RowanH

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by RowanH 3y ago
2017 through to around 2020/21 was insane worldwide .. All the big co's soaked up the talent, then that sucked the air out of the market worldwide. We were getting people outside of the US headhunted from the US, which had consta
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by RowanH 3y ago
Ran a small software dev shop (~100 staff) inheriting windows. My god, never again... The amount of lost productivity was insane. Soon as went out to start my SaaS company, back to Mac, without a shadow of a doubt. I might actually reboot o
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by RowanH 3y ago
New Zealand is locked out. (Normally we get first dibs on things being a small test market)
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by RowanH 3y ago
New Zealander checking in - our February (summer) is insane if you're close to certain types of bush. Deafening. Not sure if it was in the article (paywalled) but the little mofos can get up to 100db. There's a good couple of week
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by RowanH 3y ago
I was listening to a YouTube ( I think it was 60 minutes of all things ) where volcanologists are burying them deep down in icelandic volcanoes to help detect when volcanoes might blow. Sensing the underground magma movement..
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by RowanH 3y ago
I'm using AI for training videos for my startup. Never going back to voice actors outside of primary marketing videos. tThe sheer convenience of write/listen/tweak cycle on scripts is insane. In minutes you can do a voiceover
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by RowanH 3y ago
Sorry can't tell ya as only bought the one set, so nothing to compare against...
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by RowanH 3y ago
You're welcome. Fleur is awesome to deal with there. I think the ones I got were the custom fit j2's.
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by RowanH 3y ago
Probably a little bit worse on descent. It's all about noise levels - constant drone and screaming babies.
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by RowanH 3y ago
Lotus 7 styled machine. Has a supercharged honda k20a, the exhaust exit is drivers side....
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by RowanH 3y ago
Sorry for the late reply - Pacific Ears (you get the impressions done at Bay Audiology)
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by RowanH 3y ago
We've got a greyhound cross... about 80% of the speed, 300% of the endurance of an OG Grey. Still is absolutely done for the day after his morning hour at the beach. Doesn't spark back up until about 8hrs later.
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by RowanH 3y ago
This is what's used a lot in motorsport as race cars are insanely loud. Mine was pumping out north of 120db at one point at a 1m static noise test at 4500rpm (went to 7600rpm... and you sit less than 1m from the exhaust..) I had full i
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by RowanH 3y ago
Well the article did start off talking on a world stage.... Every town and city across the planet is be different, some more amenable, some less so. We have ebikes and it replaces over summer some car trips, it's not a wholesale replac
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by RowanH 3y ago
Some of the latest stuff in the Klipper eco system is mind bendingly awesome. I had a partially built Voron from 3 years ago that I got out of the cupboard a few weeks ago, CAN-Bus print heads, Beacon Eddy-current bed levelling system (that
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by RowanH 3y ago
Ran a dev team in NZ (which had some brutal lockdowns). I would say it was about 1 in 20 wanted to be at the office. Even to the point of almost twisting our arms on lockdowns to be back in the office. That leaves 19 out of 20 on varying st
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by RowanH 3y ago
I'm from NZ which has logical addressing. Trying to find some random business on some random shed, down some random lane in the middle of nowhere in the UK can be quite the challenge - post codes don't help and "turn left at
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by RowanH 3y ago
Our boy requires an hour run/walk/run/zoomie/get treats from other humans at the beach every morning. Gaurenteed every day it's a "oh man not sure I feel like it". Get back from the beach "right, crac
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by RowanH 3y ago
"Global South" that's a new one :) There's quite a lot of countries in the Southern Hemisphere ...
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by RowanH 3y ago
[From a NZ perspective] Except you don't live in a bubble. Fire fighters, ambulance staff, doctors, nurses etc have to pick you up in pieces and (hopefully) put you back together. The PTSD alone from horrific accidents must be hell on
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by RowanH 3y ago
I jointly ran a window and door software company (I was responsible for product/dev). You wouldn’t believe the amount of staff that joined “how hard can windows be?” Consistently and without fail 3 months later “what the _____! I never
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by RowanH 3y ago
Well that caused a certain amount of WTF this morning and head scratching. Thanks for posting this.
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by RowanH 3y ago
+background/foreground services. Our product does tonnes of photo/video uploads and iOS is a user nightmare by comparison. Android - kick off a service and happy user! But that said the Android constantly-changing API's, devi
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by RowanH 3y ago
Founded by a Kiwi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_Lab [Edit not sure what it's got to do with Jacinda though..]
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by RowanH 3y ago
I guess I shouldn’t have been shocked but this week looking at some display ads, in Googles audience builder there’s literally an “upload email of who you want to target” feature. Made my skin crawl. Can’t tell me that’s not abused to the e
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by RowanH 3y ago
Thanks !!!
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by RowanH 3y ago
The G-Seat as part of my sim-rig. 9 AC Servos, borderline dangerous, beast of a simulator. The G-Seat I decided to do better than commercial offerings (had tried "the best" and it was pretty average). CNC brake folded aluminium se
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by RowanH 3y ago
Worst mistake I've ever made was implementing logic in the db - made for horrible debugging. It was only a few small bits of logic, but man, the amount of gotchas years later not realising something was there.. certainly I think you e
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by RowanH 3y ago
Ditto - I think it's also human testing in my case (or randomised automated testing). We have a commenting feature, sometimes I see comments sometimes not.. I think I've always seen api requests come through. Just wish it was a wh
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by RowanH 3y ago
You realise this is fearmongering on AI right? It's literally trying to find anything that AI might be connected with as "bad" to paint AI in a negative light. I'm sure you can/are hiding behind "well readers c

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