filterfish

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by filterfish 1mo ago
My ex-partner and I used to have "drink it and fix it" on Sunday evenings where she would bring stuff out for me to fix and we'd slowly get pissed! Some things remained fixed, some things, erm, needed re-fixing!
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by filterfish 1mo ago
I'm with you an that one. RIP em-dash.
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by filterfish 1mo ago
Is any class action lawsuit "easy"?
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by filterfish 3mo ago
Life expectancy and quality of life are very different things.
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by filterfish 7mo ago
> Misophonia, interesting, I hadn’t heard (snort!) of that before. There are certain sounds I will inappropriately respond to, I’ll I read up on misophonia, thanks. The misophonia isn't a bad place to start: https://www.r
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by filterfish 7mo ago
My ex-partner has tinnitus and saw a psychologist who specialised in tinnitus. The psychologist suggested she buy a machine that generates a sound slightly quieter than her tinnitus which retrains the brain not to hear the tinnitus. So she
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by filterfish 8mo ago
Likewise and if people say, "why don't you google that?" I usually reply (obviously to everyone's annoyance:-) "I don't use Google". The general response is a blank, uncomprehending look.
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by filterfish 9mo ago
Looking up the binary in the package management system would also provide another source of useful information. Of course this would dramatically increase the complexity but would, I think, be useful. If you could look it up using APT/
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by filterfish 9mo ago
Contempt is very different to hate.
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by filterfish 9mo ago
Thank you. This is what I was looking for.
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by filterfish 9mo ago
> I am (alas) an entirely carbon-based user of the em dash. What a lovely sentence.
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by filterfish 1y ago
Agreed,Bandcamp is good, very good.
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by filterfish 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Handedness_Inventory Some online tests: * Long form: https://www.brainmapping.org/shared/Edinburgh.php * Short form: https://www.psytoolkit.org&#
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by filterfish 1y ago
The wound was about 6mm deep on my heel and took months to heal properly. And yes I did check those homophones :-) And thanks for the other homophone correction!
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by filterfish 1y ago
Millions of years!
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by filterfish 1y ago
https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...
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by filterfish 1y ago
I had a planter wart surgically removed which they packed with Manuka honey and because it's a deep open wound it needs to heal from the inside. I changed the dressing and repacked it every few days for weeks and the wound was absolute
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by filterfish 1y ago
"they" say "I haven't got a car". Contractions are common in Australian English to, though becoming less so due to the influence of US English.
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by filterfish 1y ago
Whether something is near field or far field is frequency dependent
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by filterfish 1y ago
We used to pay AU$30 for the entire house which included everything except cooking but it did include a 10 year 1RU rack Mount server. Electricity isn't particularly cheap here.
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by filterfish 2y ago
I've been using sqitch for years and haven't had any problems with it. Though they haven't been big projects with lots of devs so I may be using in it's sweet spot.
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by filterfish 2y ago
Their blog is an incredibly useful resource for so many different scenarios.
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by filterfish 2y ago
I love Stig of the Dump. I read it at school and whilst I have very memories of my childhood I do remember reading it. I can quite imagine living in a dump/tip with old jam jars as my window!
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by filterfish 2y ago
twaddle is word I haven't heard for a long time (I moved from the UK to Australia 27 years ago). It's a great word!
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by filterfish 2y ago
Or: apt-get install ugrep
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by filterfish 2y ago
> ... closed-loop feedback systems ... It's good to actually see even a mention of control theory. My degree was electronics and control theory and whilst I've only had one job that involved either electronics or control theory
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by filterfish 2y ago
> This is essentially just CalDAV[1], no? I reckon, yeah. From this article[1] writing a FUSE filesystem doesn't look that hard. I might give it a go this weekend. Assuming I remember! [1] https://blog.trieoflogs.com&#x2F
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by filterfish 2y ago
So the question begs: how hard would this be to write. Because I want it!
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by filterfish 2y ago
More Plan9 but yeah, I was thinking the same thing.
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by filterfish 2y ago
This is going to be my new, and probably overused phrase: "Can we gzip this meeting, I've shit to do"!

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