rtchau

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by rtchau 7mo ago
For a brief, beautiful moment, one man came close to sucking more than any other person in human history.
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by rtchau 2y ago
I had a 2015 M5, it was easily one of the best Macs I've owned. Ultra-ultra-ultra portable, I had great battery life with mine, and it was as fast as my 2013 Macbook Pro. I used it as my daily driver for 3 years before I got a new job
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by rtchau 2y ago
Some say this brave adventurer met his end when the 5110 fought back against the insult to its sacred internals. Others say bestowing the power of 4G on a device as formidable as the 5110 opened a portal to realms hitherto unknown, to which
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by rtchau 2y ago
I love Lightnote! I'm trying to get my kids into it as well. Awesome work.
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by rtchau 2y ago
I survived with a 12" Macbook and a solitary USB-C port. The one difference is that I did have an audio jack as well. I found a monitor that had a USB-C connection with charging, a USB hub, ethernet etc. (of which there were very few
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by rtchau 2y ago
No, I don't believe that it would be. In terms of "calories expended over distance", it'd be pretty close, but we're made for endurance, not raw speed. From what I understand, the energy budget of the human body is
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by rtchau 3y ago
I got into the game "kinda late" (first PC ran DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1), and I still cherish and adore the CLI, and can't imagine it ever going away (if it does, a little piece of me will die with it). The look on the faces o
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by rtchau 3y ago
I have: 1. An old i3 running TrueNAS after I decided my QNAP TS-503 was too old and shonky to be able to run Plex; 2. An ex-govt i5-6500 with 32GB RAM for miscellaneous development activities; 3. An RPi 4 that runs prometheus/grafana f
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by rtchau 3y ago
Holy smokes, I'd hate to be on the receiving end of that power bill, though I'd love to have the kind of workload that justified that setup.
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by rtchau 3y ago
Oh god. It's too real. This was soul-crushing. Thank you for sharing.
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by rtchau 4y ago
The problem is that ADHD (and its related disorders) can't really be measured (on a scale from 1 to 10, for example). In reality, it's like a color wheel or a spiderweb chart of different symptoms/characteristics/idiosyn
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by rtchau 4y ago
New position. My workplace is different - we've been in an under-resourced, over-committed state for about 3 years and we KNOW we need more established standards, better testing, and a handle on our tech debt. We just don't have i
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by rtchau 4y ago
I came here to say this. I'll make do by seconding this motion. I suppose tagging along with an exploded bomb-hunter is generally only applicable in the past tense.
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by rtchau 4y ago
In my experience (and the industry I'm in), requiring identity verification upon withdrawal is an anti-money laundering measure, and often one required by legislation rather than company policy.
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by rtchau 5y ago
Don’t think too hard… there’s a rate limit. Unlike accepting your lord and saviour, which is unmetered! \o/
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by rtchau 5y ago
Glad I could elicit a laugh :) And I hope I didn't cause any offence.
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by rtchau 5y ago
Tell me I'm not the only one who thinks the graphic in the middle of the logo resembles something other than anything space-related?
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by rtchau 6y ago
Yeah, you definitely called that one. It's like a smouldering cornucopia of antisemitism, "Buy GME", penises, "Death to America", more penises, more GME... if an alien race were using this as a tool to profile us an
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by rtchau 6y ago
I couldn't even begin to guess how many hours I spent playing this game as a kid (and how much I dreaded hearing "Warning - missile approaching" in the last level).
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by rtchau 6y ago
Looks like it's too late. Is there anywhere else to watch this online? It doesn't look like there are any screenings in Australia any time soon...
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by rtchau 6y ago
"Teledildonics"... what a time to be alive. Just when I thought we were running out of new frontiers!
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by rtchau 6y ago
Could you imagine the privacy implications? "Hey! It looks like you could use more fiber in your diet". Then suddenly, you're seeing Metamucil ads all over Facebook, and you start getting discount vouchers for prune juice in
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by rtchau 7y ago
"The long term solution is, then, not eradicating ADHD's existence, but building a society in which individuals with ADHD can prosper in their unique ways." - Spot on the mark. Not that ADHD can be "eradicated" but
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by rtchau 7y ago
I can relate to this. I was diagnosed at 31, and my doctor at the time asked me "so, are you having issues at work? Is anyone pulling you up on your effort?" The answer was "No". His response was "well, then what&#x
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by rtchau 7y ago
It's solid. The problem is scaling: if you're betting fixed odds, a lot of bookmakers will limit the amount you can bet, or ban you outright if you're winning too much. If you're into horses and bet into the totes, you r
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by rtchau 8y ago
I first got on the internet in 1996, so it was pretty much all IRC and personal sites built in Netscape. :-) And a (now conspicuous) lack of information landfill (the sheer amount of garbage on the internet today saddens me). In all serious
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by rtchau 8y ago
I laughed so hard at that. Yeah, I'm reading Black Swan now, and then have Antifragile and Skin in the Game... I get the impression it'll be a journey through the man's ever-inflating ego. Signal/Noise was great though (
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by rtchau 8y ago
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
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by rtchau 8y ago
I find it truly horrifying that we got to a place where it's a real step forward that fewer people are using Facebook for news.
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by rtchau 10y ago
This is what happens when you use colloquialisms and are otherwise vague when providing a brief to copywriters who don't primarily speak English. In other words - be specific, avoid slang, and don't leave any room for strange inte

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