Andrew Cherry (@[email protected])

Technologist, liberal leftie, very amateur racing driver, book lover. (He/Him)

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@sandehalynch @sturdyAlex <inserts photo of aircraft with bullet holes recorded>

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@ONSJames I'm not a statistician but what seems quite interesting is that the legislative events didn't really seem to change the slope much! The trend seems broadly consistent over time, perhaps a slight acceleration - suggesting that the main tipping point for people is cost?

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@ICooper It's a standing joke that you ask someone like me for technical advice and the answer is "it depends" - but that's true, and there's far more value to going through a process to determine an answer than there is in any single answer. Patience is a virtue.

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@Phoenixlloydy what post are you on today? I'll try and make sure to wave during my usual couple of walking tours of the track...

[Alex Brundle @AlexBrundle]

'Why do prototypes need tyre warmers'

An interesting topic - 7 reasons...

1) They are very heavy (1000kgs Hypercar). Hence, they need an effective tyre grip to maintain stability or lose grip quickly because the mass/inertia overtakes the grip. (IndyCar is 700kg)

2) They are also making a lot of downforce from the floor and so they are very stiffly sprung, making the transmission of load to the tyres quite 'immediate', so if there is no grip/temp 'behind' the slide, you lose it very quickly.

3) Thus, they have a larger than average (single seater) difference in performance between 'working' and 'not working; a 'not working' prototype is a 'heavy, oversprung mess' whereas a working prototype produces fantastic downforce and stability.

4) They drive across massive temperature differences because they race day and night.

5) They run for a long time on a tyre set; a tyre that can handle 1000kg + downforce operating loads for 1h 15 mins will be too hard to deliver grip when cold. ANd remember they are endurance tyres, made to withstand kerbstrikes, debris etc. So you can't just 'drive slower to start with' because the tyre will literally never heat up. you have to roll the dice and push

6) Many are driven by amateur drivers who don't want to care about any of this and just want to enjoy driving without having to be a tyre engineer.

7) The pro level cars have regen and hybrid delivery which makes the brake application and power delivery quite snappy and unpredictable, especially when those systems are being developed.

Capiche?

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@Sarkies_Proxy I'm definitely prouder of the Wi-Fi extender. It feels like the one that took effort, rather than the actual effort of keeping myself alive for increasingly north of forty years.

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@tweethue I have a white and colour ambience bulb (es) which worked fine until today but is now oddly dim. what's odd is that brightness peaks around 80% in the app - if I set it to a higher percentage, it gets dimmer! Any ideas? I have a rather dark room!

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@ibscribe @_neilch I mean, you could add most "agile" adoptions to this. They don't have to be, but they generally are. Agile John Frum, he come...

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@ashic @nbevans "Relatively basic website" - oh come on! Nothing is basic at that scale, especially with years of development legacy. I couldn't walk in to any organisation like that and suddenly understand the platform in days, and I do a lot more of that with software systems than him!

[Jo Grady @DrJoGrady]

Average London rent £21,984

Average food bill £4,500

Average utility bill £1,500

Total 27,948

Average nurses pay £27,055

A nurse can’t even afford to live a decent life in the UK

I will support their strike action

RT if you will too

#EnoughIsEnough

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@jhominal @fasterthanlime As I discovered, with altogether too much happiness for a technical standard!

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@fasterthanlime Yeah for many things that's probably simpler. And I love the fact that the whole ecosystem is still being tweaked, refined, clarified, even today. I'm looking in to the corners of DNS and finding so many places that the wheel got reinvented in "modern" stacks. Beautiful.

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@fasterthanlime Oh wow, that had actually passed me by! I'm currently buried in DNS, I've still been HTTP-partying like it's 2014. Thanks back!

[Fabian Zuleeg @FabianZuleeg]

I didn't think I would write this so shortly after Brexit but it is time now for the EU to set out clearly under what circumstances & with what conditions the UK could re-join the EU

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@paul_c_watson @Back_of_the_Net A tiny island nation competing with one of the worlds largest and most powerful states with endless resources? I'd be proud to make that team, let alone give them a respectable game. Hold your heads high, you've done better than any commenter on Twitter will ever come close to.

[Elena Hung (she/her) @ElenaHung202]

"She can't get inside the building because of her wheelchair."

No. She can't get inside because the building is not accessible. The building has a barrier that does not let her in. The wheelchair is not the problem; the building's lack of access is the problem.

Words matter.

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@zoesqwilliams Hard limit for anodising as well, perhaps.

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

@cstross Francois. Can you imagine?

[Andrew Cherry (@[email protected]) @kolektiv]

At risk of giving more credit for plans than due, if Truss/Kwarteng really think that supply-side reform will offset market fears around tax cuts, etc., why not announce at same time, or before? It's not a magic act where you pretend to smash some rubes watch before a big reveal.