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by jbarham 4y ago
Case in point: https://www.switch.com/executive-team/
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by jbarham 4y ago
For anyone interested in contemporary piano reviews, Stu Harrison does fantastic reviews for both acoustic and digital pianos on the Merriam Music YouTube channel ( https://www.youtube.com/c/MerriamPianos ).
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by jbarham 4y ago
I run https://www.slickdns.com (DNS hosting) and https://www.youpatch.com (pixel quilt patterns). Web backend: Django DNS/Web API backends: Go, Flask, Tornado DB: Postgres, SQLite Cache: Redis Frontend: htmx (vi
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by jbarham 4y ago
When David Livingstone died in 1873 in what is now Zambia his attendants removed his heart and buried it under a tree. They then carried his body over 1000 miles to the coast near Dar es Salaam, where his remains were returned by ship to Br
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by jbarham 4y ago
I think a lot of church congregations in Korea meet in spaces that are not purpose-built church buildings, e.g., the floor of a commercial high-rise building. I lived in Seoul on and off from 2004 - 2006 and one of the things I first notice
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by jbarham 4y ago
Yeah, but can you get a green card on an E3?
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by jbarham 5y ago
I have 30+ domains registered w/ Namecheap. I recently bought an ebook about UI design from a Russian. And I'm a longtime customer of JetBrains. While JetBrains is officially based in Prague (Czech Republic) I understand that many
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by jbarham 5y ago
Installing Windows without a Microsoft account
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by jbarham 5y ago
Yes, "buzzy" or "tinny" is a good way to describe the sound I have in my implant ear. But I don't usually notice it with my other ear which has almost normal hearing up to 1500 Hz. Definitely agree that the brain is
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by jbarham 5y ago
I just did a music test with & without my cochlear, using Postmodern Jukebox. ;) Here's the reference song and timestamp: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI1cGPfL-Bw&t=130s Without my implant I can barely hear
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by jbarham 5y ago
Great read. I'm a cochlear implant recipient. I live in Melbourne and had my operation at the Eye and Ear Hospital where Graeme Clark did his research, which I thought was pretty neat. For unknown reasons my normal hearing deteriorated
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by jbarham 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
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by jbarham 5y ago
Personally my main takeaway from the article is less that renewable energy sources are a good alternative to the grid but more that the monopoly Hydro One connection fees are outrageously high. $25 - $80k connection fees seem like extortion
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by jbarham 5y ago
I have the Cochlear CI512 implant. Not sure how many channels it has (14?), but IIRC at this point increasing the number of channels doesn't have a significant difference in outcomes. Implants are designed to be simple and reliable so
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by jbarham 5y ago
I have a cochlear implant and strongly disagree that it prevents me from enjoying music. So much so that I've taken up piano lessons again after a break of 20+ years.
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by jbarham 5y ago
One of my side projects is a DNS hosting service, SlickDNS ( https://www.slickdns.com/ ). I moved my authoritative DNS name servers over to Fly a few months ago. After some initial teething issues with Fly's UDP support
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by jbarham 5y ago
https://idlewords.com/2006/04/argentina_on_two_steaks_a_day.... (by Maciej Cegłowski, the creator of Pinboard)
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by jbarham 5y ago
I recently started using Fly to host the anycast DNS name servers for my DNS hosting service SlickDNS ( https://www.slickdns.com/ ). There were some initial teething issues as Fly only recently added UDP support, but they wer
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by jbarham 6y ago
You're probably thinking of the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program ( https://www.immigration.ca/quebec-immigrant-investor-program ). In theory applicants should "intend to settle in the province of Quebec", in p
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by jbarham 6y ago
FYI your email isn't in your profile.
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by jbarham 6y ago
> On the software development side I learned enough COBOL to port some of our mainframe jobs to Python. I wrote packed-decimal libraries and EBCDIC encoders so we could use Python going forward to process batch jobs. A big deal in the pa
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by jbarham 6y ago
Yes, I can distinguish between a C major chord and a C minor chord. I took piano lessons as a kid and learned some formal music theory. Note though that I had perfectly normal hearing until my late 30s, and only have an implant in one ear.
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by jbarham 6y ago
After my cochlear implant operation I volunteered to participate in an in-depth research study to collect data on post-op outcomes for cochlear implant recipients (coincidentally at the Eye & Ear hospital in Melbourne where the multi-ch
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by jbarham 6y ago
> Hearing aids (nor cochlear implants, for that matter) do not "restore hearing", except for light hearing loss This claim is totally false for cochlear implants. I am a cochlear implant recipient and before the implant I had e
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by jbarham 6y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Go Résumé/CV: https://www.wombatsoftware.com/john-barham-resume.html GitHub: https://github.com/jbarham&#
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by jbarham 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Melbourne, Australia or REMOTE Technologies: Python, Django, Go Résumé/CV: https://www.wombatsoftware.com/john-barham-resume.html GitHub: https://github.com/jbarham/ Email: john@wom
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by jbarham 6y ago
See also the Ball of Light series by South Australian based photographer Denis Smith: https://www.denissmith.com.au/ball-of-light
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by jbarham 6y ago
Location: Melbourne, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, Django, Go Résumé/CV: https://www.wombatsoftware.com/john-barham-resume.html GitHub: https://github.com/jbarham&#
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by jbarham 6y ago
FWIW I run a website that allows you to interactively filter Micro Four Thirds lenses: https://www.m43lenses.com/
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by jbarham 6y ago
I've lived in LA. I've also lived in Seoul. I miss living in LA. I do not miss living in Seoul. Seoul is a concrete jungle where the vast majority of people live in tiny concrete apartments. (Literally concrete, I destroyed a lot

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