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by goatforce5 1mo ago
I dropped out of a decidedly average university to do customer support for the first ISP in Australia. After a couple of years of that, I got itchy feet and found myself in London, England. The plan was to follow the footsteps of many thous
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by goatforce5 4mo ago
To be fair, that's exactly the sort of thing a dead person would say, if they were trying to trick you into believing they were alive.
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by goatforce5 4mo ago
If this post from Cliff was a cunning strategy to increase sales of Acme Klein Bottles, well, it's worked. I too just ordered one (having been meaning to do so for a good number of years at this point).
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by goatforce5 6mo ago
I, too, have a TB-303. It seems like there might be a disproportionate number of 303 owners here on HN.
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by goatforce5 7mo ago
At some point in the 2000s I was buying a laptop at an Apple retail store, and just before we processed the transaction the salesperson asked if I was a student. "Umm, I kinda look like a student." "Good enough for me!"
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by goatforce5 8mo ago
You can use the Apple Store app to purchase physical items at Apple retail locations (smaller items like cables or cases). I've used it a couple of times, and I feel very awkward using it, so much so that I'll walk out kinda wavin
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by goatforce5 1y ago
I came here to say this. Dave McCormack and Custard were in a popular indie band in Oz in the 90s. A couple of years ago he performed a couple of songs with The Wiggles, and came out on stage saying "Hello everyone, it's me! I&#x2
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by goatforce5 2y ago
Or it might be a case of situational depression: https://www.webmd.com/depression/situational-depression
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by goatforce5 2y ago
> His personal security cost was part of his “All Other Compensation” which amounted to $6,802,824 in 2023, and also consists of his 401(k) or Roth plan, and personal use of company aircraft or car. https://qz.com/google-
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by goatforce5 2y ago
Can US auto makers (or even non-Tesla automakers generally) manufacture EVs at sufficient scale? Tesla seems to be far ahead of their competition: https://caredge.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and... BYD and
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by goatforce5 2y ago
You can disrupt an office without entering the office. Just stand outside and block the entrance, yell at people trying to enter the office, or bang pots and pans and create a disturbance. (I have no idea what happened at Google. The articl
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by goatforce5 2y ago
Where were you in Australia? And what sort of gambling machines are we talking about? > The laws regulating the use of gaming machines in Australia are a matter for state governments, and as such they vary between states. Gaming machines
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by goatforce5 2y ago
Useful for people who primarily use their phone for phone calls.
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by goatforce5 3y ago
I popped into an Aldi in Portugal ~6 months ago, and I noticed they had some Trader Joe's products on the shelves. Unsurprisingly, Aldi Portugal is owned by Aldi Nord.
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by goatforce5 3y ago
I believe a share of revenue is not uncommon in shopping mall leases. e.g.: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/clb-percentage-rent....
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by goatforce5 3y ago
Google Flights will allow you to select how many carry-ons and checked bags you have (depending on the route). e.g., on an imaginary trip to Las Vegas, the cheapest carrier changed when I added a checked and carry on bag (and the price diff
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by goatforce5 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
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by goatforce5 3y ago
I was there ~2 months ago, near Faro. Our driver said they had had very little rain in the past 3 years. He showed us empty creeks and rivers, etc. And the area certainly looked very dry. It looks like it rained quite a bit in the past mont
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by goatforce5 3y ago
While all that is true, I try to avoid breaking the law when visiting foreign countries. I wouldn't want to make future travel unnecessarily complicated.
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by goatforce5 3y ago
Just to echo what you said: I was in Portugal a couple of months ago, and our local tour guide said the drought conditions meant we should expect to pay 3x the price for olive oil over the next year or two.
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by goatforce5 3y ago
I visited Vegas for the first time this year and I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I was surprised to learn that, despite its reputation as a party city, it isn't technically legal to consume cannabis on the Strip. I guess
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by goatforce5 3y ago
Waze seemed to not understand the express/collector system in Toronto for the longest time, and would have you merge back and forth between the two unnecessarily. It seems to have become better over the last year or two, however. http
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by goatforce5 3y ago
I think the problem is that _everyone has one_. > The company's meteoric growth trajectory has slowed down in recent years. According to S&P, sales declined by almost 22 per cent in the first quarter of 2023, the seventh consecu
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by goatforce5 4y ago
iAgree
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by goatforce5 5y ago
I think those dirt-cheap yearly subscription deals are a US thing. I'm not sure similar deals are common in the rest of the world.
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by goatforce5 5y ago
I think it's fairly common to take a wire article and change/update it with original reporting. For example, the current main article on The Guardian's website is: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021&#
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by goatforce5 5y ago
> In 1983, the 61-year-old potato farmer won the inaugural Westfield Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon, a distance of 875 kilometres (544 mi). The race was run between what were then Australia's two largest Westfield shopping centre
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by goatforce5 6y ago
My dotcom 1.0 employer did exactly the same thing, although I think ours was called 'Black Box'. If a recruiter said they had 'Black Box' candidates ready and waiting to come in for interviews we knew the recruiter would
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by goatforce5 6y ago
"Daisy" as a demonstration of the audio capabilities of computers dates back to 1961: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Bell#Computing_and_techn...
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by goatforce5 6y ago
I've recently joined an existing fully remote team. Once or twice a week someone will start an Among Us session, with a parallel Google Meet video call. People will play Among Us, and then discuss who the Imposter is in the video call.

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