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by jen729w 4y ago
Ahaaa cool tip, that will be useful one day. Thank you.
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by jen729w 4y ago
> 1. Live below your means. Advice from someone who didn't do this and should now have waaaaaaaay more savings than he does: don't reduce your spending on experiences (dinner, drinks with friends, holidays), but try to reduce y
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by jen729w 4y ago
I'm a tech generalist and this is so so right. If I could sum it up in a sentence it would be "be more helpful than everyone else". Be the person that (generally) says yes, not no. Stretch your boundaries a little, chip in an
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by jen729w 4y ago
Government laptop. No can use anything that isn’t whitelisted. This is the beauty of Excel. It’s a powerful text manipulation tool that everyone has.
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by jen729w 4y ago
I know I should learn it but, I dunno, I just really dislike the PowerShell syntax. I get what they were going for with the Verb-Noun thing but it just reminds me of AppleScript and I can’t stand it.
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I didn’t. I pasted the output and munged it with Excel’s trusty text functions.
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Yeah, just yesterday. Hacky output from `nslookup`, not ideal but it’s all we had. Tens of thousands of rows. No IDE with regex capabilities available. Excel to the rescue! Took me about five minutes to extract exactly what I needed.
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by jen729w 4y ago
On every crossing? It might not be hard but it surely would be expensive. I'd guess that there are tens of thousands of these buttons around Greater Sydney, possibly even in to the hundreds of. Also Sydney's crossing buttons are
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by jen729w 4y ago
I looked it up, but this from Wikipedia put me off: "Nevil Shute was displeased with the final cut of the film, feeling that too many changes had been made at the expense of the story's integrity. After initial collaboration with
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by jen729w 4y ago
The audiobook, read by the author, is terrific.
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by jen729w 4y ago
Neville Shute's novel 'On the Beach', from 1957. I won't spoil it -- Wikipedia has a synopsis if you want -- other than to say it's end-of-times dystopia. But from 1957. It's delightful. My friend Tim: > Jus
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by jen729w 4y ago
“If it wasn’t for hearing about it, I wouldn’t have heard about it.” ;-)
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by jen729w 4y ago
Tangentially related, but as everyone here seems to enjoy talk of nuclear [things], it’s worth a recommendation: Nevil Shute’s 1957 novel ‘On the Beach’. If you want high-level spoilers, Wikipedia is your friend. I shan’t say a word other t
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by jen729w 4y ago
I just finished the audiobook, which is read by the author. Lovely. He also has a short series inside Sam Harris' (paid) 'Waking Up' meditation app which is how I got on to him (Oliver Burkeman).
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by jen729w 4y ago
And my mate Tim, a designer not a coder, could bang up really neat stuff really easily. Now you need to be Bartosz Ciechanowski and only he is.
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by jen729w 4y ago
“Oh but this requires a government ID card and I’ll never allow that! Liberty, freedom, something!” …later… “Hello sir, you’ve just started a new job. In order for that to happen I’m going to need copies of your passport, driver’s licence,
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by jen729w 4y ago
We took advantage of this back in the mid 90s when we were 18-year-old backpackers from the UK. We got to Stockholm, looked at the train map, picked somewhere random, and headed off. When it got suitably rural, we got off. (My memory now is
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by jen729w 4y ago
But if there was a famous guy called Congu who was so famous people had named territories elsewhere after him and he had his own clothing label to boot -- ensuring that his name was foremost in the popular psyche -- then it wouldn't
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Zero, given that anyone can sniff the traffic.
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by jen729w 4y ago
Canberra, Australia's capital, also does not allow (most) outdoor billboard advertising. It's incredibly calming. And then it just becomes normal until you go to, say, Melbourne. And then it hits you in the face and good lord it&#
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by jen729w 4y ago
> Eat organic All this is gonna make you is poorer.
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by jen729w 4y ago
> I see a lot of good advice in the comments but the one I don’t see which has had an amazing effect is an annual (or perhaps once every 2 year, if you’re still in your 20s) physical exam with a good physician. FWIW I asked the Australia
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by jen729w 4y ago
Sentiers. “Understand the world, imagine better futures Each issue features a carefully curated selection of articles with thoughtful commentary on technology, society, culture, and potential futures.” https://sentiers.media&#x2F
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by jen729w 4y ago
> Columbia's Colombia. I correct this at 80% of coffee shops I go to. Yeah, I’m that guy. I went to Colombia in the early 2000s and adored it (I’m British), so this gets my goat.
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by jen729w 4y ago
Happy user here, with the marvellous Feedbin as the sync back-end. Feedbin's website is really, really nice if you want to check your feeds on the go.
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by jen729w 4y ago
> how most IT engineers see the world vs how real-world engineers do Reminds me of… # Programmers: Stop Calling Yourselves Engineers “It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest … The ti
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by jen729w 4y ago
Oh and by the way they’re also getting some of that $75 from the comedian by way of ‘inside fees’. Possibly as much as $20 of it. Source: I put on a large event once and we had to use Ticketmaster. I hate them like nothing else.
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With these tickets you can always sell them back to the venue/event, who will put them back in the sale pool. All at reasonable percentages of the original.
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> I've never been able to stick to a routine with a set of daily tasks in the same way he apparently has Productivity nerd here, so I’m not criticising anyone. But… Could this be because you simply don’t want to? My feeling is that

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