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gtvwill
6y ago
I feel the same about it as I feel about most of the economic system. It's a disappointment that we as a society are still so focused on greed and wealth. So yeah, no change in feels. I don't really care for money, have left six f
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gtvwill
6y ago
Well this is nothing but bad news. EA's origin is where games go to die.
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gtvwill
6y ago
Compassion and empathy. Practice daily. Also probably cease thinking like this "I've been thinking about the best ways to developer my new-born(5m+)". Your kids not a project...its another person. Love it and nourish like one
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gtvwill
6y ago
Big reason for chopping down trees was they didn't like the mess/poop left behind by birds. Or didn't want to manage the trees from falling limbs an such. The irony is now the birds have no trees they thrash living in the cou
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gtvwill
6y ago
My god I'm jelly of those prices. Aust is 27-32cents a kWh for grid power. About 1$ per watt for solar panels. If you feed back into grid you get paid 16ish cents per kWh.
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gtvwill
6y ago
Lol your grid tie systwm comes to 4.8kw if your (15*.375) is correct. We rip around 20kw a day on a AVG house in Aust. My folks shred through 30kw an that's just 2 people. Given power used to be about $3k a quarter or $12k a year for
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gtvwill
6y ago
I reckon, I used to live in inner west Syd, watched the local councils cut down all the trees for various reasons. Now you can barely walk down the street as it's basically a concrete slow cooker in summer.
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gtvwill
6y ago
Eh the problem with resources is not using systems that are a closed loop for the whole cycle. e.g. Currently most vert farms or greenhouses buy in all their seed and nutrient and alot of the time grow medium too. Its wasteful just in the n
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gtvwill
6y ago
Geez into High Pressure Aeroponics if the water efficiency thing interests you. Its also somewhat easier to keep clean as you only feed the plants the water they can consume (literally a single droplet of condensation in your root chambers
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gtvwill
6y ago
Go set up a artificial growth environment and try run it for a cycle longer than a month. It takes huge amounts of resources to maintain that environment. And no it's not chemical free. Also yes water is used and wasted. If you ain
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gtvwill
6y ago
Yeah your premium product in a greenhouse is missing the thing that makes veggies premium...which is terroir. Trust me you can grow great food, it'll just have the same terroir/character as anybody else on the same nute regime as
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gtvwill
6y ago
I honestly find it difficult to keep track of these names and their double meanings. It doesn't come across instantly as an acronym it just looks like a company name being yelled. If it were an acronym I'd expect full stops betwee
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gtvwill
6y ago
Dear whoever deals with this in i.t. next time you come up with a company or product and name it some pre existing object but now it's a service. Stop. It's a terrible decision. Go back to the drawing board. Short flick through th
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gtvwill
6y ago
Man no offense but the attitude your displaying whilst shows a great level of determination....is a bit aggressive. How do you go with working on teams? lol in some of the realms I have worked in...I've done as you suggest. Been blocke
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gtvwill
6y ago
lol? what if you don't need a heap of compute power but require a lot of redundancy? A single server is not good for that...Also not every site has internet so yes having small redundant easily replaceable nodes on-site does have plent
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gtvwill
6y ago
lol brrrrt. Actually there's heaps of cases. Traditional servers are large, power hungry and generally 10-100x the compute power most jobs need if you buy a piece of hardware for a site. Traditional server also requires expensive monke
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gtvwill
6y ago
Lol all of them. It hasn't been fixed because people are a mix of lazy and greedy. Your either greedy and a part of the system or lazy because you tolerate it's existence and literally keep plodding along with your day while stuff
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gtvwill
6y ago
Cool to see some Aussies getting some funding. But they should use that seed funding to pack the shit up and get the hell out of Aus. Else their software should be assumed to be compromised. Cheers Aussie gov for your shit laws allowing
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gtvwill
6y ago
Almost as gross as the mass hoarding of resources by an individual.
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7y ago
&Totse
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gtvwill
8y ago
Yeah I have chased work quite literally across this country, from packing my life up and driving from east coast to west to work in the mines to living in the city working in the film industry because I go where the work is, I chased I.T wo
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gtvwill
8y ago
Yep, I have/am currently on the tail end of having done so. I generally work in construction because there is basically no i.t work in my region and where I live has some of the highest unemployment in Aus. Last year in June I got hire
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gtvwill
8y ago
Mate your PM isn't managing very well if he can't get his thoughts on the same path for more than a few days. Tell your PM to sit down...work his shit out...if he thinks he needs to change his mind tomorrow...tell him he better ha
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gtvwill
8y ago
*nix based operating systems.
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gtvwill
8y ago
Reading that post and having worked in various contractor roles in construction in Sydney over the last 5 or so years (concreting and general construction) none of what he is saying surprises me at all! I came from construction out in the m
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gtvwill
8y ago
Hey mate its understandable you are freaking out a little. I would definitely suggest starting to do some education on basic finance and investment. Please tho dear god can you not do TWO things...just two things. One...don't donate yo
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gtvwill
8y ago
Vape, started off with a strong 18mg or so nicotine...ramped it back to about 6 or so these days. Only use it when I am out drinking now. Took about 3 months to ramp the strength down. and 3 months after I got it to 6mg (during this period
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gtvwill
8y ago
As a recent IBM Hire...one of the first in about 30 years for my role and definitely the first for my region ever I am stoked to work for IBM. Me being hired quite literally wiped about 5 companies contracts out of my region for certain har
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gtvwill
8y ago
I have an iPhone 7s for work and a Xiaomi A2 for personal. Not going to lie but the iPhone hands down is a pain in the ass. Battery life is shite compared to the China phone, the thing constantly goes to emergency menus in my pocket or trie
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gtvwill
8y ago
^^^ hit the nail on the head. Its exactly what happens.
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