jackvalentine

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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
Hi, I’m closely involved in xCAT cases for my Australian organisation. We send an in-house lawyer to represent us at every mediation and hearing. Every complaint that goes to an official body is dealt with by the lawyers at that point. Only
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
I no shit once worked on 'Project Magenta Lobster'.
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
In case you hadn’t noticed there is no test instance and prod is filled with malware and black hats.
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
Welcome to the internet!
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
Are you Australian?
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
For people in an industry that is _built_ on A/B testing, HN sure expects governments to get everything perfect first go with no edge cases or externalities doesn’t it!
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
I don’t care that they’re behind on AI, I care that they’ve decided to throw UX out the window so all my devices are just a little bit worse to use than they were 12 months ago.
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
Putting aside any opinion on success and workability of this regulation, social media/big tech walked right in to this one.
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
No I don’t think I’ll spend $499 on a second hand computer so she can change from using her current working computer for chrome and printing things.
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by jackvalentine 10mo ago
The thing that made the PC speaker so unbearable for me was the inability to change the volume - 6am family PC gaming was NOT okay if I woke everyone up with beeps and bloops.
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
Now the school will do everything possible to convince their crap students to leave before those exams!
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
No I don’t think I’ll spend a minimum of A$999 so she can use chrome and print things.
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
I’m looking for a replacement OS for my mother in law whose computer is aging out of Windows 10 support. I’m glad to see slick distributions like this trying to fill that gap. That said her requirements are _so_ simple that Debian with Chro
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
Very! I’ll be thinking about that for a while.
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
> The CEO seems to believe that the scale of Roblox is somehow an excuse to justify its problems The entire tech industry in a nutshell.
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
We all have our vices! (It's what I learned first, and feel most confident in). This has been a nice interaction which is increasingly rare online, thanks.
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
Anything ‘real’ I’ll do in R, but my wife is not super keen on that where we’re collaborating on something!
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
Most recent example, putting together a pretty basic car shopping spreadsheet I’ve just gotten pissed off and not done it. Yes it’s petty, yes it means I just don’t do something easy. Yes in the end it’s only my problem. I’ll probably just
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
I use linux full time on my home PCs, and I want Libre Office to work for me. I _can’t_ get equivalent functionality of Excel’s tables (named range, but it dynamically expands and applies formulas as you add more data). If you’ve got excel
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
I’ve noticed the same, and also people’s behaviour generally everywhere has bottomed out and not recovered. I was speaking to an ED nurse who said people have just forgotten how to relate and violence is through the roof every night in the
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
It’s good that we have decent NiMH batteries that I don’t think leak like alkaline ones do (I’ve never seen one!). Lower voltages, but flatter discharge curve so pretty much everything works with them.
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
While ‘only’ twice as long to find a job, I get the feeling that it’s almost exponential in its impact the longer you stay unemployed. Anyone got a way of characterising that?
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by jackvalentine 11mo ago
Malrotation? We had in our family a “doctors are confused!” experience that ended up being that.
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
I (in Australia) was looking at weatherboards on the weekend for some work i’m doing and came across the James Hardie ‘Linea’ weatherboards - they’re fibro-cement boards. A couple of things struck me: 1) I’ve noticed the James Hardie ‘brand
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
The author’s father is Pakistani, for what it’s worth.
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
What do you mean? (What is elite overproduction too!)
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
The _retailer_ has the relationship with the manufacturer and will need to return the returns to them and get a refund.
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
Intake pressure provided by the turbo or supercharger - basically exhaust gasses spin one side of the turbine that causes the other side to pump air in to the engine at higher-than-atmospheric pressure. This allows for more fuel to be added
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
I’m not sure what you’re angling to have someone else say for you. Could you just say it?
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by jackvalentine 1y ago
I’m not an expert at this but I’m pretty annoyed that I now have to think about something as simple as door handles on a car? I thought this was a solved problem.

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