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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Another explanation. Copy & pastes from: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/07/australias-housing-... Australia has had one of the highest rates of housing construction in the developed world We
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
There are environmentally safe rodent poisons. You can even make them yourself, from stuff in your pantry: http://www.ratpoisonfacts.org/low-toxicity-rodenticides/
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> I've never had any issues with it except some VPN-related internet problems. I've had to support a development environment that ran on WSL2, among other things. I regularly had developers attempt to start work in the morning
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
I read the article, and it seemed like the driverless car companies were reporting every accident no matter how minor (as they should). I don't know what it's like in the USA but where I live in Australia I know people don't
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> Australians insist it's the best country in the world to live in, when most have barely traveled anywhere. Australian here. A couple of international trips ago I visited Berlin and went on one of those free walking tours. I was
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
That sounds so impressive I googled it. It's actually 6 billion queries per second: https://id.cloud-ace.com/how-youtube-uses-bigtable-to-power-... But then I mulled over it for a while, and it occurred to me it'
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
The Zen of waterfall: At some level everything is waterfall. If anything is to get done at all the programmer has to make a plan, then put his head down, arse up and implement it. At another level nothing is waterfall. If the plan is succes
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
If you go to the web site for the crate (or the standard library), and find the doco for the module / function / trait / ..., you find an handy "source" button. It will take you straight to the definition. Eg, (me
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> How does the OS prove its identity to the TPM in a way an attacker couldn’t spoof in a real MitM attack? Any secrets or keys stored by the OS side would have to reside unencrypted on disk, since it doesn’t have an encryption key yet. Y
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> Can't we only measure the speed of things through time relative to other things that coexist at the same time? They weren't using speed. They were watching how fast a clock ticked back then, the clock being a quasar. The ar
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> So, no event-oriented programming in Python, or by some other mechanism, or…? My guess he's saying that anything that introduces concurrency is hard, and best avoided if you can do so. He's not wrong. True event driven code
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> Not all software keeps working for eternity without updates. True. And yes, Debian stable packages do not work so well if a package needs to undergo frequent updates. As others have pointed out there are work arounds in place - like
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
I don't doubt the taste was bitter at the time, but it was never going to be forever. In 2018 models had 100e6 parameters, and in 2013 GPT4 has (wild guess) 2e12 parameters [0]. Conservatively that's 500% per year. At it's
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Nah, Brother is the same now. A more useful recommendation is: buy when they are making their money from the razor, not the blades. Most (all?) printer companies now have a range printers models where that's true. HP calls theirs a &q
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> rooftop domestic PV costs can be unto 10 times more expensive on a levelized cost basis ... compared to a ground based utility/grid scale installation Your "can be" hides a lot of sins. Looking at the data you quote dom
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Bitwarden has a solution for this: https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/ The solution is you give third parties access to your vault, but it's on a time lock. To see what's in the vault they first
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> Bugs like this aren’t possible at all in Go or C# As a point of order, such bugs are possible for Go. Eg, hashmap's behaviour becomes undefined if you access from multiple threads at the same time. Admittedly, that's a Go pec
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Location: Brisbane, Australia Remote: Yes. Relocate: No. Technologies: C/C++, Python, PHP, JS/TS, Embedded, Linux, DevOps, Networking, SQL, Docker, AWS, Ansible. CV: https:/&#x2F
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> I am not suggesting weaking e2ee crypto but requiring lawful intercept capabilities into messaging apps. I'm an Australian, and Australia has already done this. It's the "Assistance and Access Bill (2018)". One li
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Painting one blade black reduces bird fatalities by 70%: https://group.vattenfall.com/press-and-media/newsroom/2022/b...
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
I was in Germany for a few months. Every Germany manufacturer has EV models, and there are a quite a manufacturers so that means a there lot of German EV's to choose from. That's because their government has put in strong tax inc
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> Now you're probably asking why Chrome is the dominant monopoly browser today, and that answer is also easy: Chrome incorporated what Firefox introduced but marketed themselves more aggressively That's one way of putting it.
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
I don't know about not making sense from first principles, but if a principle concern is bug free code then NULL is a disaster. I've seen so bugs caused by people forgetting a column could be NULL and using '<', &#x2
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> If you upgrade a shared library to fix a problem, how do you know that the application has been tested against the fixed version? Distro's like Debian solve that problem by not upgrading. The only things deemed worthy of "fi
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Yeah, the "Exit the market" comment had me scratching my head. I may not be up on how Signal operates now, as I stopped using Signal as my default instant messaging app when they dropped SMS. I maybe use it to send a message every
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
You typically won't see rising ad revenues during a recession. When times are hard, or look like they could get hard, advertising is the first thing cut. Its a well established pattern. Eg, from https://www.createwithnova
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
In case there is any doubt on what the article says the answer is, this is the 2nd paragraph: > Surely Richard was the least successful of English kings. His reign was brief (1483-85) and he left no legitimate issue and no political heir
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
It must depend on region. In Australia the Google phone app has a [Record] button. My mother could use it. Google documents it here: https://support.google.com/phoneapp/answer/9803950?hl=en I often use it.
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
Sluggish? It's near instantaneous at everything, except when it's doing network operations. It literally does a keyword stem search on a 4GB mailbox in under a 1/10 of a second. That's the fastest inverted index lookup
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by rstuart4133 3y ago
> While Canada's bill may not be well-tuned, it is a welcome first attempt. First attempt for Canada maybe. Australia did it a few years ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56163550 The first

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