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by hnick 3y ago
Reminder that Dubbo (population of only ~40,000) had to have water shipped in on trucks during the recent drought, so there are valid environmental reasons for the current layout too. A lot of those cheaper places are struggling, they canno
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by hnick 3y ago
We save on CO2 emissions through minimal effort programmer art.
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by hnick 3y ago
I appreciate baking since it's very algorithmic. It's typically a lot more precise than general cooking, and I love that about it. Just follow the steps, like my brain has been trained to do, except this time I am the runtime. Don
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by hnick 3y ago
I remember that time. We even used it once on a friend's car. However, we did not ban wire coat hangers. I'm sure the politicians would agree that would have been silly, but common sense seems to leave them when it comes to tech.
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by hnick 3y ago
I think a big part is that Japanese is a lot easier to pronounce for westerners. We won't get it fully right but there are no tones and it transliterates to English pretty well, compared to pretty much every other Asian country.
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by hnick 3y ago
I've already lived in my home for a decade and think that would be money well spent. There are probably time bombs coming due I don't know about.
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by hnick 3y ago
This is one argument I've used in my head for ad blockers - you're removing hostile viewers so it might be a net win. It's like dropping flyers in a "no junk mail" box. I wonder if anyone studied it.
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by hnick 3y ago
Sounds like encapsulation in OO. You don't want to let other people poke around in your bits except through well defined interfaces.
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by hnick 3y ago
I had a quick look and it seems that the Brisbane claim is contentious (like these things often are), according to Australian Geographic: Brisbane claims the earliest jacaranda tree in Australia, planted in 1864, but the Sydney Botanic Gar
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by hnick 3y ago
They are so ubiquitous here I've had conversations with multiple people who think they are native. Apparently, seedlings were given to new parents from a maternity hospital in southern Sydney back in the day which helped their spread.
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by hnick 3y ago
This is the main benefit I get from the free ChatGPT. I ask a question more related to syntax e.g. how to make a LINQ statement since I haven't been in C# for a few weeks and I forget. If it gets things a little wrong I can drill down
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by hnick 3y ago
I'm not sure there is even a way to study the fact that other people have the same sense of time that we do - I think this would fall under qualia. We just assume it's roughly the same like I should see the blue you see. Regardles
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by hnick 3y ago
I know web search at least runs JS to get better results. Not sure about email pre-fetch but I assume they do. I don't think crawlers click buttons though unless they are malicious so it's probably fine for unique email links.
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by hnick 3y ago
Or, as I so often get, ask me to log in to "my account". Which is not my account, it's someone else's account but they don't know their own email address, so logging in is probably technically unauthorised access to
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by hnick 3y ago
I think some crawlers run JS, because a lot of the web simply won't work without JS to initialise the page state these days. You can use captcha or similar, one workaround I've seen has a submit that is hidden so never clicked by
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by hnick 3y ago
I don't know what the letter of the law is but I (and most people I've seen here in Australia based on driving patterns) interpret yielding to cars on the roundabout as giving way if I will get in the way. If they're still on
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by hnick 3y ago
Yes traffic lights can be far better in heavy traffic - at least everyone gets a turn. In some roundabouts I've driven through, where there is a "main" way the cars coming from the other directions often get locked out as peo
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by hnick 3y ago
Is this true? I'm not sure if sponsors ask for this but I think metrics are available to creators to show how many people watch during different portions of the video, so they could, including post-payment based on the results. See aud
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by hnick 3y ago
I was trying to do something with delegates in C# but couldn't remember what the various bits were called since it's been so long, so didn't have the magic words for Google to work. ChatGPT sorted me out with my vague questio
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by hnick 3y ago
Do those statutes apply for interoperability? Which takes precedence? This is basically how Rockstar used it - to make the game work on computers without CDs. So the actual rights holder has recognised that this tool or one like it is legit
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by hnick 3y ago
This is essentially how we used to do it for some "print-ready" jobs at a mailhouse I worked at. Usually we'd use proper tools to produce documents ready to print, but sometimes clients thought they knew better and would send
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by hnick 3y ago
Worth noting that wood ash becomes corrosive when you add water which is probably bad for the concrete.
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by hnick 3y ago
Do you feel the same way about scroll-enabled menus? I had to implement a menu recently (similar to the one on https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/getting-started/introducti... ) and my first draft used traditio
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by hnick 3y ago
I think it's a bit of a grey area, you can't patent abstract things like rules of a game, but a game engine makes that a little less abstract and turns it into an implementation. For example, Magic: The Gathering has a patent he
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by hnick 3y ago
Let's be honest, a lot of non-minified JS code is barely legible either :) For me I guess what I was getting at is that I consider source the stuff I'm working on - the minified output I won't touch, it's output. But it
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by hnick 3y ago
Is minified "code" still "source code"? I think I'd say the source is the original implementation pre-minification. I hate it too when working out how something is done on a site, but I'm wondering where we fal
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by hnick 3y ago
I wasn't sure if I was imagining it but this seemed to change in the last year or so for restaurants on my phone. I used to zoom into the local area when travelling, and click the food icon to see what's around. Now it zooms out a
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by hnick 3y ago
If it allows a smaller and cheaper battery (hopefully in the longer term, less size = less expense) then it should make lower capacity small city EV runabouts more attractive. Right now the price floor is unattractive. Many households have
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by hnick 3y ago
We have The Domain in Sydney which hosts events and concerts too, so large crowds also are fine to some degree. I assume water and sun and fertiliser go a long way. But I've seen in other areas (and probably The Domain but I rarely go)
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by hnick 3y ago
I think the point is the train of thought "There's a hole in the fence, so the lion could get us, but that can't be right or they would've been sued, or the fear of being sued would make them notice and fix it. So we mus

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