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    First freeze of the year 8th October 2026

    Warming up nicely in the sun ☀️
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    First freeze of the year 8th October 2026

    Yes, feels a bit early to me. We’ve been here 7 years now so I don’t have a lot of data to go on though. We have quite a pronounced micro climate because we are high in the hills, but also still at the bottom of a small valley, so we can be colder than the tops as the cold air sinks and gets...
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    First freeze of the year 8th October 2026

    January and February were last year though. I believe the year starts when the harvest is complete.
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    First freeze of the year 8th October 2026

    -1.2° C in the workshed.
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    Smart meter

    Regarding data observable from smart meter readings from a single property, I imagine you’d be able to tell when people are home or away which may not be information you’d want to share. For manufacturing businesses, electricity use could give signals about product demand and product mix, which...
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    Smart meter

    Computing devices with wireless capabilities can be targeted with OTA proximity attacks - don’t always have to target the larger network. Given the density of UK housing, I imagine that propagating from meter to meter would be an interesting approach for rapid deployment or even slow deployment...
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    Nervous about Surgeon

    It was so easy. On one side I just had a thin gel spray and the other had ‘packing’ but it was self-dissolving (or self-expelling at least) so no bandages and zero follow-up. My wife had her septum fixed and had bandages and 3 inch plastic splints left up there to be removed later so I was...
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    Nervous about Surgeon

    I had the surgery - simple nasal polypectomy - it all went smoothly. Can breathe through both nostrils so it’s good. Took 18 months from diagnosis to surgery in the end. Hope to get back to doing some woody things soon, been doing nothing but painting for a while.
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    YouTube Guitar Lessons

    My wife bought an electric guitar. Ostensibly for herself, but in reality to trick me in to learning to play. Seems like it might actually work this time; I want to learn to play Yellow Ledbetter because I think it will amuse her. Anyway, I now have a Fender Mustang to practice on and a Fender...
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    NHS - truly amazing service

    I did a bit of research since you guys mentioned omeprazole and I had taken it briefly in my youth. It apparently can prevent or disadvantage absorption of all kinds of things, but - relevant to this thread - notably iron and B12. You can see on this page for example that proton pump inhibitors...
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    NHS - truly amazing service

    For the people on omeprazole, do they tell you to take vitamins supplements as well?
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    M&S Wagyu - bother ye not

    Has anyone been to a Whole Foods in the UK? The US stores are great for fruit & veg (or were before the Amazon acquisition anyway). Only just realised there are shops in the UK. Never heard anyone mention them.
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    Google AI or ChatGPT

    LLMs don’t do calculations. They are fundamentally based on text tokens.
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    Nervous about Surgeon

    I’m sorry that happened to your wife. I hope she’s doing well and wasn’t too traumatised. I had a bad medical experience decades ago - a collapsed lung that the GP refused to recognise because it wasn’t causing me pain despite the fact hospital had already x-rayed & confirmed and it was my...
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    Google AI or ChatGPT

    I use Grok through X. They keep cutting back how much you can use it for free, but 20 questions a day is enough for me. It’s pretty useful, but it’s always a case of how much broken glass you want in your custard, isn’t it? I like my custard to be glass-free. Grok mostly is just custard, but...
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