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by davidbanham 3y ago
Volunteer fire brigade. Great way to connect with local community. Also a pathway into experiences and skills you’ll never get anywhere else. Kids school. Everyone is local, engage with the other parents/etc. Local dog park. Get into a
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by davidbanham 3y ago
The biggest difference to my mind is that at end of a day you have something concrete to look at and say “I done that”. In software or business we spend so much time on intangibles. Often worthwhile, but just not viscerally satisfying. “I a
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by davidbanham 3y ago
Yeah a bunch. Satellite monitoring of lightning strikes has been happening for years. We also have hot spot detection from himawari and other satellites. Also very common to have aircraft do FLIR camera runs over the bush on high danger day
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by davidbanham 3y ago
For clear felling in a rainforest, sure. For clear felling in a timber plantation, probably? For selective logging outside particularly sensitive areas, nah.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
People have shoehorned diesels and wankel rotaries into BMW airhead frames. It’s possible but not for the faint hearted. With a small frame like yours you’d probably be better served by an EV conversion if you want to go down that path.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
The exhaust gas recirculation valve on a modern diesel engine does exactly this. It diverts a portion of the exhaust product back into the intake manifold of the engine to achieve more complete combustion and lower emissions. Yes, it does r
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by davidbanham 4y ago
The rotary in the article is a 2 stroke design, by my understanding. Fuel injected 2 strokes have been around for years now. In saws, the Stihl 500i. Scaled 2 stroke engines, both with and without fuel injection, have also been around some
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by davidbanham 4y ago
A commodity chainsaw (Stihl ms660) returns 1.4kg per kw from 2 stroke fuel. Before any performance tuning takes place. That’s at about a quarter of the size of this. I bet there’s efficiencies to be had if it were scaled up. I’m just not su
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I love this idea of “wherever your service ends up, it will reach out and sort out its DNS and networking so that the world can find it at the usual address” Moving things from one platform to another is often simple enough on the deploymen
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I walk my kids to and from school most days. Then I find a local patch of bush to hike or run, far enough to tire out my cattle dog. We hit the dog park if I’m feeling lazy. I volunteer as a firefighter, and get plenty of exercise if I get
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by davidbanham 4y ago
The proposed resolutions from Google have been along the lines of changes to the proxy application code. The resistance has been that this is hard because of the way responsibility is divided between the thin layer that provides the proxy w
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by davidbanham 4y ago
They're all over the place here in Australia. Personally I don't think I've encountered anywhere that's switched back from them. It's also very common to see traditional plumbed urinals converted over to waterless.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I believe the fix for that is to chuck a bucket of water through it once in a while. My reference for the opposition to the urinals from plumbers came from this Wired article, iirc. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-f
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by davidbanham 4y ago
> they were met with resistance from plumbers fearful of losing their jobs Same thing happened to waterless urinals. Those are still making headway due to the waterr saving benefits but it’s been a hard fight.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
Just before you get too far down the content-editable-is-amazeballs rabbit hole I have to have a quick talk with you. Sadly, the cross browser support situation is pretty flaky. In practice this means you’ll find a lot of variance in the us
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I was pretty ticked that it was down right when I wanted to send an email to notify a client that I’d done something I’d promised by COB. Not like it happens often, though. They’re a good provider.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
Figure out why people show up. This may be homogenous across the group, but more likely there are two or three main categories. Then, ensure you’re making space for them to get the thing they’re showing up for. Show a direct connection to h
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by davidbanham 4y ago
This has an email newsletter built in. People can subscribe via the site and you can publish newsletters through their back end.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
Block out focus time in your calendar during the work day. Spend that time walking/running/cycling/doing push-ups/whatever. While you’re doing it, think about whatever problems you’re working on. You’ll come back with wa
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by davidbanham 4y ago
My solution to this was to try and solve real people’s problems with tech. Being able to sit down with the person using your thing gives a tangible feedback cycle to your work. Instead of “I pushed this update and maybe this metric changed
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by davidbanham 4y ago
It copped a few too many splashes at the beach and never came back to life. A key criteria for the replacement was "I never want to have to think about whether something will break it" and the Instinct has lived up to that. Have s
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by davidbanham 4y ago
No, better locks are already invented and will fit that standardised barrel just fine. This is either someone minmaxing the BOM or just not knowing much about what they were specifying.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I loved my pebbles and was very sad when my Time Steel finally died. I now wear a Garmin Instinct. The UI isn’t as joyful and it’s not quite as pretty. It’s every bit as practical as the pebble and then some. Also you couldn’t kill it with
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by davidbanham 4y ago
Not having an accessible mechanical latch in the front of the glovebox hatch means it’s now a single smooth surface. That’s way cheaper to injection mould than something with a hole in it. Also, the mechanical latch mechanism needs to be st
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I run a pretty-much-fanless Arch Linux desktop. It’s a Lenovo m920q I bought second hand, ex lease on eBay. Super simple, no fuss at all. Comes with remote KVM in the motherboard. (The security implications are totally probably fine) It’s t
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by davidbanham 4y ago
Majestic monolith in Go. Server rendered HTML with tailwind UI on recent products. Materialise css on legacy. Google cloud platform utilising Postgres Cloud SQL, Cloud Run and Tasks. Email through AWS SES and blob storage on S3.
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by davidbanham 4y ago
Hahaha holy shit is GSMIS still running? In all it’s TUI glory? When I left, the mobile division had its customers split between three different systems; GSMIS, Focus and Arbor. The poor customer service reps would have no idea which one an
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by davidbanham 4y ago
And correlated with some pretty horrific fire events: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375_Australian_b... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Christmas_bushfires
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by davidbanham 4y ago
I run a platform which has many connected Stripe accounts. Collectively they’ve now transacted over $10M through the platform with very peaky seasonal patterns. I’ve seen many accounts get flagged, I’ve never ever seen one get “nuked”. They
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by davidbanham 4y ago
It was the first sentence of the second paragraph of the introduction.

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