jms

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by jms 2y ago
The first time we tested cutting the power back in the day, the backup generator didn't fire! Turns out someone had pushed the big red stop button, which remains pushed in until reset. That would have been a major problem if we'd
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by jms 2y ago
We were once enjoying a nice picnic in a park when it started raining bees. It turned out their was a drone above us attracting bees (not sure if it was the sound or if it had disturbed something), and every time a bee got struck by a prope
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by jms 2y ago
One thing I've found helpful is that you can find out the current UV levels for your location, e.g. https://www.arpansa.gov.au/our-services/monitoring/ultraviol... I live in the antipodes (near the ozone hole
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by jms 3y ago
It goes against mainstream advice that no sun exposure is good exposure, and that getting a tan is not healthy. However I never "tan" my hands and they don't look any darker, but I've never burned them, even though they
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by jms 3y ago
I've been living in Australia and New Zealand, and have been terrified of sun exposure - during peak times (summer mid-day) it's scary how quickly you can burn. However I also have low vitamin D. My current strategy is to check th
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by jms 3y ago
Not extremely unlikely if they were identical drives from the same manufacturing batch. It's good practise to use diverse manufacturers or at least batches when adding disks to a raid array for just this reason.
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by jms 4y ago
I had to laugh at the commonality of experience. My toddler bathtimes often involve negotiations as to which vehicles he's allowed to bring in too! Keeping his brand new fire truck complete with electric flashing lights and siren out
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by jms 4y ago
Blind people who use screen readers usually turn up the speed to something unintelligible to the rest of us. Maybe reading a computer screen is a simpler task than talking person to person, but it's an interesting datapoint!
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by jms 4y ago
I made a command line music playing frontend. It has a list of all my music as a flat text file, then if I run "music" it shuffles randomly, or I can add a regex as an argument to pick the files from the list. It works surprisin
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by jms 5y ago
How do you see things playing out now that we're near 0 interest rates and in some cases negative? Will governments continue to be loose via negative interest rates, through some other mechanism, or will they be forced to tighten poli
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by jms 5y ago
If you're in a high UV area and you want to try something like this, use a UV tracker so you can be informed about the risks. I have a widget on my phone that displays the current level and estimated burn time, and can pull up a graph
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by jms 6y ago
To help support this, keep an eye on a UV tracker. I used to be terrified of the Australian sun, but with a UV tracker I know when it's safe to be outside for hours with no sunscreen, and when the danger levels are extreme. https:&#x
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by jms 6y ago
I used "Regularly" and it worked great. I've now upgraded to my own system which plugs into my dashboard and can generate graphs. Each time I complete a task I can give it a score, which is then graphed. I just use it for m
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by jms 6y ago
I actually agree with both you and the parent poster - this is a real problem. My position would be that you still need assistance programs as well as the UBI for people like the above, but I'd treat it as a health issue rather than a
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by jms 6y ago
So what if someone spends it all on whiskey or oxy? They're maximising their own preferences. If they were addicted to alcohol, sudden withdrawal can kill. One of the big reasons for UBI is the belief that an individual can better as
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by jms 6y ago
Some big wave surfers do. Apparently it's pretty disconcerting, as you need to let go of the air you're holding before taking a big breath on the device, which may or may not work...
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by jms 6y ago
Looks like they were super experienced body surfers wearing swim fins - the guys that would usually be doing the rescuing. It sounds like the bigger problem was that they got lost in the sea foam - couldn't see where they were going. Y
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by jms 6y ago
I once got tanned on just half of my face, skiing. Apparently I took much longer going up the lift with the sun on my right than I did coming down :)
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by jms 6y ago
To help control my sun exposure, I use UV widgets on my dashboard. They help me know when I can expose as much skin as possible to get gentle exposure everywhere, and when I'll burn in 5 minutes. It's interesting, the heat of the
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by jms 6y ago
I'm a fair skinned Aussie, who doesn't really like sunscreen. I can 100% understand nl's position - skin cancer is really prevalent here, and the sun can be incredibly harsh. The skies here are usually completely cloudless,
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Bose QC35 II owners complain of degraded noise cancellation after recent updates(theverge.com)
3 points by jms 7y ago|0 comments
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by jms 8y ago
I use different desktops for different tasks/clients and have a script that keeps track of which one I'm on. Using the desktops is an extra bit of information I can use to give context to the robot to help with tracking.
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by jms 8y ago
Have you come across arbtt? It's a script that pretty much does exactly the same thing, but comes with a few extras for categorization and analysis.
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by jms 8y ago
Download an export and import it into gnucash. It remembers previously processed items. It's a manual process, but much easier to do a monthly export than record items one by one.
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by jms 8y ago
I'm thinking of doing the same! Living in Sydney at the moment, but am an NZ citizen. Looking at Northland or Taranaki for the kitesurfing :) Could I ask you a bit more about Northland? My email is in my profile.
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by jms 8y ago
Sounds like you were winded https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_the_wind_knocked_out_o... Of course being winded could induce panic too, but not being able to breathe in that circumstance has a physical cause.
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by jms 9y ago
You can get SLS free toothpaste. Unfortunately the tubes I've found are also flouride free, and they have Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate in them, which I assume is similar to Sodium Lauryl Sulfate. SLS is only used to make foam when you b
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by jms 9y ago
Hill Operations | Linux Sysadmin, cross skilled with PHP if desired | Sydney , Remote within Aus/NZ | Part-time Small software development agency. Ongoing sysadmin work maintaining and upgrading a fleet of servers for our clients. PH
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by jms 9y ago
I think most cookbooks make cooking extra complicated so that people feel like they're getting value from a recipe. I've found a few simple cookbooks with small ingredient lists (4 - 10 things) and very simple instructions. Initi
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by jms 11y ago
I'm doing OK :). I've got one large client who I basically subcontract for, then a handful of other clients I work on a less regular basis. About a 50/50 split between the large client and the rest. I earn less than when I w

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