Any question answered...

Conway's game of life?

Just for two of us to drive down to the coast to take some elderly parents out on day trips/shopping really. Bootspace seems to be quoted in volume terms only.

I rented a Vauxhall Mokka last time but it turned out to be difficult for one parent to get in and out because of the height, and now they're even less mobile, so that's another requirement I've just remembered :(

Based on the height thing some sort of MPV or 4x4. Basically anything high seems to be easier for less agile people to get in and out of as you don't have to sit down so far.

They didn't like the step up, less than 5ft and getting smaller.

OK, there is an online database of cars with info on all kinds of accessability and wheelchair carrying capacity folded/unfolded etc. you can filter

https://www.ridc.org.uk/features-reviews/out-and-about/choosing-car/car

Doubt something like this is available out there, but these have a really low step up with decent height.
https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a15098391/2016-mobility-ventures-mv-1-first-drive-review/

Ah, you need the goldilocks car. My grandparents were about 5ft and had great difficulty getting into my Fiesta because it was too low.

The thing is you need low step up combined with a high roof so that they can basically just walk in.

Can normal people hire a black cab, without driver?

Probably a Golf (diesel = car equivalent of AIDS) or Hyundai Ioniq (petrol hybrid) or Peugeot 208 will be about right. Something that size. Don’t get an A class Merc if it’s offered because the boot won’t fit the wheelchair. The boot is not very deep and the lights stick into the opening. Probably perfect for golf clubs and designer holdalls but you can’t get things like pushchairs etc in.

Or just hire a black cab and commit to golf thread lyfe

Approaching a black cab driver may yield the result you are looking for.

I don't know how cheap a VW Caddy rental would be but we get a lot of Motability Caddys in the body shop. They seem to fit your bill.

Oi, hive mind. What pub if this? Been doing my head in for ages. It's hackney but not a pub I've frequented I think... But also so familiar. No reason at all. Just really curious!

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=G6ItZeduN2g&feature=share

Yep, not for me though, would still have get on a plane first.

It's the Three Crowns, corner of Stoke Newington High Street and Church Street. The school you see at the beginning is William Patten School.

This led me to Turing Machines!

Cheers, Oli. Not sure why it bothered me. Got strong kingsland road vibes but couldn't place it at all. Now I know why!

Anyone know how long a piece of string is?

Also wondering if anyone knows what the typical distance for the fixings on a wood work vise is?

Cheers.

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About 2" or so.

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IME wheelchairs go pretty small.
Big wheeled ones have the wheels come off super easy, so you can put them seperate from the seat part.
Small wheeled ones tend to fold pretty flat but are quite tall (often the handles can fold down though)

Previously my wife has driven with me (6'6") and either my grandma and the small wheeled chair, or my little sister and a big wheeled chair, in a 3 door Fiat Punto (me in the back)

Most cars are capable of transporting 4 adults, even the smaller ones.
Wheelchairs are fairly small and light, so can be thrown on a parcel shelf if absolutely necessary.

If you are doing 200+ miles with luggage, go for bigger, but if it is an hour to the coast for a day, shoehorn them in to whatever fits your budget at that time.

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Is there any kind of fuel for a wood burning stove that doesn't cause the bad particulate pollution? (good pollution only, please!)

Can't seem to find out whether there's any quick fix or if it's all much of a muchness.

My understanding is if you want the pretty flames you need the hot bits of poorly combusted fuel. Anything clean burning isn't pretty to look at so is a boiler tucked away somewhere and not the feature most people are looking for when they get a wood burning stove.

I have an SQL question.

I have an ordered dataset of about 150000 rows. Each row has an subject_id, starttime and endtime. I'm working out the duration between starttime and endtime. The issus is that for some of the records, where the subject_id is the same, the start time for next record is the next day. This can happen an unknown amount of times for each subject. I want to count these cases as continuous (e.g. 1 row with duration of 5 days, not 5 rows with a duration of 1 day.) I'm a bit stumped.

I'm guessing that if I could group and apply a single number to each group (grp_num) then an incremental number within the group (grp_index) I could then just take the startdate from the min grp_index number and the end date from the max grp_index for each grp_num.

Any ideas how to group them to apply the grp_num and grp_index?

Or an alternative way to slove?