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It is pretty tough to handle, so she has my sympathy. There was a spate of this in our road for a while and we got used to different 2am visitors ringing our door bell. Why us I have no idea! However my main point in writing is that they arrived in all sorts of clothing (night dresses even), with or without shoes/slippers, so it may be difficult to find the ideal way of attaching the tracker to the person.

My advice would be to chat it over with your local Dementia group or Alzheimer Society as they have more practical experience in this sort of thing.

I have to say that our neighbours all eventually had either extra internal locks fitted or alarmed the doors to wake them. Eventually your mother may need to be prepared to commit him to a specialist care home, but I would judge that she probably isn’t ready to even contemplate that step at the moment, and the longer it can be avoided the better as people do not seem to last very long in such places.

 

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Also good for commercial activities such as on-line shopping – laser scan a person (in a store booth say), laser scan clothing (say) then  show how the dressed person looks modelled and animated in different environments.  Could be used for furniture, interior design etc but someone would need to figure out how to cheaply scan inside a person’s house

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If Farage does get a massive EU vote then I hope he remembers we still have some major trade deals to cut with the EU, and that he disciplines his MEPs to behave. The last thing we want are 27 peed-off member states each with a veto vote on all trade deals. Remember what happened with Canada’s deal!

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Assassin’s Creed Unity – in order to raise awareness of the Notre Dame Restoration Fund, Ubisoft are giving the game away for a limited period. Details here

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I’ll go back to my previous post – in order to stop a Conservative Party General Election meltdown May and the majority of Conservatives will want to put Brexit to bed asap, but without a majority the only way this can be done is to cut a deal with Corbyn. Corbyn quite correctly will not trust a possible future Bojo PM as far as he can spit. Hence there is a fair chance that May will just say the hell with the ERG and cut a binding deal with the EU.

Triggering a General Election with a fractured party will not be in the interests of any Tory, hence she could well be able to explain all this to the bulk of Tory MPs and sit back knowing she is safe from a confidence vote for many months.

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I guess you looked at Sourceforge. link

However it is probably better to look at the latest project updates on Github,

Don’t forget to read the README.Windows.txt

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Today the Climate Change protesters are protesting against the all-electric London Underground which saves countless daily car journeys. All they are doing is letting the world know that the ‘Extinction Rebellion’ mob are just a bunch of illogical cretins engaged in thoughtless anarchy.

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Correction – the two crashes ‘only’ killed 346 people, so I guess the FAA position is understandable!

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As could be anticipated the US FAA has done a white-wash job. According to them despite previously killing over 500 people and no compulsory additional sensors or fault-voting system the ‘updated software is operationally suitable’. link

Despite this, I certainly will never fly in one of these, and I will avoid airlines such as Ryanair.

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It rather suggests poor design and/or poor specifications to me – pitot tubes are known to ice up. The remedy is simple, heating elements and at least three pitot tubes so a simple ‘voting’ system can be used. I think the finding against Thales is a scary underscoring of how poor the MOD is in its technical selection process.

“The software algorithms used to identify and disqualify single sensor failure were not always well understood by [Thales] within the UK.”

This is far from being rocket science!

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Probably with good reason!?

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It is still a bad idea to power cycle more than once a day. Studies have shown that mobos etc are far more prone to failure if subjected to excessive power cycling.

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Although not Boeing our MOD and Thales have similar problems with ‘Watchkeeper’ drones. Of particular note is the way our MOD conceal carp workmanship by covering it up!

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Back on OP you can check out raytraced Quake II. link

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You can possibly add Boeing 787 planes to the list of what should be avoided. The following was posted on Reddit by an ex-Boeing programmer under his real name. (Later in the thread he challenged Boeing lawyers to come after him as he stated he could prove all the assertions he made)

“To this day, I refuse to fly on a 787. I’m sure that the Dreamliners that came off the assembly line after about a year or so were fine but there’s that first year of production that, as far as I’m concerned, are ticking time bombs. I talked to many engineers who had worked on that program to know just how badly they rushed that initial production.”

That said I’m not really sure how one avoids specific planes if you are going long-haul. Short haul is easier as airline companies tend to standardise, e.g. RyanAir will fly 737Max?. Long haul is different and you can wind up with pretty much anything. (Many scary tales can be told about flying long haul in the China of 25 years ago) .

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One question – WHY do you keep power cycling your machine? This is definitely not good practice. If you are doing it to save money it is far better to change your power settings to suit as one ‘bad’ bit of power cycling (i.e. you do not wait for all disk activity to cease) results in corrupted files. If you tend to  go away for a long time then you could try hibernate. Be warned however this can get into a fatal lock state with your power settings, so set up with care.

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I suspect that long before any election the majority in Parliament will cut a deal with the EU and make laws such that any Farage desires are frustrated.

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Linux has journalling, but an unstable power supply trumps all!

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Wheels, Linux uses write-behind as a default. Although this generally speeds things up, it means that (say) an unstable power supply to a drive could well result in corruption and I’d hate to forecast the impacts following (say) a kernel update.

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When I was a child I used to love running around in Caerleon and clambering all over the walls and other bits and pieces. Probably totally banned in today’s climate! However if anyone is in the Caerleon area it is well worth a visit as it has more Roman stuff than anywhere(?) else in the UK. Caerleon

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