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by jaza 2y ago
Author here. That was definitely not my intent! How can a sea level rise of potentially 1.6 metres (approx 5 feet) within the next 75 years, possibly put you at ease, or sound "very manageable"?!
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by jaza 2y ago
Author here. No, unfortunately there aren't any such photos that I know of, and that's because even though sea level rise to date is verifiable via reliable measurements, in most of the world the sea level hasn't risen enough
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Sea level rise is gonna get a whole lot realer(greenash.net.au)
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by jaza 2y ago
You should do, and I usually do, both "pure" unit tests (with all I/O - database calls, reading/writing local files, 3rd party API calls, etc - being mocked), and integration tests (with ideally all I/O really happe
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by jaza 2y ago
Arrogant Apple always knows best! Which is why I've always said, and I'll continue saying, fuck Apple.
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by jaza 2y ago
Plus, perhaps the biggest complexity of all is that the currency rates are often not free, particularly if you want "live pricing" (updated every few seconds), and particularly if it's for commercial use. And, the fact that t
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by jaza 2y ago
Good on you for open sourcing the code. Its destiny may yet be as a hidden gem that makes some peoples' lives better. In which case, not what I'd call a failure.
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by jaza 2y ago
Feels like OP is basically implementing exceptions and exception handling at the application level. If this is what you want, then why not just switch to one of the many other languages that has exceptions built in at the language level?
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by jaza 2y ago
ASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDWFGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!
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by jaza 2y ago
Indeed. The central Sydney locality of Haymarket is that in name only. Same for Wheat Road and The Goods Line. Wholesale fresh produce has all been in Homebush / Flemington for years now, barely accessible to anyone without a semi-trai
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by jaza 2y ago
Relax, folks, entities have plenty of other options, there still won't be support for Do-Not-Shoot, Do-Not-Rape, Do-Not-Stone, fun for the whole family.
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by jaza 2y ago
Finally I understand why RFCs are served with the Do-Not-Comment header!
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by jaza 2y ago
Nice! Learning how QR codes work has been on my todo list for ages, this was a nice introduction.
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by jaza 2y ago
Despite the apparently glowing write-up from the time, hailing it as a success, no doubt there were constant cringeworthy "technical issues", of crackly lines, poor volume, calls dropping off, etc - I can well imagine the organise
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by jaza 2y ago
Ummm... driving out of my metro area, in any direction, on a work day: zero traffic! Doing so at the start of a long weekend / during Xmas - New Year: horrendous traffic! Is that not the case for you?
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by jaza 2y ago
Only some of these are really Postgres specific (use "text" / "timestamptz"; make psql more useful; copy to CSV). Most of them apply to relational databases in general (learn how to normalise!; yes, NULL is weird; l
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by jaza 2y ago
I typically try to take annual leave and to travel exactly on the opposite dates to what this tool recommends. That's because I care more about avoiding the significant extra expense, traffic, and crowds of travel over public holiday p
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by jaza 2y ago
The military operates that way with 99% of their personnel, who are grunts, expected to only ever follow orders, to never think for themselves. They're expendable cannon fodder - think of them as pieces of hardware in a software compan
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by jaza 2y ago
Speed cameras have been privatised in NSW, and the rumour is that the private operator is now the one deciding how many of them to install and where to put them. So, forget about all pretence of them being for road safety, they're putt
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by jaza 2y ago
Sydney's rollout was definitely not smooth! NSW spent a decade (late 90s - late 00s) trying to launch the "Tcard", after which time they had absolutely nothing to show except wasted $$ millions. Unlike Melbourne, Sydney still
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by jaza 2y ago
Over the years my coder colleagues have been about 95% male and 5% female. Of them, I rate about 80% of the males as producers of quality code, and about 95% of the females as such. That's just my experience and my subjective scores.
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by jaza 2y ago
It's sad if "lost cities" are becoming so common, that they're losing their romantic-exotic-intrepid charm. If lost cities ain't got it no more, what in this world does?
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by jaza 2y ago
Hey muchachos, I think 5 minutes of praise for Tenochtitlan is in order. Right, that's that done, now, onto the 3 centuries of murder, rape, pillage, inquisition, and subjugation.
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by jaza 2y ago
We could start by at least processing our own steel (we still process some, but not nearly as much as we used to). Newcastle Steelworks, just north of Sydney, was back in the day one of the biggest in the world, but it closed down in the 90
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by jaza 2y ago
Hahaha, fellow Star Trek IV fan here, that was one noisy punk, and one chunky blaring 80s boombox! You mean our "primitive and paranoid culture"?
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by jaza 2y ago
Thanks for that nugget of advice! I probably already know it deep down inside, but seldom remember it, and seldom act with that mindset. But yeah, so true. Don't try to make someone give a shit about something that they have no reason
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by jaza 2y ago
Can / does asterisk-BSD share many hardware drivers with Linux? IMHO that's the only way asterisk-BSD is to have any hope of catching up in the laptop space.
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by jaza 2y ago
I spent several years in South America, and down there (it varies by country, but by and large) it's totally normal for people to play music on loudspeaker on public transport, walking down the street, in the park, etc, nobody bats an
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by jaza 2y ago
Also Taco Bell, which was absent here in Australia for many years, due to a long-running legal battle[1] with local chain Taco Bill. The first Taco Bell only opened in inner Sydney about 3 years ago (after decades of failed attempts). [1]
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by jaza 2y ago
Clearly not much effort went into the parent comment!

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