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by dfex 7mo ago
Hello fellow Brisbanite! Australia has it's own version of this directory - see if you can find it here: https://streetlibrary.org.au/brisbane/
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by dfex 7mo ago
It sounds like this study might have been funded by.... Big Breakfast. I'll see myself out.
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by dfex 7mo ago
That program listing hit me right in the feels. I remember when I was 6 or 7 teaching myself Applesoft BASIC and writing programs with funny (to me) little print statements all through them - when computing was just exploding with possibili
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by dfex 7mo ago
What a time to be alive! After nearly two decades of complaining loudly about deteriorating quality of Google search results and Ad injection, Google puts in AI summaries and provides 1-shot answers to >50% of queries, annihilating the a
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by dfex 8mo ago
It boggles the mind as to why they choose a name for this application that is very clearly a Microsoft trademark. In understand it's also the French word for Videoconferencing, but even still...
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by dfex 8mo ago
This! I have the 14-core M4 Macbook Pro with 48GB of RAM, and Word for Mac (Version 16 at this time) runs like absolute molasses on large documents, and pegs a single core between 70 and 90% for most of the time, even when I'm not typ
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by dfex 8mo ago
Surely the constraint will be the rate at which you can get them into and installed orbit, not the manufacturing rate
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by dfex 8mo ago
It is 100% about FOMO. The greatest pushback you'll get from anyone when you suggest voluntarily cutting off their social media accounts is that it's their way of keeping in touch/track of friends who they probably never int
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by dfex 9mo ago
Ah man, I miss the late 90s/early 00s theme of one-off mystery sites, green on black aesthetics and excessive anchor tags :) Back in 2006 (god I feel old) there was an excellent mini-series on the SyFy channel called The Lost Room[0],
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by dfex 9mo ago
I'm by no means defending the percentage they take, but I would suggest that it's a percentage because it's simple: Pick 3 imaginary games for sale priced at $1, $10 and $100. Any one of those games could be a million downlo
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by dfex 10mo ago
> If everything goes offline for one hour per year at the same time, then a person is blocked and unproductive for an hour per year. > On the other hand, if each service experiences the same hour per year of downtime but at different
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by dfex 10mo ago
Finally! Time to recreate the classic: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pTgJaJYHIAs
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by dfex 10mo ago
Specifically old Japanese hardware from the 80s and 90s - this stuff is bulletproof
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by dfex 10mo ago
I have had fairly extensive hearing loss in my left ear for about 20-something years and finally decided to investigate options about a year or so ago. I tried a set of Phonaks for about a fortnight, but I found them tinny-sounding (which I
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by dfex 10mo ago
>> “You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one.” > This resonates deeply with me. That's why I built one myself [0] I was hoping to see a home-made bike at that link.. Came away disappointe
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by dfex 10mo ago
My subsidised 48kWh battery is getting installed in two weeks - and I can't wait. I have also upgraded to a 20kW inverter (I have ~10kW of panels on the roof) so I can import or export twice as fast and I will be switching to a provide
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by dfex 11mo ago
Lovely story. I work out of the back seat(s) (Crew Model) of my Ford Transit pretty regularly and can relate. I'm astonished at how productive I can be while waiting around outside a job site for late deliveries/people or even my
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by dfex 11mo ago
> The technical information for this thing seems to be light on the ground. What kind of diagnostic stats are provided? How is it figuring out true Rx/Tx power without a light meter? The programming boxes (Ubiquiti's and others
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by dfex 11mo ago
That might be a misremember - I've been using Juniper for nearly 20 years now and only ever saw a "software bug" in 18.x that broke OEM optics, but that was quickly addressed with a patch shortly after release.
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by dfex 11mo ago
some scars need to be earned
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by dfex 11mo ago
This may work in your favour - it's one of the reasons I enjoy Mastodon so much - friction is/was a little higher which kept my network small but focussed
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by dfex 11mo ago
Genuinely curious - would 24x7 low-latency trading matter then? Wouldn't after-hours trading (for your local timezone) be happening on an exchange in another location? Or do you mean dark pools/private exchanges that may run 24x7
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by dfex 1y ago
Not the OP, but have had some experience with the Arduino Opta around this time twelve months ago (Oct 24) through a professional development course I took at my local university on industrial control systems programming. While it's ni
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by dfex 1y ago
Also "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" - Seneca
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by dfex 1y ago
This is actually really exciting - it means in somewhere in the next 5-10 years we'll inevitably (well, hopefully if the cycles of history are anything to go by) see a bunch of new dissenters rise up with their associated subcultures -
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by dfex 1y ago
Thank you - did not know this existed. I'm finding the blank youtube page incredibly soothing already!
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by dfex 1y ago
The whole UI feels like it was thrown together by 15 different organisations. I work in the networking space, and regularly tweak the IP settings to do my job. Over the last 25 years, I have been utterly confounded as the number of clicks i
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by dfex 1y ago
My suspicion is that they want all the passwords on this site to match the one they use with all their other customers too. Saves money on password management.
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by dfex 1y ago
PREACH! Currently sitting in a control room at a greenfield manufacturing facility trying to describe why even VLANning the control network would be a good idea to some controls engineers who want a plant-wide subnet for all PLCs that will
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by dfex 1y ago
There really is an XKCD for everything - thank you for the morning laugh kind stranger :)

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