MikeSharp01

Just live with that pain in your left hand side diodes - what else. I would be more worried about your pension planning holding out.

Well it either will be done before or done on the day, there is nothing like a critical deadline for getting things sorted.

Cripes! I think that pin head just got smaller or alternatively we have all gone slightly NUTS.

For screw / bolt pedants please explain how the term 'set' fits into the debate. Sorry we sometimes do this here - we observe that the head of a pin is a relatively small area and then we try to squeeze as many ideas / concepts / comments into our pockets and do a 'jig' while keeping our dancing equipment within the circumference of the pin head. (I will now also get my coat - it is raining here in Kent!)

+1 you MUST support all the edges (T&G does this out of the box) for ply you need noggins / joists to do the job. D4 glue is great for this, we did ours, albeit T&G with the caberfix variant of D4 and we don't get any squeaks although there are quite a few 'snots' running down the joists, which too me means I used enough!

This sort of radical thinking will get you drummed out of the fraternity!

You are mixing up engineering and woodwork here. You can have partially threaded wood screws.

Yes one thing I noticed, and have now fixed, was that the sub Woofer on our big system was plugged in to a socket away from the main unit so was left on standby all the time even though I was diligently turning off the main unit, DVD player etc. I only notices when I fell asleep one evening listening to some music, it was dark when I woke up and wondered what the dull green glow was coming from the far side of the room.

RESPECT

Them pesky parasitic loads - they critters have got to go.

'Very little confidence' zero would perhaps be more like correct although I appreciate that in the limit very little could approximate to zero.

Privacy, in the sense you maybe thinking of it, and as described in the policies of these companies, may not be the central point. In the modern dataverse there are loads of opportunities to join anonymised data together at the top - data science is getting very, very good at this. So the point is not to use your data directly, only the harvester can do that and only then in line with their policy {and of course local laws}, however once your data is anonymised there is complete freedom to exploit it and sell it on / share with partners. These third parties can do almost as much as the harvester, accept in as much as they don't have the personalised data for you - they will for many others, to add value to this data set by joining it with other sets they may have or have access to. When I am discussing this with students we often look at the weather, the weather for most parts of the world is publicly available so if you have a dataset that contains air temperatures (OAT) over a period, you do not need to know when the period was, you could have a good go at finding out where the sensor was, and when the readings were taken. All you need is to search through all the weather patterns across the world which with the right API is a quick enough job. You will probably find a whole host of matches, so you now need to filter those down to see if we can get closer to the front door and you have loads of opportunities there - not the least of which is the real personalised data you hold on your 'customers'. EG If you were the harvester of your data you have the additional opportunity to verify your classification algorithm of everybody else's shared anonymised data, because you know where the front door is for your organisations customer data. Once you have done that you can use the anonymised data from other harvesters to create value from the data in whatever way you can find. You may even be able to tell me how poorly calibrated by OAT sensor is! Now imaging being able to infer, perhaps not perfectly, the relative wealth / average age / etc of households by looking at the IAT/OAT delta in the data or directly at the energy consumption. Oh hang on perhaps only the electricity suppliers have that data - so could they join their data with others data to add value. Of course they can - Google it, oh hang on that won't help, you will get the answer their algorithm thinks is best, whatever best is, for you. HOWEVER - just because you are paranoid it does not mean they are not out to get you!

I get the feeling that is all about data harvesting and subsequent narrow AI based products and services from big Tech. "If you arent paying for the product then you are the product." Might be a valuable watch word here.

Ours is a Leica Ruby 620 (Might get a green one next time) but is has been a great buddy. It can be up to +/-2.2mm out over 30m so it you need better than that you are into total station country.

Perhaps he was reincarnated as you - Oooops sorry overlap on that one - so need a whole new opiate of the people to sort that out but I suppose if we blend reincarnation (Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, and Sikhism) and aspects of quantum physics / mechanics, which after all Feynman said nobody understood, like superposition, perhaps Feynman was in two places at the same time and so carries on as you. (Everything is possible in this simulation we live in) More likely he is, was, the fly that just drowned itself in my water glass - so hopefully he will be along again soon or else I have just set back science by a chunk.

Great topiary!

Good to know that irony sometimes does not hit the mark.

Its a scale thing - Kernow is such a small place, and so crowded at this time of year, that cars seem bigger in proportion to the wide open spaces of Balham - itself gateway to the south....

Yes - really interesting thread this one. Did the heat sink come from the bits box as it seems a tad overscale or is it just me.

So if I have enough DVD player like loads connected I will never be able to set my RCCB / RCBO.

Ours cost us the price of pipe and some tie wraps to fix it to the mesh.

By the time you have purchase rads and all the pipework for downstairs you could have just put a few loops of Pex-al-Pex in the slap as you pour it and you will use less concrete because of the loops.

I have seen that electronic red tape the most useless flexible semiconductor on the market.

Scroll compressors only need apply by the looks of it - I think we kind of knew it but confirmation is valuable.

It may be that they have thought through passive stack cooling for you! We have electrically operated roof lights at the top of the house and windows, at ground level, which can open (with suitable security / rodent protection) to create a cooling cross flow through the house when / if it overheats in the summer when MVHR is in bypass anyway.