bmsleight_

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by bmsleight_ 1mo ago
>It's Clacton, farage chose it for a reason. It's full of retirees and Brexit voters I used to live in that constituency. The 'great' thing about the first past the post system is you get a MP representative of that c
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by bmsleight_ 1mo ago
>The UK has no constitutional method to remove a PM. I not sure this is correct, a vote of confidence in Parliament. Will bring down the government. Hence the PM.
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by bmsleight_ 1mo ago
Only one Boaty Boat, lacking the McBoatyFace.
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by bmsleight_ 3mo ago
The power of having a parliamentary system. Combined with the power of 77,462 residents of Makerfield. Love the UK - we can be brutal if MPs want a leader .
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by bmsleight_ 8mo ago
Yep - the way to get adoption, whilst the bar is too high for self-driving cars, the bar should be safer than the average person. An old greying socialist - saying that capitalism drive the right outcomes. Same with low-carbon, insurance w
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by bmsleight_ 9mo ago
I hacked together a HDMI e-ink monitor https://barwap.com/projects/okmonitor/ I wanted an e-ink screen I could just plug-in. Versatile, big and cheap. Connection is via a VGA or HDMI. Works like an appliance. All
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by bmsleight_ 1y ago
Got a link to a it ? I love to replace my under power USB soldering iron
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by bmsleight_ 1y ago
>privilege of having pre-school aged children, that's my opinion, Look at salary sacrifice. This give you the option of buying childcare vouchers before tax. So taking you below the 100,000. Otherwise pay more into pension and dro
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by bmsleight_ 2y ago
So if I torrented and seeded, I would be doing it for my own entertainment, not commercially. I expect big copy-write holders to come after myself. If Meta does it - I guess they have better lawyers ? Could make interesting case law.
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by bmsleight_ 2y ago
First reading, there are lots of stage before the bill is passed. It look like Parliament, via private members bill working at its best. Lots of debate, lots of people listening to the debate and then voting.
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by bmsleight_ 2y ago
Any facts to back up this assumption ? "TfL said the amount refunded equated to less than 0.001% of annual fare £3bn revenue collected via pay as you go with contactless."
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by bmsleight_ 2y ago
I did a similar project HDMI in https://hackaday.com/2021/01/08/old-kindle-shows-hdmi-video-... to make an OK Monitor - https://barwap.com/projects/okmonitor/
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by bmsleight_ 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240319182434/https://frenck.de...
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Morden
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Wow - I never thought of using ChatGPT for analysing code. It reads well - but does the author agree ?
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Stephen Lawrence parents took the option of a private prosecution. Everyone must have access to justice.
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
I quite like Lobste.rs - yes it is is a ghost town. I dont have a login as know no one on it. But it less reddit that maybe modern day Hacker news can be.
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
>There is no denying though that if it helps teachers in safeguarding children that is a good thing. The problem is the variability of quality of teachers. I seen and been involved, both as a parent and governor with Safeguarding leads.
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Bloody hell - until I looked at the digram, I did no realise - this is pure profiling. What has benefit data got to do with a child at risk. As per Housing - this is profile of people because they live on the 'wrong' estate. &quot
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
vectorscope is a great commend to bookmark.
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
>Precisely. Tourists are like locusts. Ok - so how to I go on holiday and not be a locust ? What is the solution no holidays, no travel ? I live in London and its can be fun trying to get a real work meeting near Houses of Parliament as
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
>CityBeautiful has an insightful video on this happening in Venice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SClC9TtQlco Good video - thanks. >area becomes dominated by tourism Good point - make me thinks. How to a be a better
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
>that's 55,000 people each day, which is a huge number. Cruise ship has around 4,000 (for a mega ship). So that 10 ships a day. Even Southampton struggle with 5 at a max. https://cruisedig.com/ports/amsterdam-ho
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
>I think the amount of pollution per passenger is really disproportionately high for cruise ships Cruise ships are not perfect. I love to take the sleeper train everywhere. Perfect is the enemy of good. Air travel is bad. Carbon footpri
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
I feel this if you have economically well off, you want (me) the tourist to get off your lawn. However if you want some growth and jobs, my dollars/pounds are good. Tricky balance. I live in London, sometimes I can be grumpy with touri
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
As one of these tourists, who arrived back today form a European cruise, am I struggling to understand the issue (too close to my heart?). We do need more regulation to force ship to use better fuel and more on-shore energy. More like Franc
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Same here - loved Watchy, built my own watchface. But it is not waterproof and kill a couple of Watchy(s) in the sea/shower. PineTime is not as good and harder to hack and contribute back to the firmware. But Pinetime is waterproof.
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
The satellite appear to have lights on - or is this just reflections from the Sun ?
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Ironically hosted on the free/open source website run by Prusa, because thingiverse went away from core principles.
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by bmsleight_ 3y ago
Can you expand on " he clearly lack support". Bonus points for facts over opinions.

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