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Yes, they're so incompetent they haven't changed their parking page. See google search results:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=tarantope...

It's all on subdomains, e.g. https://wandsworth.tarantopermits.com

Absolutely, there's massive duplication of functionality. I think it's partly incompetence and partly a control thing.

The flip side of this is local government technology. Truly some of the worst crimes against web development have been committed by local councils, or rather their outsourcing partners.

The service that takes that crown in my experience is tarantopermits.com, a parking permit management system that fills me with rage just thinking about it.

They have some sort of battery that powers the lights. I wonder if the dock also charges those?

My in-laws have fried three different induction hobs boiling a kettle on them. Good quality brands too, they just can't seem to cope with frequently being set to max.

Yep, I see the same in Firefox Android.

Sort of surprised no one has tried this for the coca plant to produce cocaine closer to demand. Maybe they have but we don't know about it?

Except they produce horrendous small particle pollution, which even the most efficient stoves haven't solved.

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/14/wood-bur...

I asked this of our bat expert friend. Apparently not. The droppings, of which there won't be many for a small house, are quite dry and will naturally fall out of the opening.

Thanks! We live in London. Quite a few properties around in this style.

This is Edwardian, built around 1902.

We built one into the gable end of our roof during renovation: https://imgur.io/Gc42NPn?r

(and added appropriately bat-wing shaped bargeboards)

What's the contingency plan if Steve gets hit by a bus?

(very much hoping he doesn't)

Is that everyone's experience though? We set ours to 18 and only occasionally turned it up to 19 and it was fine all winter.

It's more like a class field. All bulbs of class "brake" turn themselves on for a brake message etc.

They exit via the sunroof.

Absolutely mounds of it rotting away on the beaches in Barbados.

I struggle to imagine someone actually living there. To me it looks like an art piece, and perhaps it is only intended as such.

The PVC curtains seem particularly icky to me, reminding me of naff shower curtains and hospitals.

> Smoking or non?

For places without actually separated rooms, I remember this being described as having a pissing area in a swimming pool.

Because then any slow clocks have 1.5 seconds to receive additional pulses from the master clock to bring them into sync.

I stand corrected. There are still various other roads in Beckenham that are not inside a conservation area that are unadopted (and consequently in an absolute state).

This isn't about being in a conservation area but rather the road being unadopted and therefore not maintained by the council. Beckenham is full of them.

https://www.barkergotelee.co.uk/who-is-responsible-for-maint....

This resonated with me. The only two bits of advice I ever give to any new parent are:

-everyone has an opinion about parenting, and many are not afraid to share it

-don't compare yourself to someone with an older child. You will start out a level zero parent, but you get a level zero baby. You'll level up with them. No one starts out a level 20 parent.

Remember being sat in the pub circa 2000 and using my Psion Revo connected via my Nokia 7110's IR link to clear some disk space on a server and avoid having to return to the office.

It was weird how before that they only ever had wall mounted Wasserkocher (water boiler) and then en-masse discovered kettles.

Really struggling to see what their differentiation from the existing portals is.

Having had a VW bus all my life I can confirm they do get a lot of bugs, but far fewer these days. In the 80s my father used to try all manner of cleaning products to try and remove them but it's not such an issue any more.

London. Cold enough that anything in an old Victorian building won't dry but warm enough that the air remains humid.

This very much depends on your local climate and the building itself.

Definitely not possible in the flat we live in during the winter unless we run a dehumidifier.

> The biggest problem in London is the fragmentation. 32 boroughs + the City + TFL. It's planning chaos.

It's chaos for just about everything else too, especially when it come to IT. Every council outsources the exact same functions to different companies and almost none of them do it well. It's a collosal waste of resources.

> Hopefully the people who chose Truss have made enough of a loss this week to reconsider their priorities.

Except Kwarteng's former boss Crispin Odey is making a killing shorting the pound. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-donor-pr...