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Adam Alton Profile picture
@altonpowers
Jun 9, 2019 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Time to get out the BBQ for the first time this year, but oh no, there's a problem!... Image
The scree which holds the vent shutter into the bottom is completely rusted. But not worry, the Altonator is here... Image
Take out the old rusty bolt, and get a presta valve from an old bicycle innertube instead... ImageImage
It fits just nicely, with the nut that comes with it going underneath to hold the shutter in place... Image
So now not only does my BBQ have a working air vent again, but if I need to add some extra air in to really get the coals going, then I can just attach a bike pump and give it a boost.

#altonated #BBQ #IncreasingInflation Image

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Dec 26, 2020
So then, what has caused more deaths in #London this year, #Covid19 or #AirPollution?

Let's find out…

1/
As of Christmas Eve, the official number of Covid deaths in London *in hospitals* was 8,290. data.london.gov.uk/dataset/corona…

And according to that source, approximately 75% of Covid deaths occur in hospitals, which gives us a total number of Covid deaths in London of 11,053.

2/
The 2015 King's College London report on Air Pollution put annual deaths from PM2.5 at 3,537 and from NO2 at 5,879. (This is after accounting for a 30% overlap between the effects of PM2.5 and NO2.)

london.gov.uk/sites/default/…

So 9,416 annual London air pollution deaths.

3/
Read 13 tweets
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Sep 24, 2020
In London, fewer deaths have been caused by Covid-19 than are lost due to air pollution each year.

Yup.

1/
First, fact checking!..

As of 18/09/20, total hospital Covid deaths in London was 6,172. In-hospital deaths are estimated to be 73% of total.
data.london.gov.uk/dataset/corona…

So 8,455 total London Covid deaths.

2/
The 2015 King's College London report on Air Pollution put annual deaths from PM2.5 at 3,537 and from NO2 at 5,879. (This is after accounting for a 30% overlap between the effects of PM2.5 and NO2.)
london.gov.uk/sites/default/…

So 9,416 annual London air pollution deaths.

3/
Read 11 tweets
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Sep 18, 2020
Here we go… Image
Can't get the damn lid off.
Ok, I'm in. But they've got a weird yellow mould on them. Might give these a swerve after all.
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Jul 2, 2020
#HTML & #CSS are not programming. A thread…
While CSS and HTML are not a programming language as such, being able to masterfully craft things with them requires a level of logical and creative thinking which is perhaps in some ways harder than "proper" programming. Let me explain…
A programming language tends to have very clear logic to allow "if X, do Y" type things. HTML & CSS also allow you to define "if X, do Y" type things, but through a nightmarish abstraction of a nested document tree and some declarations about how the things in that tree behave.
Read 11 tweets
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Feb 16, 2020
After many years, I recently ditched @googlechrome and switched back to @firefox, and it's wonderful. So wonderful in fact, that I feel compelled to tweet about it.

Here are some of the things that I love about it…
Firstly, you can send a tab to your phone (or vice versa), which is really handy.

I'm sure Chrome used to have this, and then they scrapped it 🤷‍♂️
Secondly, the "awesome bar". Remember the awesome bar? It's like Chrome's address bar but provides waaay better suggestions from your history.

That article you read last week… about carrots, but you can't recall the title or the site it was on 🤔.The awesome bar will find it.
Read 13 tweets
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Feb 9, 2020
No.

A voting system needs to be inspect-able by members of general public. For an electronic system that means everything including the hardware, operating system, how/who that OS is installed (by), the interface software, data transfer & storage all must be open to scrutiny.
I've worked as a programmer for 10 years, and I wouldn't be competent at scrutinising all of those things.
If we gave every voter their own cryptographic key for voting, and they knew how to use it, then we could ignore most of the things in that^ list and just check the final data in the #blockchain. But I imagine such a requirement would hinder vast numbers of voters.
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