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by Psychlist 4y ago
I buy rice in 25kg sacks just like the bulk buy places do. And a bunch of other stuff from a wholesale outlet that sells larger containers. Our local food co-ops buy most of their stuff in 20kg or bigger containers. One even managed to get
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by Psychlist 4y ago
By necessity a flying balloon weighs almost nothing. Otherwise it would be a falling balloon. I suspect the rules refer to mass rather than weight though.
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> you wouldn't make a company, you'd make a social club or other hobbyist group. That's one of those "I'm not your lawyer" sort of things. The exact structure for a group depends a great deal on the fine pr
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> Pedestrian of any kind, including a firefighter in full gear. You assume that a firefighter will be recognised as a person. Even if they're wearing breathing gear or carrying a sack etc. And would definitely respond appropriately
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> All slack conversations should be considered ephemeral from a documentation and records keeping perspective. We use chat exactly that way. Commonly people respond to questions with a link to either the issue in our issue tracking syste
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Not just that, it's a legal requirement that the price advertised is the price you pay. The ACCC will enforce this. It's why, for example, the supermarket ogliopoly have a "if it's mispriced it's free" policy,
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by Psychlist 4y ago
As a tourist it sucks though. You have to buy something to see the various taxes, then hope that they're the same for everything. Then you move on in your trip and have to repeat the process. Just advertise the actual price, dammit. An
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> advertised prices are the out-the-door ceiling That's the law in Australia. We have a whole government department ( https://www.accc.gov.au/ ) dedicated to defending consumers against companies, and they do pretty w
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Unless you absolutely have to have a window, plywood also works. Maybe find an old flatbed scanner and reuse the bed as your window?
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by Psychlist 4y ago
I'd start with a cheap kitchen rangehood, ideally with carbon filters (in Australia that's under $AU200) and either vent it outside to poison your neighbours or bang an air purifier on it. Sheets of perspex or light plywood as wal
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> calories and price per 100g on the label This is huge. In a way it doesn't matter whether the units are horsepower-seconds and farthings per cubic barleycorn or whatever, as long as they're consistent. But conversions are so
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> CAD systems and automation make a lot of the issues moot. Only sort of. Threads are probably the easiest counter-example, because single point cutting is much the same on CNC or manual lathe and while the CNC one can easily swap from 6
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by Psychlist 4y ago
What struck me about that is that it could perhaps be reworded as a conflict over what 'property rights' mean. One of them is "right to destroy" and the other is "obligation to protect". Viz, the "common l
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> grug hit dot on keyboard and .. magic Exackery. I seriously struggle when I'm using vim or nano on a remote box because they don't have autocomplete and I have to duckgo the syntax for bash. Bob help us all if I have to work
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by Psychlist 4y ago
We used to call it the elevator test: can a candidate navigate the elevator and make it to the interview. Partly because we got ghosted a few times, but mostly for the number of interviews where we'd sit candidates in front of a PC, sh
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by Psychlist 4y ago
> {programming} from the outside, deep work looks exactly like "loafing". Worse, from the outside causing major problems that will only show up later looks exactly like typing really intently. I remember one horrible problem I
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by Psychlist 4y ago
The biggest user of bandwidth in our office is youtube. It's not even close. People use it for music, I hope. But it's not my problem so I haven't looked into it. When I worked in a bank it was fairly common for contractors t
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by Psychlist 4y ago
I agree with the article - some common styles of interview are designed to produce arseholes. Which, fine, if you want to employ only arseholes and people who like working with arseholes that's what you should be doing. Likewise if you
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Nah, software is weird because they so rarely ask people to do anything related to the task at hand. "solve a toy problem without using libraries. Please don't paste off SE/AI". I prefer to actually think about what I wa
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by Psychlist 4y ago
To paraphrase Ghandi's famous quote: get back to me in 10,000 years and I'll have an opinion on whether western civilisation works. I live in a country where recorded history goes back 15,000+ years and there's evidence for c
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Why? We get much maths and a lot of history from Arabia and India, for example. Core food crops from from america-south-of-the-USA, why not core government ideas too? I've lived in two countries and the differences in how people think
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by Psychlist 4y ago
I still have a 5k pixel square blank white gif on my site for times like that (~4kB) that I sub in for anything that gets requested too often, or from particular places. I was getting hotlinked from controversial sites a lot at one stage, a
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Are you using US statistics to go with your conversion to US measurements? In Australia we have several ethnic communities where the stats for stuff like height diverge noticeably from the national stats. So "immigrated from The Nether
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by Psychlist 4y ago
And this is exactly what I told a friend of my to do when he installed a public car charger. Before he told anyone it was live, charge his car using his normal customer account. Turned out he couldn't create one because his phone was a
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by Psychlist 4y ago
That favours wealth over intelligence, or vice versa. So it's a value judgement - are we better off with more children to wealthy parents or to tall parents?
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by Psychlist 4y ago
I think that's hilarious. I have to admit to setting my filter to 175cm just to see if there were any tall women in my area. It wasn't a useful filter. But I did really enjoy briefly dating someone over 180cm, we both put everythi
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by Psychlist 4y ago
You know 18 year olds with two or three credit cards? That seems like a different risk to me.
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by Psychlist 4y ago
Some stuff you just have to drill until it makes sense. Ordinary differential equations was a bit notorious when I studied. Most people took 50-100 hours of drill before they could solve them reasonably competently (enough to get an A). For
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by Psychlist 4y ago
I have, it was pretty awful. At one stage I did a 3-4 week mad panic crunch to fix a system where he managed to hide the problems until it was almost too late. He was the "reverse talent" sort of person, prone to coming up with in
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by Psychlist 5y ago
That's not how my on call setup works. I need my phone and my laptop, and I need to be able to respond within half an hour or so. The changes I have to make are in code that then goes through CI and a load test before hitting productio

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