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by firecall 3y ago
Why 5%? It is doable and people do it. Here in Australia anyway. You just need enough Solar, enough battery, and controls on your power load. Not saying it’s easy or commonplace right now, but if you really want to, you can go off-grid! In
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by firecall 3y ago
Solar plus Battery can power a Modern Domestic House in a Modern Economy. Not saying it’s environmentally friendly, but if you have sunshine all year round it’s easily doable. Here in South Australia we also have a massive Tesla battery to
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by firecall 3y ago
I guess it wouldn’t matter if the code was calculating time offsets and so on. But it would matter if I wanted something to take 60mins and then set a start time and an end time. Dates and timezones are the worst! :-)
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by firecall 3y ago
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/17/1087047638/the-truth-in-polit... > While the Federal Trade Commission regulates truth in commercial advertising, the FCC does not do the same for political ads. > Som
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by firecall 3y ago
I rather enjoy making things, or solving problems. But my favourite bit is refining and optimising the code! Finding the patterns and abstractions I can make to DRY it out. That's the bit I like :-) Wrestling APIs and trying to underst
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by firecall 3y ago
I’ve always liked FitBit devices, the App and the Brand. Now if they had only integrated Fitbit with Apple Health I might wearing a FitBit right now instead of an Apple Watch.
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by firecall 3y ago
I wouldn’t say they’ve exactly changed their philosophy. To me it seems more like they’ve evolved it. From Rails UJS using jQuery, to vanilla Js, then TurboLinks and onto today’s tools like Turbo and Stimulus. The evolution isn’t a bad thin
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by firecall 3y ago
Amen to that! The popular pattern of constructing React components with Organism, Atoms, Molecules and so on, makes following an unfamiliar codebase a nightmare! JSX is hard to use in my eyes. At first I thought it must be me, but I’m glad
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by firecall 3y ago
I was fortunate in that I was very fit and generally physically capable with access to excellent medical care. I had a couple of MRIs to see what was going on. Essentially I’ve got degenerative disc disease. My specialist was the head of th
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by firecall 3y ago
Google: Destroyer of Brands Contrasted with the rather excellent care that Amazon has taken with Ring! Android and YouTube are rather successful however. But what has Google done for me lately!? LOL
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by firecall 3y ago
In the scenario where we could travel to Europe, purchase an iPhone in Europe and setup it up with a Euro iCloud account and Euro SIM, how long before returning to the US or elsewhere will Apple / iCloud consider the iPhone to be a Eur
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by firecall 3y ago
It sounds truly awful. In Australia we have laws protecting de facto FTEs. We even have laws mandating that co tractors must add extra to invoices to cover their Pension fund contributions! They have to charge this by law!
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by firecall 3y ago
Of course there is already measurable lag from when your brain tells your hand and fingers to move, to when they actually move! An interesting personal anecdote I have: I damaged my back with bulging disc, which caused horrific sciatica ner
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by firecall 3y ago
Anyone have any idea why I'd see false positives? I have a static IP, so I know what torrents I've accessed. But there a couple I haven't - like Law and Order eps.
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by firecall 3y ago
Sadly it doesn’t work well enough with 4K displays for me. At least, not the last time I tried.
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by firecall 3y ago
In Australia it’s standard for a GP to prescribe SSRIs.
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by firecall 3y ago
Indeed, that entire tweet was inane.
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by firecall 3y ago
Being ex-directory was a status symbol in the UK!
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by firecall 3y ago
In a way, we used to actually do this by purchasing media! Positional Advertising in magazines worked perfectly well for decades, as an example. The canonical example being that if you buy a Car magazine, as an Advertiser I can assume you a
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by firecall 3y ago
At a guess, I’d say the wider macro economic environment is impacting EV Sales, and all auto sales in general. The Chinese auto makers, like BYD and MG, are also giving the US and Europeans are hard time. A leading indicator is surely the w
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by firecall 3y ago
My direct experience is that all social is now Dark Social. It's invite only Groups on Telegram, FB Messenger, or Apple Messages mostly. So it has ended well for my social circle ;-)
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by firecall 3y ago
You missed off iPod! Mac -> iMac -> iPod -> iPhone Obviously the iPod gives us AirPods and HomePods. I imagine there are users of *Pod devices that have never seen or used an iPod!
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by firecall 3y ago
It seems to be a common misconception that money is created out of thin air! If it was just created as needed in an uncontrolled fashion, then we’d end up with up consequences such as runaway inflation. https://cepr.org/voxe
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by firecall 3y ago
I frequent the OCAU forum here in Australia. Moderating the News board became too arduous and carried potential legal liability. So they turned the board off. It’s really not that hard. And anyway, just because you can’t fix everything, doe
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by firecall 3y ago
Totally, I'm sure many people have no issues :-) Here's a recent Guardian article: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/17/i-stopped-sl... From the article: > Horowitz experienced a
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by firecall 3y ago
And what they never tell you, in my experience, is the horrible experience of trying to come off them!
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by firecall 3y ago
To add to the other comments: Free exploration, community and YouTube. The way developers iterate on gaming concepts and allow players to be part of the evolution seems to be appealing. Tower Defence games are one example, where there are m
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by firecall 3y ago
Rapid Weaver maybe? https://www.realmacsoftware.com/rapidweaver/
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by firecall 3y ago
“But sources say that Corman and Ord crafted a legal procedural that did not resemble the Netflix version, known for its action and violence. Cox didn’t even show up in costume until the fourth episode.” Why they ever thought that was a goo
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by firecall 3y ago
You can more powerful / faster GPUs in an Intel Mac Pro than the M2 Ultra GPU for sure. I do recall a while back Nvidia did release updated MacOS drivers, but I’m not sure of the state of those on modern macOS. But it certainly was pos

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