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by ropable 4y ago
I love coffee, but I've determined that consuming caffeine negatively affects my sleep even 6-8 hours later. I agree with your fixes, though my own rule is simply to not consume anything caffeinated after 15:00.
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by ropable 4y ago
Woodworking using only hand tools can be a remarkably space-efficient and neighbour-friendly pastime. I started out that hobby making little projects, mainly using a few unpowered tools (plus a cordless drill) in an area the size of a small
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by ropable 4y ago
Yeah, it's difficult to compare wages across countries while also taking into account the differences in living costs, etc. Recent data on purchasing power parity between the US and Australia puts Australia at around 1.44 (which would
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by ropable 4y ago
That's a difficult question for me to answer, given that 1) I'm in Australia and 2) "tech workers" is a very general term. Given the current exchange rate, I can say that I'm currently paid in the range of US$70000-
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by ropable 4y ago
Yes, I'm primarily a software engineer. Unions are quite often sector-based rather than profession-based. For example, the union I belong to currently covers the public sector in Western Australia rather than any specific profession. A
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by ropable 4y ago
> One of the first things a union would do is decouple compensation from performance and introduce a standard compensation structure for all workers, segmented by job level. (And somehow the people who are personal friends of the union l
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by ropable 4y ago
I don't have any hard metrics to prove it, but most notable people in InfoSec (that I follow, anyway) moved off Twitter to infosec.exchange late last year. It's probably the case that individual "communities" of Twitter
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by ropable 4y ago
That's literally the absolute-free-speech feedback loop in action, isn't it? Someone making a statement that a person disagrees with, the second person making an argument against it, and the first person suffering a social consequ
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by ropable 4y ago
As a counterpoint: I've had quite a lot of fun trying to determine a workable recipe with my teenage daughter from a short TikTok vid. It tends to involve a lot of screenshots and trial-and-error.
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My First Recession(gadi.fm)
10 points by ropable 4y ago|2 comments
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by ropable 4y ago
What you want is a good building site supervisor, who is experienced in the construction industry in general, the scale of the building under construction in particular and the local region and any peculiarities involved, as well as being f
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by ropable 4y ago
I can't express just how much I want the Horus Heresy saga to receive the high-production-value HBO/Netflix/Amazon treatment. The animated content on Warhammer+ is good and all, but that would be a dream.
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by ropable 4y ago
It's almost as though they were operating with incomplete, imperfect information at that time, and they needed to make some best-effort guesses based on previous events.
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by ropable 4y ago
It's almost as though large, powerful organisations will fight to protect their own positions within a market segment, whether they are private or government entities.
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by ropable 4y ago
For Windows 10 people: Microsoft PowerToys has a "remap keys" function within the Keyboard Manager. It's very convenient and easy to use.
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by ropable 4y ago
If I recall correctly, the best way to avoid immediate exposure to this class of chemical was to avoid heat your food inside plastic containers (typically in a microwave) as this can mobilise some of the more volatile endocrine-disrupting c
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by ropable 4y ago
PEX is great until rats start chewing through it in random places. Then copper pipe starts looking pretty good again.
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by ropable 4y ago
What, no Bravo? Needs the ability to submit guest reviews.
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by ropable 4y ago
I use an "overnight oats" method that I feel would probably be even more energy-efficient: place the required amount of rolled oats in a plastic container, pour in the required amount of milk/water, close the lid and store in
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by ropable 4y ago
Clicked through. First thing that I read was "Starting at A$2,449.99". Closed the tab. First/only impression: expensive toy for rich people.
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by ropable 4y ago
Greatest concentration of reading comprehension failures for a good long while.
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Ford Lightning Is Just a Standard F-150 with an Electric Powertrain(theautopian.com)
2 points by ropable 4y ago|0 comments
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by ropable 4y ago
As a counterpoint, I host a couple of domains with Dreamhost and have had no such issues. They've been serving the email for my main domain for 15 years and AFAIK I've never had any of those emails go directly to spam within Gmail
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by ropable 4y ago
I think that there's always an element of survivor bias in these stories; everyone remembers the relatively-new appliance which broke and had to be returned, but not the many similar appliances which hum on for years. To draw any broad
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by ropable 4y ago
Ten-year-old me labouriously typed in the whole of the Island of Secrets to his C64, only to find that it wouldn't run due to some number of bugs. Sadly, correcting these issues was beyond my skills and patience at the time. Perhaps I&
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by ropable 4y ago
With a fairly basic set of woodworking tools, you can turn out high-quality cutting boards and charcuterie boards pretty easily. Advantages of these include the fact that they're easy to produce in batches and don't take up a lot
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by ropable 5y ago
To an outside observer, the US is a place of wild contradictions. On the one hand, you have a (perceived) high aversion to "government overreach". On the other hand, you have....this. I know that it's an enormous country with
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by ropable 5y ago
On the other hand: tracking clinical outcomes actually tells us if a treatment actually works - a net positive for the species, I'd have thought.
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by ropable 5y ago
This comment needed a sarcasm tag (I think).
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by ropable 5y ago
Same age, similar insights and personal development path (except in my case it's woodworking rather than jiu-jitsu). If I could have one personal "do over", it's wishing that I could have spent my 20s and early 30s a lot

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