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by mrmincent 3y ago
This one? https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/418158611664097280
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by mrmincent 3y ago
My Dad lives in a small Australian country town, catches something like 50-70 cats in cat traps in his house and back yard each year and offloads them to the local pound. I can’t understand how cat owners are allowed to let their animals ru
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by mrmincent 3y ago
The free market hasn’t been paying for the healthcare costs so far, so I don’t see why it should get to decide what is safe or not safe to use.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
I’m absolutely not a car guy, and Mazdas are my perfect car :D We’ve got a 2008 mazda3 that is still running perfectly that we’re hoping to replace with a slightly larger CX-30 or PHEV equivalent once they sort out that product line. They r
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Yeah I was also disappointed to hear that. Afaik (I asked someone who previously worked in an adjacent field), it sounds like there’s no central system for publishing the judgements, it’s all published by each individual courthouse in a way
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by mrmincent 3y ago
It’s underway - https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/09/20/strong-arrows-gradua...
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by mrmincent 3y ago
There are a lot of things you can’t eat, but are very important tools to help you get food. Words, ideas, friendships, jobs. None of them are edible, but very useful. Money is another one.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
If it is something that many people do, how is it non-normal?
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by mrmincent 3y ago
We’ve switched from aiming to get a Tesla to just a Mazda PHEV instead, mainly because my wife doesn’t want to bankroll anymore Elon behaviour. Wouldn’t surprise me if there’s a few conversations like that around the dinner table these days
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by mrmincent 3y ago
What’s your second favourite dish then that isn’t a single regional ingredient?
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Agreed, I remember growing up in country WA and we would have mutton as it was a cheaper option afaik, but it’s almost impossible to get these days - all lamb.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
In Australia don’t we all know exactly how much tax we’re paying? We have a flat 10% GST with the amount shown on every receipt?
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by mrmincent 3y ago
2 and a bit, we’re hoping to maintain it until he’s in full time school.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
We were lucky to have some flexibility to spread the load. My wife and I both dropped down to 4 days a week, and my Mother-in-law looks after our son one day a week, so he has a Dad day, a Mum day, a Nana day, and 2 daycare days. To us it f
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Sexual assault is a serious allegation. In most media channels if an employee is accused of sexual assault they would be stood down and an investigation launched. He’s lucky they’re still giving him a platform to use.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
The advice from that video to put powdered detergent in the prewash has been a huge improvement to our dishwashing. We now put the powder in the prewash section, but keep using tablets for the main wash just because of inertia I suppose, bu
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Yep, people I’ve known my whole life, used to order Hawaiian pizza with them years ago, now they make gagging noises when someone else orders it.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Lately I’ve found that the people who complain about pineapple on pizza these days are the sort of people who used to love it until they found out that you should hate pineapple on pizza, probably the same sort of people that would’ve sneer
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Also smartest, most brave, and the best dancers etc.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Yep, prelude is great. I finally have a common config across all my machines thanks to prelude, for some reason I never got everything consistent enough before.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Sad to hear of his passing, I remember building my uni project around OpenCyc in my one “Intelligent Systems” class many many years ago. It was a dismal failure as my ambition far exceeded my skills, but it was so enjoyable reading about Cy
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Yep, I definitely wouldn’t have done the grad Cert if I knew how weak it would be, was very expensive and very disappointing.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
Nice! I certainly haven’t completed all of them, just bandit, the web based one, and one of the mediumish ones, and maybe not even all of it, I can’t remember which one tbh. Definitely a fantastic learning resource, once my brain has had a
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by mrmincent 3y ago
I recently completed a grad Cert in cyber security, and a large initial part of the practicals were to just go through otw and complete some of the lessons. It’s a great resource, and had I known about it before hand I probably wouldn’t hav
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by mrmincent 3y ago
This rings true to me, I’ve tried so many times to pick up a more “professional” IDE as that’s what all the proper software devs at my workplaces have used, but I just always come back to a completely pared back emacs and a separate command
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by mrmincent 3y ago
I’d like to think this is the exact same conversation that gave Australia it’s 2nd favourite purse material, the cane toad.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
I’ve worked for big companies in the past where mission critical cron jobs were run on a Linux vm running off an old little desktop tucked away on a benchtop in the corner that no one ever noticed. Done to bypass various network controls to
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by mrmincent 3y ago
That’s a shame, better give Mitchel Baker a pay rise.
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by mrmincent 3y ago
I’ve never understood this reasoning, why is this a downside? You need water to live. Air has no scent and yet no one insists on only consuming air with scented candles. Besides, if you really need a flavour, squirt a little citrus juice or
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by mrmincent 3y ago
I’ve just started using zotero again after 10 or so years, being back at uni for some further learning. I’m so impressed that zotero has remained useful and these plugins look super handy, will be giving them a red-hot go. Thanks for sharin

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