It's worth voting to try and ensure an effective opposition. If the landslide is too big then they will be unopposed and then the hard left will be emboldened and it will be as bad as the hard right have been since the 2019 landslide that gave the hard right the upper hand in internal party politics. At least with centrists, corrupt or otherwise, you get some sort of livable stability where companies invest and the market behaves normally (as far as we can call traders normal). Without that stability the UK is in for years of hard right hard left ping pong between zealots and that will be benefit nobody and further condemn the UK to continue its slide into irrelevance on the international political scene.

I would add to Paul Mauriks reply that the case makes a big difference. My personal home keyboard is a Keychron Q3[^] that I bought bare bones and then bought the switches and keycaps (EN UK) that I wanted. Heavy aluminium frame. It's great, couldn't be happier. It's an 80% layout that means my right hand isn't forced so far to the right and is much more comfortable to use than a full size. Nice typing feel without much noise. It doesn't have a numpad but I don't need that for home use. At the same time I bought a Keychron K4[^] that I have fitted with French keycaps (I work in French). It's a good chassis but it's plastic and the sound difference is huge without improving the quality of the typing feel. It's a 96% layout so it has a numpad but everything is a compressed into a smaller space (takes a little bit of getting used to) which means I have all the keys of a full size keyboard without my right hand being forced way over to the right of my desk. Mike

Maybe they've applied the fail fast, break things and learn/adapt approach to all aspects of their business. Except they're struggling with the learning part, it's tough to clean 40 years of lint from your lugholes :sigh:

Their thinking seems to be led by 'be better than Google at the online office suite'. Just look at the current 'New Outlook', it is an online interface in a native app X| . I guess they think that is where the majority will end up, online, with less and less users of the native apps :^) BTW, if you can't open an office doc in the native app from within SharePoint then I think that that's an admin setting, not an MS imposed limitation. From the ellipsis (...) menu, the Open item should give you three options, Open in browser, Open in app, Open in immersive reader.

UK/EU based reply. It's also angled towards older cars. There are plenty of services that can make a new key for a car whether you have the original or not (I had to have a new one done a year or so ago). It's usually a bloke with an van, a key cutting machine and an electronic device to do the key programming. It can't be that expensive to get setup since whilst it's not cheap to get a new key made, nor does the guy turn up with gold teeth and a highly customised Mercedes van (it'll be an old beat-up van and he'll look like he buys too many lottery scratch cards in the hope of getting rich some day). Search Google for car key programming machine and see what turns up. I'm guessing your friends $4000 "computer" is a professional version one of these. There are cheap consumer versions available but I'd have no idea about the reliability. It's a fairly precarious thing to do at the best of times. No-one will guarantee you success since they see random inexplicable failures, even with the same model/year that worked with another customer yesterday. --> Whether you can replicate that with off the shelf hardware and some code is an interesting question. See below for what ChatGPT thinks. Some bits sound easy and then the other bits sound ... challenging. If we're talking newer cars with more modern security measures then that will make it an order of magnitude more difficult. IIRC the versions used by dealerships reprogram the immobiliser code that the car will recognise as well as program the keys, which is why they always want to change all the locks on the car as well as give you a new key (whereas the guy in the van only creates a new key that matches the existing immobiliser codes). I'm guessing the stated reason is for security (so that the old keys won't work anymore) and that the unstated reason is that it's a lot more profitable. OBD specs require the OBD to output certain information and third party devices that conform to the spec. can access that information. However it's only basic info, usually only that required by regulations. The OEM uses the same OBD connection to access a lot more information (much more) and somewhere in there you will find the immobiliser codes, so not only would you need a key programming device you'd also need access to the device the OEM uses to connect to the OBD - unless you have a friend in a dealership then getting access to one of these is like getting access to the system used by the bank to lock its vaults. --> Personally, I wo

Mercurial It's a few years old but try this : Choosing a Version Control System - A Beginners Tour of the Options[^] As far as I could tell Mercurial did everything Git did but a million times easier. Then everyone went with Git. M

Same, deleted all cp cookies, no difference

DotNetMatrix: Simple Matrix Library for .NET[^] Downloads: MaNet: A matrix library for .NET (Rational Computing 2)[^] Matrix (mathematics) - Wikipedia[^] Singular-value decomposition - Wikipedia[^] Mike

Choosing a Version Control System - A Beginners Tour of the Options[^] If you need to work with other people, Git. If it's just you Mercurial, it's just a lot easier. Git desktop, recently launched, may make Git easier, I haven't tried it yet. Mike

You sent me a message relating to the article below, it's not my article, I suspect it was a message for the author concerning the new version waiting to be published. If I am guessing correctly then the author has not received your message. C# Replacing switch(enum) flow control with Reflection[^] Mike

Posted a message[^] to this article[^]. The author replied. I just went to reply to his reply and it's all disappeared.

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Absolutely, but £5000 for a Marzocco[^] is a bit steep... and I'm not convinced the online roasters, specialist as they may be can do the roasting at a quality to make use of £5000's worth of coffee machine. I have the Gaggia Classic which is, more or less, the same as the Rancilio Silvia but really want to do the upgrade for the temperature stability and heat exchanger or dual boiler, the missus goes for latte (and I enjoy making proper microfoam) so the single boiler, no heat exhanger machines make life a bit of a faff!

I can't say anything about the US, Canada or Australie but I know it's tough to find the good coffee houses in the UK (for those who live in or near Reading, try Workhouse Coffee[^]). However I'd agree with what Chris has said, the difference between a real, trained professional barista using quality, clean equipment, consistent water quality, very precise teperatrures, pressures and tamping techniques vs. Costa, Starbucks and the rest is chalk and cheese. My next two purchases: Mazzer Mini[^] Izzo Alex Duetto MK IV[^]

Two blokes, a mathematician and an engineer agreed to take part in an experiment. They were both placed in a room and at the other end was a beautiful naked woman on a bed. The researcher said that every 30 seconds they would be allowed to travel half the distance between themselves and the woman. The mathematician started to storm out of the room shouting "This is pointless". The engineer agreed to go ahead with the experiment anyway. Upon hearing this and just before going out through the door the mathematician turns and says, "Don't you get it? You'll never actually reach her!" To which the engineer replies, "So what? Pretty soon I'll be close enough for all practical purposes."

I was looking for the ToDoList app here on CP, ToDoList 6.8.10 Feature Release - An effective and flexible way to keep on top of your tasks[^] Searching ToDoList or ToDo List etc., no luck on the first several pages of results. I then searched Google for site:codeproject.com todo list and it was the number 1 result... M

My brother has asked me to recommend a laptop for up to £500. Principally music and light duty stuff, no hard core gaming. He survives by using his phone right now. He's basically competent on front of a PC but fighting with things that don't work as expected will entail me spending lots of time on the phone solving problems without being able to see the screen. So I was looking for something flexible and found the ASUS TAICHI21-CW011H[^] but it's a bit expensive. Anyone know of anything similar in the right price bracket? Thanks, M

DaveAuld wrote:

They maybe just found a set of hospital plans lying around

You'd be surprised, the now torn down R&D facility I used to work at (built by a well known multi-national oil company) was exactly that, a set of hospital plans. Operating theatres = Chemistry labs Private rooms, examination rooms = Offices Storage = storage Wide corridors, lifts etc. etc. The old ones are utilitarian, simple and probably cheap to build. Job done, not eactly inspiring but it was 1970 (ish). Not sure the new, modern, stylish hospitals would work quite so well... M

There was me thinking you meant this[^]

Based on what I can see LastPass appears more user friendly but KeePass has the advantage of the only person I can blame for losing my passwords will be me.