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by sturadnidge 1y ago
Really - I totally missed that! Will have a read about it, but could you elaborate on the ‘grandstanding’ aspect? EDIT: wow, what a mess!
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by sturadnidge 1y ago
Always good to come across fellow Australians in here! I’d probably argue for an exception on that one, given the Whitlam government didn’t have a senate majority… but at the very least, I feel like a single case in the last 50 years is pre
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by sturadnidge 1y ago
How many of said countries require more than a simple majority to pass a budget though? To my knowledge the US is quite the exception in that it requires a _special_ majority for such things. A simple majority could be challenging if the go
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by sturadnidge 1y ago
If I ever create a trendy SaaS company (or an untrendy one for that matter), I'm definitely cribbing the 'pay more if you have accountants on staff' criteria... love it!
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by sturadnidge 1y ago
I agree re: quality of leads, but also wonder how many sales are lost to competitors _with_ advertised pricing purely because the user didn't want the hassle of talking to sales (maybe not purely, but you get the gist).
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by sturadnidge 1y ago
If you have capable hardware and kids, a local LLM is great. A simple system prompt customisation (e.g. ‘all responses should be written as if talking to a 10 year old’) and knowing that everything is private goes a long way for me at least
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
If you want something that ‘just works’, it’s hard to go past the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing bothers you, the new Creality ‘Hi’ series is probably where
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
It’s the book that started it all for me. The Hotmail story is one of my favourites.
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
Even a 'microscopic siliceous structure', which is what they're talking about here? To be clear, I am in no position whatsoever to challenge your statement, just curious as to why it would be unlikely for something invisible
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
A colloquial term for dogs that were transported via an upboat?
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
The government is being deliberately non-prescriptive about that, as they are about what qualifies as 'social media' (statement of fact - no comment on the approach itself). Ideally the legislation is accompanied by a government d
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
I didn't have any trouble, although I have owned full versions of Workstation and Fusion in the past. Having said that, their licensing portal is awful and i wouldnt be surprised at all if things were getting lost somewhere in the back
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by sturadnidge 2y ago
In a nutshell, the ‘insider’ gives instructions to a broker such as ‘on the 2nd Wednesday of every 3rd month, sell X number of shares if the market price is no less than Y’ and the broker executes on those instructions without any further c
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by sturadnidge 3y ago
I always thought of Sun as the canonical example of this… why did all the dotcom era startups burn so much cash on Sun hardware? Because that’s what was in the Universities! But on the other hand, look at how that turned out :(
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by sturadnidge 3y ago
Any chance we could get the link pointed to the source[1] rather than this podcast aggregator? 1. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/co...
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
This is great - basically an online version of the old Web Design Index series of books, which were a fantastic source of inspiration back in the day (for me at least).
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
It’s common in many parts of the world for people to get their weekly housework done by someone else. Failing that, there’s always the weekend.
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
You’re absolutely not too late. We had our first in our mid-40s, no complications whatsoever and I suspect we’d be regretting it too if we didn’t at least try.
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
I mean there's no right or wrong in any of this, but it's not like that would be an invalid takeaway.
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
Agreed, it's definitely not one size fits all. The story of Amazon migrating off Oracle is probably in the same ballpark (if that story is true - I don't know one way or the other). To which point, again... it's a totally val
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
I don't think people should be down voting you for this comment, but I imagine the reason why is because that's generally not how things work at large companies. Someone in product and/or sales might have made the same argume
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
wow - long time Wil :) Good to see you're still knocking around these parts!
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
I discovered a few days ago that VMware now offer a 'Fusion 12 Player', which is free (as in beer) albeit you have to register to get the download + key. Might be worth looking into that?
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by sturadnidge 4y ago
Same in NSW… no $12 iceberg heads around here!
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by sturadnidge 5y ago
According the article, come Windows 11 that will be incorrect.
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by sturadnidge 5y ago
Do you think more of a peer based approach to recruiting would have any legs? I built something a little while back that was a kind of "keep track of the people you'd hire", and anyone on your list had the power to grant you
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by sturadnidge 5y ago
Such a good magazine, I (finally) threw a bunch of them out when I moved house maybe 10 years ago… I should have least kept the issue that introduced Johnny Knoxville to the world - who knew it would go so far!
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by sturadnidge 5y ago
That talk is fantastic, and I don’t even write Python. Thanks for sharing!
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by sturadnidge 5y ago
I was literally remarking to a workmate 'this looks like Sun 2.0', then I see who's on the team :). Congrats, I'll be keeping an eye out if you ever start shipping to Australia.
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by sturadnidge 5y ago
Sheep is perhaps a better example for comparison with Lego. Unless you know of an example where ‘sheeps’ has legitimate usage.

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