jdnenej

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by jdnenej 7y ago
~$15-$17 AUD per hour and all living expenses paid for by parents. Combined with money you get from relatives on birthdays it becomes pretty easy to buy a new $400 gpu
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by jdnenej 7y ago
>Libraries, maker spaces, men's sheds, and community gardens all fill some of the role you're talking about I see these around the city but unfortunately I'm living with my parents stuck in the suburbs and it seems like th
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by jdnenej 7y ago
I wasn't so much opposed to using them originally but I just had no reason to use them since regular ordering worked fine. Now that they have removed the regular counters I have bothered to learn the self serve ones and I feel mostly i
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by jdnenej 7y ago
In Australia they seem to have made the kiosk the only option when in store. Tbh I don't mind it as the UI on these kiosks is very well done and I can spend my time looking through the list of available options.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Every McDonald's I have been to in Australia has been remodeled to look like an average cafe, there is no music and the color scheme is mostly, white stone texture / brown wood. It's not a deluxe restaurant but it's not
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by jdnenej 7y ago
I often wish local councils would fund places where you could just go to to hang around. My uni had a bunch of these places and it would just be an air conditioned room with lots of couches/chairs and a ping pong table. Often I'll
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by jdnenej 7y ago
I went to a private school in Australia and had lots of friends from upper class backgrounds and almost all of them had a part time job at McDonald's or a supermarket purely for the experience and so they could have the finest PC gamin
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by jdnenej 7y ago
If you do a reset from recovery and not the settings app it locks it down with android factory reset protection and the phone is bricked until the original owner enters their google password.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Games have been becoming unplayable due to DRM servers shutting down. IoT devices are becoming bricks when they go out of support. DRM and internet dependency are the ultimate tools in capitalisms planned obsolescence toolbox. You no longer
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by jdnenej 7y ago
I got hit by this same issue. We had a few spare phones at work in a draw and I wanted to give them to friends in need of a phone. Had permission from the company but no one knew who owned them or what the password was. I did the manual fac
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by jdnenej 7y ago
You might feel a minor tingle on your tongue if the battery connects to it somehow
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by jdnenej 7y ago
The improvements are all in headphones. Wireless and noise canceling are legitimate needs and they are getting better.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
There is literally no reason you can justify this being good for the environment. It may make business sense but it's still a crime against the planet.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Local only doesn't allow Sonos to record everything you do and disable your device when they decide it's time for you to buy a new one.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Nice, now we will have distracted drivers watching videos.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
>Is long-term planning incompatible with democratic elections? Maybe, but the alternative doesn't necessarily seem to work either. China has an awful environmental record as well. It seems that humans are incompatible with long term
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by jdnenej 7y ago
The timescales are completely different. Past climate changes have been on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years. Now we are seeing it on the scale of a hundred years. Life on Earth will most likely exist after climate change but it w
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by jdnenej 7y ago
The simple solution is to move the disposal cost to the producer. Instead of the consumer paying taxes to dispose of the product, the producer must pay and now a producer which produces less waste can sell cheaper products.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Oil supply is effectively infinite. By that I mean there is so much available that we will have destroyed the planet before we remove it all. We extract as much as there is a demand for. If you lower the demand then you lower the amount bei
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by jdnenej 7y ago
"quite good" there was a post here recently about how they fail the majority of the time and are totally useless at night.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
No one advocating against cars thinks emergency vehicles should be removed. Emergency vehicles would be aided by the removal of cars from streets since pedestrians and cyclists are able to clear the space easily for emergency vehicles unlik
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by jdnenej 7y ago
I think the license acquisition process is mostly sufficient. What is think is missing is re testing after. There are 80 year Olds who can hardly see anymore who are still driving. As well disqualifying people from driving for offences like
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by jdnenej 7y ago
It doesn't take a few weeks to learn to drive a car safely. In Australia it takes 3 years and 100 hours of driving with someone else to get a license.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
The non cloud version is your website goes offline for a day due to high traffic. Depending on the website that may or may not be preferable to variable costs.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
There was a bug in a php app where someone had typed `flase` which evaluated to `"flase"` which is truthy so the authentication check passed.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Most of the stuff on scihub was funded by tax dollars
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Most people don't care. The chance anything at all bad will happen is so incredibly low.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
I provided feedback to slack once and got a reply similar to that. I wonder if they say that just to make you feel good and then throw the feedback in the bin.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
Ages ago I guess. 1password doesn't start with a letter either.
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by jdnenej 7y ago
The cameras take a photo which would very likely be reviewed by a human first. And if the photo is very unclear you have some kind of proof to use unlike a police officer saying they saw it.

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