Muddy Matt

Wow! very well said

It's also a really dumb question - you can't influence it. Either insulate your pipes before the winter freeze, or keep the heat on. If you can't, well physics is gonna get ya regardless of what AI is going to say.

These examples always end up with, ultimately 'it helped me use my own judgement'. Which is great if that's based on any particular knowledge, but what do you do when our knowledge landscape is so degraded that you have no knowledge to actually judge with?

The end point is ignorance.

I think the key point @adactio.com makes is maintenance. IME maintenance costs kill a project every time, far outrunning often considerable dev costs.

If you can't understand something, it's hard to maintain it. Which is why I vote for native over proprietary as much as possible.

I think the takeaway is demand for electricity is going to go through the roof and how that demand is met is a crucial question, with or without a straight swap to eHGV. Clearly an opportunity for more containerised freight over rail, something I think the road haulage industry would welcome.

I think when I hear they have cracked navigating e.g. a Moscow snowstorm at night I might say it works. But still won't use it. As I don't use taxis either!

The original seven Harry Potter books lined up on a bookshelf

We all read them in my house and they helped build reading stamina. But they ran out of steam narratively and the world building was cynical. His Dark Materials is better, but A Wizard of Earthsea is a different league and rewards as an adult.

True, but edited consistently - the Anthony Buckeridge Jennings books were formulaic but v. funny, the CS Lewis Narnia books a heavy handed allegory. The difference is the authors weren't lauded as a global phenomenon while producing them and weren't writing with an eye on future franchise options.

This effect isn't limited to authors. You can see it in our tech bros and our politics; beyond a certain point people start to believe their hype.

They're not even good books. After the first book (which was ok and tightly written) and certainly after the third she became too big to edit. So the books were massive and the thin plots revealed and we've been living with that since.

My first loco hauled train was 45104 St.P to Derby in about 1983-ish.

St. Pancras was a dark, smoky, addled fug of fumes quite unlike today. Loved it.

Two thoughts about #traitors success in the UK.

1. The object of the game is to be last person standing. On that basis, doesn't matter if you are a traitor or a faithful

2. Show is so much better for being self contained with no audience vote or input. Set up the board and let them play

Thanks - so far so good. It's weird even thinking about valves, something I completely take for granted. The design looks like it will shrug off muck without valve caps but will have to see. For the unscrewing risk - I've done it with standard Presta valves tbf. I might try a tiny amt of threadlock

BBB Corecap valve caps - first impressions | Components, Reviews | Muddymoles First impressions and initial thoughts on the BBB Corecap tubeless valve system

Trying out the new BBB Corecap valves...

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Ride report: Tuesday 30 December - Moles Christmas ride 2025 | Rides | Muddymoles The Moles group ride over the holiday period is something of a classic and 2025 was no exception

Finally got round to our Christmas ride report:

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Like the python joke about a man who had an arsehole transplant, but the arsehole rejected him...

It's also why (with a few notable exceptions that serialised work), many of our great authors were men with 'money' (even if not much) and e.g. didn't have to go down a mine to make a living. Not sure it's massively different today, relying on copyright is a bet on your future success.

I really enjoyed that, thank you

“Journeys are safer & smoother when we all work together”

Lovely common sense road rules ad from Wokingham Borough Council.

Whatever you do with LLM/AI will never provide you an advantage. If you can do it, so can everyone else. So it can't positively differentiate you or any company that uses it.

Every prompt could be paraphrased as 'give me an answer that tends towards the average (or make it up)'.

BBB Corecap tubeless valves look great! | Bike talk | Muddymoles In the news this week has been the announcement of the Corecap valve system from BBB, a replacement for traditional Presta valves.

I really like the idea of these BBB Corecap valves.

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Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts. Normally injuries are something that happens and then you move on. This one is frustrating but hopefully there's life in the old dog!

A year of riding in 2025 | Bike talk | Muddymoles It was the best of years; it was the worst of years. For me 2025 was a mixed bag.

My riding year 2025 - a mixed bag

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Happy New Year for 2026 | Bike talk | Muddymoles Well, here we are again, a New Year. Welcome to 2026 and all that.

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Favourite Stations

Meet Nay, a London Underground tube driver who has a real soft spot for Bow Road station.

I've started a new branch of the Tube Mapper project exploring people's favourite stations or stops on the London Tube Map.

I think 'why?' is a good place to start

Thanks for the info. It's definitely tyres though 🤣

Any idea what the white/cream tyre is and where to get in UK (or alternatives?) Thanks!

This is excellent advice for anyone trying to build websites for as many people as possible

Vittoria Torrente tyre review | Reviews, Wheels & Tyres | Muddymoles A review of the Vittoria Torrente 2.4, a relatively new model aimed at winter XC riding and mud.

Eliott has been busy again with a Vittoria tyre review

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