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by ryan-allen 4y ago
My understanding is that it's a regulatory requirement, the Govt wants to know who specifically owns what SIM. If I remember right, this was introduced post 9/11. I may be spectacularly wrong on both fronts, though!
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by ryan-allen 4y ago
I (should better maintain) my little compendium of shell 'one liners' that do all sorts of incredibly useful things, that getting right first time, were hard won. Having that handy you can seem like a god at times to your colleagu
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by ryan-allen 4y ago
You're willing to hire Rooster Cogburn to bring Tom Chaney to justice for the cold blooded murder of your father. In all honesty, it's more of an indicator of the kind of management culture. The same goes for the word "resili
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by ryan-allen 4y ago
... you can BBQ it and serve it with hoisin.
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by ryan-allen 4y ago
The sad thing is that there are genuinely decent subreddits, even, and I hate to admit it, Facebook groups for that matter. Careful self-moderation on Reddit, Facebook, and Youtube can provide a lot of positive influence and information in
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by ryan-allen 4y ago
I didn't get diagnosed until my late 30s. It's always worth checking. I managed to carve out some level of success despite, but it was not without a lot of suffering. If you think you might have ADHD go see someone who specialises
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by ryan-allen 4y ago
I pulled the lever. It said "eternity" and I couldn't possibly condemn the passengers to eternal life. Maybe it's because I read The Eyes of Heisenberg by Frank Herbert [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
It was faster for me, I learned to read in Australia which apparently doens't have a very sophisticated reading education, sub-vocalisation kept us slow compared to other systems.
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
A friend of mine from another country with a different teaching style, when I showed him some speed reading apps laughed, saying that he was taught not to sub-vocalise words, and he is a smart guy. So maybe you have something similar?`
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
I second the Vortex keyboards, I have a couple!
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
It'd fit with the ship theme.
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
I wonder if he wears his ship captains hat to bed.
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
That is insane!
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
Medium usually tries to make me sign in or sign up, which is even worse.
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
That website was built on Vue? POSERS!
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
I miss webrings, mostly because I was too young to ever code one :)
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
The front-end style depicted predated jQuery by a long shot!
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
Zombie movies never scared me, but this does!
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
That's a shame. I hope they release there soon! We have Disney+ in Australia but I'm pretty sure we still don't have HBO Max. Though every service in every country has wildly different content. John Wick 1 might be on Netflix
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
> In dune there is a story part were the ruler knows what he needs to do but also realizes that he is not strong enough and knows that his son has to fullfil it (I forgot what it is about) I think you're referring to the Golden Path
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
> prayers are not lost to the woods. I'm what you'd describe as a weak agnostic. Over the last few years I've heard some abstract arguments that "prayer" and "god" might be some very old, emergent ideas
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
I came here thinking this was going to be a super boring thread, and realise now I'm wrong. These are very provoking, thank you!
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
Of all the material that can play into those who suspect COVID-19 conspiracy, well, is this it?
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
PHP was my gateway to _everything_, most importantly employment. I don't use it any more, but in 2002 when shared hosting and deploying by uploading files via FTP was the thing it was a lot easier to get started with than Perl or Java
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
> Lol FFS to allow them to employ people to focus on addiction techniques like what the hell how was that even legal Gambling industries all over the world have been doing this longer than Facebook, and nobody seemed to bat too much of a
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
> and my parents are alive. It was a hard trade off but a good trade off. I'll be interested to see what the sentiment is going to be 12 months from now here with regards to that.
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
That depends on what year you were born and whether you got into the property market or not (again, depending on what year). There is a very large gap between the haves and have not's in terms of property wealth. It's a strange si
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
I like you (and I like storing images in the database). EDIT: I uploaded an image into your database https://imgz.org/i3joC5jC/
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
We'll need to wear hats like this as a countermeasure https://hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-ir-leds-to-hide-in-pla...
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by ryan-allen 5y ago
There are proper diagnosed awareness activists with large followings on TikTok, and based on the humanity on display within TikTok, I have no doubt for every legitimate individual, there are many times that number of fakers. As for a narcis

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