MikeSharp01

We perhaps need to find some common ground here so we can identify the aspects we can agree on and then discuss the things we don't - this is usually (still) a good basis for discourse and otherwise we are contributing to the death of nuance and increasing polarisation which gets us nowhere. All it does is improve our ability to throw language laden bricks into the opposing camp. So to kick this off perhaps: Can we agree that the planet is warming up whatever the cause? If we are able to agree at least that we can perhaps then discuss consequences, mitigation strategies and opportunities it brings. Only after that we can discuss evidence for causal factors, natural cycles, human activity, adjustments by the operators of the simulation we are all living in - the science, or otherwise, of what is happening.

If you think it through the answer must be that it does not. If you watch a toddler you can see the principle at work - they are happy operationalise, they understand it, although they perhaps cannot explain it. It only takes an inspirational teacher in a school to expolain it and suddenly its clear what the method is. Make an Observation: Identify an event or ask a question about the natural world that requires an explanation. (Can I climb this hill thing [stair]?) Form a Hypothesis: Propose a testable, educated guess or plausible answer to your question. (Let's see) Conduct an Experiment: Design a controlled test to see if the hypothesis holds true under specific conditions. (One step , crawl climb of whatever) Analyse the Data: Examine the results gathered from the experiment to determine patterns or trends. (Yep I am at the top / nope I have hit something that stops me - the stair gate!) Draw a Conclusion: Decide whether the evidence supports or rejects the hypothesis. If rejected, the hypothesis is modified and the process restarts. (I can climb / I need to modify my approach and try when the stair gate has been left open.) To operationalise it in any field of advanced research does need a lot more education and experience - that I agree, but not the scientific method itself - that is child's play!

Wow - that's some landscaping - its been so long since one has seen so many terraces in a design- looks great and once it has grown in it will look amazing. Until the epilogue then.....

How tall do you need to be to operate those switches.

Dialogue is always a good approach and one thing this place has taught me is that there are often ideas out there that have not hit your consciousness and this thread is an example. It has saved me about £200 in 6mm cable and a lot of working pulling cables through ducts and along trays - so its a win for me. I do need to build a bit of infrastructure to mount the switches but otherwise its a winner. Thanks all.

I could put them in the cupboard below the ovens - the one above would be too high up, would that work? The hob is on the island along with the kitchen ring.

The 'interior designer' has persuaded me to locate the isolators for the ovens on the kitchen island so they do not break up the aesthetic of the oven wall. These would be 1.4m from the Ovens across the gangway from the wall with the ovens. Each oven has a max draw of 3600W so 7.2kW with both on full power. Each of the two ovens will have there own 32A isolator in the Consumer Unit (CU), To achieve the run it ends up as a lot of 6mm cable: CU - Island (12m) & Island - Oven (15m) I am going to have 27m run (Voltage drop 3.5V approx), none in insulation but in duct and trunking. [I would need only 5m of 6mm cable if the switches were local to the ovens] So for these two ovens I will need just over 50m of cable which in itself is not a problem but I thought I would get a sanity check here to be sure I am not breaking any rules doing this - it looks OK to me regs wise. Any thoughts - should I push back on the interior designer?

If your contractor has set up a water supply for the site from your connection point, assume its a water meter but it may just be a stop cock, then they can do all the other work without the water company being involved - they just need to follow the regs eg double non return valves etc.

I am aware that some manufacturers have had issues with condensation in the walls of their machines it may just be that. Why not look at a dry the panels out solution - drill a pluggable hole, connect a pipe to the hole and a tub of silica gel and see how much moisture you can draw out that way. You can get Silica Gel in volume: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Quart-Replacement-Desiccant-Indicating-Silica/dp/B013L31PQ0 that one is indicating - it changes colour as it gets wet and is likely to be toxic if swallowed - IIRC normal, non indicating, silica gel is harmless though

Utilitarianism has some fundamental downsides I think such as how do you assess greater good anyway. It it how all the people see it or just a few who say "this will be for the greater good" alternatively is it for the greater good now or later - hard to know!

Well I had a play today with my old surface pro - it has a GTX 1060 GPU with 6Gb of RAM, its about 9 years old! I thought can I get Gemma4 4b into that and drawing. SO I gave it a try and after some messing about I ended up with this - some HTML code output at about 25 tokens / second. Using an un-quantised Gemma4 4b model - not bad I thought without any flooding into CPU memory.

They could have solved this with education - if everybody thought about the environment, their fuel bills, comfort etc - all those things would happen naturally. In essence you either have the ideological state apparatus or the repressive state apparatus you can avoid either with the other.

My analysis is a bit different - planning is a part of it but the bigger part is developers interests and councils not being allowed to build council housing. The former is a problem because they want to keep prices high and maximise profit so they have no interest in mass production as it rises the supply side and so reduces prices. The councils not building for social rent, I get that housing associations are supposed to do this but funding constraints meam means that they are actually just developers, is a problem because it forces private rental and that removes housing stock from purchasers and so pushes up prices - which just closes the loop again. So sorting planning needs much more out of the box thinking alongside it.

I smoothed our daughters tray underside, which was awful, with isopon and a piece of plate glass, dead flat, to ensure we had a perfectly flat surface to mate with the trap, seems to have worked - all done dry- no ct1 and no leaks 4 years on.

I will get him to drill such a hole and find out. We know the wall was wet but did the remedials in November last year.

Yes defo was but has had breather hole cover to be fitted. Here is a bigger image the floor in here is well above outer ground level and the wall is the party with next door.

Our son had a chunk of the chimney breast replastered and it seems to be effervescent. It feels dry but I don't have my damp meter with me. Any thoughts - can it be cured or does he need to get it redone? I understand the wall beneath has been damp proof injected.

Do we have an Gargoyles on here? ( @Pocster please take a breath before answering that if you are watching!?)

Why would you want water leaking into your, or anybody else's, house?

Creativity, for people who are no longer children, is all about rediscovering your inner child and dumping all your baggage so it does not constrain your thinking.

Agree - and it is only trained on code people have shared so there are whole domains, including some languages, it knows very little about in real world terms although it generally has all the theory it is not able to deploy it, in its word, 'cleanly'!

Seems a waste of a perfectly good nuke - all they will need to do is provide a few strong streams of water and play them on your build - pretty soon your life will be consumed with finding and fixing leaks leaving no time for chat! On another matter I see that Claude has released Mythos (well a slightly cut down version) to the general public - that might improve things for you although I strongly suspect you will quickly exhaust its patience - and yours along with its capabilities....

Sadly, although by then its context memory might be very large, today's conversation histories will have melted into nothing or at the very least TLDR - "what ever"!

Yes and the trouble with Toddlers is they grow up and become very stroppy teenagers. My beef this week has been to get copilot to ignore all the metadata that goes along with the prompt - somehow it thought that this was part of the prompt and kept telling me that my code would not work because you have loads of 'edge' metadata in it. Even though it has now agreed with me to ignore it it keeps telling me its an issue.

For UKPN you can do it all yourself - we are on single phase, applied for an account, used the web form and off it went we got 7kW peak output set at the inverter with no haggling or anything from UKPN.