I love my thinoptics – keep a pair in my pocket/wallet for when I don’t want to carry my real glasses. Works for menus, etc

I use real (as in expensive) glasses for all day reading and computer work. Have for years now. Don’t need distance correction. But still hate having to carry regular specs to the pub etc. and the thinoptics fill that gap.

And I opened the thread hoping for a reunion and new record announcement :(

just got done with walking the WHW and we didn’t see any. Also had no rain. Reckon there was something odd going on that week.

Never been myself but an old colleague with a Greek husband used to love Acropolis in Headington.

Hamsterley Forest is the obvious one that jumps to mind. Been years since I rode there so not sure of the current state but I enjoyed it. And much the same situation as you – Newcastle for work and wanted to get a ride in as part of the trip.

This seems relevant. I did something similar a few months ago and the HL documentation was pretty good.

https://www.hl.co.uk/investment-services/fund-and-share-account/transfer-existing-funds-and-shares

Another one https://howtohifi.com/install-headless-plexamp-endpoint-home-network-raspberry-pi/

I have a big box running Linux and I run a bunch of different things, including plex, on it – mostly using docker. I had the box for those things so made sense to use it for plex also.

‘This suggested a pi would work – https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-plex-server/

yes, I do exactly that with Plex – app on phone, play to BT speaker – for my collected and ripped music.  What I’m not sure about is if a Pi would work for the Plex server. Mines running on a bigger box than that.

As alluded to above, learning in the abstract isn’t for everyone. If she’s into maths then numeric analysis, statistical modelling, data science, etc are obvious step into coding – as a tool for maths. Her specific maths interest may help with the first language. Statistics go to R, general data science and ML to to Python, numerical analysis could be Julia (more esoteric but used in specific maths areas).

the core concepts are transferable, focus on the problems that interest her where coding can be used to explore.

You can link them according to Apple.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT209250

But, yes, I found it frustrating also that the touch screen has no real touch UI except for minimal things. Pretty sure you have to ask/speak.

You mentioned not having a PC and being able to use from a phone, as well as routes from books etc.

I can confirm this is totally possible with the Garmin Explore (and I assume other Garmin models). I was on holiday last year in Luxembourg, found some interesting routes online while there, and was able to import to the Garmin phone app and then send to the device. No computer needed, and was actually fantastic to be able to do that on the fly with no advance planning.

More great input, thanks all, much appreciated

Point taken about sitting on one if I can, but also sounds like going to the P3 would be ok if they size up slightly small. Great to know.

Cheers for this input everyone.

You guys aren’t talking me out of it :)

The bearings on my Intense last less time than that, over winter at least. They really aren’t built for our weather. Always sunny in SoCal I guess.

Indeed. Always the trade off. And I generally side towards reliability vs weight. I hate stuff breaking or being a faff.

Appreciate your thought there. Exactly what I was after – honest thoughts on the trade offs you don’t see in the magazine reviews. I’m also on the side of preferring better capabilities at BPW or the Alps over riding round the woods. Not logical given the time spent on each, but I don’t mind.

I was also eying up the Ohlins, although it comes with the enduro wheels which not sure are ideal for my riding.

I admit I will accept limitations on the flat/acceleration for better performance on the tech. I was thinking of going for a longer travel bike this time round, paying for the compromise. But the 141 reviews have me rethinking now.

Their sizing chart puts me in large for sure, but just. I’m on a medium now – again I was on the border and went to the small side. But it can be a tad cramped, but I got used to it.

Thanks for the list of other similar – very helpful, will dig into those for sure for comparison.

I do also like the value aspect of their packages – very well thought out specs for the cash.

And good to hear their v2 wheels might have fixed the issues. I’m generally not hard on wheels even though I’m a bit of a fat git. Probably just jinxed myself there. But sounds like it might be the biggest thing to think about.

New long reach geo is new to me, never ridden one, so I’ve got no comparison point. I do need to dig out the stats on my current bike just for comparison. How tall is your lad?

That said, the pushing the limits of the geometry is one of the attractions – I’m keen to try something quite different from my current.

Thanks all for the input, very useful. Seems like the wheels are the one big issue, but I guess one that can be sorted as and when. Same with Magura, easy to swap out if I hate them.

Weeksy – may well take you up on that offer, if for nothing else sizing. I’m in the border zone between P2 and P3 but probably P3 at 5, 11.

I’ll open Facebook and look for the group, cheers.

On the positive side a lot of modern Java development does not use log4j but rather slf4j+logback. I went over all our internally developed apps, and all third party, this morning. Maybe 30-40 different runtimes. Not one was a problem.

I’m guessing still a big issue but I’m curious about the stats when it’s all over

3 different weapons, 2 sexes, teams and individual. That’s 12.

Did this myself from both directions (becoming and granting) over last couple of years.

The government online site is really easy to use – basically a sequential form that take you through the various steps. Unless you have something out of the ordinary I don’t see any reason to pay for the solicitor if it’s just for form filling.

The doctors office did want a chunk of cash to act as the person verifying my mum was sound of mind and not being pressured etc. – we found someone else who’d know her for years and didn’t want 300 quid.

Good few years back on a trip to whistler. Coming through the baggage hall at the airport and someone’s frame was lying on the floor with ruminants of the cardboard box around it. Been there for a while by the looks of it.

Telling the story two days later in the lift line to some mates who’d arrived earlier. One of my mates was French and he turned around, grabbed some other random (to me) French guy and have quite the animated conversation with him. Turns out his bike hadn’t arrived, I’d remembered the details of the frame (as you do), and it was his. He got it back. I got bought numerous beers. Happy endings all round.

Never used it but these guys call themselves an open source FileMaker

https://www.openxava.org/ate/filemaker-alternative

My dad was a copper. My sister smashed me over the head with one of his truncheons. Dont really remember the aftermath. Sure it was deserved.

One I knew was on west gate road, down the hill from the general hospital

It great to hear they still do their bit like that.

I lived on the street next to that Greg’s seconds shop in mid 80s. We lived off the dodgy shaped stuff they sold there. And yes, queues 30 min before delivery times were massive.

Pretty sure it’s still going.

I have a general question;

Assuming you’re using digital connections, why would the CD player/source make a blind bit of difference. The “work” will be going on in the DAC of the amp would it not?

Never used them, but they came to my attention somehow recently. Seem to operate in the general area you’re interested in;

https://automate.io/

I’ll try a bump message. Any other good suggestions? Must be more places outside the high Alps.

Ah, there’s somewhere I hadn’t thought about. That gap between the maxi and the World Cup could work. I’ll look into more.

Cheers.

My nephew wrote an article around this topic recently. Might be of interest.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/04/a-very-black-friday-how-the-fetish-for-vinyl-is-sending-prices-soaring

I have a large collection of vinyl I’ve carted round the world with me as I’ve moved, and can’t seem to be able to part with. Buy 2-3 year now, mainly for the “pretty thing to own”. I end up using the digital download more.

I volunteered rebuilding dry stone walls for a week. Slept in a barn on the farm.

Cheers all.

We picked a somewhat random base as a place to go before a family event down around Dundee. Sounds like it was a good pick. More than enough to choose from.

Although I was hoping the midges wouldn’t be a big issue in late July

THanks a lot, some great suggestions. Certainly give us somewhere to start.

Thanks for the input.

Certainly not adverse to riding from town – I like that bike from the door feeling also. It’s just train centres generally give the best bang for the buck in terms of amount of riding with limited time to explore. But, happy to explore locally if recommended.

Also, we have multiple days – so multiple places to try and experience would be great.

Just reread your post. If you just need to get better WiFi you could leave the Virgin as is except turn wifi off and plug a UniFi AP point in.

I did that at first, massive improvement, and was so happy with their kit I bought the other stuff.

Did the same recently.

We have cable to most rooms so mesh didn’t make sense to me. I went with Ubiquiti UniFi in the end. A security gateway, managed switch, and wifi access point. Access point covers way more of the house than I was expecting. Was planning on needing one or two more, but one covers it all (that’s three floors from an AP on the ground floor). Lateral coverage isn’t quite as good – garden is a little weak.

Very nice management tools as well for security, multiple networks, etc if you need that.

If it’s only the wifi aspect of the Virgin box you want to improve you could just try the UniFi AP without their router and switch. Just leave Virgin as is but turn off WiFi.

Couple of people have mentioned clusters to scale out vs scale up.

This can work (we do it that way) but there are limitations. You are basically limited to the algorithms implemented in Spark and/or h2o which is a much smaller subset of the larger potential. It was enough for us, but it needs to be checked.

I don’t know anything about the scale out/clustering of GPU resources, we targeted CPU.

You can write your own distributed algorithms on top of Spark/h2o but that is serious development effort.

A backend Spark/h2o cluster running on Linux can be accessed via R, Python, other tools by users on other OSs.