u/Fuarkistani

I'm looking for a 03-05 Yaris to have fun little car to drive around and practice fixing up. Would be pretty much only town driving, rarely on the motorway at 60-70mph.

Which one should I opt for? I only care about reliability and running costs, not performance. Does one have more issues than the other, like excessive oil consumption? I did read in an old forum the 1L burns a lot at high mileage (like most engines due to valve seals or rings). Anyone have experience with this. Would be good to know.

Probably going to be buying a 100k+ miler unless I can get lucky with a low mileage car.

I'm currently applying for level 4 software developer apprenticeships. I have experience with C# and .NET as well as some front-end. Made a few projects which I've spoken about in my CV and cover letters. What else can I do that'll give a boost to my application or just get me apprenticeship ready? Are there any accredited courses that I should do in the meantime that'll show I'm dedicated and wanting to learn?

Trying to just see what the best pathway for me is. I've applied for apprenticeships that are focused on the backend with C#/Java, front-end and one that was using C for embedded systems (I have some systems programming experience from dabbling in Rust).

Wages range from £15k to £27k from all the listings I've seen so far. I'm just hungry to get started learning, I have savings to keep me going as I upskill. How should I answer this question?

First time encountering this question in a long time as I've been self-employed for a while.

Does anyone know how soon after someone lists an item does the api pickup new listings?

I haven't used the ebay API yet but I tried using the front end and it was somewhere around 3-4 minutes. Someone competing with me for the same kind of items is somehow buying them 1-2 minutes before me. Literally a minute after the official listing time.

Any suggestions what's going on? Is that person just using the same API?

I've gone through the first 15 pages of google and anything after the 3rd page just has those course selling companies or data farmers advertising outdated apprenticeships.

So far only found QA and UCAS to be offering real apprenticeships, is there anywhere else I should look at? I'm open to relocating anywhere in the UK, I suppose other than London where I currently live and will struggle to live on an apprentice's wage.

Also interested to hear from anyone who is doing a software dev apprenticeship, what they are learning and any suggestions for applying. I'm in my late 20s.

There is a word I have heard like "badhumati", used in this context: "wo mera badhumati kar raha hai". Obviously the word is wrong but I'm trying to find out what it is. Any ideas what the correct word is?

I have Adidas Runfalcon 5 trainers at the minute and for the £20 I paid they're not bad at all. However I have an itch for a nicer pair. I'm jogging around the park for about an hour. What should I look at getting? I'm seeing loads of models on New Balance and Asics website. The most I want to spend is about £75-80.

Is there going to be a noticeable step up going from Adidas to New Balance/Asics?

Does anyone know roughly what fat % is in typical keema at a butcher (I'm from UK). First time I'm making kebabs myself and I want to know for calorie counting purposes. I forgot to ask the butcher. Is 20% a good estimate?

I just asked for "kebab ka keema" and he mixed in onions, green chillis.

Here is something I'm confused by, say I'm replacing the battery on a Game Boy game. I start by heating the joints on each side and lifting the battery off the board. Then I'll add a bit of flux and wick up the unleaded solder.

At this point is it good practice to use IPA + brush to clean the +ve and -ve pads before adding leaded solder? Or should I just add flux and tin them up, cleaning up afterwards? Don't really see the point why you would clean up before tinning but I have seen it done this way many times.

I'm using aliexpress Kingbo flux, not sure how good it is relative to other fluxes. I'm finding it difficult to get a clean board with it. Once I'm done soldering I'll get a toothbrush with 99.9% isopropyl alcohol and brush it down. Then polish with a cotton bud. It still leaves behind a slightly sticky surface. Not as much as pure flux but it still feels like some remains.

Any suggestions as to what I should do? Should I get a hard bristle brush? I'm maybe not brushing hard as I could as I'm worried about knocking components off the board. I'm mostly dealing with GBA pokemon game boards.

I bought a few of these like 7-8 years back after reading about some 3DS cartridges becoming faulty. I decided to test a few include my Alpha Sapphires and 2 Omega Rubies are not working.

One gets stuck on the red/black 3DS loading screen and the other reaches the in-game loading screen but then says “error has occurred” when you press ‘A’.

Does anyone know which carts and batch codes are affected? And what other games? I remember reading X and Y had similar issues.

I’ve started going for walks and the park I walk around (just outside London) looks to have an infinite supply of ripe blackberries.

If you were to wash them well and maybe pick the ones that are higher up, is it likely you could get unwell from eating them?

I'm scraping ebay search results for an item i'm interested in, using C# httpclient and HtmlAgilityPack to parse the html. I'm using real browser headers but not rotating IP or User agent. Also storing and reusing cookies. (not sure if this is a good idea).

Anyway I haven't had any 429 or 403 status codes. I do randomly get 503 codes though. Is this possibly a disguised rate limit? Or just a random issue on the server, no issue with my request?

Also I've found items that were listed at 10:30, for example, and I get a notification at 10:33-10:34. It'll say the item sold at 10:32 so someone has bought it before the alert went out. Is that likely to be someone with access to the ebay API? How can i force the freshest results? I already am sorting by 'newly listed'.

I'm grinding each daily trying to learn as much as possible and making projects. Looking for someone who is also down to do this with me. Must be serious. This is like an accountability thing. We can work on a project together, understand what's going on line by line or just discuss anything to become better developers.

If you are lazy or not fully committed you need not reply.

GMT+1 timezone.

A lot of people say age doesn't matter when it comes to apprenticeships but I get the impression it will in tech. Really wanting to get into this industry (even if it is looking bleak) as I'm passionate about developing software.