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by jbarham 1mo ago
Yeah, I wondered about that too as normally Django "actions" mean admin actions ( https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/acti... ). But in this case it seems the blog post i
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Show HN: RSVP is a Go library for HTTP server graceful shutdown(github.com)
3 points by jbarham 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jbarham 7mo ago
What other services have you used to track stats?
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by jbarham 10mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234180
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by jbarham 1y ago
Condo means an apartment that you own (vs rent).
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by jbarham 1y ago
> I pushed for anonymous temporary age verification tokens generated through a government app. Cute. Let's see the reviews for an existing Australian government auth app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/
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by jbarham 1y ago
According to https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma... iPhone also has > 50% market share in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia and Japan. FWIW I live in Australia and most group chats are via W
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by jbarham 2y ago
> This reminds me of Rob Pike's article "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant," written about 15 years ago. 25 years ago: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf (Time flies.)
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by jbarham 2y ago
Tesla has cut prices very aggressively here in Australia [1] such that the "driveaway" prices for the Model 3 and Y are now ~AU$60k (or $US40k). There aren't a lot of government subsidies to buy EVs in Australia so that'
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by jbarham 2y ago
I think that should be https://datasette.io/
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by jbarham 3y ago
Ironically despite Australia being a major producer of uranium, its current Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, constantly denigrates nuclear power [1]. But that's par for the course in Australian politics ("Austr
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by jbarham 3y ago
Prompt: draw a picture of a fish and chips shop owner from queensland who is also a politician Results: https://twitter.com/jbarham74/status/1760587123844124894
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by jbarham 3y ago
There's a short cut & cover freight railway "tunnel" near me in Footscray, Victoria, Australia (just west of central Melbourne). Here's the Google street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.80
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by jbarham 3y ago
>> will do nothing for emissions > How can that be? Because a reduction of domestic gas usage will just be diverted to less efficient LNG exports. Given that by far the largest source of Victoria's electricity generation capa
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by jbarham 3y ago
The only reason that natural gas prices in Australia have gone up in the past 10 years is that gas producers in the eastern states were able to start exporting gas as LNG. As of 2023, Australia is the world's second largest LNG exporte
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by jbarham 3y ago
Re: architecture in Japan the typical lifespan of a house is less than 30 years: https://robbreport.com/shelter/home-design/japanese-homes-ar... I'd recommend the book Jutaku by Naomi Pollock to get a sense o
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by jbarham 3y ago
Fujifilm also sells Instax printers ( https://instax.com/printer/ ) that you can print to using smartphone apps. Note that the printers use the same film cartridges as the Instax instant cameras.
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by jbarham 3y ago
Ironically the #2 post on /r/canada right now is titled "'I'm done with Canada': High cost of living leads some to leave the country" ( https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments&#x2
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by jbarham 3y ago
I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and I'm very happy with it. It's fast, quiet, absurdly light, has a 16:10 screen, a decent selection of ports and the famously good ThinkPad keyboard. I dual boot Windows and Ubuntu without any is
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by jbarham 3y ago
Thanks, my mistake! I did misread it as China having a surplus of EV cars instead of ICE cars. Either way Africa is a tough market. But I think my point about a stable electric grid as a prerequisite for EV take-up still stands.
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by jbarham 3y ago
Africa doesn't have the grid capacity to support a shift to electric vehicles. Right now South Africa (i.e., the richest country in Africa) has daily rolling power cuts (aka "load shedding") because they don't generate e
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by jbarham 3y ago
Sure, but I only used the roof box on occasional long trips when we had lots of luggage (e.g., visiting the grandparents interstate for Christmas). So I might have paid a few tens of dollars extra in fuel, but it was certainly far cheaper t
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by jbarham 3y ago
A cheap and easy way to increase the size of the car you already have is to buy a roof box. Our previous car was a small hatchback and interstate trips with our three kids in the back would have been impossible without the roof box. I only
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by jbarham 3y ago
> Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnepeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Regina, and St Johns Yeah, all of these cities also have long, harsh winters. FWIW I'm a Canadian who lived in California on work visas for several years and
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by jbarham 3y ago
For photos or documents like wills I think the best long term storage solution is still physical prints in a shoebox. Yes, they'll fade slowly over time, but will still be viewable for decades, or even centuries if printed using pigmen
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Playdate price increasing to $199 from $179(lists.play.date)
1 points by jbarham 3y ago|0 comments
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by jbarham 4y ago
> I guess taking into account how demographics skew young In 2022 the US median age was 38.8, which is not that young by world standards. E.g., the median age in Afghanistan is < 19 (i.e., most people alive in Afghanistan today were b
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by jbarham 4y ago
Hey.com includes a hosted blog as an extension to its core email hosting: https://www.hey.com/world/ E.g., here is DHH's blog: https://world.hey.com/dhh
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by jbarham 4y ago
Lack of access to doctors is a big issue in Canada. E.g., here's a list of posts on /r/canada about family doctors in the past year: https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/search/?q=family%20doctor&amp
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by jbarham 4y ago
Brings back bad memories of my time as a developer in finance (big bond shop on the west coast). Walls covered in TV screens showing CNBC on mute until some bigshot was on (Fed decision imminent!) and then some intern walked around turning

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