tacticus

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by tacticus 17d ago
Only recently in aus did an adult diagnosis get support from the government PBS scheme. And even then it's because they're letting retroactive childhood diagnoses be considered for the subsidised medication options.
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by tacticus 17d ago
"Sorry the psych is no longer available today. your appointment has been moved to the next available booking in 9 months time"
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by tacticus 17d ago
The gold edition
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by tacticus 2mo ago
> I can't see this happening without either Windows getting in the way The intraorg combat that seems to be the default at microsoft is really going to be one of their persistent problems. Oh, you were talking about the product not
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by tacticus 4mo ago
> In Australia, this is mostly because it's an attempt to starve funding from the public system. (Howard was responsible for destroying the first universal healthcare system in australia before the later second attempt) The private
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by tacticus 4mo ago
Not even that in the end.
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by tacticus 4mo ago
shame it took years to get bookmarks in.
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by tacticus 4mo ago
Mercurials lack of not permanent branches early on with the bizarre "we have a plugin for that" way of doing it showing up too late to change the decision not to mention the early "just clone it into a new dir" answer be
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by tacticus 4mo ago
> Edit: also fuck things like Lambda. It's literally the most horrible experience that the universe can muster. Moved most of our lambdas to simple boring http services on top of Go and just leave 20 instances running. Just not havi
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by tacticus 5mo ago
Have you seen the demo of what you can get with some wires and low friction traction options :P
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by tacticus 5mo ago
medical industry must be going for some long term achievement in how much they disbelieve, mistreat, and degrade women going to them. I wonder how many units of their training courses are spent on this and how much is spent on the cultural
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by tacticus 5mo ago
the cloud used because execs have already got a microsoft contract. (not to mention the fun licensing problem)
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by tacticus 5mo ago
and many of those azure regions are a single DC or single cage in a single dc that you can walk past to find the bigger netflix pop.
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by tacticus 5mo ago
> Azure support was completely worthless. It's quite incredible that a support bill in the >10k per month range from azure makes the public google (not even GCP with a support contract) support look not crap
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by tacticus 5mo ago
got to love how they're trying to hide the links.
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by tacticus 6mo ago
get a travel agent? Probably more reliable and corp ones exist.
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by tacticus 6mo ago
nope. It won't even help you understand that the 20 second task you've been putting off for 6 months causing anxiety will only take 20 seconds (nor will we learn from this)
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by tacticus 6mo ago
> accessibility is like implementing braille and things for deaf and colourblind etc. or - larger fonts - Better contrast controls, - Non abstract art iconography, - larger buttons and keyboard navigation, - understanding that there are
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by tacticus 6mo ago
> microsoft unable to explain and show security model to federal cyber experts.
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by tacticus 6mo ago
> There wouldn't be Chrome-only sites and tools if Safari wasn't holding the web back Given the number of chrome-only sites that block firefox and not safari i think there are other issues in front end land
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by tacticus 7mo ago
> Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say. Are you describing the "just build nukes" party here? Cause we've been waiting a while for this nuke solution to actually ship but every
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by tacticus 7mo ago
Those US companies that the US government bought part of and funded their expansions with no controls over the cartel...
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by tacticus 8mo ago
given the max bandwidth of a starlink sat is in the 100Gb on a good day range why would you want to limit a DC to less bandwidth than a single cheap fibre? Also in LEO you're going to have reentry become more of an issue (starlink burn
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by tacticus 8mo ago
> SpaceX already has Starlink. They might need pretty high bandwidth you mean the network that has less capacity than a fibre pair per coverage area?
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by tacticus 8mo ago
5 to 7 months given they want 100kw Per ton and magical mystery sauce shielding is going to do shit all.
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by tacticus 8mo ago
> They are also much better at hiding debt Through bonds? or SVPs to fund the building of datacentres?
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by tacticus 8mo ago
> You just need to trust that the people handling your ballot won't do that. Given the number of people involved in watching ballots the entire time it is happening this would require a lot of compromised people and a lot of comprom
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by tacticus 8mo ago
Unlike the US the elections aren't run by some local arsehat with local rules. they have consistent rules over the entire state or country (depending on election in question) Scrutineers are also not members of the public. They are dec
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by tacticus 9mo ago
it's a dark pattern. Basically update after update has pushed "protect your computer back up now" and the default option turns on one drive with "on demand" mode for downloaded files. basically one drive is the only
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by tacticus 9mo ago
1 is a well known issue with onedrive. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3863319/... > onedrive is that bad guess what. Onedrive is that bad. this is far from the first situation i&#

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