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General Discussion Area / Re: A.I.

« on: 05 January 2026, 14:28:24 »

I use it for programming.

I have created a bespoke print management system that suits our needs perfectly rather than shoehorning myself into some one else perfect.

I have spent around 40hrs on it and I would say its around 95% complete and certainly good enough for us to begin testing with and ironing out the bugs.  Is it as good as paying a real programmer - No,  will it get the job done without the £250-£300 per month subscription fee of a system that will frustrate me and my team absolutely.

No problems with people getting frustrated or not understanding what you want - it does have a habit of going of on a tangent after long conversations sometimes so you have to reel it back in and keep plenty of backups!

Use it as a tool and its great,  let it run your life like the government and the ai providers want us to and it will ruin us and take over the world skynet style!

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General Discussion Area / Re: What has P*ssed you off today?

« on: 24 January 2023, 20:59:50 »

HP.  You would think after spending £18.5k on a new printer it would entitle you to a bit of support when it's dead out of the box instead of having to deal with an Indian call centre who either can't understand the problem or won't understand the problem.  3 days to get an engineer out and then he still couldn't fix it.  Finally after 2 weeks managed to get them to admit it's knackered and they will swap it.    Now the headache of getting a 9ft long printer packed back up!  Sick!

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General Discussion Area / Re: Metropole Blackpool

« on: 24 November 2022, 19:54:24 »

Apparently UK net migration is the highest ever at 504,000 last year.

Presumably that is the legal figure.....if we add illegals then.

Yes and apparently we need these migrants to fill jobs and grow the economy. 

Meanwhile, not so much reported by the MSM, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported today they estimate that there are around 724,000 16-24 year olds not in employment, education or training (NEET) and this is a percentage rate of 10.6%.

What's going on?    We're constantly told that employers can't find people to fill the vacancies....

https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peoplenotinwork/unemployment/bulletins/youngpeoplenotineducationemploymentortrainingneet/november2022

I can look outside my shop in town and throw a stone in any direction and be offered a job within 5 minutes.  It may not be the most glamorous or well paid job but its a job.  Tim Hortons and greggs have both just been actively recruiting offering around 60 jobs yet both are struggling.

There are loads of jobs for those who want to work, it's just that most of the unemployed don't actually want to work.

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General Car Chat / Re: Volvo XC90

« on: 16 February 2022, 22:17:22 »

I have a 2012 d5 which i think has the more powerful emgine than the one you are looking at,  31-35mpg over 15 miles of very mixed roads twice a day,  massive and not fast,  very slow to get moving but once on the move plenty fast enough.

I have only had mine a couple of months but love it so far. 

Cheers
Chris

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General Car Chat / Re: Looks like I'll be driving a french car for a bit...

« on: 24 May 2019, 16:12:28 »

Awesome little vans.  I have one with 210k miles on it and it is brilliant.

Take the backseats out and you have a full van that you can load to the top and take to the tip and you won't get any grief from the tip monkeys because its classed as a car - try that with an actual van and round here you get turned away.

Mine is the 1600 diesel manual 2009 and its solid,  Other than a couple of top mounts and new horn its never gone wrong.

Cheers

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General Discussion Area / Re: Brexit Friday.

« on: 09 July 2018, 09:15:11 »

Im not a massive politics fan in any way shape or form.  However I said right at the start of all of this that we wouldn't leave Europe or that if we did then it would be so watered down we would be better off staying in Europe. 

I personally think this whole thing has been engineered by the government as a way to keep us in Europe at any cost.

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General Car Chat / Re: Dashcam

« on: 12 May 2018, 22:23:53 »

Just checked with one if the lads who works there still and I'm right.

Def £30 including the hardwire kit.

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General Car Chat / Re: Dashcam

« on: 12 May 2018, 22:17:02 »

The kit price is 20quid when bought on its own but when bought as part of the fit it's effectively free of charge (It's couponed off on the till)

Well all this was true when I was working there a few months ago and I can't see it changing to much.

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General Car Chat / Re: Dashcam

« on: 12 May 2018, 21:28:03 »

Went and had a look at the Nextbase duo in Halfrauds today. £199 plus £30 to fit the kit, plus the kit price, (forgot to ask the price), and the price of a card. If I have both cars done, fitting is £60, wiring kits free.

The price should be....

1.  The dashcam.
2. The memory card.
3.  The fit which Is £30 AND includes the hardwired kit (normally £20 quid)

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General Car Chat / Re: Dashcam

« on: 10 May 2018, 20:47:22 »

I have a Nextbase in the Omega. Pretty good for the money imo. 
It doesn't have a rear facing feature, just films whats happening through the windscreen. I originally had it in the 190, but it interfered badly with the DAB signal.

The guy at the electrickery shop said that the Nextbase duo type are OK for this. It was only the separate rear ones that they found interfered with the DAB. Is the 190 DAB aftermarket? If so, that may account for it, as I would assume built in models should have better screening.

I can see a good case for not having GPS built in, so will investigate at a dashcam shop, Halfords(?), as I may get something off with their TC. I understand that some NB models, possibly all, can be swapped to another vehicle quite easily.

You won't get anything else off with a trade card on dash cams.  The old model of the duo are crap and if there any available will be in the clearance cabinets.  Don't confuse them with the newer version which is much better due to a better rearward lense.  Still not as good as 2 separate cams front and rear.

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General Car Chat / Re: Electric cars and hybrids

« on: 10 May 2018, 07:05:56 »

The guy across the road from me took delivery of his new Leaf today. When i asked him about the range before it needs a charge he reckons it,s good for 150+. Is he deluded or has the local dealer been telling him porkies?

Nope.  The new leaf is claimed to have a range of 150 miles which in real life will translate to around 120 miles or so if it's anything like our old one.

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General Car Chat / Re: Electric cars and hybrids

« on: 09 May 2018, 13:24:29 »

*looks up where Penrith is*

I didn't know you had electricity that far north!?

it's only just been discovered to be fair - but it is strange how what is suitable in one location just doesn't work else where,  if we lived in a reasonable sized town/city there would be a charge point on every other lamp post etc and charging would be a non issue. 

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General Car Chat / Re: Electric cars and hybrids

« on: 09 May 2018, 12:43:42 »

I think that it comes down to where you live with the electric cars.  I live in Penrith so apart from my charge point on the drive there is a free one at the Nissan Garage in Penrith (normal house hold charger) or one on the m6 at southwaite services which is 10 miles (ish) out and reghead (5 miles out)  Every other charge point seems to be heading away from where we ever wanted to go.  Like I say to get over to Newcastle (well Whitley Bay) we would have to charge at Hexham which on checking was rarely working which then scuppered the whole plan.

It wasn't for the want of planning - there just wasn't the infrastructure available (in suitable locations) for our planned journey's as I say for the local stuff it was great.  The Tesla on the other hand has the range that means most of our problems wouldn't be problems however the price point is slightly more than I would like!

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General Car Chat / Re: Electric cars and hybrids

« on: 09 May 2018, 11:37:18 »

Having driven a Leaf for 3 years

Totally OT, but how have you found it? I keep toying with the idea of an ev solely for my commute (50miles each way, free charging at work) once we move and having something more fun for all the other times I want a car.

I had a leaf for 3 years as well and I never got over the range anxiety.  50miles each way is fine as long as you can charge at both ends and is the sort of range I think the cars were designed for.  Despite the claimed range of my leaf I never got ANY where near it and on occasion could empty the "tank" in as little as 45 - 50 miles (70-80 is more normal depending on the driving style and terrain)

We were sold on the range being in excess of 100 miles and that's what the dealer told us so we always thought we would drive over to Newcastle from Penrith and charge it at my parents before coming home again  - we never once attempted that because of the lack of charge points on the A69 (other than Hexham which never seems to work when checking).

Would I have one again - yes but only when the range get MUCH better because for knocking round the doors and local commutes etc its brilliant and there is nothing like sneaking up behind a workmate and blasting the horn.

Cheers

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General Discussion Area / Re: Snow?

« on: 07 March 2018, 19:49:30 »

Yep.  I would agree with that

Nah! In Newcastle they don't even put a shirt on till it drops below -7°. 

That's exactly right - t-shirt weather is this 

that said I now live in Penrith even Newcastle has gas central heating - they haven't quite discovered gas here just yet.

The fact that you put Newcastle in your sig is slightly misleading, then. 

Oh I agree but I was born and brought up there and only just moves moved to Penrith a little while ago and I have been a member here longer than I have lived in Penrith and just never thought to change it.  I shall change it soon.