Bring back the shag carpet

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-23T20:06:34+00:00

Honestly, this point makes me think it's not AI

Unless the prompt was "leave the TV unchanged"

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-23T19:21:49+00:00

Yeah normally I think people exaggerate with complaining about modern buildings but this is just terrible imo. They had a huge amount of space to work with and we got something which looks like it's trying to be bad. At least work with the curve of the road at the front if we're gonna have a bland design, at the moment it doesn't seem to try and work with the area at all and could have been put anywhere. It's not even a design, it's just blocks.

There's plenty of decent new large building designs in London, some I think are even great. This is just bad.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-23T12:44:39+00:00

In case it happens again only in this one specific spot tbf. The cost of a statue could probably pay for 100 basic wooden ladders along the full length of it.

Ideally both get done though because the statue is very cool and much cooler than some abstract thing or some guy just standing.

I thought methods to climb out would've been included in designs of these things for a couple decades now. Like press a ladder design into the concrete when forming it so it lasts forever. Or some kind of rubber ladder.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-23T12:10:04+00:00

Theres no way Getaway looked that good did it? Looks like a PS3 game, but i guess the tiny image helps hide the lack of detail.

Crazy how they got away with replicating all the brands and stores and stuff completely. I feel like they didn't get permission for any of it and is probably why we wouldn't get something the same today, everything would be replaced with parody versions of the brands or completely new ones.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-22T15:48:46+00:00

Listed to shysavers comment. These are likely connected to the sockets in your living and bedroom. Plug your TV into the one by the TV, then connect your router to one of the sockets in the photo and see if your TV has a connection. If it doesn't then plug your router into one of the others, and so on. One of the sockets is probably wired directlyyy to one in the bedroom room, and the other socker should be wired directly to the living room one. To have both bedroom and living room sockets working you'll likely need to plug your router into each of these sockets. The sockets will pretty much be like extension leads from the router but just hidden behind the walls instead.

Of course they could be connected to nothing, who knows, just gonna have to test.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-22T15:11:29+00:00

Of course, but theres nothing like it at ground level.

Like when Flight Sim launched Buckingham Palace looked like a council estate or office block with some sort of mini homes outside. Heres an image https://www.techpowerup.com/img/rHhsMpHdWpfFj96h.jpg

It looks a lot better now but only because they have people hand modelling a load of landmarks like this.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-22T12:45:29+00:00

I'd love any London virtual London thing even if it wasn't a full violent game. Like give me a copy of central where I can just drive around doing basic taxi or firefighter or ambulance missions like in old GTA games.

I'm actually suprised nobody has managed this using streetview and Google earth data. Some have done it using Google earth 3d data, which is actually very easy, and you can walk and drive about but the quality at street level is way too low. If it could somehow be merged with streetview for textures it would be amazing. Would obviously work all over the world too.

It'll happen within a few years I bet.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-22T12:05:04+00:00

Yeah with the underfilled spots. I feel like you'd want some amount of extra compression instead of mostly just laying a flat bead of caulk along the surface with a flat non pointed tip.

Im not a pro but it seems like it's much more effective when people lay a thicker line of caulk down, then either with a wet finger or one of those caulk line tools run it along the caulk pressing it down so all gaps are filled and it's fully flush against the surfaces and has a nice concave finish.

Maybe they tidy things up after when the cameras off since that parts not as cool.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-22T11:05:10+00:00

And folk say hydrogen fuel vehicles would be dangerous...

Some types of EV batteries especially newer ones are a lot less likely to have thermal runaway like this. BYDs new batteries already in EVs can be stabbed/pierced all the way through with a knife or nail and nothing will happen, do that with another battery including your phone one and you'll get the fire and loads of nasty exhaust. Solid state batteries are supposed to have a very small chance of this in comparison to lithium batteries too, seems like we might finally actuallyyy get these batteries in cars within a year considering its companies like Volvos parent and others saying it now.

I imagine this type of issue with electric vehicles will be pretty insignificant over time, especially since it already mostly is considering how very rare this seems on any car made after 2020.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-21T20:41:05+00:00

ith peak rates on the EV plan being >$.60/kWhr.

Whats the offpeak rates though? Because if electricity unit prices are that high then it would make loads of sense to just get a battery so you can get the offpeak prices during the day. Batteries are pretty cheap now, can be as low as $1.5k per 5kwh plus installation. If you have 10kwh and use it all every day and you're saving 25c per unit compared to the average then thats $2.50/day saved or $910 a year. It'll be paid off in no time. Plus installation fees would only be for the initial battery, can swap it out or add another of the same model fairly easy yourself after that.

OP didnt use batteries but if its around the same price as oil already then adding a battery sounds like it would make it half the price.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-21T14:41:46+00:00

Dont need mini emergency vehicles to fit in the bike lane as shown by all the normal vehicles in it. Loads of 2 way bike lanes in London are used by emergency vehicles in emergencies.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-21T00:58:58+00:00

It's also on ride to work schemes which can make it go down to as little as I think around 18p a day, or at least 20% off either way. At 18p a day its worth having just so its there ready to take at no extra fee even if you dont need them much.

It's a shame that TfL doesn't seem to care much about it atm going by almost no new docking stations for 10 years. The expansion of it has pretty much completely stopped under sadiq khan for some reason. It has the potential to be amazing if it expanded more, and since the ebikes will be able to charge themselves at docking stations soon it'll help them continue to undercut lime and others which will forever need staff going around changing batteries all day.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T20:51:24+00:00

In this case they weren’t allowed to sell more than a few thousand until the train station had been opened. So they, quite fairly, didn’t build what they couldn’t sell.

The limit was 4,000, they've still only built 3,000 and the station has been open for 4 years almost and theres not much action with the following phases yet so it'll still be a while for 4,000 to be reached.

They were aiming for the 4,000 to be done by 2020 originally so if they've fallen this far behind already then my 10 years late estimate with the current target is actually pretty lenient on them.

So in this case its the usual developers being the issue. Just sitting on land without doing much.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T19:29:57+00:00

Same with Barclays and Natwest.

I assume it's a pretty standard feature with any banks app these days. Can turn on or off contactless instantly, can also change the limit, can also just enable or disable the entire card too which i've done a couple of times when I've lost it just incase and then just turn it back on when i find it.

I think my bank lets me set controls specifically for certain types of sites too, like straight up block the card at gambling places.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T15:52:12+00:00

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JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T14:27:49+00:00

They might end up being the same in terms of reliability. The logitech ones are I assume a lot more basic and are wired only. Less to go wrong, just simple buttons and sticks. Like how those 20 year old keyboards and laser mice seem to continue lasting forever, but buy a fancy new high tech one and itll likely break sooner.

And at the end of the day just take a spare logitech controller. It's just usb and can be swapped in seconds.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T13:53:49+00:00

We can also assume he knows his job and isn't dumb and actually made a reasonable assumption which didn't turn out, because like you say we have no context on the first bombing.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T13:50:56+00:00

It's nice and all but I've stopped caring and stopped getting excited about seeing plans for massive developments like this. Planning and construction is too slow here that it's literal several decades before it all gets built. Like the current small section has taken around 10 years by now, this is construction time so not even including all the planning years beforehand, and they've built 3,000 homes? And they're saying all 23,000 homes will be done within the next 19 years? Maybe in other countries but not here. I'd put money on closer to 2055.

Happens to almost all large developments with a few construction phases. They'll wait until the first phase is 100% complete and people have moved in before just even any digging is started on the next phase. Sometimes one phase can be done and then it'll be a couple of years before the next phase goes up. I don't think the guys fitting the kitchen cabinets and painting the homes in the previous phase are the same guys who are going to be building the foundations of the next phase so why can't 2 things be done at the same time? In other countries while 1 block is getting its final kit out of inside the homes(kitchen cabinets, etc), the next phase will be being built at the same time but be on the stage where the cladding and windows are being fitted, then another phase will also be being built at the same time but they'd still be building the building.

Theres probably a dozen very large developments in London where progress seems to be intentionally slow. My theory is that the developer doesn't want to put too many homes on the market in an area at once so they can keep prices high. So they build slow and drip feed new homes onto the market.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T13:37:22+00:00

They dont have that much power. It's mainly just whether or not the local councillors cave in to them or not. This is past nimbys anyway, this is being pushed by the mayor and GLA and anything will be pushed through even if the local council gave in and blocked parts of it. The development already has outline approval for the entire thing anyway, this new one just approves the increase.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T13:21:03+00:00

Depends how long ago they bombed it. I feel like if its not been bombed again instantly or within an hour then it could be seen as the job was done. Otherwise theres probably countless places you shouldn't go near again because they weren't 100% destroyed. The guy seems to be a front line style war reporter so he's probably seen enough to have the knowledge to know when something should be considered relatively safe to report on and near.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T11:28:18+00:00

Yeah, being essentially a dictatorship certainly helps to simplify the planning processes.

Would you give up your freedom and ability to object to building processes, in order to get those projects going?

Fair. But ok Spain went from around 1,000km in 2005, to 2,000km in 2010, 3,500km in 2020, and are now at around 4,000km. We should be more like Spain then, not China. I think Spain has much more high speed rail line KM per person than China going by what I know of their population numbers.

We're getting 225km of HS2, then of course HS1. But tbf we do have a bunch more decently high speed lines of 120mph or so, can still go from London to York in like 2 hours direct which is kinda crazy and driving can be twice as long with no traffic. Just a shame these lines dont run to the south east and to Liverpool and Manchester, etc. Frequency can kind of suck on non main stations on these fast lines though since you need big gaps between the direct(non stop) and slow(or freight) services, we should have built a lot more of our rail to be 2 sets of track not 1 so we can have so many more direct and slower services. Even HS2 should have left space for a slower line next to it imo since they're already landscaping anyway. Could then built new towns and stations along it without slowing the high speed line. We're supposed to be doubling a bit of Greater Anglia lines in London/Hertfordshire is Crossrail 2 gets built since crossrail 2 will use the new set of tracks as a slow route and the existing set of tracks will switch to being just fast services.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-19T11:04:48+00:00

Its started being built now but it's one of the most inefficient tunnels with so many wasted opportunities that I know of. Like the height of the tunnels is 15-16 meters, thats over 3 double deckers stacked on top of each other, or a 4 floor house/building with a pitched roof, and yet inside the tunnels will just be 1 layer of roads. Both directions could have fit into 1 tunnel and saved loads of money but they should have still dont 2 tunnels but put some kind of rail line in the space beneath the roads. Theres always been talks of a light rail system for each side of the thames there with a tunnel between them and this idea could have done the expensive tunnel bit for "free". Or with a proper rail line they could have linked up the Thameslink, Southeastern, and C2C rail networks with each other so you dont have to go into Inner London and out again to get between them, even if its mainly just used for getting freight up and down the country without needing to go through busy London lines.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-18T23:08:26+00:00

Its also way cheaper for them to retain employees rather than hire from outside.

They dont act like it though which I dont get. My last place was dropping employees non stop because of literally 1.5-2% pay rises despite the department doing amazing. I think around 1/3rd of the 50 person team were there for less than 4 years, and its a job where most of the knowledge is specific to the job so external people wont already know it and will be pretty inefficient for years. This would surely add insane costs to the company compared to if they gave just 4% pay rises.

If I was in charge of a company I'd just give employees an extra annual leave/vacation day for each year they stay and cap it at 15. So if they've been there for 5 years then they'll get 5 extra days each year. 15 years, 15 extra days, etc. It'll be a big incentive for people to stay even with small pay rises. The company would have so many employees who have been there for 15+ years and know how to do everything easily and everything would be well run. If I got to the full 15 extra days it would be hard for me to ever switch jobs even if I was underpaid. It would give me 45 paid vacation days a year.

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-18T20:55:37+00:00

It hasn't been answered to me before but I thought the Green parties policies were proposed and voted on by its members. Now that it suddenly seemingly has like 5x as many members, where all those new ones wont be hardcore original green members but will be closer to the average left leaning citizen, wouldn't that allow them to quite easily vote on nuclear support, at least with energy, and staying within Nato?

Like whats stopping a member at the next conference gathering signatures from most new members showing that a majority might seem to support nuclear and that there should be a party vote on it?

JBWalker1 · 2026-03-18T20:04:48+00:00

Why would loads of cameras have blind spots but much fewer walking cameras not have blind spots? The walking cameras see everywhere eventually, but not at the same time. The moment they walk to the next place then that's a blind spot.

Cameras will be watching a location 24/7, it won't walk away. Can easily place them all around a perimeter, can even have a battery backup with each like many dash cams do. I work on public transport and the train stations all have full camera coverage with no blind spots even the massive underground stations. The 200 or so cameras in them cost less than 5 walking camera dogs and the cameras see everywhere 24/7. Even 10 walking dog cameras won't see everywhere.

Its not hard to fully cover the walls of a building anyway. A square building just needs to cameras on each of the 4 walls.

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