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  1. Dave M

    What is my heating system

    Is their room for a few ducts from your current heater cupboard from the loft? You could go for air source heat pump / heat recovery ventilation in the loft, duct down to the rooms as the current storage does, and just tap into the upstairs rooms through the ceiling. More future proof than gas...
  2. Dave M

    Efficient method to get blood out of a finger

    If you're having trouble with controlling your diabetes they might sign you up for free libre sensors on the nhs - I have a couple of friends who are type 1 and one uses the libre sensor all the time now, having gone through a trial to get them on the nhs. Legally he has to finger p-rick before...
  3. Dave M

    Lewis Hamilton gets a knighthood

    He's becoming more out spoken in recent years, more ready to use his platform to promote issues that are important to him. From that perspective I think the 'he'll refuse it' posts are well wide of the mark - being a Sir opens up doors even being a 7 times works champion doesn't. I can only...
  4. Dave M

    Is gaming right now what you thought it would be?

    What we think of as AI is still mostly scripted as it was 20 years ago, it's not possible to give different mobs some parameters and let some AI engine deal with the details to make a realistic world - that's where graphics have got to. AI not even nearly. Maybe one of the chip makers will...
  5. Dave M

    Mains cable missing from box

    Is there a wifi antenna in the motherboard box, if there is it would screw into a little brass port on the back of the motherboard.
  6. Dave M

    Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2020, Yas Island - Race 17/17

    He didn't care until people started talking up Hamilton for a knighthood - bitter much. As others have said repeatedly (again and again and again), F1 is a team sport exactly the same as football - it's just a lot more of the team is hidden in F1. Even in modern Football the coaches...
  7. Dave M

    Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 16/17

    I assumed karting allows the smaller kids to excel, which gives them the opportunity to gain experience. At the lower levels a gorilla is never going to win, no matter how skilled.
  8. Dave M

    Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 16/17

    It all makes qualifying a bit more interesting - no doubt Liberty are going to suggest wildcard driver swaps for next season :D I really wouldn't be surprised to see Russell pushing Bottas in qualifying, very capable of the front row. I'm not so sure he'll finish so well in the race though -...
  9. Dave M

    Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 16/17

    Didn't he have the 3 fastest sectors in P1 too, but never put it all together?
  10. Dave M

    Sakhir Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 16/17

    George Russell has a 100% qualifying record against his team mate in F1. Bottas best be growing some bad-ass moustache!
  11. Dave M

    Socks

    I'd not really noticed, but the Great Treat bamboo socks I have are pretty damned old and are as good as the day I bought them - unusual for inexpensive socks. I think the viscose keeps it's shape and 'stretchy-ness' far better than cotton socks.
  12. Dave M

    Cat has been nicked

    Seen street cabinets referred to as exchanges a few times recently - they aren't exchanges. In the UK a telephone exchange refers to a sizable building with lots of equipment in it. The street cabinet is nothing more than a junction box between you and the exchange...
  13. Dave M

    Bahrain Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 15/17

    There are only really a few people who would have the experience and training to run into an inferno like that - Naval fire fighters mostly - their training involves running into a real fireball in a metal box! Not even civilian fire fighter training expects fire fighters to run into a fireball.
  14. Dave M

    Bahrain Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 15/17

    Lucky Grosjean wasn't knocked out (or recovered quickly) and that he wasn't trapped in the car. It was hard to see from the live broadcast due to cutting away and repeats, but it seemed to take several minutes to completely put out the fire. Perhaps they'd have been quicker if the driver was...
  15. Dave M

    Bahrain Grand Prix 2020, Sakhir - Race 15/17

    Can't they have a better solution these days than a steward in a firefighters coat and a little fire extinguisher? I understand you can't have dozens of experienced fire fighters on each corner but that doesn't mean they can't do something. Drones with little fire suppressant tanks for example...
  16. Dave M

    Received an empty box from Amazon Warehouse

    Sad story but why can't you? There's not a single thing on Amazon you can't buy elsewhere.
  17. Dave M

    What does ‘biased’ even mean anymore?

    You are biased and a bad person - keep hold of those facts and work on improving it. That's life. Most people don't grasp it and the vast majority of those that do fail at it.
  18. Dave M

    Spec me a heavy duty bariatric office chair please

    Get a Noble Real Leather. It's an investment, not just for you but your children. The PU fabrics they use are good, thicker and stronger than cheaper chairs and their new black hybrid fabric is amazing - but you just know a quality leather hide is going to last forever if you take care of...
  19. Dave M

    I need to vent about my experience with an LG monitor.

    If it was a gpu, motherboard, cpu - that's exactly what would happen. I've even seen people get big upgrades to current gen cards when something returned was end of life / unavailable. Monitors are just weird though, they have a big thing about dealing direct with the end user and normally for...
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