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by dwd 4y ago
Australia is currently expanding the current 4.5GW Snowy Scheme built in the 50s with an additional 2GW of pumped hydro. https://www.snowyhydro.com.au/snowy-20/about/
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by dwd 4y ago
Some of the browser based games like Travian, Inselkampf and OGame had similar meta games like Eve Online where the diplomacy, alliance management and game tool building took up far more time than the actual game. They were for all intents
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by dwd 4y ago
Turn based games can work well. There is a multi-player browser-based version of Mike Singleton's Lords of Midnight that takes everything great about the original and pitted you against real opponents.
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by dwd 4y ago
What about Colonization? I probably spent more time playing it (and Alpha Centauri) than Civ.
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by dwd 4y ago
I played more 500 with the extended playing deck. My brother and I were keen players and developed a number of variations, particularly suited for two or three players. One of the more fun ones was having a compulsory bid; no minimum number
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by dwd 4y ago
I think the confusion is while the post says nice weather, it's more about nice climate. There are other factors, good latitude is just the better starting point in my opinion. But you are right, Houston is really not the same as it do
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by dwd 4y ago
That would be if your starting point was cities in the temperate/sub-tropical latitudes, but I would probably favour coastal cities over inland as you get less extreme day/night temperature difference. Somewhere like Durbin sits r
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by dwd 4y ago
I know a few people who wouldn't live anywhere else after settling in Slacks Creek up in the hills behind the Gold Coast. Personally I'm more a Sunshine Coast person. But the money however seems to have discovered Byron Bay: A few
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by dwd 5y ago
My brother blogged extensively about Melbourne trams for years, and such was his passion on the topic he went back to Uni and now works as a town planner for the Melbourne City Council on light rail infrastructure.
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by dwd 5y ago
A recent Huberman podcast with Matt Walker covered a few good strategies for coffee consumption. I think it was that podcast where it was suggested you should start your day with a dose of morning sunlight (dropping your cortisol levels);
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by dwd 5y ago
I find Deepl to be far superior to Google Translate. The key is of course to use grammatically correct, unambiguous language to begin with. If it's electronic communication, you can always reverse the translation to check it translates
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by dwd 5y ago
Sure does. I have college-age kids who possibly never used a floppy disk. It was all usb sticks and CDs when they went through school.
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by dwd 5y ago
Testing by Volvo determined that in a front-on collision the engine of a conventional cab ended up in the cabin crushing driver. This was the primary reason for CoE adoption in Europe. Similar to cars before safety cells and crumple zones b
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by dwd 5y ago
The other issue not mentioned are the reported post-vaccine reactions where the person previously contracted Covid-19. Q-Vax (registered for use in Australia only) vaccinates for Q Fever and has strict pre-screening to avoid vaccinating som
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by dwd 5y ago
I have an in-law who's been diagnosed with Crohn's disease, having been sick since her second AZ shot.
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by dwd 5y ago
He was a warm and humorous individual with an infectious chuckle. I had the privilege to attend a week-long convention where he delivered the keynote address each day back in '87. Everyone talks about Mandela, but I have always had far
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by dwd 5y ago
Always a voice of reason and compassion. His influence, good humour and example will be greatly missed.
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by dwd 5y ago
I built my own AT-AT back in '81 using mostly red bricks as I only had the articulating flat bricks from various fire engine sets to use for the legs. You built what you could from the pieces you had. I did buy a lot of Star Wars sets
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by dwd 5y ago
I still have a collection of original instructions from the mid-70s onward: I'm guessing they are potentially more valuable than the actual bricks that my kids have now outgrown.
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by dwd 5y ago
Even more so for a boot-strapped startup - fronting 100s of dollars in insurance is a big ask to get started without taking on investor money. In this environment would an early stage JIRA, Salesforce or Bootcamp have gotten off the ground
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by dwd 5y ago
Early on, people (in the US) signed up to companies like Compuserve or AOL which were walled gardens much like Facebook with a "there be dragons" type warning if you chose to venture out into the "real" Internet. At this
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by dwd 5y ago
It can play out in different ways: creating software to scratch your own itch; writing a book to explore a concept that interests you (Tolkien and language is a good example); playing music that you like (and maybe only you will like; drawi
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by dwd 5y ago
There is nothing new under the sun. It is a high bar to produce something truly innovative and different, and not just the same old with a shinier interface. Same goes for all the creative arts: television, music, movies, art, etc. You alwa
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by dwd 5y ago
Their tourism score for Queensland, Australia is completely back-to-front. The climate is tropical/sub-tropical so peak tourism season is winter when it's warm, clear skies and no rain. Summertime is storm season: muggy, cloudy a
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by dwd 5y ago
Note, they were raised to near adulthood...guessing after that they were not trustworthy enough to not turn on you. The hairy-nosed wombat is another Australian animal that is cute and cuddly as a baby, but turn aggressive on reaching adult
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by dwd 5y ago
I'm assuming someone in building security has watched the end of Ex Machina...and applied some learnings, or not.
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by dwd 5y ago
As a 13yo visiting Paris in the early 80's, the lineup of TGVs at the Gare de Lyon was on my bucket list. We were passed by one after leaving Paris for Geneva, puttering along in our combi van; blink and you would have missed it. Only
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by dwd 5y ago
I still don't understand why Spolsky's Evidence Based Scheduling didn't get much traction. Defining the completion date as a range of probabilities makes the most sense. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007&#x2
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by dwd 5y ago
Volcanic eruptions also figure prominently in oral traditions throughout the world. https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/victoria-s-volcanic-...
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by dwd 5y ago
Sodom, Gomorrah... there's quite a list in the ancient literature from the region of cities obliterated.

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