geoffmunn

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by geoffmunn 2mo ago
As someone who is not American, $10,000!!!!!! That's hard to conceive where I live. We even have a specifically free ambulance service here.
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by geoffmunn 4mo ago
The topic and content was genuinely interesting, but it read like an annoying LinkedIn promotional article with all the short punchy sentences.
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by geoffmunn 5mo ago
We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP. It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-
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by geoffmunn 6mo ago
"make their own fork which nobody else is interested in because it is personalized to them" Isn't that literally how open-source works, and why there's so many Linux distros? Code quality is a subjective term as well, I
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by geoffmunn 11mo ago
Well luckily it turned out that they were all ne'er-do-wells so it's all good. Just like when the US used drones on Iraqi convoys and amazingly they were all Al-Qaeda sympathisers.
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by geoffmunn 1y ago
This is what most people miss when they criticise UBI - for most people, it will be immediately spent, taxed, and put back into the economy. As long as the velocity is there, it's not an entirely bad idea as long as inflation can be ke
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by geoffmunn 1y ago
also Guestbooks and the email icon of the word 'email' rotating around a globe.
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by geoffmunn 1y ago
I am 100% convinced that the baby weight thing is because grandparents love to compare newborns with their own experiences, and they were on the cusp of the metric conversion in the 60s. In a decade or two, this will vanish. Imperial height
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by geoffmunn 1y ago
That's only a post-9/11 requirement, so it's not really part of the 'traditional' banking system.
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by geoffmunn 1y ago
The thing I liked the most about XHTML was how it enforced strict notation. Elements had to be used in their pure form, and CSS was for all visual presentation. It really helped me understand and be better at web development - getting the t
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by geoffmunn 2y ago
I worked with a guy called 'Com' which is a reserved word in Active Directory. It causes chaos so apparently his AD name is always modified to be less offensive to the Microsoft gods.
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by geoffmunn 2y ago
At one point, you could leave an open <script> tag at the end of the HTML with the language attribute set to "javascript9.9" or something non-existent, and the JavaScript banner ads wouldn't load. Good times, those were
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by geoffmunn 2y ago
To be more accurate - by removing subsidies, NZ farmers became more efficient and sell their products at the world price, which is quite often overseas. Subsidies and/or tarrifs always distort the market and have unintended consequence
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by geoffmunn 2y ago
In NZ, it was had maybe 2 low-quality moments, but never froze and was in high-definition for the rest of the time.
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by geoffmunn 2y ago
Based on their endless meat wave attacks, I'm pretty sure we know what their "acceptable mitigations" are.
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by geoffmunn 2y ago
I have ordered lots of stuff off AliExpress and it's been a roughly 50% success rate. Some things were clearly low quality, one item was completely wrong, but the rest were surprisingly good. For me, half the fun is the anticipation of
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
Also it's another point of failure. If (or when) the motor fails, then you could be facing in an extremely suboptimal direction and it might take more than a few days to fix.
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
If you are generating more power than your batteries can store, or you can use, then this is excess gain. If you're selling it back to the power company then this might not be a problem unless you also have resell limits.
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
People (usually installers) also get hung up on having the correct angle for stationary panels. In winter the solar gain difference on 'correctly' angled panels vs just having them flat on the roof is basically zero, and in summe
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
The newer models are much better than what I have. It's surprisingly quick off the lights, which is fun because it looks like a very ordinary SUV. It's quiet, the glass roof is nice - I'll never go back to a petrol car.
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
I view it as an issue of best-practice password hygiene. Just because the stakes are low, and it's a hassle, doesn't mean you should skip it. The more you get used to implementing it, the easier it gets.
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
We have an MG ZS ev, and we've done 110,000km in 3 years. Battery capacity is at 93% which I think is pretty good, but I don't intend to be driving this for 30 years.
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
Apple Maps in New Zealand is really, really good. Travel estimates are nearly perfect. In smaller countries though, it's total rubbish. Samoa, travel guidance is nearly non-existent. Tahiti, very patchy. In those countries, Google Maps
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
I always assumed that the NSA 'hardened' versions of products or operating systems were a careful mix of fixes for things they wanted to be protected against, while still letting secret backdoors to be preserved.
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
I've often wondered about option 2, but wouldn't that be very risky if you were near something/someone and you created a large gravitational field? Also, if this was common and you had lots of ships warping the gravity field
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by geoffmunn 3y ago
Do you think there's a connection to this behaviour and the type of vehicle they drive? With SUVs becoming super huge, maybe people feel that they don't have to stop because they won't be coming off worse in an accident?
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by geoffmunn 4y ago
Also "Maccas" in New Zealand, and I was wondering if they'd be ok with our other names - "Micky D's" and "Smack Donalds".
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by geoffmunn 4y ago
I always thought this was a weird purchase. All his other businesses have been industry disrupters where he can make all sorts of bombastic claims and promises of new products, but Twitter was an established company in a stable(ish) industr
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by geoffmunn 4y ago
In New Zealand, green means salt & vinegar, light green means green onion, yellow absolutely means chicken, blue means plain salt, light blue usually means sour cream and chives, and purple means random stuff like bacon. It does depend
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by geoffmunn 4y ago
We built a new house, and I had a blanket ban on Samsung products. Unfortunately, the only fridge that looked nice was a Samsung so we reluctantly went with it. Strangely, it's actually a really good fridge and it's one of the onl

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