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by shirro 11y ago
Ridiculous. Suffer with 2GB ram and 32GB max storage or go with a phone that is too big to get 3GB ram and 64/128GB storage. Why even make a 16GB model. I prefer a device without vendor bloatware and with regular software updates but t
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by shirro 11y ago
Some science television perspective from a parallel universe where nobody has heard of Mr Wizard or Bill Nye (ok, I confess I saw him in Stargate). Australia's ABC used to have a show by US Professor Julius Sumner Miller http:/&#
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by shirro 11y ago
Maybe it is more of an Australian thing but limited choice is a big thing for me. I currently live in a rural area and the last few times I have travelled to the nearest city to do shopping I have left disappointed and swore I would just sh
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by shirro 11y ago
I hate Facebook and what it does to people. There is nothing worse than sitting in a room full of zombies on their mobiles. Despite all the great tech my first thought is how satisfying it would be for one of these to be taken down by a gro
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by shirro 11y ago
Thanks. I am guessing lots of people have cycles. I feel I do to some extent, especially when it comes to creativity and insightfulness. Those cycles might actually be a good thing as long as they don't swing wildly. I was thinking it
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by shirro 11y ago
I wonder if things like bipolar disorder fall on a broad spectrum and a lot of people might not have very mild and perhaps undiagnosable mood disorders that might benefit from very low level lithium supplements. Is lithium supplementation a
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by shirro 11y ago
Reading articles like this you suddenly realise that living in a sparsely populated rural area you sacrifice a hell of a lot in health care as as well as the more obvious career, education and entertainment benefits. Having some risk factor
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by shirro 11y ago
Australia is a ridiculously expensive place to live and the major cities even more so. You possibly live a lot better on that income than an Australian developer could on one far higher.
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by shirro 11y ago
In Australia and I pay the majority of transactions with a wave of a card. The last thing I want to do is be fumbling for a phone and having to unlock it, find an app etc. I think mobile payments are a complete waste of time. Practically ev
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by shirro 11y ago
Totally in favour of students learning how to shoot guns or bows or fence with swords. Why wait for college? With proper supervision these are all appropriate at high school. A campus should be inclusive and non-intimidating. If you want wo
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by shirro 11y ago
I need a browser plugin that replaces guns with teddy bears. Because outside of hunting, sport, policing or warfare I don't know that guns have much of a role in society. On campus they would seem to replace a thumb in the mouth or a p
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by shirro 11y ago
I wouldn't mind downgrading to a feature phone that was mostly battery that had a minimal screen (watch sized) for power saving and was good for text, voice, tethering, music and gps logging and not much else. Then tether a 7" or
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by shirro 11y ago
I tried really hard to use Fish for awhile and if the shell was just history, completion and sane defaults (and it is for some people) it would have a very good case. But not being even remotely compatible with bash drove me nuts as the she
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by shirro 11y ago
Evidence only counts if you can't get the victim to plead guilty to a lesser charge. A bit of trial by media, career damage, pressure on the family, legal costs and who is going to contest a charge. Sadly society doesn't seem to c
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by shirro 12y ago
Martini is cool but you probably don't need it. The main thing lacking from net/http is a flexible router. Using the standard mux and parse params out of the request is doable but something like httprouter is often worthwhile. Wra
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by shirro 12y ago
I don't understand. Google has their own CA and does regular certificate rotation for their web sites. How can a company like that not have every certificate change scheduled? Even small companies would have them diarised.
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by shirro 12y ago
Perhaps neovim with terminal mode and tail -F might be the best of all worlds.
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by shirro 12y ago
Good. We don't need another VBScript. Whatever Dart's technical advantages, the standard for browser scripting is Ecmascript. Use it as a compilation target. Don't go breaking the Internet. We don't need another Internet
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by shirro 12y ago
Chromebooks, like Netbooks before them, cut a lot of corners to get under a price. That is why a halo model like the Pixel excites people as it is a rare opportunity to see what the platform can do without the price constraints. Imagine wha
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by shirro 12y ago
I managed to work on a Chromebook for a few months. I was doing a mixture of web frontend (Angular) and Go based backend. I was using terminal for most things tmux, shell, vim, git, ssh which is how I work on my MBP anyway. Postman for api
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by shirro 12y ago
Only the sugar cane growing states and the politicians bought by the cane sugar industry. You can buy fuel with ethanol in the other states at shitty "discount" outlets but many people avoid it. The major outlets generally don&#x2
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by shirro 12y ago
Before I got a Mac my first child knocked my old laptop over and the power cord ripped the power socket apart. I will not buy anything other than a child proof power connector. Sadly, nobody makes a serviceable laptop with one with easily r
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by shirro 12y ago
They haven't exactly done controlled trials on the benefits of unsupervised play. It seems like there is a bit of wishful thinking going on here. A hundred years ago kids might go out with some other kids and learn some bushcraft or fi
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by shirro 12y ago
I do but my kids are all under 7yo and if I want them to get out and experience a range of things it mostly won't happen without my help. They go to playgrounds before and after school every day and play with other kids so it isn'
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by shirro 12y ago
There is a middle ground between locking your kids indoors and letting them roam feral riding on the top of trains and tagging buildings. And that is to be an active parent and go camping, hunting, fishing with kids. Geocaching, bushwalking
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by shirro 12y ago
It must be the MMR vaccine all these horses get /s
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by shirro 12y ago
Perhaps as harder call is, which MS-DOS is this the CPM-86 of?
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by shirro 12y ago
I like that in old Superman comics he would use one of these giant arrows as a key to the fortress of solitude. Only someone with super strength could gain entry. At the time I first read a reprint of an old Superman with the aircraft arrow
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by shirro 12y ago
Is there any point to optimisations like sendfile anymore when increasingly sites are being served over TLS?
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by shirro 12y ago
> 4. It is reasonably well-positioned for solar power. A day on Venus is 224.65 earth days long. That is a long night so perhaps the solar power thing isn't that clear cut.

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