Mike Collins

Mike Collins

  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Dates in Excel are just a number. If a column is formatted as date the display and entry format depends on the individual users PC settings. I once had a complaint from an endocrinology professor that the clinical trial data...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    In the late 90s I was charging pharmaceutical companies £400.00 for up to half a working day’s data generation for clinical trials. My previous charge was this was £100 which I thought was extortionate for half an hour’s work setting...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Disregarding the original reason for hot and cold water being mixed as close as possible to the taps in the UK there is a more important reason for this- legionnaires’ disease. This is the NHS guideline. “ Using temperature control...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Tesla has over 30 charging sites in the UK open to non-Tesla cars. They have two types of charger. The old type 3 chargers need a Tesla app. The newer type four chargers don’t. The app will tell you which...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    We already have a decrease in smokers aged eighteen. We do have an increase in vapers aged eighteen but, whatever problems this may cause in the future it's unlikely to be as bad as lung cancer. In 1966 the age...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    I can't relate to the mindset that assumes its expertise is superior to people who have spent years acquiring knowledge and experience at their own tasks. Particularly when fire and electrocution risks are involved. Electrical work has to be inspected...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    As a lifetime non smoker this legislation, like almost all anti drug laws is stupid. You don't even need smuggling to supply the addicts. People over the deadline age can buy a legal supply of cigarettes to traffic to younger...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    I forgot to add this link https://youtu.be/xVru4AtRA2E?si=sHv96eL3GeetFl2i...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Nobody's forcing EV drivers to use single pedal driving. The pedals are the same as any automatic. I choose to use reactive cruise control or single pedal driving. But the steering wheel paddles can set the regeneration to four levels...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Electricians will do the whole installation including the gulley and planning permission. Different councils have different rules. Some will not allow this at all. Some are happy with rubber cable protectors. Others will be more likely to prefer gullies. There...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    “ EVs are only really great for people like me who own their own house with off-street parking where we can charge our car at home, overnight, like we charge our laptops.” You don’t need a drive to charge your...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    I live on a narrow road with no pavement. I also have a narrow drive. If I backed into the drive I would be unable to get out of the car because of the proximity of the hedge and wall....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Typo correction :9.5 pence per kilowatt hour....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    I had my first automatic for five years. It was my only car. I've hired automatics in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. EoN 9.5 pence per hour midnight to 07:00....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    My First Automatic was a Wolseley 16/60 with a three speed Borg Warner. Apart from the number of gears I found the last automatics I hired, Toyota Rav4 and Camry in New Zealand a few years ago to be similar...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    "How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?". Samuel Johnson....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    You can’t think this because you’ve never driven an EV. I never felt completely safe when driving downhill in automatics with no engine braking. Most but not all EVs have one pedal driving when regenerative braking is set to maximum....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    I've never really liked automatic transmissions. I can live with them. My first car was automatic and I've rented automatics in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. But I still preferred manual. However my electric car is a much better experience...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    I'm not happy with the money laundering but the credit card thing must be US specific. I had a Barclays card for years and only used it twice. I got it because it only had 5 percent interest. But after...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    It was Midland but only old people remember the disastrous Crocker’s Bank takeover so I wrote HSBC. Their policy was 50% successful since my daughter still has an HSBC account but my son changed to Barclays when he went to...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    In the 1980s my daughter, probably 12 years old fount out that the HSBC bank close to our house has started child saving accounts with a card to get money from their ATM. She went into the bank and opened...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    Yes really no bank account. I had a bank account before my parents and I didn’t get mine until I was 21. Lots of people, including all my immediate family had Post Office savings accounts but these were savings only...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    "And anything "odd" might be communicated to the other person on the account." "Yeah, this is what I'm getting at: the idea that there necessarily is an "other person on the account". It seems to have become automatic these days...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    The process of extracting money from worker was streamlined in the Norwich “Golden Triangle” which was built as high density working class housing in the Victorian age. The street corner pubs were built first and every Friday the workers building...
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    “ Viz, even if "Jane Smith of 27 Here St Theresville" is set for every single patient you still have a set of medeical conditions, tests and treatments that you can chain together to locate an individual” I’ve actually done...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    The nuclear option is to clear all watch history. Or maybe you could delete all the rubbish individually in your watch history. On iPhone and iPads the menu to not recommend channel is in the three dots just below the...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    “Don’t recommend channel” from the menu just below and to the right of the image will eventually do the job....
  • Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
    This reads a lot like a BBC newsnight discussion in the early part of the Falklands war. Three retired generals were egging each other on and getting more and more Gung Ho. Eventually Jeremy Paxman said “Gentlemen! You’re getting a...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    No. British pies are necessary for the calculation. https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZNiRzZ66YN0&si=yDBo0gDfdYvcaSA9...
  • Commented on The coming storm
    https://electrek.co/2023/04/12/uk-largest-ever-grid-scale-battery/. We already have smaller Tesla grid scale battery sites running....
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