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by davidbanham 2y ago
Feedly allows subscribing to YouTube channels.
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by davidbanham 2y ago
It’s been over 20 years since I used it, but I still remember my ICQ number by heart. It’s burned in there so deep I can recall it more quickly than my kid’s birthday.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Woolworths in Australia has a solution called Scan and Go. You use the app on your phone to scan barcodes as you take things off the shelves. When you’re done, the app charges your stored credit card and you scan a qr receipt at the door as
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by davidbanham 3y ago
My suite failed this morning on an obscure test of a function that converts between ages and dates of birth. Took me ten minutes of head scratching before I realised it was Feb 29th. ’’’ + if time.Now().Month() == time.February &&
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by davidbanham 3y ago
You’re probably soaked in sweat. Rubber doesn’t breathe, yard work is hard.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
My jacket is coming up on 13 years old now. Every one of those it’s been worn 2-4 weeks on snow, plus year round on rainy Sydney hikes, dog walks and kids soccer games. It’s just fine.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Wash gore tex with a specific product like nikwax tech wash, or just use pure soap flakes. I wash mine around once a snow season. Or sooner if I’ve gone on a really dirty summer hike. If the pores of the fabric get clogged with dirt it does
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by davidbanham 3y ago
The Kevlar in chainsaw chaps and motorcycle clothing is rapidly damaged by fabric softener. Wash them only with pure soap and they’ll last just fine.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
It absolutely does mention that. > That is because devices are increasingly able to withstand getting wet. > All Apple devices from the iPhone 12 onwards are able to withstand immersion up to a depth of six metres, for up to half an h
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by davidbanham 3y ago
The article isn’t suggesting this is a better vehicle than the Corolla. It’s saying it’ll eat the Corolla’s market share.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
I’d settle for Excel either not automatically reformatting dates when opening a CSV, or having the decency to put them back the way they were when saving it. Silently turning 2016-01-02 into 01/02/2016 should be considered a hate
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by davidbanham 3y ago
I mean, depends on how you define OK. On a geological timescale, sure they’ll be just fine. On a timescale measured in decades to centuries, not necessarily. Fire is definitely part of many ecosystems. Fire every ten years in a sclerophyll
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Dig with a Macleod tool, straight jets of water into the ground to penetrate, sprays on turned soil to cool. Rinse and repeat. A thermal imaging camera can be handy to find the hot spots. Especially if you can get on the fireground overnigh
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Yep, spot on. Sorry I thought it was clear from the context that I was contrasting the US practice. To be clear, not trying to say one is superior to the other. I don’t have any experience with, or specific training in, the US method.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
It’s definitely a real thing. Happens frequently with newbies during hot cell training. Nobody dies, but they do get uncomfortable and superficially burned.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Worth noting that the approach to ventilation of a working fire is very different in the US than it is in Europe and Australia. Here we tend to ventilate only once the fire is under control rather than during the rescue and initial attack s
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by davidbanham 3y ago
That kind of an MITM attack would require both a lack of public key pinning from Snapchat _and_ a compromised certificate authority issuing bogus Snapchat TLS certificates that were trusted by common consumer devices. It's possible for
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by davidbanham 3y ago
I think you’re confusing transport layer security with end to end encryption. TLS prevents the people who run Gatwick airport wifi from reading the messages. E2EE would also do that, and would additionally prevent Snapchat themselves from r
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by davidbanham 3y ago
I routinely use airdrop to transfer mapping data when fighting bushfires in remote areas. There’s no network of any kind on most of these, but with a geocoded PDF map and Avenza we can still plot going edges, mark hotspots and dangerous tre
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by davidbanham 3y ago
I am very interested in this api. How do I get at it? AFAIK the only way to programatically obtain bom data is the awful ftp endpoint.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Put yourself in the shoes of someone arriving at your website for the first time. What reason do they have for signing up an account and adding products to your database? A product like this needs an incentive, a hook. Sometimes that incent
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by davidbanham 3y ago
I’ve been really happy with my tailwind ui purchase. I’m weaker on the design side so having a consistent and decent look and feel is great. Writing up a little bit of js to make them dance is no big deal, and I like that I don’t have to bu
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by davidbanham 3y ago
All our fire trucks are fitted with isolation switches. We either leave the engine idling, or we stop the engine then physically disconnect the batteries. The reason is that all the radios and gear drain the battery so quickly without the e
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Not a massive factor on that dusty surface. Tyre pressure would make more of a difference I’d wager.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
The FBT exemption incentivises the common crop of dual cab utes. Those are Hilux, Ranger, etc. The much larger F150 shown here can only be had by first importing from the US and then converting locally to right hand drive. The associated en
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Other watchmakers have made very different design tradeoffs to produce better battery life. A base mode Garmin will happily run for over a week. The fancy models over a month. They still have great tracking and notification features. Might
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Taller panels on the side of the tub combined with lower hanging side steps, wheel wells and transmission components.
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by davidbanham 3y ago
What’s the advantage of this add-on over the inbuilt default threading? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/message-threading-thund...
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by davidbanham 3y ago
That’s totally legitimate, and working from “the office” is a potential solution. An alternate is to work from “an office”. That doesn’t need to be the right solution for you specifically, but I hope it becomes part of the evoked set in gen
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Internal combustion blowers and line trimmers are legal here. All my neighbors have switched to electric blowers. The lawn guy also runs a fully electric setup with mowers, trimmers and blowers. It’s not legislated. The battery gear is just

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