jamhan

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by jamhan 3y ago
I think SuperNinKenDo is right. We are witnessing events now which are unprecedented. For example, Australia is now at the point where we have the police force in a (once-)successful western democracy gaslighting for pro-terrorism protestor
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by jamhan 4y ago
The Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (AML/CTF Act) covers AML in Australia. Tranche (Part) 1 was implemented immediately. Tranche 2, covering real estate agents (among others) was supposed to follow reason
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by jamhan 4y ago
Linked from Nicolas Wilson's twitter, this video, about a Tory MP and her husband's stealing of GBP 203m of Government money for useless PPE at the beginning of the COVID crisis, is staggering: https://twitter.com/
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by jamhan 4y ago
"Reference guide to anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism" (2003): https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-rep...
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by jamhan 4y ago
My anecdata: tl;dr: All 3 of my Samsung M.2 NVMe SSDs have failed in less than 3 years. 100% failure rate. My first SSD was a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO. It failed after 2 years and 8 months. It was replaced under warranty with a 1TB 970 EVO Plus.
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by jamhan 4y ago
Your comment is almost certainly the stupidest thing I have ever read on HN. I look forward to more insightful comments from you in this vein: "I'm not sure how I feel about universities (which should be teaching modern history) t
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by jamhan 4y ago
As an example, the MMORPG "Elder Scrolls Online" [1], uses Lua as the interface and plugin ("addons") language. This allows feature-rich, very useful UI modifications such as "Bandits User Interface" [2] [1] h
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by jamhan 4y ago
There are/were issues with using the rpi-imager [1] under Windows, which would result in the configuration information not being written to the memory card. They claimed to have fixed it, but it never worked for me. Instead, I downlo
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New World: Server error wipes weeks of progress, EGS refuses to fix(forums.newworld.com)
1 points by jamhan 5y ago|0 comments
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by jamhan 5y ago
The codename for Ubuntu 21.04 is "Hirsute Hippo" and "hirsute" means "Covered with hair; hairy."
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by jamhan 6y ago
After having yet another "gaming" mouse fail with the "double-click" problem I did some research which led to this in-depth video. Essentially it's failed engineering and companies not wanting to spend even tiny amo
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Failing switch problem: Omron vs. the modern mouse circuit (2019)(youtube.com)
1 points by jamhan 6y ago|1 comments
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by jamhan 7y ago
It wasn't gold foil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapton
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by jamhan 8y ago
> People can write blog posts criticizing Facebook. But they should not direct their anger to employees. Please quote the part of the post where he directs his anger DIRECTLY at employees?
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by jamhan 8y ago
How were they rude? His FIRST line was "Hi REDACTED. I know you’re just doing your job." They weren't arrogant or hostile to the person who emailed them. He has a strong opinions on Facebook, as do, I'm sure, millions of
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by jamhan 8y ago
I wonder if this is linked to the case of Huang Xiangmo, who spit the dummy after his residency visa was revoked: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/12/austr...
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by jamhan 8y ago
Is it a coincidence this report appears a month after it was revealed that China was the source of massive amounts of the banned chemical CFC-11? https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44738952
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by jamhan 8y ago
"Fast, instant"? That's, err, just dumb. Fast perhaps. Instant, never.
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by jamhan 9y ago
LinkedIn need to be made an example of. They continue to spam with contact recommendations etc even after I closed my account.
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by jamhan 9y ago
Let's then not forget the 1 billion per year spent on keeping mothballed desalination plants operational, plants that talking heads like Tim Flannery got us into thanks to clueless Labor premiers. Also: "Renewable energy sources s
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by jamhan 9y ago
I always find it amusing when people compare pork barrelling amounts as "only" or "mere". "It was only 5 billion". I wonder how many companies, schools, hospitals etc would like an extra 500 million dollars per
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by jamhan 9y ago
Seen "The Pentagon Papers"? [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXQ2lO3ieBA
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by jamhan 9y ago
Month-old news. He died on 8th September 2017. https://www.jerrypournelle.com/
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by jamhan 9y ago
Relevant?: http://evonomics.com/amazon-accounting-corporate-profits-ric...
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by jamhan 9y ago
Sigh. Clearly I wasn't referring to graduates. Read his comments recently regarding 457s.
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by jamhan 9y ago
I was talking about actual in-the-flesh interviews, which are the only ones that count in the end. Recruiters/companies often do phone "interviews" or "pre-screenings" or whatever and those were the "conversati
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by jamhan 9y ago
And now we get to the crux of the matter. I wonder how old you are? Why is it that in IT broad long-term experience is considered irrelevant? If you have not done exactly that something in the past six months you might as well not exist.
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by jamhan 9y ago
Are you really that obtuse? I write my CV. It has 20+ years of experience plus degree from my University. Simple math not your strong point perhaps?
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by jamhan 9y ago
Oh please. Spare us the pearl clutching. I'm willing to bet that if I filed a freedom of information act on this company's 457 applications that 1) there was little or no attempt to find a suitable candidate in the local market an
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by jamhan 10y ago
In Australia we were supposed to have tranche 2 ("covering real estate agents, lawyers, accountants, car dealers and others") of the anti-money laundering regulations introduced over 10 years ago. As this article details, it is &q

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