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by iso1631 3y ago
Having 4 independent adults in a 4 bed house is quite common in the UK due to the cost of housing. Having 3 or 4 adults in a 4 bed house is even more common once you include 20-something kids who live with their parents due to the cost of h
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by iso1631 3y ago
No, they don't. Planing permission typically allows a 4 bed with 2 parking spaces, but one is a garage, meaning it's 1 usable parking space. Given that the only way you can afford a house is to have at least 2 workers, that leaves
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by iso1631 3y ago
> If so, it sounds like those parking locations need to be charged for. I agree, however once you make it the norm then people expect to have parking for free, and anyone attempting to change that would be voted out of office
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by iso1631 3y ago
In the UK we build houses without enough parking and the whole area becomes horrendous. The idea I get from reading about US "pro housing" people is that if you don't provide parking, people will still have a car and still pa
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by iso1631 3y ago
it's expensive because it's mostly nice (although the cheapest place I ever lived in was near west kensington tube station, just on the wrong side of the tracks, but about a mile from kensington gardens. It's quite clear that
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by iso1631 3y ago
With a known vulnerability I can put in monitoring or countermeasures or work out that it doesn't affect me. With an unknown vulnerability, I don't have any information about it, it could be affecting me right now.
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by iso1631 3y ago
> Knowing that my computing resources just sit there unused bothers me. If you use them it will consume more energy. Now if you are using your computer for resistive heating, fine -- although I'd encourage you to use a heatpump inst
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by iso1631 3y ago
> until the boomers die The earth tried solving that. We destroyed the economy and caused untold mental damage to youngsters to prevent it.
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by iso1631 3y ago
You can certainly increase density while maintaining green spaces. Westminster (A London borough) has enormous open areas -- Hyde Park, Green Park, Regents Park and St James Park - taking almost half the entire borough's area. It still
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by iso1631 3y ago
Of course they won't fall. The cost of property is set to extract every extra penny from the working class as possible - either in mortgage rates or rental costs. The owning class who say "not in my back yard" win regardless,
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by iso1631 3y ago
Such tosh. "A higher-rates world would also improve housing affordability, helping young, would-be homeowners. Based on current interest rates, the house-price-to-earnings ratio could fall to around 5.6 – the lowest level seen since 20
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by iso1631 3y ago
V.92 apparently brought in 48kbit uploads
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by iso1631 3y ago
The first 56k modems were download at 56k, upload at 33.6. In theory that was the same upload speed as a 33.6k modem, but I guess line quality could have caused some issue with the higher download baudrate meaning that the upload suffered (
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by iso1631 3y ago
That's how everything was privatised
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by iso1631 3y ago
Same as happens at the majority of stations now. If you need assistance you book it.
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by iso1631 3y ago
And they should thus pay the extra cost for that privilege. 30 years ago Terry Wogan was using his radio 2 breakfast show telling the 40-60 demographic how to send emails and watch his webcam. That demographic are now 70-90. I do sympathise
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by iso1631 3y ago
"get off the train in a wheelchair" Nothing to do with accessible stations, where they simply look up entries in a database and will have very little personal knowledge.
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by iso1631 3y ago
Since privatisation in 1994 to pre-covid 2019, rail usage increased from 36 billion km to 80 billion km, more than doubling. Road increased from 666 to 741 bkm, increasing 11%.
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by iso1631 3y ago
Ticket office staff won't help you there.
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by iso1631 3y ago
> and its motivator is profit extraction, not quality of service and encouraging more people off the roads on to the trains Which station? Or which TOC? > Also comparing trains to cars and busses as a positive competition is missing t
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by iso1631 3y ago
Because ticket offices are a costly relic from the 20th century that simply are not needed, as evidenced by the collapsing usage of them.
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by iso1631 3y ago
Other way round. Railtrack was a private company on the FTSE. It killed people. Network Rail then took the rail infrastructure back in house.
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by iso1631 3y ago
> shutting ticket offices Why should I pay higher prices/taxes to keep ticket offices 90% of the country and increasing don't use open? International Airlines finished moving to e-ticketing 15 years ago
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by iso1631 3y ago
Railway tracks aren't privitised and haven't been for 20 years. The trains running on them were - at least until covid broke everything The problem is that the government let companies like Virgin off when they broke their contrac
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by iso1631 3y ago
> The only places where NT managed to succeed on server room have been Microsoft shops, or places where .NET was adopted as the main development stack. .NET came out well after NT was replaced with windows 2000 (unless you claim that 200
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by iso1631 3y ago
That's nice. Currently in my house I have 11 machines with a linux kernel, including 3 running a desktop gui (xfce), 1 android tablet, 1 chromebook, couple of pis, and the rest being routers and APs. I've also got a windows 10 ent
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by iso1631 3y ago
You could just have a land tax, as copyright is land. Let companies value their copyright, and let them pay the cost to maintain that copyright (say a 2% per year cost), and let someone buy that copyright from them at the price they value i
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by iso1631 3y ago
The helicopter view says that I need to implement my change and move on before the shit hits the fan. The next person to take over will blame everything on "the previous guy", quite rightly, but I won't care as I'll have
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by iso1631 3y ago
Absolutely, here's a config from one of my aristas(with bits snipped) interface Ethernet1 switchport trunk native vlan 899 switchport trunk allowed vlan 801 switchport mode trunk interface Ethernet13 swi
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by iso1631 3y ago
> he hadn’t even heard of ChatGPT Practically every mainstream comedy show I hear in the UK mentions chatgpt, it's been constantly in the news over the last 6 months. Every high school child knows how to use it, hell there was a sou

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