davewasthere

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by davewasthere 2mo ago
nvm. One little pole did the trick
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by davewasthere 2mo ago
I can't blow up the servo, even though I've totally wrecked it.
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by davewasthere 3mo ago
One thing we're not short of here in Australia is space. And sunshine. I'm not opposed to nuclear in the mix though. It's pretty incredible. And the South Koreans have done a pretty awesome job in the UAE with their reactors
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by davewasthere 1y ago
The fact that there's an entire country mostly unaware of the utility and ubiquitousness of a simple electric kettle, blows my mind. But then again, I'm a product of the Empire (British) not a North-American. But while the idea of
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by davewasthere 1y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/odqjef/this_is_a_m... I don't know about you, but I'm skeptical.
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by davewasthere 2y ago
And limited run it. So it there are XX orders already, then the youtube video is delisted, so only exists in paper form.
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by davewasthere 2y ago
And worse (sometimes) consumed by email scanners. There's all sorts of hassles with them. Email deliverability often an issue too.
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by davewasthere 2y ago
I learned I can't play Doom if I can't strafe. I'm a bot!
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by davewasthere 2y ago
Not quite the same, but if you've a leaf blower, then making a hovercraft with a couple of pool noodles and a circular piece of plywood is pretty cool (and a lot of fun).
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by davewasthere 2y ago
Hiroshi Sakurazaka wrote 'All you need is kill', which became Edge of Tomorrow film. And, while not SciFi, I think Haruki Murakami's books are worth a read and might scratch and itch you didn't realise you had. Start wit
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by davewasthere 2y ago
Quick bug. As an unauthed user, add a habit. Then log in. Habit has disappeared. (but can create habits, which then sync just fine to other devices) I guess I was expecting my unauthed user habit to persist after logging in.
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by davewasthere 2y ago
original creator: https://twitter.com/watawatabou Was always free... now people have gone to town with the source code.
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by davewasthere 3y ago
Now they just need to organise effectively. But how do you organise a disparate group whose only common characteristic is that they don't believe in imaginary deities?
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by davewasthere 3y ago
Had exactly the same thing in Australia when trying a 000 (Australia's emergency number) call with my Pixel 6 Pro after watching somebody run off the road and smash into a pole. Fortunately I had the local police station number and was
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by davewasthere 3y ago
A small thing. I made some braised bronze chess pieces. https://photos.app.goo.gl/rN3xkgxybeY7WP9K9 Was really happy with the design, considering I just made it up on the spot. I had previously carved a few chess sets befor
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by davewasthere 3y ago
Although it reads as though it's $1 ea for your first 100 homes you sell, then $995 after that. And actually, probably need to make it $1/home for the first 1000 or so just to get the site to critical mass. Not going to get many b
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by davewasthere 3y ago
Thank you for this. It's almost a perfect template for a site I'm working on. Even had a few 'features' I'd forgotten to include. /s
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Now be meta and build GPT with GPT.
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by davewasthere 4y ago
In 1997, I had to convert a legacy unix (SCO System V?) application's comms from X.25 to tcp/ip. Had the source code, but it was a weird case of the system you built it on didn't have a networking stack (or was somehow massiv
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Casino. All on Black. Repeat 3 more times (hoping your luck holds out for each). 16x in under an hour. (or zero most likely... but definitely lowest effort) I don't recommend this approach however But yeah, if you're talking USD
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Pretty awesome. SLA Guarantees is spelt wrong: https://supertokens.com/pricing
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by davewasthere 4y ago
I had exactly this. We run a Saas and someone wrote an email saying that our server was down, and when we'd expect it to be up. Not having had a notification, I double checked from a couple of geographic locations that our application
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by davewasthere 4y ago
The value of that deposit would be reflected and transferred.
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by davewasthere 4y ago
It was a great way to earn money as a kid in the 70s too. Wander around and find old beer/coke/milk bottles and return them for the deposit.
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by davewasthere 4y ago
How about get rid of one cruise ship, and maybe just the Italians stop driving? /j Yeah, Cruise ships are pretty nuts!
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Just on microplastics, fishing gear isn't even a blip on microplastics in the ocean. From Primary Microplastics in the Oceans: Boucher & Friot 2017 35% Clothing and textiles 28% Tyres 24% City dust 7% Road markings 3.7%
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Wow.. And if you asked me to predict the outcome of that incident, I'd have said the fatalities would have been the other way around... go figure!
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by davewasthere 4y ago
I think it's pretty cool Vasa was up after 10pm learning cool stuff with his dad. Recently got my daughter into doing web application testing. She found four bugs in an hour. Trying stuff that I never thought of. I've created a mo
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Wow.. So many great sites. Mine are: https://www.davewasthere.com/ travel site I created after getting locked up in 1999 while travelling in Russia. I stopped updating in in 2014, and stopped travelling in 2019. No idea why
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by davewasthere 4y ago
Looks great on desktop. I reckon it could do with a tiny bit of work to make it play nicely with mobile though.

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