 

[Pblakeney]

I would struggle to justify a 20% service charge.

I wouldn't even bother justifying not doing it. Even in the US, but especially so here.
I will tip what I think is deserved and no more, with my maximum being 15% for exemplary service and food/drink.

 

[Pblakeney]

Weather forecasting app inaccuracies. I use 3 and all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour. Every hour since 08:00.
Amount of rainfall so far today? Zero. Could have been out on the bike today. Forecast for tomorrow? Rain. Will it though? Rant over.

 

[briantrumpet]

Weather forecasting app inaccuracies. I use 3 and all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour. Every hour since 08:00.
Amount of rainfall so far today? Zero. Could have been out on the bike today. Forecast for tomorrow? Rain. Will it though? Rant over.

Met Office ditto for Exeter today - was about 3 hours premature with its timing for the arrival of rain.

If I really want to see what the models are saying, then I go to Meteociel, which has the raw graphic output of several models, and you can see the divergence/convergence. The basic one got the timing right for this morning (or rather, afternoon), as did one or two others.

https://www.meteociel.fr/previsions/53250/exeter.htm

 

[Pross]

Weather forecasting app inaccuracies. I use 3 and all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour. Every hour since 08:00.
Amount of rainfall so far today? Zero. Could have been out on the bike today. Forecast for tomorrow? Rain. Will it though? Rant over.

But there was a 10% chance it wouldn’t rain so they got that right.

 

[Pblakeney]

But there was a 10% chance it wouldn’t rain so they got that right.

True.
I console myself in that I popped into town to pick up some things and the hills that I would have been in were particularly gloomy.

 

[Pross]

Just realised what thread this was and that I broke my own rules sorry!

 

[Electric_Andy]

all of them have forecast 90% rain starting in one hour

I believe the 90% does not refer to the chance of rain, but rather that 90% of your selected region/postcode will get rain. So the precipitation will occur, but only for 90% of the region you have selected.

 

[Pblakeney]

I believe the 90% does not refer to the chance of rain, but rather that 90% of your selected region/postcode will get rain. So the precipitation will occur, but only for 90% of the region you have selected.

I wondered...
"Chance of precipitation
For example, a 70% chance means a 7 in 10 chance that precipitation will fall at some point during that period."

 

[dutchguylivingintheuk]

I wondered...
"Chance of precipitation
For example, a 70% chance means a 7 in 10 chance that precipitation will fall at some point during that period."

sometimes you need to put things in language that everyone can easely understand. 10% rain chance mean you're cycling trough a road with one tiny piece of glass that can cut you're tire. so the chance is small but possible.
70% change is riding trough a road that is ful of little sharp glass shards so the chances that you will have a puncture increase. Same with rain alltough there are a bit more factors that affect the communicated 70% rain chance that's why it is an prediction. not an fact.

 

[Pross]

People who volunteer to be a pacer at parkrun and either completely miss their time or end up speeding up or slowing down at the end to get close. The whole point of the role is to maintain a consistent pace as a marker for people.

I was due to do 28 minutes today but they somehow double booked and put me on 27 so I was the only one doing an odd time. No problem for me as I’m comfortable doing anything from 25 up and, whilst a very mediocre runner, I’m good at running a consistent pace. After 0.75 miles the 28 minute pacer was ahead of me and only just behind the 26 minute pacer (I’d been within a second or two on my 0.75 mile split so knew I was OK).

I read somewhere recently a woman complaining that people had criticised her for being way off when she paced 24 minutes. Her PB was over 25 minutes and she thought volunteering to do 24 would help her beat it.

 

[Beebo]

Why do TV package providers still charge more for HD content?
Surely there is no additional cost as everything is now filmed in HD anyway.

 

[AndyRM]

Why do TV package providers still charge more for HD content?
Surely there is no additional cost as everything is now filmed in HD anyway.

Which version of HD are you wondering about?

 

[BoldonLad]

Why do TV package providers still charge more for HD content?
Surely there is no additional cost as everything is now filmed in HD anyway.

It is not dissimilar to broadband speeds. The fibre cables operate at a given speed, it is then "throttled back" at the client property, to provide a cheaper product. But, exactly the same infrastructure is being used, they do not have a separate network for each speed package.

I think it is called "marketing".