mjcarden

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by mjcarden 13d ago
Canberra - Sydney is one of the busiest routes in Australia with Dash 8 and ATR turboprops on high rotation every day. I could see a small electric aircraft working pretty well there, modulo charging times.
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by mjcarden 16d ago
Arriving ten hours after this was posted, I am a tad surprised that nobody seems to have popped up to suggest that the article ought to have been titled, "The job safest from AI may be writing".
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by mjcarden 21d ago
Ten minutes ago from Atlassian: "Our teams have identified a possible fix for the issues impacting Jira Cloud, Jira Service Management and Confluence. This is now being rolled out to impacted regions and we will update within one hour,
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by mjcarden 1mo ago
A lot of swans live here in the Australian Capital Territory. They seem to like our lakes. I have only ever seen black ones.
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by mjcarden 2mo ago
From that link... if only Craig knew the difference between 'tenet' and 'tenant'.
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by mjcarden 4mo ago
Yes, in Australia we have compulsory voting, but no national holiday. Polling day is on a Saturday, so most people can get to their local polling booth pretty easily. And since COVID, pre-poll postal votes have become even more popular and
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by mjcarden 5mo ago
I think that the EV6 User Interface is pretty spot on, including things like side mirrors complemented by cameras that activate when you indicate, a nice HUD and real buttons for most things. If ONLY I didn't have to manually deactivat
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by mjcarden 6mo ago
I saw the book mentioned at random here mid way through last year and ordered it for my Kindle. To my surprise, it wouldn't be available until the end of the year. I found that puzzling because some people here seemed to be saying that
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by mjcarden 6mo ago
Is there a place somewhere in the world where Hydrogen powered passenger vehicles are a success? I know that the one Hydrogen filling station here in Australia's Capital City has shut down after opening with great fanfare a few years a
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by mjcarden 7mo ago
Actual voice phone calls are so rare for me these days that I'll often go months without making or receiving one, though my mobile phone is always with me. And I recently realised that the house I live in, which was built in 2020, has
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by mjcarden 7mo ago
Installed the snap on Ubuntu 24.04 and when I used it to look at /etc/sudoers.d/README, it emitted: WARNING: terminal is not fully functional Press RETURN to continue ...which I thought a little odd.
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by mjcarden 1y ago
I'm having trouble getting my head around an interview with Teller. We all know he doesn't speak. :)
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by mjcarden 1y ago
I think that was the first time I ever saw Tridge deliver a conference presentation and it was to a packed lecture theatre at the ANU. He described how he 'hacked' BitKeeper by connecting to the server via telnet and using the sop
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by mjcarden 1y ago
This article gave me unpleasant flashbacks to the first half of 2023. I resigned from planet.com in mid 2023 due to the stress caused by being on-call every second week. It took me six months to get my head into a healthy state again. Now I
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by mjcarden 2y ago
And only because some readers are quick to make assumptions - here is a link to the assumptions: https://shakenfist.com/manifesto/
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Shakenfist is Cloud done differently(shakenfist.com)
2 points by mjcarden 2y ago|2 comments
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by mjcarden 2y ago
When the Old Man shaking his fist at the Cloud is a former tech lead of OpenStack's Compute project Nova, I think it's worth paying attention. His fist started shaking 4 years ago, but the most recent commit on GitHub was 4 hours
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by mjcarden 3y ago
You won't be able to call Jenny with a typo'd number like that.
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by mjcarden 5y ago
A quote from that excellent management training video, "A Bug's Life": First rule of leadership: Everything is your fault.
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by mjcarden 5y ago
He hasn't updated this for a while, but it gives you a good picture of the kind of guy Major is: https://majorhayden.com/
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by mjcarden 5y ago
Jeff has published much about his Pi adventures. Some examples: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/ https://github.com/geerlingguy
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by mjcarden 6y ago
I also had an emergency hospital visit a few months ago. Multiple X-Rays, a CT scan, two surgeries and innumerable drugs. I don't have health insurance. Cost to me? Zero. But then I live in Australia.
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by mjcarden 6y ago
The Fully Charged show recently reviewed an electric tractor available in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClNdrJRan5k
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by mjcarden 6y ago
Typo for 'solar'?
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by mjcarden 7y ago
Darn. The tiny VM I have hosting my Quassel server for always-on IRC will go from approx 20 Australian cents per month to approx $4.30 per month. That's a rather large jump.