PebblesHD

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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I don’t really see any way this could not be anti-competitive. A perfectly functional peripheral was rendered non-functional at an arbitrary date with no benefit to consumers and with an obvious benefit to the party making the change in ter
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Ahh so they’ve decided to charge $20 for premium as an iCloud subscription just because somehow the near-trillion-dollar company can’t absorb a cost of doing business in terms of payment processing. Even at $15 it’s still by far the most ex
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
A premium-lite offering is what’s missing for me to subscribe. The Australia cost of premium is at least $21.99 and there’s no opt out for the music offering which I will never use, making it bad value compared to an ad blocker. About $12
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I usually see this remark associated with the idea of a struggling person stealing essentials, which I would probably not report either. At least in Australia, supermarkets are making record profits and increasing prices in the middle of a
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Depending on your userbase and threat model, they frequently can be. Many organisations running windows resort to policies effectively preventing any third party binaries from running as a first line defense against malware, meaning develop
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Much like sibling, our 6 meeting rooms are booked so far in advance I’d never have a chance. For people who have no choice to be in meetings all day, we’d also much rather not be in the middle of the floor, but ever since I joined the workf
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
With my manager being on one side of my country and most of my team members on another, any attempt at ‘return to the office for collaboration’ invariably means sitting at a hot desk in an over subscribed office with my headphones on all da
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
When a studio apartment costs $600,000 and a 2 bed apartment in the same building costs often double, there really isn’t a pathway to ‘step’ between them. The same is true of houses, where the gap in prices between apartments and houses has
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Inflation in Australia is measured using what’s known as CPI, but is weighted with other goods, and is widely but not universally thought to downplay the effects of property pricing in spending.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
The experience of living in Sydney and working full-time as a senior engineer is truly mind bending. My parents were a teacher and a labourer and have always owned the houses we lived in, usually in a middle suburb on the western side of th
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I really like the new name and branding. Very cohesive, easy to pronounce, website looks good (and the benefits of this cannot be overstated). Hopefully the community can grow around it. Well done and good luck keeping up the momentum.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Threaded or asynchronous tasks can have multiple exceptions result from a single source event, think 2/5 tasks having a problem. Currently there’s a few library specific ways to handle this and the Python team want to standardise.
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
> If remote employees consistently come into the office more than four times every two months outside major events, they’ll be shifted to the three-day-a-week plan. If anyone gets fired as a result of this, or suffers performance penalti
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s the same in the other ‘developed but not America’ economies but Youtube premium is really expensive in Australia. It’s literally double the price of a Netflix subscription and represents way less ‘value’ for me. Part of
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
Yep! Casio FX-82AU Plus that I got in high school. Nice and quick to do quick sums and reasonably capable for more complex calculations. I also have an older Casio graphing calc but having never used one at school I just don’t have the musc
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
The above user has spent the past few days doing nothing but astroturfing on this topic while failing to declare that they are or were employed by the company proposing the standard. Your personal opinion may well be that ‘this is fine’ but
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
No information given about the actual activities ongoing here so I’ll focus on the service providers behaviour directly. Given the meteoric rise of companies charging for services with no support of any type available for consumers other th
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
In our use-case, needing to handle licensing in any form for additional nodes we scale up in non-production would break our processes. We run RHEL on some core infrastructure with equivalents in our pre-production but CentOS everywhere else
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
All well and good, but we have such aggressive drug-driving laws and overzealous police here that if you do manage to be prescribed some of these medications you basically need a full-time driver, and stable employment, as we also have mand
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I understand their desire to become profitable as a business, but the way Reddit has gone about this does not fill me with confidence regarding any hypothetical IPO they may be considering. An executive openly attacking community members an
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
If a drive warrantied for 5 years begins showing warnings and refusing a rebuild in a cluster due to the manufacturer at only 3, that should qualify for warranty replacement no? Even if it wasn’t, consumer law in places like Australia inclu
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by PebblesHD 3y ago
I drive a nearly 20 year old Subaru Legacy. It was less than $8,000 when I bought it, has leather seats, a sunroof, and a 6 speed manual transmission. Aside from the inevitable Subaru head gasket failure, it has no foreseeable major failure
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I possess a very short domain on a widely used older TLD, and even that causes some interesting validation bugs like ‘email domain cannot be less than 6 characters’ for example… If only there were some widely documented standard for validat
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
That’s a fairly uncharitable way of phrasing it. You can live a perfectly reasonable life in Japan as a permanent resident, even one of english heritage, without too much trouble from discrimination. I may not live there full time but over
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Whole traditionally white collar industries across the western world are experiencing similar issues, and I believe underlying it all is the financialisation of housing. We’ve managed to keep many other costs roughly in line with inflation
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
I contend that across the developed world, everything just got too expensive. In the two places I ‘live’, Sydney and Tokyo, young people are putting off the usual life events such as getting married, having kids etc. because of unstable hou
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Fascinating that you arrived at such a similar phrase for this. In my group we call them ‘park anywhere lights’ I spend 3+ months a year between Fukuoka and Tokyo, but outside my group of friends this concept has never really been discussed
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
> …and receive offers tailored to their interests… The day my car starts showing me advertisements of any kind is the day I take a sledgehammer to its infotainment system. For a luxury car brand to even include this in their copy they se
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Also Sydney, also not heard anything. It felt stable enough to take some extended leave to see family overseas and as far as I know business has carried on as usual.
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by PebblesHD 4y ago
Not having much to do isn’t very related to whether a visit is worth it just to see the collection, but I take your point I could have been clearer.

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