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I only wanted the 50p back...

This just caused some almighty tutting on the busiest night of the week.

My full node is now using more than 2GB of memory. If you run a full node on something like a Raspberry Pi then it will have crashed already. This is very concerning because Bitcoin is supposed to be decentralised but it's now prohibitively expensive to run a full node for many people.

Today I noticed a big banner with "Fitcham Demolition" go up on Sentinel House in Norwich. This is a big building that was used by Aviva opposite Sainsbury's on Queens Road.

I can't find any news online about it. Anyone have any news or know what's going on? I'd be surprised if it's demolished. Maybe asbestos removal?

I was talking to my brother who is a mechanic and we both realised that we feel a kind of pain when we do something like crunch a gearbox or rev too highly while the clutch is slipping on a car. I don't think my brother is actually an INTP, but we certainly share this characteristic. I'm not a mechanic but I do understand how a lot of machines work and I feel this sympathy towards them when they are abused. I am a programmer and I feel it for computer too. If I accidentally start an infinite loop I feel sorry for the computer.

How many of you share what I will call a sympathy for machines?

I put the milk in first, but I am not evangelical. I do it because my parents and grandparents did it that way. But I use a teapot. I would never even dream of putting the milk in first with a teabag. I don't care what you do, unless it is contact between bag and milk. Then we may not be friends.

So I've been training for just over 6 months now. Doing Greyskull LP and I'm pretty pleased with my strength gains. I hit a 3 plate squat for reps recently (140kg/315lb) which I'm very pleased about and I'm very close to 1 plate OHP and 2 plate bench, so I decided to go for 1-2-3-4.

But my deadlift started to really lag behind. In fact I was barely doing more than 140kg. So I had a dude check my form today and I did 7 reps but he said I was doing a stiff leg deadlift. I learnt pretty early on after tweaking my neck not to look in the mirror, but today I looked in the mirror and sure enough in my starting position my back was parallel to the ground.

I don't really know when I started to do

Must have been a 90s film. These are the only two things I can remember about it...

I've noticed that whenever I take a passenger and I'm accelerating they lurch forward when I do a gear shift. I think this might be quite uncomfortable for them although I've never asked.

Is this just because they are not able to anticipate the loss of acceleration that happens as I shift and therefore could only be alleviated by using less acceleration? Or can I improve my driving and shifting style in some other way to make it smoother?