Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G

Ex Indy .NET, Azure person. Occasional tech blogger.
Currently immersed in Unity and GameDev

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon @DrTABailey A5: Speed limit change in response to safety issues.

MK Grids: Public consultation that largely objected to speed limit change; local politicians fearing electorate. They now bury heads in sand in relation to endless calls about safety, antisocial use and pollution concerns.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@tvp_mk @tvp_mk it took far too long to properly address this - but positively, you're dealing with it now - and its making significant improvement to the relentless antisocial noise from gridroads. Not just on Sunday night- every day is now noticably better. Please keep this up!

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon CMK: Where are all these people are going to work?

London? on an already costly/overcrowded rail connection

CMK office zoning has already been massively erroded by conversion into overpriced living-cubicles

An innevitable widespread return-to-office will have nowhere to go

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon Went to "Salcey horsebox carpark" a few weekends ago ...

...& turned around and just left; The carpark was jammed, people everywhere.

Used to frequent that place just a decade ago-back then it was the norm to see perhaps two other car.

Another sign of population increase 😮‍💨

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

Housing shortage:

"...strange logic is that speculative developers would build homes in order to devalue them: that they would somehow act against their own interests by producing enough surplus homes to bring down the average price of land and housing."

https://t.co/aS4V6YlRML

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon MP and police appear to think problem is "an event location".
Thats just a destination; "the fun" is the journey ... & that represents the MK dual carriage grid system.
Police and governance response is lame.
Only solution is network of noise cams, but that will be years away.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@LaylaCodesIt To further; the table and chair in the photo only became available after leaning on staff to sort out some basics (like, somewhere to put Layla's food).
For international folks not familiar with NHS wards, yes, there are other patients either side.
Still, beats being in A&E

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon There's stuff in that list that will leave residents feeling despondent or mouthing "hang on a minute..."

What mandate do local councils have, with regard to requiring detailed accountability from police forces?

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@PhillCrowe @bradwellcommon @ThamesVP It's city-wide.
I'm central, so normally it's H5 that impacts me, but last night when I was putting out the bins, I could hear a bunch of bikes that where absolutely screaming along in distance, 2km to north of me on H3.
@tvp_mk have utterly lost the plot with MK road policing.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@CMKTownCouncil No.
New estates have cramped roads w/ kerbside parking & poor visibility for all. Not comparable to the broad, straight blvds of CMK & C-P, with abundance of clear-sighted crossings and underpasses.
What's is needed, is enforcement of existing limit. I've not seem any in ages.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon I imagine this count is spread across 3 daily shift rotations? (so only ~100 officers at any one time).

2021 census had MK population at ~265k 🫣

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@ShahidDev wow, already 3 years! miss you🤯
from my own experience of living in Spain, our western culture worlds are probably much of a muchness in broad terms; I still think the proper change of life and place was still a very good move on your part!

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@mk_citizen Statistics manipulation.

Picking up the 999 call is not the same as speaking to a dispatcher.

this weekend we called 999, because of an immediate risk to life issue.

our call was answered in seconds, but took almost 1 min to speak to actual police dispatcher.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@bradwellcommon @Citizen_Sally
Article identifies police as saying that "they have a zero tolerance policy".

This PR is disinformation from police.

Zero tolerance would mean many, many dozens of cruise attendees being stopped for various offences, which quite clearly is not the case.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@realRamziDridi @fasc1nate Dust wasn't caused by F16 wake; instead caused by airpressure pushing straight down from the wings. F16 was still descending after passing truck; that wave of downward pressure had less distance to travel to the ground on the left, hence started appearing as dust sooner.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@LaylaCodesIt @GeeH We're kinda treading water, waiting for something else, doing playthrough #3 of Cyberpunk - this time using the new fancy-pants "overdrive" mode.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@copperbeardy @LaylaCodesIt @GeeH I tried Squadrons, despite so-so reviews. As a SW fan & more specifically someone who played the 90s LucasArts X-Wing games - I thought I'd gel with it more.

Its "OK". There's just not really enough of it. If it's on a v. good sale, I'd consider it; I'd pass otherwise.

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@EricJohansson @LaylaCodesIt Not this time! 😁 I'd been staying up late as a gesture of solidarity ...

After an already long 8hr flight it was "effectively" 1AM in the morning for her.

Already tired and with another 3hr connecting flight ahead; delays are not good.

she prob got to bed around 5 or 6 AM

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@copperbeardy @secrethideoutco As a kid I had the TNG technical manual (which I learned the other day, is still in print apparently);

I had a distant memory rattling around my head that the cores were 10 or so decks high ...

You sent me off on a late-night trivia-satisfying adhd-fueled googling session ...

[Jim Mc̮̑̑̑͒G @siliconorchid]

@mk_citizen Without a policy change on 2nd/holiday homes, it's a moot point.
Anecdotally, I live on nondescript street of 48 family-size homes. That I know of, 3 (~6%) are owned by Kuwaitis, in occupancy only when the families visit for the month of Ramadan. The homes are otherwise unused.