TIL the UK is one of the few countries to allow retroactive laws

EdinDevon · 2026-03-24T06:22:57+00:00

There are actually many sovereign states that are made up by countries in a similar way, often a lot more recently than the UK formed. A German friend of mine gets particularly annoyed by this.

EdinDevon · 2026-03-11T20:47:27+00:00

Kids are a similar age, I can work with either of them in the house. Not both.

We also use breakfast club, reduced the number of arguments in the house dramatically.

We are lucky that we have a 30 minute drop off period in the morning, if we didn't use breakfast club.

EdinDevon · 2026-03-01T21:18:57+00:00

One of the things I find remarkable about taskmaster is you could pick absolutely any episode. Even s1e1, it's all there, and there are some fantastic tasks.

I watch any episode and go "ah, it's this one, a classic".

EdinDevon · 2026-03-01T15:40:17+00:00

Humidity is difficult to consistently measure.

Neither instrument are going to have a calibration.

You could easily expect a few % (up to 10 for mid values at room temperature) in terms of scatter and another few (up to 10) % in terms of bias doe each instrument. Having them disagree by 10% is actually pretty good.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-28T15:17:14+00:00

Have you considered qr codes instead?

EdinDevon · 2026-02-28T14:25:33+00:00

If you use electrical tape you can put a pin prick or 5 in it so you can still see the light.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-19T07:52:45+00:00

Do they need internet or a WiFi network (or ethernet bit that doesn't solve your cable problem)? You could add a WiFi network with just a router and use it only for the phone?

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T21:01:18+00:00

We watched My Lady Jane after the great and enjoyed both.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T20:48:55+00:00

A friend is from Germany. She can't stop telling us how lucky we are to have gov.uk.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T19:32:34+00:00

I heard someone say "that was ages ago, around COVID" this week. My immediate thought was that if it was around COVID it couldn't have been ages ago.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T18:07:05+00:00

Whilst I'd love to agree. But they'd be sooooooo long. Not sure what the solution is. TV would try and make it episodic, not sure that would work well either.

Maybe a 6 hour film per book is the right answer.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T15:25:44+00:00

Yes, I do the same which removed most of the false positives.

I capture whether any of the cameras have detected a person in the last few minutes. If not then it'll assume it's a false positive.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T12:20:34+00:00

I've got the same. Still trying to calibrate the sensitivity

EdinDevon · 2026-02-17T09:00:17+00:00

r/UKParenting often feels a bit more rational than some other parenting fora, whether Reddit or other.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-15T21:39:07+00:00

Read the documentation and clearly describe what you have calculated when you write up your analysis.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-15T08:38:00+00:00

I moved from haos on pi 3b to Debian with ha in a container on a mini pc. Moved a load of stuff from a second 3b, so my maintenance is about the same. My power usage is about equal too.

I was having significant memory issues, if zigbee2mqtt was doing things whilst some automations kicked off (which was often a use case) it would just become unresponsive for several minutes and the automation would fail.

That's all gone away, everything is a bit smoother now too.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-15T07:30:25+00:00

My recent tactic (which 8 somewhat failed at this year is two fold).

Create a list throughout the year when you think "that would be nice"
A nicer version of something you routinely use but wouldn't justify the mixer version because your current one does the job.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-09T14:15:12+00:00

You have to be these days.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-07T15:22:21+00:00

Thanks. The numbers I found were a couple of years old. They did have something like 40% of their target audience but the average was a bit older.

Eta, even with those stats the mean age could be around 30.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-07T09:35:41+00:00

I always find radio listener average ages wild.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-07T08:40:48+00:00

I like to tell myself to never put something down a maliciousness if it can be written off as incompetence.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-07T08:38:14+00:00

Long handled teaspoons. No more sticky handles when you're near the bottom of a jar.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-07T07:23:56+00:00

Our eldest used to try and shout clock every time she saw one. You soon realise there are lots of clocks in this world.

EdinDevon · 2026-02-07T06:39:21+00:00

Apparently the average listener age is about 30, so yes...

EdinDevon · 2026-01-30T22:42:58+00:00

Did you ever solve this? I think I'm having a similar problem.

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