What Did You Do Today (2017)

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Quantum computer- there's a bloke down the pub can do that.

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Posted by richardandtracy on 19/06/2017 09:16:19:

Posted by Ady1 on 17/06/2017 09:57:48:

Quantum computers produce every single possible answer instantly

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I find that I want THE answer to the problem I'm posing, not 'Lots & lots of answers all of which may be correct, but not necessarily in this universe'. I imagine it makes sorting the correct answer from all possible answers a significant problem. I wonder if it would need a quantum computer to do that?

Regards,

Richard.

I think the point is the number of correct answers is significantly smaller than the sum of the right answers plus all the wrong answers. If you can jump to the subset of right answers you get a short cut to the answer you require.

Martin

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Went to the forge ,but it was too hot to light the fire, so i messed around a bit with the briggs compressor, went to make a 2nd cuppa ,as i was really thirsty ….but…the fresh milk i took had gone solid . yukk! (in 2 hours !!! ) I was really looking forward to that tea too !

The other project is still there…but it was too hot ..so i covered it back up ,and came home !

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Hacksaw my first car was a 1.1 popular plus, I put a similar spoiler on it too

One of my clients dropped something off yesterday so kicked the tyres on this for a while.

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

Wow a kit car

 

Some of my first cars  were    D types.. still got them   Hmm ..i didn't look after them did I?

 

Edited By Hacksaw on 20/06/2017 09:59:28

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

It's a Lynx replica so no sierras were hurt in its making. Same ali monocoque as the original and built in the same way though at a price, probably in the region of £150-200K

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

They're ok until it rains. What, me envious!

Brian

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Don't think he takes it out in the rain much! Though his wife or more precisely her hair was not looking forward to the trip upto Pendine Sands in it next weekend for the VHRA event.

His son makes some quite nice bikes too out of the same workshops.

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Jason

The bikes certainly look deBolex .

[HacksawParticipant @hacksaw]

My mum said motorbikes were too dangerous so i couldn't have one.

A cousin rode gp250 gp500 BSB WSB and moto gp…and lived. Just…

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Well, the warm fine weather is paying dividends for the bees, I checked them day before yesterday and they have full combs but not capped. One needed another box of honey combs so they got that an hour ago. All being well I will harvest shortly as they are capped.

Found a nucleus that previously had a Queen now Queenless? dont ask I dont know but in previous years have had Swallows take them on mating flights!

As Pooh said, 'We will have honey for tea'. I also noticed the bees working Clover flowers, It takes 72 hours with a temperature over 68 F to get the Clover to give nectar.

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

Those deBolex bikes look fiendishly uncomfortable. Make my wrists, neck & knees ache just to look at them.

While no more comfortable, I rather prefer the style of the frame in this one:

Not sure how it could cope with corners or speed bumps, though, with that ground clearance.

Regards,

Richard

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by richardandtracy on 20/06/2017 15:48:45:

Those deBolex bikes look fiendishly uncomfortable. Make my wrists, neck & knees ache just to look at them.

While no more comfortable, I rather prefer the style of the frame in this one:

Not sure how it could cope with corners or speed bumps, though, with that ground clearance.

Regards,

Richard

No worse than 99.9% of all the Harleys on the road! .

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

I think I'd rather have the Triumph in the background………….

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Air suspension, flick the switch and up it will come so it can be ridden well sort of!

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Cars hum bug.

Got me new back plates and old chucks in play tonight. That allowed me to make my blow down valves for my traction engine. Yeh that's a machine. 😉

So this is my burned which replaced the horrible Chester thingy that came with the crusader.

[John FlackParticipant @johnflack59079]

A few posts up……..curious how "replica cars" has a positive vibe whereas replica postage stamps, works of art or even lathe parts are referred to fakes, clones,copies suggesting negative overview

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Posted by Brian Hutchings on 20/06/2017 10:30:34:

They're ok until it rains.

They're fine in the rain – just don't let the speed drop too much. I used to find my Fraser Nash was fine with just aero-screens at anything above 50 mph in the rain.

Russell.

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

Quite right Russell, I used to have a 1928 Austin 7 tourer and that was ok in the rain providing that the speed did not drop below 35mph, I'd quite forgotten.

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Posted by Russell Eberhardt on 21/06/2017 10:33:55:

Posted by Brian Hutchings on 20/06/2017 10:30:34:

They're ok until it rains.

They're fine in the rain – just don't let the speed drop too much. I used to find my Fraser Nash was fine with just aero-screens at anything above 50 mph in the rain.

Russell.

A bit off-topic: à propos screens, motorbike rather than car. Someone I knew who had done National Service as a despatch rider, riding the rough bits of Salisbury Plain, was very derogatory about the adoption of windscreens on motorbikes. He said that the screen occupied/obstructed the very space through which he was trained to dive if it became necessary to 'abandon ship'! The result of doing that on a modern (i.e. mid 1960s) bike would be a much widened smile!!!!!

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I think this item from today's news is relevant … to those of us who like to re-purpose things.

**LINK**

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40362094

If using gas 'bulbs' in a project … make sure that you consider the risks of component failure.

MichaelG.

[Jon GibbsParticipant @jongibbs59756]

It's a real tragedy – for the uninformed sparklett bulbs look so benign but contain a hell of a lot of energy.

I remember as a kid one of my mates hitting a sparklett bulb with a sledge hammer – it went off like a bomb and made a neat dent in the block wall of his parents' garage!

I'm not sure if he got a b*ll*cking – can't remember – but I got away with it in both sense of the word.

Jon

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

From the small amount of information they give it sounds like the device the bulb was coupled to was at fault and the bulb disconnected (at speed).

regards Martin

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Jon Gibbs on 22/06/2017 13:57:25:

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I remember as a kid one of my mates hitting a sparklett bulb with a sledge hammer – it went off like a bomb and made a neat dent in the block wall of his parents' garage!

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Jon

I expect it would; they contain liquid Carbon Dioxide at over 800psi.

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

It's a wonder some of us survived out childhoods, isn't it? We used to explode home-made gunpowder in golden syrup or Andrews Liver Salts tins, using Jetex fuse from the local model aircraft shop.

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