Swannie

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by Swannie 4y ago
I badly wanted a Newton. Or a Psion3. Big time nostalgia.
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by Swannie 4y ago
I just lost The Game. Dag-nam-it. Been playing for ~20 years too. Probably 4+ years for me too.
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by Swannie 4y ago
My understanding is that it activates when you make the Webex Teams/Meeting the application with focus, and should turn off some time after it is no longer the active application, I think ~60 seconds. It is doing this for the ultrasoni
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by Swannie 4y ago
> The way I read that is, only one of the apps actually sends audio data to the server when the mic is muted You're reading it incorrectly. The paper outlines that as far as they can tell Webex is not sending audio when the mute but
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by Swannie 5y ago
My guess would be the moving radio shadows cast by mast, rigging, boom.
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by Swannie 5y ago
Ferries? Fast helicopter to the nearest airport to pass customs/immigration.
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by Swannie 5y ago
Right, it's not only the methanol that you want to discard, there's acetone, and other nasties too.
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by Swannie 5y ago
Nice work. I was thinking you might have had to go as far as to get your own subnet and even Autonomous System, to get clean IP's.
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by Swannie 5y ago
By starting 15+ years ago, when this was marginally easier, and there was far less competition. Mailchip is 20. Campaign Monitor is 17 (and have been buying up other email related companies/brands for years). SendGrid is about 12. Mail
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by Swannie 5y ago
No dual citizens in federal parliament. That 30% are, generally, extremely under-represented in the political system. This is by choice of interpretation of the current federal judiciary (High Court). At a state level, in many states, rules
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by Swannie 5y ago
+1 to that. mIRC was far more accessible to me than programming anything more simple than a text based adventure in BASIC. Then I got into Perl :D
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by Swannie 5y ago
Hard disagree. It's been mentioned in jokes, multiple times, in prime time current affairs shows in my country. I expect almost everyone I know under the age of 60 knows what it is. From my under 18 relatives, through the accountants a
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by Swannie 5y ago
Because many with ADHD see a task in their calendar, know they should work on it, but then... 1hr is gone, and nothing got done towards the task... nothing. Because they were doing something else. Now you feel bad. You reschedule it again..
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by Swannie 5y ago
But Firefox doesn't require the password on reboot - or to even access the plaintext password in the password manager! So just fire it up, and access the passwords. The on disk encryption is pretty redundant.
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by Swannie 5y ago
Alternatively a private L2 network for a N > 2 RAC cluster.
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by Swannie 5y ago
But being a millionaire in today's world is not being rich or wealthy. Millionaire Next Door was published *25 years ago*. To be relevant today it should be titled "Multi-Millionaire* Next Door (* Net worth > 5M)". I'
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by Swannie 6y ago
If you've watched the big short, you'll understand that the challenge with a short is the timing. You have to get the timing right. For Melvin Capital, they were right, until they were not - when WSB showed up. They have eaten a l
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by Swannie 6y ago
If you watched Valley of the Boom, the Netscape build team sections talk about the booze culture. This has persisted into SRE team culture. This is not new. I agree, no big deal.
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by Swannie 6y ago
That would be in comparison to some mainland European countries, such as Germany, where tenants are more like a leasor, in that they can decorate, improve, etc.
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by Swannie 6y ago
Australian deflation is false though, as the CPI has been impacted significantly by the free child care. Wait and see what it looks like in ~6 months time when the next figures come out without any influence of free childcare.
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by Swannie 6y ago
I believe your frame of reference is a small environment. If all the stakeholders fit in the "2 pizza" team, regularly talk/meet, and regularly review progress/ideas/etc. then sure, writing is irrelevant. Frankly, f
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by Swannie 6y ago
"Hoarding cash" means exactly what it sounds like - people being overly attached to cash in the safe/under the mattress/in "high interest" savings accounts. This has been its use for a long time in any publicat
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by Swannie 6y ago
I tend to disagree. I find that data/UI tools that only sort the visible results, and not re-populate the paged view of the data, extremely counter-intuitive. Even old libraries like ExtJS supported easy re-querying the server upon the
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by Swannie 6y ago
AARNet own subsea capacity to Singapore: https://www.aarnet.edu.au/network-and-services/the-network/i... They also have a fairly extensive network of dark fiber and leased fiber in Australia. I suspect they might
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by Swannie 6y ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I was very surprised to see the Technology first perspective. This is a path to band-aids and incongrueties. When I read the worked example, I see something quite a bit different. The worked example seems to suggest
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by Swannie 6y ago
From my skimming of the OP, which references some of this research, I think these prior findings demonstrated strong correlation, but this is the first study that demonstrates some causal relationship.
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by Swannie 7y ago
For any sufficiently large organisation, they will have parts of the business that are in "wartime" and parts that are in "peacetime". The great CEO is able to manage their organisation to handle both. But odd are, you w
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by Swannie 7y ago
Thank you - I was thinking about The Machine Gunners when I read this, but couldn't remember the name of the book - some strong childhood memories associated with that story.
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by Swannie 7y ago
> Which would require the digging of a third hole where the TBM "drill heads" meet. In most projects it's called a station. http://www.crossrail.co.uk/construction/tunnelling/meet-our-... Occasio
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by Swannie 7y ago
> Several months ago, Coke came out in support of a bottle deposit program in Australia. Guess who "co-ordinates" the bottle return scheme in New South Wales (where the linked article references)? It's a joint venture of w

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