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by dbetteridge 2y ago
The idiom "Actions speak louder than words" comes to mind. People lie, some people lie as easily as breathing. But it is impossible to bear out a lie when your actions give a clear picture of your true intent and motives.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Agreed, have several tb of TV, movies and anime and no issues with sync or scroll. Most of my issues are with the Auth system and random log outs, but I suspect that's my own network.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Ps5 Web browser with a bookmark? But I hear ya, console support tends to lag behind because of the rules and costs of app dev for them
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
> Effective February 5, 2025, the Postal Service will continue accepting all international inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong Posts. The USPS and Customs and Border Protection are working closely together to implement an
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
There's a fundamental difference I think in the European mindset on private data and the American. From the European mindset: private data is not "given" to a company, the company is temporarily allowed to use the data while
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
UWA? I was gonna say I remember always seeing posters around the Uni talking about this guy and his 'gutsy' bet.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
I mean technically in Australia these days the nbn box is the "modem" for all intents and purposes, if you have fttp. You don't actually need a secondary modem and can plug your pc directly into it, takes a lot of the pain ou
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
> Research suggests concussions could awaken latent infections in the brain and lead to dementia That'd be the suggested missing link, physical impact disturbing dormant virions in the brain or allowing a temporary passage to a part
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Unfortunately while it shouldn't be the case, education for education sake is regarded as a privilege for the wealthy. Most are becoming educated and going into significant debt to get a specific job, or salary.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Sounds like an intentional reduction of fed headcount, via enforced RTO and reduced hiring.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
I'd argue that Democracy cannot be exercised by the electorate when > 36% of the voting population did not vote (90m / 245m https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-1... ). You&#
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Nah totally agreed, pet peeve of mine is trying to open a link in my browser to a website and my phone decides it knows better and insists on redirecting me to "The App" (which I've never installed and don't want, so it
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
I seriously hope the rural WA fire season this year doesn't match California or we're going to be for lack of a better word fucked . We just had a record dry year followed by a warm and wet start to summer which has caused a bunc
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Wonder why the whole central band of Africa is just covered in fires, households? deforestation?
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Hey! Just wanted to check if you'd be open to someone in Australia who has spent the last few years working remotely for a UK company. Happy to adjust hours for coverage and such. Thanks in advance!
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Are you open to someone who's UTC+8 but has worked with UTC+0 timezones for several years and is happy to shift working hours?
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18730865 Previous discussion on this
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Prompt: If the comment could be omitted without affecting the codes functionality but is stylistic or otherwise can be ignored then preface the comment with NITPICK I'm guessing you've tried something like the above and then filte
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
https://archive.org/details/LovelockCaveLoudAndHarrington192... 6'6" was the largest skeletons found. MSN article is just one of many online sharing the same falsities.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
> monthly nut Strongly recommend checking urban dictionary before using that in Australia :D or you'll get some amused comments
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
It doesn't matter.. Until it does. Having poor quality code makes refactoring for new features harder, it increases the time to ship and means bugs are harder to fix without side effects. It also means changes have more side effects an
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
It's an interesting question but prompts the rebuttal, isn't that just how things work in nature? No process is 100% clean in biology, that's how we get random mutation and evolution of species
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Yep this is what I was getting at.
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
I believe the savant in this case is the computer that takes instructions literally?
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
The article clearly lists multiple "careers" including biologists, timber workers and maintenance staff. The only reason they're not careers now and are forced to be seasonal hires is due to ongoing defunding of the forest se
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Still works better than the uwa door card readers
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Some overlay lots of really squiggly lines, average (most points in common) is the actual function you're looking for?
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
Yeah was going to comment that this is a heavily American perspective and possibly even a heavily American city dwelling perspective. Lots of countries even where electricity is cheap use awnings as it's just better to not need to cool
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
East Coast only! As usual Perth gets shafted with 3rd party couriers with 0 SLA :(
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by dbetteridge 2y ago
I personally like the idea of a "companion AI", it comes up a lot in video games and sci-fi stories (funnily enough ones where capitalism has been taken out back and shot.) But the concept of a second brain that you can use to rub

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