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by hghid 3mo ago
It is a disaster for Farage. He looks like ridiculous with almost every outcome. Last by-election he (Reform UK) won with about 45% of the vote. This is a big win in UK elections as there are typically about 4 parties with a decent number o
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by hghid 6mo ago
Even though you could question the whole Artemis concept, it's still extremely exciting watching the countdown with my son. I just missed the original Apollo flights and had assumed I would never see a moon landing in my lifetime. We m
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by hghid 2y ago
It's the blind assumption that if a UI was developed in the last year it is "Modern" and therefore automatically better. I guess there will be a phase of AI infused UI design to drag things further downhill. The equiavalent o
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by hghid 2y ago
There may also be a side business selling skin products to protect people who may be exposed to the radiation from this new reactor. Possibly people may even choose to vacation in areas of elevated radation, as it is likely to be warmer. In
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by hghid 2y ago
Also worth a trip to: https://www.beamish.org.uk/ To see a lot of Industrial Revolution tech actually working.
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by hghid 3y ago
There are plenty of things that I like to think I could probably turn my hand to and make a passable job of if I had to, but Illustration is not one of them. I would love to have to ability to visualise something and make it appear on paper
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by hghid 3y ago
I'm not sure I agree with "universally", I bet there are a awful lot of people who can't stand that level of service and find it quite uncomfortable. I get that I could order ahead etc, but that makes an impulse purchase
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by hghid 3y ago
That is true, but I'm sometimes I'm frankly far too impatient to wait for delivery.
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by hghid 3y ago
Slightly tangential rant, but is anybody else becoming frustrated with the process of buying Apple products in Apple stores? For me, it started with the Apple Watch - I knew which one I wanted and was ready just to head down and buy one, bu
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by hghid 3y ago
Nice idea, but at some point GPT + "generate code to implement this patent", may develop plausible enough code to satisfy most Patent Examiners. I don't see this fixing the issue in the longer term - maybe a "use it or l
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by hghid 3y ago
Haha - that summed up my day perfectly!
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by hghid 3y ago
According to the car, the stability control system wasn't working. Cause? Obviously a broken fuel injector. The stability control system talks to the engine ECU to control the torque if there is a lack of traction - it is notified of t
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by hghid 3y ago
Same here - I have owned an old petrol Vauxhall for years as my runaround car and it's so much easier to deal with. The big issue I have with newer cars is that the computers mask any developing issues until they get to a point when th
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by hghid 3y ago
I'm all for improvements to pod startup times etc, but the general idea of putting more software into cars is not that appealing. I recently broke down in the highlands of Scotland in a fairly new car with the family - it was a horribl
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by hghid 4y ago
Visual Basic was an incredible leap forward in programming in that it made programming accessible to much wider range of people. People that just wanted to make a computer perform a task without necessarily writing a commercial product or c