Kyoto is good, but get a guide who will trim it to the best bits otherwise you’ll be Temple’d to death.

Nara is worth a visit, as is Hiroshima.

Bike tour company called Bike Kyoto is very good and better than doing it on foot.

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Masters of the air is even worse – single episodes in 4k look like they can be up to 20gb.

You can’t download Apple TV episodes in 4K, only 1080p, so it’s not that. I’ve just looked Masters of the Air on my MacBook and it’s 1.35GB.

Seems quite good value for money to me.

Yes, we have exactly one in our village. White Golf R, lots of popping and banging as he drives through with the seat as far back as possible, and then the moment he hits the NSL sign the whole place is deafened as he floors it.

He’s gone past me while I’ve been out running and I reckon he’s doing, conservatively, about 90mph on a lane not quite wide enough for two vehicles.

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Ryan air saying they are finding random spanners and dirty rags under the floorboards..

This is the bit that, to me, is indicative of major problems. At proper organisations every tool has a matching shadow, and if not returned at the end of the shift the aircraft doesn’t return to flight until it’s found.

The seat thing isn’t that surprising – it was my first guess – and is just unfortunate. Disconnecting the autopilot in this way will always result in a violent pitch down.

If the inverter doesn’t limit what goes to the house how does it limit what goes to the grid?

The inverter measures the electricity flow in and out of your house. If it senses electricity flowing in, it’ll increase its output (drawing from the batteries if necessary) until the incoming measures zero, or it’s reached its physical limit.

For exporting power to the grid, it can have a different (lower) limit and it’ll just put power out to reach that limit and no higher. If there’s spare solar generation it’ll go into the batteries, or your hot water tank, or ultimately it’ll just be ditched as heat.

But what can I say….. No one’s ever checked – which is probably why they want to insist on point one beinga hardware limit because I for one would have no qualms pressing a few buttons and making full use of the Hardwear.

To be fair this led to an argument with my installer when they told me that the inverter settings would be locked behind a PIN that they refused to divulge, in case I changed the export limit.

Anyway, this is a very good example of why you never pay in full up front for any electrical work.

Second installers compromised with me and said that the DNO requires a PIN, but nothing says that it has to be changed from the factory default setting.

£8k for 12 panels, 3.7kW inverter, and 5.kWh of battery storage about 18 months ago. Biggest single expense was the scaffolding.

If more than 3.7kW you may need a G99 application. Northern Powergrid charge £680+ VAT for the assessment based on their website. However, my installers did say that they don’t always charge but it was unpredictable. If you have a lot of solar nearby there may be issues with export, but you can still use the full output privately.

If you have a plug-in socket tester with a voltage reading (or your smart meter or car will show you), then you will hit issues if it’s above 250V on a sunny day as your inverter may disconnect.

Yeah, mine’s gone up by £34/yr. Object to having a standing charge that’s 78% higher than London when the electricity is produced in our backyard and posted down to the South East.

Slightly regretting the order of an extra battery and bigger inverter now. £2,900, but I don’t like the batteries under the stairs. I was tempted to do it myself and save £1000, but not keen on cutting and re-terminating the solar PV cabling. High voltage DC scares me a lot more than AC, and I don’t think “wait until it’s dark” is in the IET guidelines.

12% to your journey time (despite what it feels like) and saves loads of energy.

45 minutes over 220 miles – in any car that has fast DC charging of more than 130kW or so you’ll be better time-wise if you keep the speed up and stop to charge.

Caveat here is if you pull off the motorway and discover a queue for chargers the whole system falls apart, and you may need some extra time for your bank to approve the new mortgage for using Gridserve or Ionity.

There are pros to this as well. On some newer Volvos you can buy the base edition and just use a computer and a tutorial to enable all the fancy toys which are software-locked.

It’s an expansion vessel. Water can only go one way through the pressure-reduction valve into the cylinder, so as it gets hot and expands the expansion vessel has a balloon in it to take up the slack.

To check this you can close the cold supply to the cylinder and open a hot tap to let the pressure out of the system. On the expansion vessel there’s a shrader valve – if you prod the core you’ll know straight away if it’s failed or not because a bit of water will come out.

If it seems OK, pump it up to 1 bar and stick the cap back on. Open the cold water feed to the cylinder, turn off the tap once it stops sputtering, and you’re all done.

Literally everything now requires the computer to fly it / correct it / etc.

All modern passenger transport planes are naturally stable apart from at the very extremes of their aerodynamic envelope. That’s why MCAS was introduced in the first place.

I’ve always wondered what would happen if you enthusiastically invited them in for the full tour and a cup of tea in the canteen.

“Oh, and would you mind flying your drone over that corner of the roof? We’re convinced it’s leaking in heavy rain.”

The big question is, which one of her children didn’t get her flowers?

Probably my brother by the sound of things.

Ford Mach-E review: much better than the Enyaq, still not as good as the Tesla. No heat pump. 2.7 miles / kWh on the way home from the dealer ‘cos they said I could keep it for the weekend.

I score it as “OK” – adaptive cruise is fine, but Ford went to the same discount retailer that VAG use in order to get the latest 1982 BBC Micro to run the infotainment.

This is what makes touchscreens dangerous. In the Tesla I can jab a button on the screen and know that it’s going to work. The Ford uses the same logic as self-checkout machines at the supermarket: acknowledge the button push but don’t do anything.

Plastic is a bit scratchy, screen position is weird (why isn’t it tilted towards the driver?), and all of the icons for DAB stations show little crosses. It does have wireless Android Auto though. Not convinced it’s a nice environment for hours at a time. And the windscreen is tiny.

Stuck my head into the local VW dealership to try to see the ID7. “Sorry, the manager is driving our only ID7 and he’s on holiday”.

Need to try to get a drive in a Polestar 2 next.

I guess this is why it was on eBay. Try a factory reset if there is one?

This looks a great option. Can bribe a friend into dropping me and the bike at Preston, and then ride from Stirling.

I discovered that my insurance is going to be upwards of £1,200 outside the company car scheme so EVs are back on the table.

Dropped into a Skoda dealer for a test drive in an Enyaq yesterday. Car seems well built and comfortable but OH MY GOD the software for everything was terrible. The biggest complaint against Tesla is that stuff is buried in menus, but it’s nothing compared to the VAG implementation. And this was apparently the newest version.

I drove randomly away from the dealership for 15 minutes, then asked the sales drone sat in the passenger seat to stick the post code in so we could see how good the sat nav was. After 5 minutes he’d finally figured out where to put it, and he was still trying to turn on the voice guidance when we got back.

Also – didn’t go above 60mph and it only managed 1.7 miles per kWh, giving a real world range of just 150 miles. This is a £50,000 car… My Model 3, despite being a panicky quivering mess on motorways thanks to Autopilot, did 4.1 miles/kWh on the journey there.

Trying the ID7 on Friday, and have a Mach-E for the weekend. If the software on the ID7 is from the same team that did the Enyaq, it’s going to be a hard “no”. Polestar is unfortunately out, as for some reason they are astronomically expensive on the company scheme.

Much that I hate His Muskiness, Tesla seems to have the powertrain and battery sorted.

That report which states 99% of the damage is done by HGV/busses cannot possibly be correct.  There are massive swathes of country roads that’re nigh impossible for those vehicles to navigate which are equally if not more degraded than all the others.

Tractors, innit? Eleventy thousand tonnes on a single axle, aggressive treads, and incompetent drivers.

The reason the roads around my neck of the wood are flooded is because the tractor drivers run one side of the tractor/trailer combo along the verge. This collapses underground drains and throws huge quantities of mud into the road, which they then neatly force into any remaining drains on the road, blocking them entirely.

Rinse and repeat. I don’t know why they like driving on the verges – whether it’s to discourage cyclists from using the road due to mud, or an attempt to artificially widen it, or just because they’re distracted on their phone.

I have a Denplan membership. I think it’s about £18/month but does rise each year. Covers two checkups and two hygienist visits each year, and minor work. I’ve had two small composite fillings replaced under the plan.

Quite happy with with it.

1. Tax vehicles in proportion to the damage they cause, not by emissions. It’s a fourth power rule so at least make an effort to get it right.

2. Pay-per-mile based on routing. HGVs on motorways are not really an issue (especially if you make lane 1 concrete) but destroy minor roads. Discourage them from taking shortcuts. Same with rat-runners on quiet roads.

3. Make housing developers pick up the tab for the damage they cause. The roads are destroyed near me thanks to two new huge developments and the associated construction traffic. They haven’t repaired or resurfaced the road despite it being finished for over a year.

4. Bikes don’t cause damage and can run on softer tarmac that doesn’t crack in the winter. Put proper bike lanes in which are segregated and crush the cars that try to access them illegally.

5. When potholes are repaired, do it properly. In North Yorkshire a pothole repair consists of one man pouring a bit of tarmac into the water-filled pothole and stamping it down. Obviously it fails within weeks. The hole I tore my knee apart in at the start of February was repaired within three days of reporting it but is already back to how it was originally.

6. Actually enforce the law around agricultural equipment. The pressure on the road from the tread of a big tractor is immense, especially when the 12-year-old at the wheel guns it in a turn out of the yard / gateway. Trailers running massively overloaded with silage bales on a single axle.

7. Insist that street repairs are coordinated by utilities. If you dig up the street for routine work and don’t coordinate it with others, your company has to fully resurface a defined distance of a totally different road as a punishment. Lazy repairs get the same outcome.

I’m sure there’s more here that can go on the list.

The home doesn’t provide WiFi? Is it a care home or a prison? Wonder what other basics for people essentially confined to their rooms that they fail to provide?

Just supply your mum with a WiFi hotspot running on the phone network and tell her not to give the password to the staff.

Not clear to me how the cultural issues described at Boeing are only impacting these later 737 derivatives, or were they not designing and building other stuff in the last 5 years?

Fear of change, I suspect, because change incurs costs.

You can sort of see it in the 787 as well, which is very impressive under the skin from a technical perspective and handles like a gem in turbulence, but has been hamstrung by management refusing to accept changes to the way things operate. So you end up with a lot of unnecessary button pushing and knob twiddling in the flight deck because “the 777 does it this way”, or “that’s how we did it on the 707”, while the flight management computer frequently thinks it’s a 767.

There are little things, like the park brake being electronic yet designed to mimic the mechanism they nicked off a ride-on lawnmower in the 60s, and then bigger issues like the utter refusal of the computers to tell you what they’re actually thinking.

Try using Microsoft Copilot (via Bing) for this. I copied and pasted in your post and it spat out the answer, and you can tweak it by plain English conversation.

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Yes, you can do this by using a combination of Excel functions and features. Here’s a step-by-step guide:

1. **Add a new column to your data that will indicate whether the sample was received overnight.**
– In the first cell of the new column (let’s say it’s column D), enter the following formula: =IF((C2>=TIME(16,0,0))+(C2<TIME(8,0,0)), "Overnight", "Daytime"). This formula checks if the time in cell C2 is greater than or equal to 16:00 (4:00 PM) or less than 8:00 (8:00 AM). If it is, it returns “Overnight”, otherwise, it returns “Daytime”. – Replace C2 with the cell that contains the first time value in your data. – Drag the fill handle (the small square at the bottom-right of the cell) down to copy this formula for all the rows in your data. 2. **Create a PivotTable to count the number of samples received overnight each day.** – Go to Insert > PivotTable.
– In the Create PivotTable dialog box, select the range of your data (including the new column) and choose where to place the PivotTable.
– In the PivotTable Field List, drag the “Date of Receipt” field to the Rows area, the “Overnight” field to the Columns area, and the “Sample ID” field to the Values area.
– In the Values area, click on the dropdown arrow next to “Count of Sample ID”, select “Value Field Settings”, and choose “Count” to count the number of samples.
– The PivotTable will show the count of samples received during the daytime and overnight for each date. You can filter the “Overnight” column to show only the overnight samples.

Remember to replace the column letters and cell references in the steps above with the ones that match your data.

If you are on Octopus then you can use the app to reduce your DD payents until you have depleted your credit and then adjust your DD payments to a low amount that enough for summer coverage

Only problem with this is that you can’t set the Direct Debit payments below £10/month. With solar + battery + saving sessions I’m now in a £700 positive balance.

Although I’m tempted to sacrifice £4 of it for these socks on Shoptopus.

Never had any success without video evidence, but with footage attached I get a confirmation that a prosecution is taking place within a day or two. Police Scotland have a reputation of looking after car drivers to the detriment of everyone else, though.

I wish there was the holy grail of small camera + decent image quality + good battery life for the bike.

I hope they don’t change the tyres as it has four nearly new Conti Eco Contact 6 on it.

When I traded in my Volvo to a main dealer I tried to get credit for the nearly new set of winter tyres on it, but they told me that they always put a new set of tyres on because they don’t know what’s happened to the old ones.

They did keep them safe for me to collect after I sold them the car so I can’t complain too much.

If you want 8k, sell it privately. It seems that you’re expecting the dealer to take on the risk of hidden faults in the car, force them to put new tyres on it (my experience is that they’re so afraid of liability every used car gets the tyres replaced), clean it, and then do the job of selling it for you.

They also make most of their profit from finance schemes, so you’re also cutting them out of that.

Sorry to sound blunt, but when you say “they aren’t offering me enough for my part-ex”, what you’re actually saying is “they aren’t offering a big enough discount off the new car”. That’s entirely their prerogative.

Where is she right now? shes effectively stateless, so does she spend the rest of her life living in airports getting passed around?

She’s in a prison camp (of sorts) in Syria, I believe.

Also never imagined the day I’d be agreeing wholeheartedly with Rees-Mogg.

To be fair, the specific colour is less important to me than the need for all nations to agree to settle on one colour for each ‘basic ‘ flavour before 2030.

This is basically what the United Nations was born to do.

Does the earth terminal in the light connect to anything, or is it just a point to connect the earth wire to so that it’s not left floating around (which encourages some people to cut it off)?

Please, just give it a rest. This thread is about Sir Kier Starmer.

It appears that in my case it may have led to the development of long QT. Appointment booked with the top man in the UK later in the year, but been off work for six weeks and will be for some time yet.

At least my heart is structurally fine, but electrically it now resembles one of the horror story DIY jobs you see on YouTube where a kitchen fitter has done the wiring.

Reasons why not:

1. Certification assessment.
2. Cost of installing in the first place.
3. Can’t be used for take-off and landing.
4. Need to be cleaned between passengers.
5. Loss of seats where they’re fitted.
6. Safety in turbulence?
7. Would require additional air conditioning to be fitted.
8. Weight. Modern aircraft are at their max take-off weight pretty often, so you’re leaving passengers or cargo behind if you add beds.

There are already economy sleeping pods on most planes, it’s called buying an upgrade to business class.

I feel like I’m missing something obvious here, but why couldn’t Starmer just tell Labour MPs to support the SNP’s amendment calling for a ceasefire instead of lobbing his own grenade into the chamber?

Faux outrage? Have you been living under a stone for the last three months?

You have – once again – read a comment and jumped to entirely the wrong conclusion.

I’m unhappy with the behaviour of the House of Commons (all of them) because it appears that they’re not arguing about the relative merits of calling a ceasefire (which I think is long overdue given the appalling death toll of children in Gaza) but who gets to put the motion forward, and I think that is pathetic.

It seems pretty obvious that regardless of what actually happened in the Commons yesterday, the bleating, braying, faux-outrage and general hysteria from all MPs implies that it was never about Gaza in the first place and every party is jumping on the bandwagon to make a political point that has nothing to do with humanitarian reasons.

All it’s actually served do it is increase my loathing of most of our politicians.