Not sure where you get the UK numbers from. For me peak-rate electricity is 28p/kWh, off peak is 8p, and there are periods of free electricity at off peak times. I charge an electric car overnight, full charge costs about £6. I charge a static battery during the day and do clothes and dishwashing overnight at off peak rate, and run an immersion heater for hot water at night too. Now if they could just fix the gat price for winter central heating ...

Talking of logarithms, I was taught maths in the '70s. We were all issued with 'log tables' - tables of base 10 logarithms, (and sines/cosines/tangents etc.) and these were used to do multiplications by adding logarithms. Then along came electronic calculators and the tables were so much waste paper.

Agreed. I've been working with a time of flight chip (AS6501 for anyone interested) that measure time differences down to tens of picoseconds and can determine how long a pulse takes to travel down a metre of cable. It is truly amazing to be able to measure the speed of light on my bench for less than 1000 pounds/dollares/euros

I haven't heard the the word gewgaw since I last watched 'The Lavender Hill Mob' - thanks for the fond memory! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

As a UK resident, in my experience people have most generally got into the habit of taking reusable bags with them. The supermarkets are certainly NOT issuing paper bags. They sometimes put out used cardboard boxes which goods originally came in, which can be handy if you came unprepared.

Bangladesh is not India, dumbass

pcbway. $5 for five 100mmx80mm double sided boards, + shipping

Kicad 6 is well worth the effort. Copy and paste between designs works now, and the design rule checker in pcbnew is a lot stricter, and catches way more errors.

I never really stopped being a thing in the UK, except that a lot of local dairies could not compete with supermarkets & went bust. There's a new breed of of door-to-door milk deliveries in my area now, and their USP is re-usable glass milk bottles. A few pence more expensive per pint. The sound of setting a glass milk bottle on the front step for the milkman to collect sends me back to my childhood every time I do it.

Total nonsense. about 6% of UK land is currently built upon. https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ne....

I live in the south of England. It's certainly not for Harrods! It's not even a very good shop for 'ordinary' folk. Proximity for London is important, for employment, culture, airports. Access to the south coast which has a great mixture of seaside towns, stunning coastline and great history. Probably the weather is also an important factor. The north is a few degrees cooler on average and has more rain. Some parts of the north are beautiful, more rugged, mountainous. Some of the cities declined with the end of manufacturing. England, like many countries is in a state of flux. The south is more affluent. There are many factors behind this, it would take a lifetime to understand them all. YMMV

"Gratuitous sex" ?? I must have nodded off during that bit, not difficult as the plot is not exactly gripping

Modding this down does not make it any less true, fuckwit

We do. I get ~ 1 a month purporting to be from BT. The number is always a spoofed local number. He wants my to install TeamViewer so he can fix my 'virus problem'. If I have time, i play dumb and play along awhile. I don't run Windows, and I'm not even with BT, so I'm never in any danger. I try to follow the instructions he gives me and read back what I see on the screen. I once got as far as the supervisor's supervisor trying to 'solve my problem'. Eventually he cottoned on and called me a motherfucker. So nice. I reported the number to actionfraud - and noticed many others had done the same, and most calls had ended with the same epithet, so the guy's not exactly original with his insults. May the fleas of a thousand camels infest his arsehole.

You suck at reading comprehension