Part of the issue is that the category of “ebike” is quite large. It really needs to be split into multiple subcategories for regulation.

For bikes intended to mix with pedestrians, you definitely need to limit speed and weight. Europe’s 250W, 25kph rules seem reasonable for this.

The problem most places have is the grey area between ebike and moped, particularly for cargo bikes. They are fast/heavy enough to be a risk to pedestrians, but not enough to be classed as motorbikes. They need some restrictions/licencing to keep pedestrian areas safe, but not so much that they get lumped in with cars.

No problem at all!

I know several people who wouldn’t still be around without the NHS. A diamond is understating it!

There are some limits to it, and ways around it for the rich (as per usual ☹️).

The cost still mostly scales with your income, rather than how much care you need.

UK.

There were complications when my wife gave birth. 2 weeks in hospital, some surgery, and nurses and midwives on call 24/7. The biggest cost was me stress buying snacks for my wife (until she told me to stop!). Even parking was reduced to £11/week, since she was in for multiple nights.

Another occasion. I had a benign lump in an annoying place. It took 14 months to get through to get it removed. It’s only when I went in I realised it was not a 5 minute snip. Around an hour for a plastic surgeon to properly remove and stitch it up.

The NHS has its problems. Mostly caused by previous governments trying to starve it (to let their mates sell us for profit healthcare). The system and staff are absolutely awesome.

If I’m asked to point out what makes me proud to be British, the NHS is the prize jewel in that particular crown.

Cost wise, we pay national insurance, a fixed percentage of income. (“Payment by ability, treatment by requirement.”) Prescriptions are £9.90 each, or £120/year. They also wave the fee for a lot of groups who might have problems with it. It’s massively more cost effective than the American system.

It could be useful in a dynamic situation. You could launch it into an area you know the enemy are in. As they approach, you can use other methods to get exact locations (e.g. spotters, or a flyover). An update can be sent out for an exact target to hit, based on where it is now, not where it was at launch time.

You don’t need to know exactly where the drone is with this, so long as it does internally. A dead reckoning estimate is good enough.

I’ve also got a steam deck. Unfortunately it just doesn’t cut it for games like satisfactory or factorio.

Luggables are quite common for gamers who travel a lot. I can’t take a tower into hotels easily, but most of my free gaming time is on the road. I know quite a few people with portable gaming systems.

My current laptop is rocking a 4080, with a water cooling loop. It has to fall back to internal graphics when on battery. The batteries just can’t provide the current required.

The perfectionism maladaptation is evil.

The best way to break it is to practice getting too minimally “good enough” with various fun projects. It helps you retrain your brain to accept mediocre when required.

This helps a lot, since you need to be mediocre before you can finally get good at something.

Most of the meds have a 4 hour half-life. You’ll get a day or 2 of recoil, worst case, but you don’t have to be medicated the whole time.

I find it’s a trade off. Off meds, I come up with ideas, but can’t implement them. When medicated, the ideas slow, but I gain the ability to actually work on them.

I often adjust my meds based on what I need on a given day.

It’s likely a shot at the Brexit crowd. However he’s been careful to not make it too specific, so it could be seen as aimed at anyone blinded by flag waving patriotism.

I’ve played with some qidi printers. I’ve found they are not the most reliable printers around.

It was a older machine however, so it might have been a unit issue, rather than a company one.

Octoprint is amazing. I’ve used it for years with my old ender 3.

Unfortunately £1678 (Core 1 + indx) is well outside my max budget for a hobby machine.

It’s absolutely gorgeous in VR. Unfortunately it’s almost unplayable for most people. The motion sickness is… impressive. I managed to work my way up to about 10 minutes of swimming, before I gave up trying to adapt.

It’s on my list to do, when the steam frame comes out.

FYI, the best VR game I’ve found is “super hot VR”.

That was definitely a nail in the coffin, as far as I am concerned. They’ve not passed my ‘sniff test’ since the start. The legal threats just show that they are doubling down, rather than backtracking.

Prusa has at least built up some credit with the community. Bambu came in planning on locking people in.

Not even playing lip service to supporting the open source stuff they built upon. They’ve also recently been trying to lockdown and paywall (or just drop) features. Including legal action against people trying to undo the damage.

The general sniff test is they are trying to lock people in before milking them for all they can.

Both of those have a lot of bang for their buck. I had also missed both completely. 👍

QM isn’t insane to understand. It’s main issue is that it doesn’t map well/at all to our normal experience. You need to dive into the maths, and accept what falls out.

The main deeper level here is how the blurring happens. The photons explore all possible paths. The result is an integral of them all. In general, vast areas cancel out, leaving classical (ish) behaviour. This makes sense mathematically, but has no classical analogy to compare to.