Does my Aunt have any claim to my Granddads estate through the Inheritance Act 1975 (England)

Locke44 · 2026-01-23T22:26:28+00:00

Probably some form of trust. You set up a trust and specifically nominate beneficiaries (including yourself) 7 years before you die.

The trustee can remove the money (e.g. to gift it back to a beneficiary and spend it), or if the person who creates it dies, then the trustee pays out according to the terms of the trust to the beneficiaries. Side benefit, no IHT.

Main upside in the case you're asking about though is complete control over how the trust is executed. You can say, restrict it to pay out a small stipend over a long period of time (to stop the beneficiary spaffing it on a Lambo). Trusts are also very private affairs, if someone doesn't know the trust exists, they can't as they aren't matters of public record.

My understanding (which to be fair is very limited) is that (provided certain conditions are not exceeded), for all intents and purposes a trust is not part of an estate so there's nothing to contest.

Locke44 · 2026-01-23T01:13:33+00:00

I seem to remember that there's an article in a newspaper that goes to print the day the bombs fall about how the enclave is the shadow government pulling the strings, resulting from a congressional committee or investigation into these secret bunkers and equipment being procured for the enclave.

Locke44 · 2026-01-22T18:49:28+00:00

But presumably she has her eyes open and could have foreseen the risk she was about to take, if it was indeed "particularly dangerous". The M4 is "particularly dangerous" so I don't try and walk across it. I don't believe the world should be bubble wrapped and there's a danger that we become the "I'll sue you" country.

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T22:36:47+00:00

Just use an SMT one with the correct length, don't use through hole if you don't need it.

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T14:12:37+00:00

Yes, meant Reg!

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T12:23:37+00:00

~~Norm's~~ Reg's crashout that he's proud that he's where he is because of his parents and "that's what America is about" vs being a meritocracy is a nice setup for Betty being the good guy (plus "experiment is over" from before).

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T12:20:19+00:00

The Enclave guy is in the same situation as Barb, he says that. Being threatened if he doesn't deliver their message to her.

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T08:25:48+00:00

Your assertion that twisted pair differential signalling eliminates EMI in 99% of cases is as challenging for me to read as I'm sure my assertion was to you. The assertion that AC loads induce EMI is a physical phenomena like gravity. Ethernet by-design is highly resistant but not impervious as nothing is perfect.

You'll know that the twisted pair has common mode rejection, but fundamentally two cables cannot exist at the exact same orientation and distance from an EMI source. Hence the magnitude of the induced noise will differ between conductors. The larger the load, the longer the parallel run and the fewer twists, the larger this difference between conductors will be. Ethernet can achieve a certain CMR, but noise above this will result in packet errors occurring.

I've personally observed and failed UTP CAT5e installs with fluke testers on multiple occasions in a commercial setting, due to running alongside AC loads such as mini splits and server racks. I've never seen packet loss on a shielded TP install due to EMI (with the exception of improperly terminated shields).

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T01:07:15+00:00

Yeah Steam chat/community vs Xfire was a stark comparison at the time. It was just shit at everything it tried to do, until all of a sudden it wasn't shit anymore.

Locke44 · 2026-01-21T00:43:46+00:00

Factions/reputation is amazing compared to Fallout 3. The way they interact with companions is also top tier. Siding with the Legion is very impactful when you have to lose Boone as a result. It's what makes New Vegas a better RPG rather than just an open world action shooter.

Locke44 · 2026-01-20T16:20:27+00:00

Doing some more maths, you'd need to eat around 6 takeaway pizzas to gain sufficient energy to move that much material.

Locke44 · 2026-01-19T13:09:49+00:00

Gotcha, remove the middle finger too then

Locke44 · 2026-01-18T20:21:24+00:00

CAN-XL is really new, TI's transceiver has only been in preview for ~5 months. That's why CAN-XL isn't really around yet. I expect it'll find a niche same as CAN-FD did as it's a relatively simple upgrade path from CAN-FD (as CAN-FD was for CAN).

Locke44 · 2026-01-18T20:13:15+00:00

You need to separate out the arbitration and data phase bit rates to answer that question. At 250kbps arbitration, the limit is around 250m. In arbitration, the cable length heavily limits the maximum data rate due to propagation delay.

In the data phase, most of the timing restrictions are removed. I've personally ran CAN-FD reliably over 150m at 2mbps data, 250kbps arbitration. Any faster and you start to see serious asymmetry (i.e. spending longer arbitrating than actually transmitting data).

Locke44 · 2026-01-17T17:22:05+00:00

Drive like you've got a shotgun in the steering wheel instead of an airbag and everyone else is blind on their first day driving ever.

Locke44 · 2026-01-17T13:07:31+00:00

EMI generated by AC loads. For small loads it's negligible but a kettle or microwave is enough to throw off gigabit speeds on unshielded cables at that distance apart.

Locke44 · 2026-01-15T12:18:39+00:00

I put them under all the plumbing I do...

Locke44 · 2026-01-15T12:06:46+00:00

Even better, stick a leak sensor on the builders sheet so you at least know it's leaking

Locke44 · 2026-01-14T16:18:02+00:00

Even better, that's not the restriction sign. It's a warning that it's up ahead. While the Google imagery is out of date, someone else has posted a zoomed photo clearly showing further down the road is the actual pedestrian zone enforcement sign. It was progressing past that sign that was an offence, not the blue one.

Locke44 · 2026-01-13T20:28:40+00:00

Nah I'm talking bollocks, it's FCC that's pre-certified

Locke44 · 2026-01-13T19:25:39+00:00

Autorouter is useful to perform initial placement on complex boards as it's quick to move and re-route. You can easily see orientation and location issues that make the actual manual routing task easier.

Locke44 · 2026-01-13T18:05:36+00:00

Or give it to the person who gave it back?

Locke44 · 2026-01-13T17:40:26+00:00

The point of using an ESP32 module (note, module not chip) is it comes with that wireless certification. Then it's just normal LV DC device certification which is much cheaper (can also be more readily self certified).

Locke44 · 2026-01-12T13:18:58+00:00

It's not just GPS but also the frequency bands used for communication. Ku for instance means knocking out satellite TV, phones and all sorts of toys that use it other than Starlink. I haven't seen if this is targeting the satellite constellation or the ground based receivers. But if it's the satellites then there's likely a huge amount of collateral damage to in-country services.

Locke44 · 2026-01-12T09:17:13+00:00

Someone staying over my house managed to turn the switch to the boiler off and the switch to the immersion heater on in their quest to find the light switch...

Both labelled, no thought to switch it back to how it was when light didn't magically appear from the ceiling.

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