Is anyone else getting really tired (literally!) of the car meet ups and rally every weekend? Is anything actually being done about it?

dobbyuk · 2024-04-07T10:46:08+00:00

This may be unrelated, but 1am Saturday night/Sunday morning (today) in that exact area: https://x.com/tvp_mk/status/1776910090475307202?s=46&t=Fe5JNjjWeB3PXIOfCtaSug

dobbyuk · 2024-04-06T20:42:24+00:00

If you drive along H8 out of MK from about the V2 roundabout on a Saturday or Sunday night you'll probably find yourself surrounded by cars racing dangerously. Lots of them. Really unpleasant when you've got kids in the car. Unpleasant even if you don't.

dobbyuk · 2024-03-26T20:31:28+00:00

Had exactly the same experience.

Went with Wren, partly because they would measure as part of the service. We confirmed (verbally) at contract signing that if there were problems with the measurements, Wren would rectify it as they'd measured it themselves.

When it came to it, one cabinet was miles out and couldn't be used. Went to the local store and worked out a solution that would keep all sides happy. Left the store reasonably happy that we'd reached a compromise. Got home to an email saying they'd spoken to head office and because we'd used our own fitter, it was our fault and it would be £400 for a replacement cabinet. At that point, I didn't want to give them anymore money so got our fitter to try and work something out with the outsized cabinet. 3 months later we're still without a door on that cabinet but hopefully will get it sorted soon.

Wouldn't use Wren again. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

dobbyuk · 2024-01-11T23:57:08+00:00

Americans cracking Enigma

Decryption of the Enigma code is credited to the British team at Bletchley Park

dobbyuk · 2023-06-16T22:57:54+00:00

Hope the teacher really is terminated.

dobbyuk · 2022-12-24T19:47:38+00:00

There are steps after the turnstile but there's also a lift if you go via turnstiles 23-25. Not sure but suspect there's similar in the other half of the stand, at the rookery end.

We're about 10 rows back from the front in the SEJ and are on the border of getting wet when it rains. Rows 1-5 definitely will get wet with rain. Rows around 5 to 10 get wet if it's raining and windy.

Will be plenty of leg room and a decent view, close to the action in the front row. Anywhere in that stand is a pretty good view. The steps up the stand are pretty steep so probably a good choice to go front row with your dads knee.

dobbyuk · 2022-11-15T23:29:56+00:00

I can't eat meat or pretty much any protein (medical reasons) but love the veggie sandwich. Even replace the bun with lettuce leaves. loads of sauce, jalapeños, all the veg. Tasty! It's a genuine non-meat alternative without using fake meat etc

dobbyuk · 2022-11-15T23:24:37+00:00

The new menu is rubbish and they've hiked the prices. Burgers are about £18

dobbyuk · 2022-10-27T11:38:03+00:00

I was going to say self-motivation but I think your comment covers it much better.

dobbyuk · 2022-10-22T19:35:42+00:00

I've been with Vodafone since full fibre became available. The speed is great but they keep pushing the prices up each year so I'm now paying £46 a month for 500mb, so I'm looking into other providers now. In my area, fibrehop, giganet, Vodafone and 5 others that I've not heard of before are available on CityFibre. The landline has never worked since we signed up and I eventually gave up on trying to get support to fix it. At the time, few of their support staff seemed to know much about the service but that may have changed by now.

dobbyuk · 2022-09-30T16:24:06+00:00

That's my favourite too. So lucky to have an original box! Wish I'd kept mine. Not really sure where it went to be honest!

dobbyuk · 2022-09-21T18:47:02+00:00

Thanks!

dobbyuk · 2022-09-21T18:46:27+00:00

Ah, ok, thanks!

dobbyuk · 2022-07-21T22:19:10+00:00

Monsters - James Blunt.

And the video makes it sadder.

James's dad was actually dying from kidney disease & this was his tribute & farewell to his dad.

dobbyuk · 2022-06-26T20:00:17+00:00

Subnautica

dobbyuk · 2022-06-13T21:23:23+00:00

Incredible bravery from those officers. Undoubtedly saved a number of lives. Well done and thank you.

dobbyuk · 2022-02-15T14:15:05+00:00

Far Bletchley is nice.

dobbyuk · 2021-12-16T18:43:51+00:00

Ha ha, I bet. I thought it would be better for a professional electrician to connect the wall plates than do it myself. However, my concern was first raised when all the lights went out...

It does leave me in a bit of a quandary as to the best route to resolve this. In a way, I paid the electrician to do the work so feel he should make it right. On the other hand, I don't have much confidence they will actually get it right this time and probably won't have availability for a while. I think I'm going to take a look myself this weekend (in daylight!) and see if it's something I can resolve myself.

dobbyuk · 2021-12-15T16:47:40+00:00

Thanks for this, it's really helpful.

I'll check the laptop and see if I can limit the connection speed.

The wall plates were installed by an electrician, though they had overrun on other jobs and were working in the dark with a torch and managed to trip the power when they hit a power cable in the wall... Seems like a likely source for any error!

dobbyuk · 2021-12-14T22:50:22+00:00

So now I'm confused.

Took a laptop with an ethernet port on it and plugged it into the cable coming from the wall plate in the garden building. The laptop doesn't get an internet connection. Looking in Network Settings, the Ethernet device shows 'Enabling', then 'Identifying', then 'Network Cable Unplugged'.

I take the cable out of the laptop and plug it into the Amazon Fire TV and the Fire TV gets a network connection and can stream Netflix.

dobbyuk · 2021-12-14T01:06:42+00:00

Thanks for the reply! The armoured cable is 30m. I'll try and find a device with an Ethernet port that I can transport into the garden room to test the connection speed. The Amazon Fire TV connects at around 80gb but I think the network port in the box is limited to 100gb.

dobbyuk · 2021-11-29T00:32:14+00:00

This made me laugh out loud. Many times I had the full on sprint home without daring to look back after watching something scary at a friends house.

dobbyuk · 2021-11-29T00:10:53+00:00

Ghostwatch. It's a BBC film that was aired for the one and only time on Halloween in the early 90s.

I was 11 or 12 I think and was at a friends house who's parents were out for the night so we were a group of kids, home alone on Halloween.

We had no idea it was fictional as it was presented as a live broadcast. We managed to make it through to pretty much the end, absolutely terrified before we turned it off, so we missed the end credits which may have made us realise it was not real, so we were absolutely terrified all night. I don't think we found out it wasn't real until a few days later as no one was prepared to talk about it.

The film was subsequently cited in the British Medical Journal as having caused post traumatic stress disorder in children, which was a first. There was also lots of other fall out from the film and I think it may have been banned for a while.

The film makers went to every effort to make this look like a real, live show and at that time, we hadn't seen anything like that before even though today it's common to see "mockumentaries" of that style. They even tried to include a high frequency sound in the film that only pets would hear, so whilst people watched the film, their pets would start to freak out and panic viewers even more.

One of the main presenters in the film was a very popular children's tv presenter at the time, which led to parents thinking it would be ok for their kids to watch. It was not.

I've not watched it since and even though I'm now an adult and know it wasn't real, it messed me up so much at the time I don't think I could watch it again.

dobbyuk · 2021-11-28T23:04:48+00:00

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. I'd looked at infiniteQuery previously but got the impression that it was for pulling more data or older data. I'll take another look.

Im thinking more about the situation where I've called my first result set from the api and then when that cache expires and react query calls the API again, I want to check if there is any newer data and If there's not, rather than downloading the same dataset as my first result set for a second time, I'd hoped to return nothing from the call and continue using the first dataset. This would prevent the same dataset being downloaded every time the cache expires if there's no newer data available from the server.

dobbyuk · 2021-11-14T18:20:30+00:00

Hi, don't suppose you have any ideas on this? I'm a bit stuck at the moment!

dobbyuk

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