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    Wider front tyre on front (MTB)

    It also depends on your rim width. If they are narrow and you go too wide on your tyre it will roll in the corners, or you will have to increase pressure to stop it doing that and that will negate the additional grip you could get out of that tyre.
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    SD card backup

    It might be considerably more than you need but a Gnarbox can do what you want (and more)
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    What programming language should I learn?

    Depends on your definition of "web". I work as a python developer for the backend of a mobile app. We write programs to provide APIs that our app uses to do what it does. That's web development... Just not front-end web development.
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    Python, Ruby on Rails, .NET? Which one best suits my project?

    I would suggest Python and use Django, but I am a Python developer.
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    Maplin to be sold (surprise surprise) - What would you change to make it survive?

    I'be used them quite a lot over the years, but only for electronic components and only really because I was impatient and didn't really know what I wanted. Being able to go in and browse all the components etc allowed me to build a mental picture of how whatever I could achieve whatever I needed...
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    The Tesla Thread

    The electronic releases are there to allow the car to be used in car sharing. At least that's one theory I saw that made sense. By having everything electronically controlled the real owner of the car can disable access to certain things they don't want car share users using. Like the front...
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    Breakfast Cereal of choice

    2 or 3 Weetabix with a good handful of Kelloggs cornflakes on top. I don't mind what brand Weetabix but the cornflakes have to be Kelloggs
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    Ocuk pre built won’t boot

    Use the HDMI port on the graphics card not the one on the motherboard. Already had to tell my brother this when the pre-built system he bought for his son wouldn't boot. In his defence, the ports on the graphics card had the dust covers on still.
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    Am I deformed?

    Get a standing desk. How thick is your desk? Is it just a wooden top (a couple of cm) that your legs are pressed right up to or is there over stuff in the way.
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    Infrastructure as Code

    We operate entirety in AWS. We use terraform to configure the network, instances, DBs etc. We use git, Travis as our CI which also builds our python packages. We then use salt stack to deploy them, that's a manual step. We also use packer to build AMIs regularly to allow us to autoscale quicker
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    Pixel Buds/ Google Assistant-powered headphones

    What did I do? I was just pointing out that not having someone tell you that the sound leaking out of your headphones is really annoying does not mean that there is no sound leaking out of your headphones, especially in London!
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    Pixel Buds/ Google Assistant-powered headphones

    That's because you were in London were people don't say anything they just silently judge you.
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    Help setting up Broadband Quality Monitor

    That's an IPv6 address. The tools you are using might not work with IPv6 addresses.
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    Mountain Biking

    The new spectral is heavier than the old model. I think that bolt on down tube cable housing is probably adding a bit of weight that wouldn't have been there on the old model. Plus the extra thing to stop the bars rotating too far. The integrated seat clamp looks like it would weigh more than a...
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    keep your keyless fob in a metal box my friends car was broken into

    Why don't key fobs use security technology we already have, like SSL certs that stop man in the middle attacks just like this. The fob and the car need to do a security handshake first and exchange public keys. The fobs would be programmed to only accept keys signed with a particular cert (i.e...
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    Minimizing plastic

    Logistics, cost and market access probably. A plastic bottle can easily be stocked in any sized store. If you wanted a reusable system the store would need a dedicated space for your tank of stuff and refilling station. It would take up a lot more space in store (prohibitively in something like...
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    Minimizing plastic

    I bought a dyson recently. In the box every diffierent attachment came in its own plastic bag as did every manual and piece of paperwork. Why does something designed to collect dust need dust protection in the box!
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    Minimizing plastic

    You can get reusable veg bags. They are basically a net bag, I assume so the checkout person can see what is in there. You might end up paying ever so slightly more per kg though. ;)
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    Minimizing plastic

    Well yeah, wasn't that the point that was being made.
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    Minimizing plastic

    In the trolley loose, on to the conveyor and then in to your reusable bag. That's what we do with all our fruit and veg, we don't use any of those plastic bags any more.
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