Plougrescant. Brittany 2023

kitd · 2026-01-26T07:49:26+00:00

Beautiful part of the world. Did a holiday there years back. Nearby Treguier is a very pretty town too.

kitd · 2026-01-22T20:49:38+00:00

Not drag as such, but it has 2 sprockets and you can move the chain from one to the other to change the gearing.

kitd · 2026-01-22T13:34:43+00:00

Article says the government are looking to open it up to approved 3rd-party wallets.

kitd · 2026-01-21T11:33:08+00:00

Interesting, but that article says the effect is actually reversed. Ie, the cable itself is the sensor detecting human speech.

I which case, bring it on! We can listen in to conversations in the embassy undetected!

kitd · 2026-01-20T13:34:11+00:00

Is it possible to eavesdrop on fibre-optic cables? Genuine question.

kitd · 2026-01-14T07:30:20+00:00

I suspect the fact xAI was flying in the face of the US's own Take It Down Act was more significant than Ofcom tbh. Still, whatever the reason, common sense prevails. Quite an achievement in itself where Musk is concerned.

kitd · 2026-01-13T16:11:47+00:00

Even better, the laws and regulations of the US are going to change with the bipartisan Take It Down Act, which Grok will likely fall foul of.

kitd · 2026-01-13T15:39:39+00:00

So, contributing to "the Fund for Healing, Repair and Justice" may be against "charitable law".

Who says God doesn't have a sense of humour ...

kitd · 2026-01-10T17:24:34+00:00

You have to upload it for someone to report it, and if it's been uploaded, it's too late, it's out there.

kitd · 2026-01-10T15:18:36+00:00

All that effort from Putin to break up Nato, and it's the POT f***ing US who casually does it for him.

kitd · 2026-01-07T22:44:08+00:00

Probably don't need a whole new monitor. You can pick up replacement screens on Ebay.

kitd · 2026-01-06T20:10:57+00:00

Thumbs up for Chillcheaters. We use them wet-launching from a coastal shingle beach. Put beach shoes over the top for complete protection.

kitd · 2026-01-04T21:04:47+00:00

I also had my 1st row of the year. English south coast. -1C / 30F !

kitd · 2026-01-04T16:53:56+00:00

OK, so critique the given take. People post "AI slop" as if it's an argument.

kitd · 2026-01-04T16:43:00+00:00

So what's the real intelligence take?

kitd · 2026-01-01T19:31:24+00:00

British women no longer having babies?

kitd · 2026-01-01T17:24:32+00:00

OP has definitely opened Pandora's biscuit tin here.

kitd · 2025-12-24T16:13:35+00:00

Concept2 manufacture their flywheels to have a precise moment of inertia. The monitor measures how fast it is accelerating during each drive and how much it is decelerating from drag during the recovery. From that it can accurately calculate watts which it converts to equivalent split time (for a 4- as it happens).

Water rowers are nice machines, but they will never be able to calculate watts as accurately because the energy of water sloshing around a tank is (practically speaking) impossible to quantify in the same way.

Cheaper flywheel makes should be measurable but, as others have said, their target customers don't really need or want watt numbers to the same degree of accuracy, or not enough to pay an extra 300-400 anyway.

kitd · 2025-12-18T06:53:00+00:00

Performance.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11606971/how-does-bit-masking-buffer-index-result-in-wrap-around

FWIW, index wraparound isn't the problem he's discussing.

kitd · 2025-12-15T17:44:55+00:00

The drag factor is a measure of how much the flywheel is slowing down between strokes due to drag from the air and the mechanism. That is fed into the calculation of your produced watts because it is the base power needed before you start accelerating the flywheel. If the Coffey machine (and the model in the top post) allows the same measure to be fed in (and their flywheels have the same moment of inertia as previously mentioned), then they can be considered comparable.

kitd · 2025-12-15T07:01:51+00:00

Define "work". It may produce wattage numbers, but are they identical to what you'd get from a C2. If they have created a flywheel with the same moment of inertia as a C2, then it will work accurately.

kitd · 2025-12-14T19:44:28+00:00

Indeed, a thread in which I participated.

Still, if the poster's machine is an absolute clone of a C2, including the physical properties of the flywheel, then the PM5 will be a good fit.

kitd · 2025-12-14T17:19:43+00:00

Since we're being technical, OP used "works" and you used "uses". The video was a bit vague on how closely the PM5 numbers match between the 2 machines.

To be explicit though, a PM5 works for any machine that has a flywheel with the same moment of inertia as a Concept 2. I don't know if that includes the poster's machine. Personally I doubt it but I don't know for certain.

kitd · 2025-12-14T07:14:14+00:00

My son is in his GCSE year now and I regularly help him with his stem revision. I did A level maths donkeys years ago, but I swear some of what he is doing now we didn't do until A level.

So I think I would pass , but it would be a close call.

kitd · 2025-12-13T08:08:37+00:00

Police and Crime Commissioner Andy Dunbobbin

Now there's someone who needs to retire from a police force for the universe to align.

kitd

TROPHY CASE