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by NamTaf 8y ago
The private company was privatised after previously being a government run organisaion. They floated it to get a bunch of income, but the nature of large infrastructure is that it's incredibly costly to build a new network. Thus, Telst
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's been an issue long before the NBN. Even after the dot-com bust, through the ADSL roll-out era where their wholesale arm had a stranglehold on the network, plus the high speed cable network from Foxtel, they've consistently mi
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by NamTaf 8y ago
They’ve... seen Telstra’s share price, right?
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Who knows? The behaviour I've observed suggests it may, but it's such an opaque system that it's hard to know. For example, there's suggestions that people have had better success if they're sending HTTP obfuscated
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by NamTaf 8y ago
That's all good news. I'm aware that them blackholing all UDP traffic is always going to be an issue, but it's good to hear that Wireguard recovers gracefully. So, too, does Shadowsocks. Alternatives are always good, and havi
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Can't wait to give this a spin next time I'm in China. Streisand[1] claims that Wireguard can jump the GFW and I'm interested in seeing how the performance stacks up compared to Shadowsocks with simple-obfs. One particular fe
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I catch myself skimming over details like that too, because they are essentially meaningless to me. That said, I've never had the situtaion of a mental image being wrong, because I never end up actually drawing one. I just end up getti
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Drawing is something I'm absolutely awful at. I was talking to some friends about it a month ago. They draw very well and they very much picture a mental image, then essentially translate that. They can conjure up images out of their m
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I enjoy reading, but I've always struggled with it, particularly with larger, slower-paced, and more complex books (though it's never stopped me). I suspect I have pretty strong aphantasia [1] and so I never build mental images of
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's not what the concern is here , it's that this is becoming the norm for all IoT devices, and it is inevitable that in time said devices with comparable security will have access to more privileged, sensitive information. The
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Naturally; the coastline was the location of major trade ports, and major trade ports are where business grows. It's no coincidence that the Chinese special economic zones all sit around the coast.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Define "medium-sized". Sydney has over 5m people in it and covers approximately 4750 sq mi. So maybe half the population of the LA metro area in about the same size?
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Just a side note: Change 'recognize' to 'recognise' since we use Proper English ;)
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by NamTaf 8y ago
This. HR's actions make more sense when you realise the R is the operative term in that description and the H is the adjective.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Oh of course! Thank you, that makes a lot more sense.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I agree. I just tried substituting in a bunch of those points and none solved that equation. I don't see, for example, how the point at (12,56) fits that equation at all, since it computes to 56^2 = 12^3 - 12, or 3136 = 1728 - 12, or 3
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I end up owning like 4 spare of each type for this reason. And then you get newfangled low-profile bulbs with a smaller socket for the screw or bayonet. One day I'll be pissed off enough at the problem to buy the solution but I suspe
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Thank you for this shortcut!
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Thanks for pointing that out and correcting me. I'd not followed it personally since the Abbott prime-minstership and didn't realise that Turnbull had actually reversed the inital plan to cut $115m over 5 years. The first year of
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by NamTaf 8y ago
You'd be surprised how many people play it on an iPad. You'd also be surprised at how many middle-aged to elderly play it. These two things may be correlated.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
Thanks, sorry, I should try to remember to clarify my acronyms when I write posts.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
According to the CCP, there is no Taiwanese flag. Taiwan is just part of China. Qantas just folded over CCP pressure to change their stance on calling Taiwan a nation rather than a territory. [1] China is really sensitive about this and pus
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's more a reflection on the fact that our governments have successively cut CSIRO's funding again and again despite their demonstrated return on investment and notable achievements.
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by NamTaf 8y ago
As a sort of tangent to your point, it is however beneficial to move to a high-cost-of-living area if you can get a roughly equivalent quality of life outcome. That is, if you can get a salary increase in line with the cost of living increa
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by NamTaf 8y ago
It's completely broken on desktop in Firefox - they're rectangles and the letters fall outside the boxes one settled, so I can't tell an L from an I without memory. Also, the buttons move at the bottom when you tap on letters
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I'm an arm-chair economist but here's my take on it. Trade is like water: it takes the path of least resistance. These tariffs aren't aimed at hitting China, they're aimed at preventing the steel that China used to sell
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by NamTaf 8y ago
The Dota AI system has 3 'levels' to it - team level, mode level and action level. The mode/action level can choose to ignore or respect the team level as it sees fit. [1] Additionally, they say under the "Coordination&q
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I remember the original articles about building the team to do this recovery/restoration project. I'm so glad to see the results of their efforts!
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I agree entirely. That sounds like an absolutely unhealthy relationship if she couldn't be honest with you in the first place regarding where she stood on relocation if you got a job. She basically called your bluff and lied to you, be
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by NamTaf 8y ago
I listen to a heap of podcasts, in fact. At work, I generally can't listen to music with words so I stick to trance podcasts, but during my walk home I'll listen to all kinds of ones with speech. This ranges from actual spoken one

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