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by mmerlin 6y ago
Abbott's worst two decisions while PM were, IMHO: Killing our nascent Fibre-to-the-Home rollout which had just begun after years of planning by the previous government. We now use problematic mish mash of slow copper instead of fibre
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by mmerlin 6y ago
I wonder if cranking up a bass amp to back-massaging levels and playing open B notes (30.8Hz) on a 5 (or 6) string bass guitar also helps :D
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Plus we spent $31 Billion more than Abbott/Turnbull told the voters it would cost. We would have saved $11 Billion if the original FttP rollout, which had just begun, was allowed to proceed. The valuations of Murdoch's decrepit co
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by mmerlin 6y ago
I've written scrapers and web automation bots going as far back as 1998 (using VB5 and VB6 automating IE) Nowadays mostly I write custom scrapers use PHP (Guzzle, Curl, etc) and Python (I was introduced to Beautiful Soup, by the "
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ Hackable Linux Handheld(yarh.io)
141 points by mmerlin 6y ago|93 comments
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by mmerlin 6y ago
2PC = two-phase commit https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-phase_commit_protocol For anyone like me whose neural net had a cache miss due to lack of caffeine activation function ;)
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Dropshipper also absorbs the losses from credit card fraud, de-risking ecommerce for the manufacturer.
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by mmerlin 6y ago
First Murdoch stopped most of Australia from receiving the fast fibre to the home that had just begun rollout. Instead we got lumped with using his rotting Foxtel coax cables for slow expensive unreliable broadband. Plus we spent $10 Billi
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Multi-cluster kubernetes federation could be the answer (where a "cluster" could be as tiny as a k3s instance running on your Raspberry Pi). However could mean you need one vendor to provide the control-plane software for your ven
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Fantastic work! I will be testing it out for sure. Coincidentally I'm just about to begin a project intending to use the Form Recognizer service in Azure: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-s
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by mmerlin 6y ago
My high school chemistry teacher simplified it down to the greater "rate of change" of temperature dropping, for the hot water, causes it to end up freezing faster than the cold water.
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by mmerlin 6y ago
For Australia, to check if FTTP is possible (without spending five figures to connect) look for the purple dots here: http://nbnmtm.australiaeast.cloudapp.azure.com/nbnmtm.html Unofficial, maintained for years by some aweso
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by mmerlin 6y ago
also the 2nd video here: https://t.co/BRezMWT5IV
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by mmerlin 6y ago
For the four letter acronym clueless (FLAC? ;) like me... GOAT = greatest of all time https://www.acronymfinder.com/Greatest-of-All-Time-(LL-Cool-...
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Flutter apps run much faster than Xamarin. This video shows it in 15 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT5QJdzHIhU The related reddit thread has the details https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev&#x
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by mmerlin 6y ago
If you are a solo developer with $1000 budget then Handsontable is more mature and $790 for perpetual license with 1 year support. I do like the feel of this rowsncolumns.app Copying columns between Excel and rowsncolumns.app works nicely (
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Flutter may have beat ReactNative on that StackOverflow chart, however has not yet caught up on Google Trends: http://www.fluttercoder.com/ Notice the decline in Xamarin
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Definitely agree. Although to get slightly meta about this, the core blame lies with the 25 years trend of Australian governments outsourcing or selling off every possible previously-government-owned service they can (mostly to China-owned
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Parallels with Opioid companies Excessive use of social media may have a similar impact as using opioids... https://www.foxnews.com/tech/facebook-cocaine-opioids-how-ad...
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by mmerlin 6y ago
I am right handed but 20 years ago swapped mouse to left hand due to right hand temporary injury. Took a few months of practice to feel natural and after my right hand was 100% again I decided to keep using left hand for mouse ever since. I
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by mmerlin 6y ago
The forked version which is an Addin runs about 4x faster, and is actively being developed now https://github.com/joyfullservice/msaccess-vcs-integration
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by mmerlin 6y ago
Biased article because Xenophon (the co-author) is paid to shill for the CCP's Huwai. https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/12/xenophon-welcomes-h... Huwai might be cheapest supplier for national comms infras
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by mmerlin 7y ago
Wow looks cool because faasd is a self contained OpenFaas equivalent without Kubernetes. OpenFaas is awesome if you want to run Lambda-like serverless containerized functions on your own cluster, or run functions longer than the AWS limit o
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by mmerlin 7y ago
Yep a travel startup I was helping build MVP fired everybody last week. A startup in a sector of the economy that depends on people being in close proximity to one another is now likely a bust.
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by mmerlin 7y ago
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by mmerlin 7y ago
Pinboard.in and/or Trello
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by mmerlin 7y ago
IMO this depends who is the target user of the API. If you are building an API for yourself or your company (for example, you are building the backend API for a Vue.js front end app to consume) then GraphQL is a very fine choice for reasons
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by mmerlin 7y ago
Eating bats in Wuhan: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/warnings/chine...
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by mmerlin 7y ago
My guess was Blackbird or Airtree. A search shows them being in the top 5: https://www.smartcompany.com.au/startupsmart/analysis/austra...
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by mmerlin 7y ago
"Low Code" is currently where it's at. Intelligent subject-matter experts who are non-programmers can build 80 to 90% of their business info capture and reporting requirements inside the walled garden of their chosen platform

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