jimmux

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by jimmux 4y ago
I used to work on NonStop. I wish it was better known, if only for the impressive uptime stories that did the rounds among the senior gurus. At least one involved firearms.
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by jimmux 4y ago
When I realised the same office supply place I bought print supplies from could simply do the prints. Or I could use the library, university, or work printers. It ended up being quicker and cheaper to outsource, plus I don't have anoth
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by jimmux 4y ago
I believe it's named after Monty Python, if that counts as people.
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by jimmux 4y ago
It's amazing how much fulfilment I get from riding around natural spaces on an electric unicycle (also works for bikes or whatever but that's what I use now), taking the occasional picture of things I find interesting. I sometimes
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by jimmux 4y ago
This isn't true in my experience. I have ridden through areas like this often, because for some reason my city put one of the main bicycle routes through a busy pedestrian tourist area, full of families and inebriated diners. If you di
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by jimmux 4y ago
I think the anti-life bit was about entropy, but avoided the word for some reason. Could be for simplicity, poetic reasons, who could say.
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by jimmux 4y ago
That explains why our internet is so slow too. Every bit is 50% bigger so we can't squeeze as many into the pipes.
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by jimmux 4y ago
I'm split on this. Personally I never use food delivery for these reasons, among others. On the other hand, I have friends with disabilities who have had a real improvement to their quality of life by making food more accessible.
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by jimmux 4y ago
They certainly aren't as common as they used to be, but I still see them. I think maybe Royal Life Saving Society still do it? Gold Coast apartments are typical properties now. I'll never enter though - not since they sold my deta
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by jimmux 4y ago
It makes them feel important. They could get the same result by pushing for beneficial development, but that's much more difficult. Mostly because of everyone opposing it to feel important.
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by jimmux 4y ago
That can be a technical choice. Protagonists like these tend to be in games aiming for a more realistic art style, in which it's expensive to render convincing hair.
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by jimmux 4y ago
Cycling infrastructure designed by people who don't cycle is far too common. A favourite example I have to deal with often is when the path has to narrow, so they put up signs telling all cyclists to dismount. I pass through a few of t
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by jimmux 4y ago
I've certainly had interviews like that. In fact my first full time job out of uni was one of those and I made the error (in hindsight) of sticking it out until I could transfer into another role. Now I'm much more careful to scre
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by jimmux 4y ago
I wonder if "redditors as a whole" includes visits from external links. I never go to new reddit deliberately, but often end up there via other sources. I also use third party mobile apps more, so there will be plenty of days when
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by jimmux 4y ago
True much of the time, but we can take it too far. For example, we should be very worried about the state of the Great Barrier Reef, but too many of us act like nothing is happening.
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by jimmux 4y ago
I'm wondering if the consulting company I used to work for is behind this. Hardware sales were behind many decisions, because that's where the sales team made commissions.
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by jimmux 4y ago
My commute goes past a velodrome that sits next to a short, steep hill. Every day there were new times on that hill that would be difficult for some cars to achieve. It was pretty obvious that many people forget to turn it off, and never bo
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by jimmux 5y ago
I pulled mine out of storage a few weeks ago to resurrect it as a display for my EUC, and was surprised by it yet again. The fast refresh and good visibility is just so pleasant to use. Rebble was much easier to set up than I had assumed it
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by jimmux 5y ago
There was a time when it seemed like every new device had to have an always-on blue LED. Escaping blue light at night was an effort. These days small white LEDs are in fashion, which I find much more tolerable.
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by jimmux 5y ago
I have synaesthesia and your description of numbers just feels right to me. I have the fairly common association of letters and numbers with colours, which (at least with people I've shared this with) often is stronger up to 10, with f
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by jimmux 5y ago
I have seen this in my city recently. There's a fairly popular tourist street where they removed all car access, converting it to a pedestrian strip with a tram line. The businesses fought it aggressively because they thought customers
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by jimmux 5y ago
Is that different to the one at the Docklands library? I've been meaning to check it out since things have opened up again.
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by jimmux 5y ago
Markdown and a sensible directory structure has been working great for me. Put it somewhere synced to all the devices, and it's the quickest and easiest form to read and write anywhere. If I really need a nicely formatted copy I can pr
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by jimmux 5y ago
There is what looks like conventional namespacing.
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by jimmux 5y ago
Wrist guards are really underrated. I do a bit of onewheeling and almost everyone uses them there. Being able to slide out a fall on your wrists means you can keep vital areas away from impact, without destroting your hands. It also helps k
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by jimmux 5y ago
Thanks for confirming the sugar thing. I suspected it was helping for me, but there are so many variables with these auras that it's hard to isolate what helps. The warning about vision auto-fill is important too. It can start before t
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by jimmux 5y ago
Minced meat pies are so ubiquitous in Australia that we usually just say "pie". "Mince" is nearly always assumed to be animal meat. The fruity kind of pies that only appear at Christmas time are called "mince pies&q
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by jimmux 5y ago
You might be thinking of the Reddit guidelines, where this rule is famously never observed.
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by jimmux 6y ago
I have never thought of science as writing unit tests for the universe before, but I really like this analogy.
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by jimmux 6y ago
There's no animation in that link for me, but it sounds like you're describing a cinemagraph.

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