JohnSmith @ JohnSmith @feddit.uk

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Isn’t this just another one to the pile of his war crimes? It’s remarkable how Boris Johnson somehow managed to be even shittier than the war criminal Blair.

Harassment is a criminal offence in the UK. No NDA will survive a legal challenge when it comes to a crime. Of course, the psychological pressure of an NDA will stop many victims on their tracks, so from that point of view this hopefully helps.

Rhod Gilbert on toothbrush is worth watching if you haven’t seen it yet.

I’d still go with the earlier proposal: a lunch with Prince Andrew in Pizza Express in woking.

Great advice on dealing with pulling on lead. We got a rescue as second dog year and a half ago. He had clearly not been trained at all and was pulling on walks. My wife, who is the knowledgable dog trainer in our house, got it sorted in just few walks doing what you described.

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Those Damn Crows - Let’s Go Psycho!

Which is what they announced in the spending review today: £39b over ten years to social housing. I was not expecting that, but I definitely welcome it. How about getting the planning system sorted and a major increase in skilled labourers happen next? Tomorrow is fine.

This is such an implausible scam that he should have gotten away with it. But not all is lost. He should relaunch the product with small print ‘not’ in front of Scottish-grown tea.

As expected, the Brexit faithful and the rightwing press are already at it: unacceptable, sellout, waiving the white flag, surrender, capitulation, etc. This deal could prove to be rather popular, so the outrage crowd may find their attacks fall a bit flat.

Could have been me. I’ve been working on this as a hobby for over five years yers since we got solar panels, EV and a dedicated battery for storage.

Smarter devices support demand side response, which is welcome to make the grid more efficient. A good local energy-efficient solution includes in my experience three key ingredients.

First you need local energy storage to allow for extra flexibility to handle life's ebbs and flows. This could be an EV or dedicated storage battery, which can be charged when electricity is abundant, and discharged when supply is tight and something energy hungry needs doing.

Second the grid side will not know when I’m planning to do something energy hungry, or when I want the EV battery full instead of the usual 80% charge. Therefore some way of providing input is needed. It might be possible to learn reasonable local demand forecast models reflecting local behaviour patterns, but I’m not yet convinced about this and tend to trust human guidance more.

Third you need intelligent control to respond to grid signals (e.g. price changes) and combine those with local inputs and any local consumption and production (e.g. from solar panels or micro wind turbines) forecasts.

Energy companies will of course want to have the intelligent control in their hands as it creates them price arbitrage. For majority of consumers that will be the best solution. Some of us will not necessarily want to give them that control and prefer a local solution.

Frivolous automations is the way! I have a WLED strip go on 5 pm when a wheely bin needs to go out, with colour matching next day’s bin collection.

Or go with WLED software on a suitable wifi connected controller (e.g. QuinLED).

Executive and board compensation as a result of any deal of this nature should be public information.

Tories have an amazing hit rate in selecting deplorables as their leader.

My first thought seeing the captain is Russian was sabotage. And maybe a second later I realised the more likely cause: vodka.

One of the best ones I ever got was an ‘engineer’ who described driving around in his van ‘fixing things’ applying for a machine learning engineer position.

We have enough twats as it is, so perhaps fuck off.

Obviously they were too busy lining their and mates’ pockets, and in general being totally useless politicians.

Solar + local battery is the way. We should push hard to make that affordable for as many people as possible.