TheSmiddy

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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
As a South Australian I like that both our times are offensive so we can just split the difference and finally get an on the hour timezone like everywhere should be. Anywhere else and I'm pro summer time all the time.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
The cart will more likely follow a person walking than someone riding a bike.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
The golf cart tuk tuks are usually relegated to the slow lane (25km/hr, usually seperated from main traffic with a median strip, shared with bicycles and ebikes alike) they're also really uncommon in cities, primarily seen in rura
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
If road use taxes on EV's like Indiana's were legitimate then they would be applying them equally to all vehicles and either lowering the fuel excise in response or keeping it there as a carbon tax but since they apply only to EV&
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
There's probably about a million people who have had to implement some kind of geo restriction content system and there's probably only about 1000 people in the entire world who want such a system to exist.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
IPv4 can be addressed from an IPv6 only device when an ISP configures their network with the feature, many mobile phone providers already have fully IPv6 networks: https://www.sidn.nl/en/news-and-blogs/australias-t
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
The first ad blockers existed for popups and because ad networks were being used as a malware injection point. Only extremists had an issue with the standard JPG banner ad at the top of every page.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
regarding b: https://reneweconomy.com.au/balancing-act-tesla-battery-syst...
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
When I was diagnosed with high blood pressure I asked my doctor if I could donate more blood to lower it and she laughed and said your veins are not rigid pipes so it's not that easy.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
"I was 2nd employee at a unicorn startup" They're rich.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
I think it means 3.85x more water is evaporated compared to just leaving the water outside in the sun.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
an arcane terminal configuration at least opens up the possibility of 3rd party settings GUI's to "unlock the hidden potential of your operating system" for the user who wants to tinker but with the safety rails still attache
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Yeah this is a very common strategy of language learners. Have a seperate YouTube account where you only watch content in your target language to keep the recommendations clean
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
There's heaps. Hypothetical blockchains, imaginary blockchains, future blockchains, theoretical blockchains, unconfirmed blockchains, academic blockchains; the list is endless!
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Because burning fossil fuels when realistic alternatives exist is immoral.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
The human moderators only have to watch what is reported, it is totally unnecessary to watch everything.
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by TheSmiddy 5y ago
Only a negligible fraction of users care about this feature and it only needs to be toggled once so it's clearly in the right place.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Can you think of an example where there isn't an associated industry that would be able to serve ads? A philosophy blog is the first thing that comes to find but even then that can have ads for universities, textbooks, quirky t-shirts,
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
People throwing themselves in front of food trucks are fanatics. People casually asking if a food that commonly contains an ingredient their moral code prevents them from eating and then choosing not to eat it are not fanatics. Nothing abou
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
What you are describing is not a fanatic. You are describing someone adhering to the basic tenants of their philosophy. A vegan fanatic would refuse to use cash in Australia because it contains tallow, an animal product used as a slipping a
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
When the carbon tax* was introduced in Australia our tax free threshold was increased from $6k to $18k which more than covered the increase in costs caused by the tax. *This has since been repealed, a decision I strongly disagree with.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Most mobile networks detect hotspotting in the US by inspecting the TTL so you can increase it by 1 on your child devices to "trick" the system. https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/8p69ez/
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
I find myself blocked from all kinds of accounts that I've never interacted with and as far as I can tell the primary reason is because I follow Sam Harris which is a ludicrous reason to block someone.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
I think they're clearly saying that Zapier is a positive for them.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
What happens if a nearby tree falls on your stationary house?
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
"The tech giant drew a wide backlash from Australian users." This is patently false, the only evidence of backlash has been from reports in mass media, we were all loving the new newsless Facebook. On this particular issue Faceboo
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
Yes they were consolidated recently, less than 6 months ago.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
i.reddit.com still works on mobile. It's how I use it.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
If you're transfering data to a backup service and then deleting it locally that's not backup, that's just cloud storage.
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by TheSmiddy 6y ago
WeChat is just how things are paid for here, obviously the solution would not rely on WeChat in any other country. In Australia you'd just tap your credit card.

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