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Shock in the Shower (1997)(esdjournal.com)
92 points by jms 11y ago|22 comments
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by jms 11y ago
May I ask where you are roughly? I'm planning to buy a house in a cheap rural location (in NZ), but will still need to spend time in the city for work. I'd love to pick your brains - my email is in my profile, and I'm happy
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by jms 12y ago
Try scraping two quartz crystals together and you'll see it for yourself! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescence
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by jms 12y ago
You have to be careful to match the panels though - slightly different specs can cause problems for your setup. The same goes for batteries - mixing new and old will degrade your new batteries. (Lead acid batteries at least)
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by jms 12y ago
I wonder if any efficiency gains can be found by connecting the heat dump (outside heat exchanger) of the AC to the input of the hot water system? The issue would be balancing the need for cold water to make the AC efficient and this being
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by jms 12y ago
Australian taxi services are close to being a monopoly.
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by jms 12y ago
I've almost finished building a system for learning language specifically using spaced repetition. Instead of basic flash cards, reads you the word (audio); then if you don't get it you'll be shown the word (visual); then you
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by jms 12y ago
If you swallow two (or one and it breaks in half), there's a risk that they'll clamp together inside you, with your intestines in between. Having played with neodymium magnets, having this happen to your finger or ear isn't
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by jms 13y ago
... causing my phone to refuse to let me use the camera! I was getting helpful error messages something like: "Camera Error: Camera Error". After much searching, I found the solution... Uninstall Skype!
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by jms 13y ago
The question is, what's a better investment? Investing in the home you live in gives you tax breaks (jurisdiction dependent). You will look after your own home, instead of having renters with no vested interest. You need access to a ho
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by jms 13y ago
I use SRS (Mnemosyne) for memorising traditional Irish tunes. It feels like each tune is a bit too much of a large chunk to remember at one time for best use of an SRS (you're supposed to chop the information up into the smallest elem
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by jms 13y ago
Emacs is used as an operating system (interface), by blind users! Emacspeak adds speech syntheses and more to Emacs, and can do better than traditional screen readers in many ways due to being able to easily access the underlying lisp stat
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by jms 13y ago
I'd find stories about this interesting too. I took a couple of weeks to camp by a lake and attempt to learn kitesurfing, while working in the evenings. In the test run with my solar panel at home, everything worked well - charge batt
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by jms 14y ago
Back when I worked for a small ISP, we had a diesel generator in case the power went out longer than our UPS batteries would last. This provided a great sense of security until we decided to test the system by powering off the main break a
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When to use Drupal(jh.id.au)
1 points by jms 14y ago|0 comments
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by jms 14y ago
It seems to me this is one of the key functions of the organisation - to act as a pseudo governmental entity to asses qualification and experience claims relating to IT. I believe it also exists to provide a framework around CPD (continuing
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Creating a new name for your project(jh.id.au)
1 points by jms 14y ago|0 comments
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Thousands of UK websites in breach of new cookie law(bbc.com)
1 points by jms 14y ago|0 comments
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by jms 14y ago
For anyone running phpMyAdmin, make sure to lock it down. Here's a guide for limiting access to it by IP address via the apache config for Ubuntu users: http://mixeduperic.com/ubuntu/how-to-restrict-phpmyadmin-ip-...
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by jms 15y ago
It does interest me as to why this is. I think it's this and maybe the geography/population making the mega supermarkets less viable. I sometimes play with the idea of a food co-op to bring prices down, but haven't got far.
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by jms 15y ago
I don't know about other states, but food is crazily expensive here (Sydney) compared to the UK. For some reason, eating out or takeaways is relatively cheap though.
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by jms 16y ago
It's interesting how quickly the text to speech setup can be made to run. My dad's computer talks so quickly I can't understand without slowing it down.
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by jms 16y ago
Apologies for the threadjack, but I'm moving to Sydney soon and am looking for work. I saw Atlassian and was very tempted as it looks like an awesome culture, but the there aren't any jobs that are really a great fit for me. The tech and e
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by jms 17y ago
I did that when I was younger - I started a company for the experience. Can you guess what I got out of it? Experience! (and not much else) Now I focus on making money, solving problems, changing the world.
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by jms 17y ago
I'm based in Manchester, and can code etc. If you'd like to meet up to discuss things I'd be happy to catch up for a hot chocolate or beer sometime. Email me. Logically you've got 3 choices. * Learn to code. * Pay someone to code. * Partn
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by jms 17y ago
I've worked with someone offering a similar service in the UK. We didn't continue the engagement as the business was at the wrong stage of development for his involvement, but if we were in the right stage then I think his help would have