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by samplatt 7y ago
Not in my experience of peak hours, no, never. Certainly not within the CBD, where I'm based. Outside of peak hours is an entirely different story.
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by samplatt 7y ago
>One of my favorite things about Melbourne is never having to visit a shopping mall because retail spaces spring up naturally along tram lines Been in Melbourne for 18 months now and have only just realised that this is one of my favouri
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by samplatt 7y ago
>Depending on how crowded the tram/train is that 40 minutes can usable time with a smartphone or laptop, it's not in a car. I have never been in any train or tram that has anywhere near enough room to use a laptop. In peak hour
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by samplatt 7y ago
As I understand it (which, like most of the population of the planet, is not very much), solid magnets are also just a lot of smaller magnets floating in a macrostructure.
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by samplatt 7y ago
EA and Activision don't give two hoots about you, either; you're especially hard to get money out of, as far as they're concerned.
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by samplatt 7y ago
How on earth have I gone nine years without seeing this? That was fantastic!
547.
by samplatt 7y ago
App dev here; haven't touched js since ~2002... what's the joke?
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by samplatt 7y ago
archive.is is blocked in Australia and some other countries, along with many other sites. For Australia this happened in May this year. Most ISP's just use DNS-filtering to block it, so getting around it is as easy as changing your DNS
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by samplatt 7y ago
For an entity that's waged a multi-decade billion-dollar bloody and bitter war against music piracy, Sony certainly have been instrumental in its proliferation.
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by samplatt 7y ago
I'm guessing you've read Incandescence by Greg Egan? It explores the possibility that general relativity could be discovered by a pre-industrial civilisation living inside an asteroid in a very tight orbit of one those nasty int
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by samplatt 7y ago
My vehicles have all been in WA. I haven't looked into it to closely, but I imagine they'd be the same. You're right, it's probably the insurance side of things that increases it.
552.
by samplatt 7y ago
It's not only cylinders. A 2.5L 4cyl diesel 4WD is more than a 2.5L 4cyl petrol sedan.
553.
by samplatt 7y ago
His car is a Yaris, one of the smallest Toyotas (comparatively) that have ever been made, and Australia scales registration to size/purpose of the vehicle. Larger SUV's or 4WD's have anything in the $300-$600 yearly registrat
554.
by samplatt 7y ago
OLPC would have needed a lot more power than this device, plus due to its small size the whole thing could be machined aluminium. Especially if there's games that utilise the mechanic. could just have a much lower torque (and therefore
555.
by samplatt 7y ago
I'd put it closer to the HTC TyTn or first Google phone levels. It's still an enthusiasts thing, and there's no barrier for entry other than knowing what you want. Once it becomes something that people want without knowing wh
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by samplatt 7y ago
Could take off? It already has. Four of my buddies that play Rocket League almost exclusively have dropped AU$300 on a headset because we showed them Beat Saber at a LAN party, and they haven't stopped playing it since.
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by samplatt 7y ago
It does, but it's not: http://explosm.net/comics/4154/
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by samplatt 7y ago
>Just what is Thomas? This reminds me of one of my favourite Cyanide & Happiness comics: A Gingerbread man lives in a Gingerbread house. Is the house made of him? Or is he made of house? He screams, for he does not know.
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by samplatt 7y ago
I liked it because it was simple :P
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by samplatt 7y ago
I really miss custom autoexec and config.sys files. I understood computers back then. Windows is almost a black box to me, now.
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by samplatt 7y ago
Epic has HAD plenty of time to work out making their market more compelling. One of the most frustrating things about it is how many YEARS they've had and how little effort has gone into it during this time. I'm a VR dev by trade
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by samplatt 8y ago
Security through obscurity is a useful and valid part of a security process, but only if it's one of many parts of the process.
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by samplatt 8y ago
>Even traveling at the speed of light (which we are not even sure the human body can handle) it would take 100 years to reach our nearest star Er, no. Travelling at c, it would take 4.5 years to get to our nearest star. The nearest (know
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by samplatt 8y ago
Surprised no-one's yet mentioned the XKCD blogpost on this exact topic: https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/02/15/the-laser-elevator/ Or the vaguely-related (because lasers) What-If scenario https:/&#x
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by samplatt 8y ago
GMail's working fine for me (8min later) in Melbourne, Australia.
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by samplatt 8y ago
Speaking as Stephenson/Doctorow fan as well as a member of ever-growing sector of the population that have had their technological paranoia continually proven right for the last fifteen years, improvements in additive manufacturing of
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by samplatt 8y ago
I'm seeing a lot of "John Deer == Quality" comments in this thread. My farming background says "John Deer == artificially (and insanely) expensive maintenance". I've always equated JD with just being one of the
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by samplatt 8y ago
The dry conditions help the automated vehicles, but there's special challenges when it DOES actually rain.... everything tends to be underwater, by a lot :-)
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by samplatt 8y ago
The mining operations in Western Australia have also invested heavily in autonomous EVERYTHING. The massive dump-trucks and drill rigs are going autonomous, with anywhere between 10% and 100% (depending on the site) of the heavy vehicles ar
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by samplatt 8y ago
It's (a little bit) scummy, because they're selling them on auction, which has a decent chance of flogging them for orders of magnitude more than they'd ordinarily sell them for, with the added bonus that they don't have

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