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bmsleight_

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    Comment #49246602

    Only one Boaty Boat, lacking the McBoatyFace.

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    Comment #48628905

    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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    Comment #46831212

    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 …

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    Comment #46261886

    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 HD…

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    Comment #44845389

    Got a link to a it ? I love to replace my under power USB soldering iron

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    Comment #44713166

    >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 th…

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    Comment #42971561

    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 h…

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    Comment #42276448

    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…

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    Comment #41656879

    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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    Comment #41155717

    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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    Comment #40774692

    https://web.archive.org/web/20240319182434/https://frenck.de...

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    Comment #39031749

    Wow - I never thought of using ChatGPT for analysing code. It reads well - but does the author agree ?

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    Comment #38973862

    Stephen Lawrence parents took the option of a private prosecution. Everyone must have access to justice.

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    Comment #38508613

    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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    Comment #37601910

    >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…

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    Comment #37601800

    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 peo…

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    Comment #36929741

    vectorscope is a great commend to bookmark.

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    Comment #36830658

    >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…

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    Comment #36830632

    >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 -…

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    Comment #36830596

    >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://c…

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    Comment #36830568

    >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…

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    Comment #36830526

    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.…

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    Comment #36830273

    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 …