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The Sporting Life / Re: Liverpool
« Last post by citoyen on Today at 12:03:19 am »Fair enough. It’s not you who needs to be ashamed of yourself though.
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Online quizzes / Re: Random online quizzes
« Last post by Wowbagger on Yesterday at 11:55:42 pm »12/15. The three I got wrong were matters of knowledge of geography (Edinburgh, Oxford) and history (ASCII) rather than the rules of the apostrophe.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/07/apostrophes-possession-contractions-plurals-quiz
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/07/apostrophes-possession-contractions-plurals-quiz
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GPS / Re: My brain hurts - beginners guide needed for elctronic navigation and mapping.
« Last post by Kim on Yesterday at 11:51:51 pm »Not a general solution, but because it's eminently useful to be able to do this sort of thing:
The phone determining its location, and being connected to the internet are different things.
Therefore, if you use a mapping app that stores the map data on the phone itself, rather than fetching tiles over the internet as needed to display them, it will solve this problem. Some of the above apps can be persuaded to make a local copy of an area if you tell it to download it in advance, but I prefer to use one that's designed to be used this way, without faffing about with forward planning piecemeal downloads.
https://organicmaps.app/ is a good start, on account of being free. https://memory-map.com/ seems to be the current least-worst way to do this with OS mapping.
For bolt-it-to-the-handlebars simplicity, I prefer a dedicated GPS receiver. Choosing one is a complicated subject with no simple answers.
ETA: Crosspost with lissotriton
When I was up in the forest earlier and stopped to get my phone out, none of my mapping apps showed where I was - OS Maps, Google Maps, Apple Maps(well they sort of did but no mapping was available)
The phone determining its location, and being connected to the internet are different things.
Therefore, if you use a mapping app that stores the map data on the phone itself, rather than fetching tiles over the internet as needed to display them, it will solve this problem. Some of the above apps can be persuaded to make a local copy of an area if you tell it to download it in advance, but I prefer to use one that's designed to be used this way, without faffing about with forward planning piecemeal downloads.
https://organicmaps.app/ is a good start, on account of being free. https://memory-map.com/ seems to be the current least-worst way to do this with OS mapping.
For bolt-it-to-the-handlebars simplicity, I prefer a dedicated GPS receiver. Choosing one is a complicated subject with no simple answers.
ETA: Crosspost with lissotriton
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GPS / Re: My brain hurts - beginners guide needed for elctronic navigation and mapping.
« Last post by lissotriton on Yesterday at 11:51:18 pm »For your phone, try Organic Maps. Can download maps for the whole country, then works offline.
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Arts and Entertainment / Re: Beethoven's 9th Symphony, 7th May 1824
« Last post by Wowbagger on Yesterday at 11:46:37 pm »I did say "arguably". My own person preference would be something by J S. Bach - by coincidence, this year is the 300th anniversary of the first performance of the St. John Passion. I think most Bach scholars would go for the B minor mass.
But bear in mind that recordings of the Brandenburg concerti - which lay undiscovered on a dusty shelf until 100 years after Bach's death - were sent into space by NASA in the Voyager spacecraft.
But bear in mind that recordings of the Brandenburg concerti - which lay undiscovered on a dusty shelf until 100 years after Bach's death - were sent into space by NASA in the Voyager spacecraft.
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Rides and Touring / Re: Mid-Essex Mid-Week Nocturnal Series
« Last post by psyclist on Yesterday at 11:32:20 pm »ETA: Black Lion it is then!
I'll aim for 20:00 and something to eat...
I’ll aim for 8pm too
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The Pub / Re: Dez's funeral - 3rd May, 1pm.
« Last post by Wowbagger on Yesterday at 11:23:38 pm »https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=Gkmyi-jhx-g&ab_channel=joshmantube
Some have said they couldn't hear the voices clearly. There's the recording of the service with a transcript (with suitable mistakes).
Some have said they couldn't hear the voices clearly. There's the recording of the service with a transcript (with suitable mistakes).
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On The Road / Re: Cyclist who knocked down and killed pensioner
« Last post by LittleWheelsandBig on Yesterday at 11:22:13 pm »I have been in a line of cyclists where the first and third riders had no issues without deviating their speed or direction but a squirrel bounced off the front wheel of the second rider. It is pretty easy for a collision course to only affect one rider.
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The Pub / Re: Tune Association II - Son of Tune Association
« Last post by Woofage on Yesterday at 11:20:54 pm »Too Drunk to Fuck - Dead Kennedys
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On The Road / Re: Cyclist who knocked down and killed pensioner
« Last post by Peter on Yesterday at 11:17:27 pm »True. In addition, if we want cycling to be taken seriously, bikes must be considered and treated as vehicles when they are sharing the road, and that includes speeding restrictions. It can't be left up to cyclists (who are just people on bikes, no more or less intelligent than people in general) to decide what is too fast.
Had I actually studied the reports, I might have worded this differently. Sorry if I have given the wrong impression, though I still believe my sentiments to be correct in general. Thank you all for not jumping down my throat!