smdyc1

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by smdyc1 4mo ago
Yes, it's a basic function of any customs and quarantine organisation. Australian Border Force don't care if you have memes mocking our PM or DJT. Inspection of electronic devices only happens when there's evidence of a crime
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by smdyc1 4mo ago
We have? My international relatives have never been searched to that degree, if at all. That said, the whole thing is overreach in any democratic society.
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by smdyc1 10mo ago
Only because you confabulate your personal power with what they really care about.
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by smdyc1 10mo ago
Amazon are not resolving your issue in minutes because you have power over them. They do it because it is efficient and profitible for them to keep customers happy. Your actual influence over a trillion dollar company is tiny compaired to y
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by smdyc1 1y ago
I also read there was some difficulty in target designation as the pilots had different maps, so the grid coordinates were off.
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by smdyc1 1y ago
I read in A Bridge Too Far, the Hawker Typhoons that attacked German positions at the start of the Operation (called in by the Forward Air Comtroller), flew under the opening barrage and one Typhoon disintegrated as it was hit by a shell. I
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by smdyc1 1y ago
That was more a choice by individual aircrew than higher command or bureaucracy.
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by smdyc1 2y ago
Playing right into Putin's hands.
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by smdyc1 2y ago
Toddlers don't kill people. People kill people.
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by smdyc1 2y ago
It's also like this in small companies, like the one I work for, and I think rightfully so. One of the mobile app projects I was involved in got bogged down for months due to the lead engineer's need to refine and polish the perfe
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by smdyc1 2y ago
Not to mention that when you can't see, you slow down? Does the self-driving system do that sufficiently in low visibility? Clearly not if it hit a pedestrian with enough force to kill them. The article mentions that Tesla's only
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by smdyc1 2y ago
Exactly what i was thinking.
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by smdyc1 2y ago
I'd shift the blame somewhat on the owners of the Airbnb properties and Airbnb itself rather than the tourists. They're the ones getting rich at the expense of the locals.
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by smdyc1 2y ago
Yes, I tend on the side of only tweaking things when I realise I'm repetitively using the same context menus. That's the only point I learn the keyboard shortcuts, or map one, these days. I really haven't had to learn too man
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by smdyc1 2y ago
Much beloved? Maybe in your circle, certainly nobody i know considered him beloved. I mean, the guy admitted to a room full of journalists he was happy to burn a bunch of Afghan informants. The guy is a narcissistic wanker who put lives at
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by smdyc1 2y ago
I totally recommend this, especially if you haven't heard Dan's podcasts before. One of his best, next to Death Throes of The Republic (if you want a fascinating depiction of pre-Empire Roman history)
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by smdyc1 2y ago
It's triple the cost of a single user license for the same thing. Beancounters don't like that.
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by smdyc1 2y ago
If there was a way to get a company licence, I'd have bought it for our dev team.
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by smdyc1 3y ago
Then can I ask the owner of whatever device we're running on, to add one or two zeros to my bank balance?
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by smdyc1 3y ago
I can imagine a season of Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David spending the season trying to bring the codpiece back into fashion, after another embarrassing pants tent episode like in the very first season! Would be an awesome signoff for
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by smdyc1 3y ago
Man that sucks. Rest in peace. I loved his character in The Mandalorian.
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by smdyc1 3y ago
We (and our new clients) constantly get frivolous cease and desist notices from a particularly butthurt competitor whenever they lose one of their customers to us. They have a habit of shutting off customer access to their systems and ignor
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by smdyc1 3y ago
I'm not saying i expect that at all. I'm saying they should have some knowledge about what they are managing than just being a people person. Wouldn't you hate your direct manager having no clue what a code review is? What
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by smdyc1 3y ago
Likewise. I've even given up table top games like Flames of War for lack of space to place a 4ft x 6ft game board. No chance to fit a static model railroad. My dad fit one in our townhouse growing up by building it around his and mum&#
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by smdyc1 3y ago
And of course, the public servants and the politicians involved largely got off scot free. In the Australian Robodebt case as well as the British Post Office, the key people involved should be facing criminal proceedings to deter this sort
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by smdyc1 3y ago
If managers are hired only because they're experts at managing humans, then they're inadequate for the role of managing a dev team. These guys are not just managing people, they're managing processes that they have to know so
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by smdyc1 3y ago
Window cracking isn't uncommon. Cockpit windows are typically made of layers of acrylic glass sandwiched together, with heating elements in the middle. They are exposed to incredible forces, the forward airflow on the outside, positive
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by smdyc1 3y ago
This makes me think about the Roman Republic. Yes, it failed in the end, but the idea of having two Consuls is appealing to check each others ambition. As an aside, Dan Carlin's Hardcore History podcast has a multiparter called Death T
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by smdyc1 3y ago
Thanks for the link. Amazing penetrative power. More importantly, I had no idea how difficult it would be to pull a pilum out.
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by smdyc1 3y ago
The fact that you have to spend time trying to get yourself designated such whilst you are probably looking for a job, struggling to pay your rent or mortgage, and dealing with other stressors is ridiculous.

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