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  • Love it. Fantastic how a silly joke can get the piint accross so well.

  • Worth considering. The law states that blocking traffic must be willful. So fairly easy to argue just atop oils whole purpose was to stop oil using cars.

    I did not see these protests. So the question is were the (terrorist in the case of the fash) protestors of either side attempting to block traffic or doing so as a result of gathering.

  • Those of us who grew up during the IRA bombing find that statement odd.

  • I'll add. Salination of the river is likely a greater risk. But still small.

    As rivers tend to have flow from high land too low. As they enter the ocean. The positive flow (current) prevents the brine area going to far into land.

    Because canals tend to only move water with navigation. At each lock there is less, preventing salt water mixing further up where the canal joins the river.

    Of course this is to some extent expected and modern canals can limit it. Simply by providing a current from the river going through weirs at each lock.

    Exactly as navigational canals used to move water do.

  • Hence why he used veg oil the second time.

    Interesting project. Can't think of anything where adhesive shrink wrap would not do a better job.

    But worth remembering for odd projects.

  • He will try. How hard it is without fixing the econ is the big question.

    So it will start as small changes.

    Compared to pass NHS. Yep its a dumpster fire.

    But folks still get treatment without going bankrupt. Even poor and homeless.

    So delays etc. Tends to still leave most better off then some places.

  • Thanks very useful. More or less what I expected but great to get confirmation. Humidity here is 30 to 60% averaging the higher end more often. So def need decent drying chamber.

    Yep, I knew the tent was more about retaining the heat. Just considered the hose a useful add-on. It is good to know you think that will be adequate as I could not find much online.

    Do you think mixing colours at diff layers will be an issue as long as I keep both rolls in drying chambers?

    Again, thanks for taking the time. It is fantastic to get some confirmations and advice from someone who has used the stuff before I spend what little cash I have.

  • Honestly. I assume if they vocally announced an policy. They worried the tories and media would successfully paint it as anti semitic.

    No matter how rubbish that may be. It would be hard to garrentee the media could not manage it. More so after corbyn.

    They likely considered no opinion to be less controversial and risky to the election then taking a side openly.

    Not sure id have agreed if asked at the time. But hard to argue now.

  • Def usefull info i did not know about. Nothing I had in mind parts wise. But may well allow me to thinkmof many more usefull adaptions now I know.

    Thinks I'll do a little researchninto TPU. I have time before I can afford the printer so am able to learn more.

  • As for cad. I have lots of experience with blender. While it is not designed for true cad. It is very capable of the levels I need.

    Also, FreeCAD has grown hugely since I last looked into it. So way more practical to use if I get into anything more complex.

  • PA6 nylon is the best for strength and chemical resistance. As some parts need to survive in bilge water for a decade or so. Diesel oil will rut them. Nylon plastics are best for this and heat resistance from hot engine. As parts will be used their as well.

    Yeah I know it is one of the hardest to work with. Hence the tent and dryer comment.

    Would be fantastic if someone with experience in it can tell me if the tent solution is good enough.

    Worst comes to worst all have to build a frame enclosure, and it is only a few parts where nylon is required. So I can learn.

    The fact that the neptune is able to print at the temps needed is one of the reasons I am considering it.

  • Nods nylon pA6 is much more heat resistant hence the choice.

    But the main reason is the bilge will get engine oil and diesel in it. These destroy other plastics over time. Abs and nylon or peek etc are the only long term options.

    Nylon is also stronger for mechanical parts IE small gears etc. While I can see me playing with that. It is not my main intent. Clips and specified mounting boards and frames is the main task.

  • Just of the top of my head discovered today.

    Not a GUI as one exists. But a more configurable one as it is crap for visually impaired.

    Rpi-imager gui dose not take theme indications for font size etc. Worse it has no configuration to change such thing.

    Making it pretty much unsuable for anyone with poor vision.

    Also it varies for each visually impaired indevidual. But dark mode is essential for some of ua.

    So if your looking for small projects. Youd at least make me happy;)

  • Not use the service.

    Honestly, labour are doing the right thing. And when competition ain't competing. The only thing they can.

    You may have noticed UK mobile companies joining over the years. T-Mobile and orange became EE. O2 and Vodafone trying to merge.

    I spoke to an Orange rep before the merge. He was commenting on how the company considered there to be too much competition in the UK mobile market. At the time, there were 5 providers. Legally, 3 or more is required for it not to be seen as a monopoly.

    The attitude gave me a clear idea odf how these companies see competition.

  • Glad its banned.

    But the contract you signed included the right for the provider to increase with inflation. It even states exactly what measures they can use.

    The issue is more, no other options are given. As these companies seem to all agree on the shit they do.

  • That’s not debunking. That’s denial of the problem.

    Plenty of reasons to reconsider this stupid extreme ban, And this is clearly weighing the limited evidence of suicide higher than the lack of evidence of harm.

    IE, it's a bit hypocritical to ban something with no real evidence of harm. Simply because it has not been proven to be safe, And then argure the limited evidence of suicides, is a reason to continue.

    But words matter. So no it is not a denial. It is saying the difference between pre ban suicides and post ban suicides is statistically irrelevant. IE the changes are not usable as evidence, because they are not high enough to prove a trend. (yet as honestly the ban is far too recent for any of this data to be of value)

    Edit: QUICK look at numbers, last I heard 19 people had committed suicide since the ban in March while in some form of gender dysmorphia treatment. 5approx 6000 people a year commit suicide in the UK. Numbers being higher with any form of mental health treatment. (issue that needs addressing).

  • Nice idea, I love. But you have to remember, those investigations cost huge time and money. When you consider the cost of a full-time staff over the 10 years, you include. Plus the cost of building a case against some of the largest cooperation. All before any court costs are considered.

    We are likely better off having that money reinvested in preventing other companies from these practices.

  • Yep pretty much but on a larger scale.

    1st please do not believe the bull that there was no problem. Many folks like me were paid to fix it before it was an issue. So other than a few companies, few saw the result, not because it did not exist. But because we were warned. People make jokes about the over panic. But if that had not happened, it would hav been years to fix, not days. Because without the panic, most corporations would have ignored it. Honestly, the panic scared shareholders. So boards of directors had to get experts to confirm the systems were compliant. And so much dependent crap was found running it was insane.

    But the exaggerations of planes falling out of the sky etc. Was also bull. Most systems would have failed but BSOD would be rare, but code would crash and some works with errors shutting it down cleanly, some undiscovered until a short while later. As accounting or other errors showed up.

    As other have said. The issue was that since the 1960s, computers were set up to treat years as 2 digits. So had no expectation to handle 2000 other than assume it was 1900. While from the early 90s most systems were built with ways to adapt to it. Not all were, as many were only developing top layer stuff. And many libraries etc had not been checked for this issue. Huge amounts of the infra of the world's IT ran on legacy systems. Especially in the financial sector where I worked at the time.

    The internet was a fairly new thing. So often stuff had been running for decades with no one needing to change it. Or having any real knowledge of how it was coded. So folks like me were forced to hunt through code or often replace systems that were badly documented or more often not at all.

    A lot of modern software development practices grew out of discovering what a fucking mess can grow if people accept an "if it ain't broke, don't touch it" mentality.

  • Very much so. But the vulnerabilities do not tend to be discovered (by developers) until an attack happens. And auto updates are generally how the spread of attacks are limited.

    Open source can help slightly. Due to both good and bad actors unrelated to development seeing the code. So it is more common for alerts to hit before attacks. But far from a fix all.

    But generally, time between discovery and fix is a worry for big corps. So why auto updates have been accepted with less manual intervention than was common in the past.