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Carlton green wrote: ↑19 Feb 2025, 9:19am

Jdsk wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025, 4:02pm It's unfortunate that the forum's usual obfuscation and logorrhoea has complicated this.

Shirley

Yes, a simple enough concept became over complicated by situations that most folk here are not likely to be troubled by. On the other hand our attention was drawn to what might not otherwise have been considered and people can choose to learn from the additional points made.

This forum might, in some ways, be imperfect. However, this forum is very good at both sharing knowledge (of which there is arguably much here) and developing its members by means of the ‘conversations’ that we have here.

Biospace wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 3:43pm

mattheus wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 12:10pm I wouldn't trust it to tell me the size of a Marathon Supreme - let alone such a vague wide-ranging topic as at the start of this thread.
(don't get me started on the extra resources used compared to regular web-searches. They're looking at mini-nuke power-plants for the server farms ... )

Which will likely become reality, such is the demand. New fossil fuel power stations are being built in Ireland purely to serve data centres,

https://www.techerati.com/news-hub/micr ... -approved/ and
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/n ... in-dublin/
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... sions-tech - "Data center emissions probably 662% higher than big tech claims"

Also -

• djnotts wrote: ↑14 Dec 2024, 8:06am Apparently air fryers are more energy efficient than other cooking devices, but they'll cancel that out with data collection and analysis.
  

CatLeChat wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 1:38pm Lovely people who've taken your bikes on the sleeper - were any of you made to bag your bikes after you'd booked a ticket?
I'm looking at doing a cycling trip this summer that would be easiest starting and ending on the sleeper, but they have a warning that in busy times they may ask you to use a bike bag which is an issue, as I don't know what I'd do with the bag while cycling around the Highlands for a week. It seems to be something you could have imposed on you after you've bought the ticket as well, so you can't just book a quiet service, as you don't know who what night book after you.
Whenever I've taken the sleeper there's been at most one bike in the racks, and that's on Fridays & Sundays when you'd expect it to be busiest. Any ideas on how frequently that condition gets enforced? Or on whether they consider a bin bag with some carefully applied bungee cords to be an adequate bag?

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Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 12:19pm At a nation-state level we can't do anything about the headlights themselves, other than push for regulation at a higher (UNECE presumably) level. And it's hard to see what else would be effective.

roubaixtuesday wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 10:51am

Nearholmer wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 10:03am I never thought it was intelligent.

It sure as heck is biased though, even if only biased by the bias inherent in the source material it is crawling through.

Sorry, I was making a general point, not intended to be aimed at you. Apologies.

Calling ChapGPT "AI" is highly misleading IMO

I think we're in agreement

Carlton green wrote: ↑18 Feb 2025, 8:15am As far as I’m concerned it seems focused on high cost products and the marketing of such whereas my cycling is definitely focused on the fun and utility you can get out of cycling in exchange for (if you choose with some care) a very modest financial outlay.

plancashire wrote: ↑17 Feb 2025, 10:15am My wife has a bicycle bell with a compass in the top. I regard it as a toy, having used a real compass in the past. The bell thingy gives a vague idea of where north might be. A map and some local knowledge seems far more useful for navigation.

Manc33 wrote: ↑15 Feb 2025, 5:43pm I wonder if the Tesla can be seen with a telescope when we orbit back around to it?

We won't and they will have their usual ready-made answers for why not.

pwa wrote: ↑13 Feb 2025, 5:03pm I understand the words, but the concepts lead to mad places straight out of Alice in Wonderland, and I am left wondering if physicists are so concentrated on the detail that they don't step back and consider the strangeness of their conclusions and say, "Hang on, this can't be right......". Because if half of what is presented is correct, reality is so mad that I begin to think that maybe physics is knocking on God's door. It feels so divorced from what we see and feel that it takes on a supernatural appearance. Like a religion with spreadsheets.

photobike wrote: ↑13 Feb 2025, 6:55pm And plenty will buy one a 2nd time because they forgot they had already bought one and never used it

Airsporter1st wrote: ↑14 Feb 2025, 9:05am Here in Spain, I have had to renew my licence every 5 years since passing 65.

The renewal process consists of physical coordination test and medical examinatiin - the latter akin to that which I used to have for my HGV1 renewal.