oliyoung

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by oliyoung 22d ago
An icon, one of the best of us and a true one of one
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by oliyoung 29d ago
Medicare is the first scare campaign bought up in any Australian election
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by oliyoung 29d ago
It's crazy that universal health is the political third rail in most modern countries but for the opposite reasons In most of the world it's the policy that cannot be touched, just in Europe, Canada and Australia its _existance_ i
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
> minimize the wandering of your mind To paraphrase the wonderful Thich Nhat Hanh, include that in your meditation. None of us, even the most skilled mediators can get to the kind of clarity and simplicity that people expect from meditat
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
Exactly, Nolan's use of CGI is perfect. Elegant and purposeful, and incredibly well executed.
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
WE. JUST. WANT. GOOD. STORIES. WELL. TOLD.
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
First Om, now Dvorak. Such a loss, the prototypical cranky geek. Loved his takes with Curry and Leporte
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
The "640k should be enough for anyone" quote (even if Gates didn't exactly say it) is making the point is that _right now_ we have no idea about what our future needs and capabilities will be, we can't imagine what &quot
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
There were hippo bones found under Trafalgar Square, and once-upon-a-time (10kya) elephants, lions, and rhinos were once endedmic to Britain
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
Love that they're getting gender-affirming care
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
It's designed by committee, with n stakeholders with n+1 opinions and motivations and pressures from other business units over 17 workshops and governance decisions
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
This is a good opportunity to shill for Immich https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48761944 With the barest of config, it's almost a drop-in replacement
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
that's inconsequential to keeping my family cool on the third 43c degree day in a week
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
Man, I love the PlayStation is going purely digital, who needs physical media for the games or movies you buy, nothing like this ever happens
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by oliyoung 2mo ago
As an Australian, the lack of anxiety and guilt you get when you're using 10-12 hours of air conditioning in the middle of summer and not paying for a cent of it because your solar panels are covering is worth more than anything
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
Immich is such a no-brainer replacement for Apple Photos or Google Photos, combined with VPN like Tailscale, it's almost a drop in replacement
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
> Microsoft go the same route There's a reason Game Pass and the Series S exist, they just hadn't had the courage to say the quiet part loud yet.
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
PlayStation saw Microsoft's recent news and decided to take out the trash this week. The entire console gaming industry has been decimated in the last few weeks.
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
To be fair, if any org deserves a vanity TLD it's CERN
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
This is the modern version of Trap Streets - hiding fake streets in maps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
I'm finding that too, investing in the process and the work is more satisfying than the outcomes
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
This one of my most favourite youtube documentaries i've seen in a while
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by oliyoung 3mo ago
> I'm scratching my head about why they would venture into an entirely different field like this Never underestimate the audacity of a software engineer with a new toy > It's like if LeBron announced he was switching to bowl
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by oliyoung 4mo ago
Brave of you to assume they had anyone running infosec by the sounds of it
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by oliyoung 5mo ago
and I wonder why I can get flights to the US from Australia at historically low prices?
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by oliyoung 5mo ago
"Glad I wasn't just a weird, overly sensitive kid." Oh we are, just we have neurological reasons for it :D
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by oliyoung 5mo ago
> At some point you just have to move to Ebooks. This is a parallel story for me to vinyl / streaming for music There are some books and albums I want as physical artefacts, their aesthetic and tactile presence in my world means som
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by oliyoung 5mo ago
It's a very strange cultural thing too, Australians (and I presume other Commonwealth countries) default to paracetamol (acetaminophen) before ibuprofen Paracetemol has always been seen as first thing you'd take for pain relief, a
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by oliyoung 5mo ago
Cursor ($60b) being valued the same as Twitter ($51b inflation adjusted) is _willlld_
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by oliyoung 5mo ago
I get the want to define architectural relationships as a node & edge structure rather than just purely diagrams, which is an argument for D2 over Mermaid but why not just use https://github.com/jsongraph ?

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