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Modularity though.
If you want something lightweight to watch movies on then an iPad is great. Watching it on a laptop is ok but the keyboard is superfluous.
If you want something to do typing style work on then you need a keyboard attached. Laptop is better for this obviously.
An iPad with a keyboard offers the option for both but with a compromise that is less (for some people) than the compromise of having a non-detachable keyboard on a laptop.
An iPad is generally just less fuss for doing things like watching movies or live streaming TV as a second screen (which is mostly what my iPad does). Playing games on it (mostly what my daughter does with ours) is also a better experience than on a phone screen.
But, generally, they're just extra toys for people who have enough disposable income to be able to buy one. I speak as someone who wouldn't be anywhere near as a productive on an iPad/keyboard as a "proper" setup with separate screen. I'm kind of envious of people who have the type of jobs they could just use an iPad for the vast majority of it, or even just a single laptop.
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The au-pairs I used to know (au-pairs for friends of my daughter when she was at nursery) loved it.
Sure some of the parents were twats, as were most of the kids, and on paper they earned shit money but they got to live in a nice house, got fed for free, and usually got at least another £500/mo in cash in hand babysitting money from the parents. Many had use of a car, and often a travelcard so they could take Portia and Ptolemy to the V&A whenever they demanded.
Most of the au-pairs were students at nearby universities/colleges so being paid some money with free accommodation/food was a huge money saver for them.
I'm sure that plenty of au-pairs are exploited though, there's huge scope for that in a mostly unregulated system.
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The long length (of each piece) is simply a right angle triangle with sides R and H.
L = sqrt( R2 + H2)
For the length B think of the top down view, you have an isoceles triangle with an internal angle 45o and two sides of length R.
You can split this up into two right angled triangles with hypoteneuse length R and opposite angle 22.5o.
sin 22.5 = opp / hyp
opp = R * sin 22.5
So half B would be 0.38268 (5dp) * R
So B would be 0.76537 (5dp) * R
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Previous employer would let us expense a https://carradice.co.uk/products/bike-bureau-pannier for carrying a laptop.
I just used a normal pannier and a cheap neoprene sleeve from eBay. My thinking was:
- Modern laptops are very strong
- I wasn't concerned about cosmetic damage, laptops will pick up that over time anyway
- They get bumped around just as much in backpacks/rucksacks
- Any serious damage is going to affect me far more than the laptop so it is the least of my worries
(The next best improvement I made was getting a desktop for the office and having things setup so I could do all of my work from my desktop or my laptop. Just took a bit of discipline putting things on shared drives/etc rather than storing locally. This meant my laptop could just stay at home. Also when I was in the office I wasn't one of the twats sitting in a meeting on their laptop the entire time.)
- Modern laptops are very strong
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^ I don't think we're saying different things.
London results in so far point to a strong Khan win. Something around a 5% swing to Labour.
Results appearing here: https://www.londonelects.org.uk/im-voter/election-progress/results-2024
For example: "West Central" had a Tory majority last mayoral election, has gone to Labour now.
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My wife and daughter were just chaos, they'd take batteries from the "need charging" tub rather than the clearly marked and easier to access "charged - use these" tub. They'd put non-rechargeables in the charger despite the "don't put things in the charger yourself" training. They'd take batteries out of the charger that had only been in there for 15 minutes.
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Something like a
MaxHR = 220-ageis only if you don't have any other points of reference.If you've got another point of reference, such as having an HRM and seeing your HR at a higher number than that, then that's your new MHR.
220 - ageis the best fit for a population wide model. Individuals will vary.The point of it is that any other number than
220results in a worse fit if you take everyone into account.There are better models that offer a better population wide fit with higher order polynomials but most people lack the brains to be able to calculate them.
But everyone is an individual.
FWIW I can get my HR up to >200bpm and I'm not far off 50. I can only get it over 200 playing 5-a-side for some reason, just that combination of walk/sprint/run/stop/sprint/walk/etc. Steady state running I top out at 190bpm and cycling maxes at about 185bpm (but I tend not to do sprinty stuff when cycling).
Woo. I got £50 this month and MiniGB got £125.