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No, your code was correct, the mistake belongs to ChatGPT. It's not a calculator. It's a machine that produces a sequence of words in a convincing order. But it's not checking itself to see if the words describe the real world (or the real rules of maths) or not. Ask it how to get from Aldgate East to Turnham Green and chances are it will come up with nonsense. Ask it to write a sci fi novel, and it will perform brilliantly. Oddly, it's those tasks that we consider to be truly human - creative, imaginative tasks - that it does really well at. Tasks we think computers should do well at - computation, navigation - it is embarrassing bad at.

Classic ChatGPT effort @geofferz: deceptively convincing yet demonstrably wrong. But if you're 19, you can take the A2 test. This is just one of the things it got wrong . Don't ask it to do a better job; it just apologises and comes up with a different form of wrong.

I'm no python person, but I think it should be so it reads like it would in regular maths: "else, if 19 is less than or equal to the age, and the age is less than 21". Same for one a couple of lines later.

Happy birthday

So your next challenge, if you accept it, is to rewrite it, so that all the logic that decides things comes first and all the print statements come at the end. This is called "separation of concerns". ie the bits concerned with printing should be separate from the bits concerned with deciding what to print.

Every year I promise to join in. I did actually get round to it once, but that was the year my bike got nicked, which kind of put a damper on it. Perhaps 2024 will be the dawning of a new era of Taking Part.

The visor stuff I have is the nikwax one. I washed the visor and put nikwax on again. Tested it under the tap and it all ran off like off the back of the proverbial duck. So I'm going with theory that the problem's being made worse by wiping it with a dirty glove, and I've gone and bought some glove wiper things from ebay. Will try them out on the next ride. Good thing is that there's no need to wait for a rainy day.

Great to hear you're pleased with it!

But it's a good bike @Slow Joe. After my wife did her repeat CBT on one, she immediately wanted to swap her VanVan and get one. Reliable too. And should hold its value as well as anything else out there.

Life can be tough, mate.

Not sure that "necessary" and "bike" are words that really belong in the same sentence.

@Stingy1 Thanks for setting me right hadn't seen the breakdown. I seem to remember figures for cyclists went up significantly during covid, because cycling suddenly became trendy. So perhaps the decrease reflects people giving it up now life is returning to normal.

Golden opportunity for me to be a bit of a nob: If you take out the lockdown years (2020, and 2021) KSIs for 2022 are 3% down on 2019. Same for just the fatalities. 2023 figures aren't yet out*. But perhaps the figures for your area are different. * link to gov.uk

The way in Suffolk is to go at 40, regardless of what the limit is.

Welcome back to biking! Would love to see some pics when you collect it. Is it just cosmetic attention? If it's been idle for a year might need a bit of checking out? But perhaps the guys at the workshop have been taking care of it.

CRF or the NC are nice ideas. Or perhaps the CB500X as a happy mid-point between the two. I imagine your roads are not unlike my local roads, and although I've not ridden one, it would on my list if I was looking for a bike for riding around here. (I'm not looking for one, because the Suzuki DRZ400SM fits the spot perfectly, and I reckon this *would* be the bike for you were you up for doing your own servicing).

Congratulations on the speedy pass! And the new bike (and for posting a pic ). Same engine as the Deauville (so I read), so basically a completely bullet-proof machine. Should be a great bike to ride and get out on. But yes, you'll have to wait for the ice to disappear first.

The big change is, Stu finally gave us a like button.

When I was doing DAS, my instructor would occasionally ride behind me and give me a running commentary on what to look out in the ear piece: "Pull in here, because you don't want to filter past a junction. Look out for the pelican crossing ahead; there's a person waiting at it on the right, so the lights could turn red any time... Notice the junction marked, and if you look out the left you can see a tractor exhaust above the hedge, so expect to meet it at the junction". I learned that he saw 100 times more things than I did.

No plans to go to the IOM at the moment, but who knows, and it's good to be forewarned.

Blimey, never seen you here before. How long have you been awol?

Once had to send my bike in along with a cardboard box of bits.

Too true. I spent some time in Colorado. Winter was the best time of year - bright sunny days with blue skies, views that stretched a hundred miles down the edge of the Rockies, perhaps skiing on Saturday or just a walk round the park in the happy knowledge that the rattlers and the bears were all hibernating. Every now and the snow would settle even at our low elevation (6500ft) and we'd go sledding. Dang it I miss that place.

Using a phone for navigation has a few issues Vibrations can kill the camera. I've heard of this happening on iphones, probably happens on others too. Some companies such as Quadlock and UltimateAddOns make cases that damp the vibrations and are safe for your phone. After 1000s of miles using an UltimateAddOns case with my cheapo Samsung, I've had no issues with the camera. The phone can overheat and shut off. A combination of high summer temperatures, the heavy processing required to do navigation, shutting the phone away in an airless case that heats up an oven, mean that this can happen. It's happened to me a couple of times on hot afternoons. Never been a problem, as I've been riding with others who have proper sat navs. No data at the bottom of your valley. Relying on data being available everywhere might leave you riding around looking for the nearest signal But some nav apps, such as MRA and I think google maps, allow you to download maps so they're always available. No dedicated hard buttons. It's not that easy to poke around at a phone screen when you're stopped at a red light, even if you have magic conductive gloves. A few hard buttons you can activate easily with gloves might help you out. It's not easy to use the phone. When the phone's all cooped up in its case, it's one faff to many to get it out just to take some pics or whatever you do with your phone. It tends to stay there until there's a proper lunch or coffee stop. It's up to you whether these are deal-breakers or not. I've gone the phone route because I got fed up with Garmin and BaseCamp and longed for something that was just a bit simpler to use. Ended up with MRA on the phone, and been happily using it for a couple of years now. Not thinking of going back to sat navs.

But A377 BCD is a tad special. Odd, I can remember my mum's old mini from 55 years ago - JLU823D since I know you were all wondering - but I couldn't tell you the number of any of my previous bikes or cars off the top of my head.