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by shirro 13y ago
It was very topical when I grew up. Manly because there was a very poorly run mine in my country which turned out to be probably our worst industrial disaster. There were a lot of victims claiming compensation and it entered into popular cu
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by shirro 13y ago
There some asbestos products where the fibres can easily get into the air like lagging and others where they are bonded in side some product like a cement and it isn't a risk if you leave it alone. The risk for average people is home r
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by shirro 13y ago
The thing I find most interesting about a service like Netflix is the complete inversion of costs of product and delivery for someone in Australia. A monthly Netflix subscription costs less than a couple of coffees here. The data caps on In
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by shirro 13y ago
Nope. Australians lost their FTTH when they elected a new government. They are getting upgrades to existing HFC, FTTN or wireless/satellite and the rollout is going to be much slower and more expensive and without the speed guarantees.
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by shirro 13y ago
This is very true. It is the nature of cheap unmanaged services that the user bears the bulk of the burden of maintaining their server instance. But this makes it even more important that providers fess up when they have issues. I have only
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by shirro 13y ago
Turbine powered battery electric drive train that can burn multiple fuels. It seems like that would be a nice combination in a car that you could drive long distances on cheap fuel without worrying about recharge stations and still get elec
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by shirro 13y ago
I live in a small country town where a few decades ago people didn't lock their doors. I pack up my laptop when I go to the bathroom. If you think juggling your laptop and trying to keep a seat is a hassle, imagine having 3 young kids
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by shirro 13y ago
I love chromecast (have two imported) and for my use the lack of features such as remote/ui are a huge bonus over the slow dysfunctional bloatware crap in "smart" televisions. I want my screen to be just another display devic
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by shirro 13y ago
Thanks. That makes sense as a tool for developers who don't have sophisticated unix skills. I guess quite a lot of people are targeting Linux as a production environment but come from quite different backgrounds and using different pl
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by shirro 13y ago
Not picking on this tool specifically but I see these sorts of things posted on HN a bit and I am struggling to understand the appeal. So genuine quesion: I can understand it is a fun task to build but what advantages does it bring in real
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by shirro 13y ago
Sure there is an element of that. But there are huge numbers of tech people who are into aviation, radio, satellites, image processing and solving puzzles. I don't want to forget that this is a tragedy for the families involved. But I
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by shirro 13y ago
I was basically doing the same thing but I recorded what I just finished instead of what I was working on. I got that idea from gtimelog. I haven't been using it lately but I might go back to it. dun started dun Implemented f
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by shirro 13y ago
> First of all, I wouldn't even know who deGrasse Tyson was if it wasn't for sites like 4chan, reddit and hn. But apparently, he "has the world in his hands." Same with Bill Nye. Cosmos will probably be one of the few
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by shirro 13y ago
I am Australian and use the British. The Australian doesn't sound right. How lucky we are to have so many mutually understandable yet varied accents. I wish they had more UK and US regional accents for a bit of variation.
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by shirro 13y ago
I don't know if this is practical or not. Have two or more compartments on a plane filled with dozens of small highly reflective buoys. Each with some sort of radar reflector, either passive or active, that searchers could light up wit
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by shirro 13y ago
Sell a well built MozBook with 4GB+ and a full HD screen and some nice extras like a backlit keyboard for double the price of a typical Chromebook and I am in. Perhaps. I probably would not have to queue for it. Mozilla are facing some real
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by shirro 13y ago
I have hand written a fair amount of json in the last week including some json schemas and the trailing commas gets me coming from golang literals and back. I don't mind the idea of alternate syntaxes that compile to json in the spirit
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by shirro 13y ago
This brings barely anything useful to JSON and adds processing overhead. Almost all json is produced and consumed but software not people. Adding trailing commas or single quotes or optional quotes is a waste IMO and adds needless complexit
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by shirro 13y ago
Another vote for Chrome Secure Shell. Open source, well made and hterm supports copying to your clipboard when tmux or mosh doesn't eat the sequence. I have limited font choice on the Chromebook so I embed a powerline font in mine. Ver
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by shirro 13y ago
Considering I am currently working on a ChromeBook, yeah it is is interesting for a class of users. There are some well known web IDEs like C9 etc that don't really appeal to me and there is a Chrome app called Caret that look very Sub
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by shirro 13y ago
Get rid of the menu bars altogether. They made sense in 1984 when people who had never seen a mouse needed to discover how to use things. How often do you use a menu in an app today? Anything commonly done has a keyboard shortcut. Anything
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by shirro 13y ago
I need to stop clicking on the "why we left x for y" articles on HN. Mostly people have picked the wrong tool for the particular job and the articles are just an embarrassment. Obviously SPAs take a lot of extra work to make searc
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by shirro 13y ago
The people of that era were closer in time to the moon landing than I am now. With the exception of that horrible war around the corner they seem to have much more interesting stuff in their futures.
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by shirro 13y ago
Australia is an interesting contrast to Norway. Efforts to increase revenues from resources failed due to pressure from a mega rich elite. There is no equivalent fund to invest windfalls from resources. As a result once Australia's min
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by shirro 13y ago
I can't see support for collapse anywhere. It is in bootstrap.js and ui-bootstrap. Handy for responsive navbars amongst other things.
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by shirro 13y ago
Two wishes. They supported 16GB RAM. Dell Australia would sell them.
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by shirro 13y ago
Having multiple launch sites is starting to make more sense. I guess they can be integrating and testing several at the same time. It seems like a very quick ramp up. It will be interesting to see if they can keep to that schedule and launc
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by shirro 13y ago
I think it makes sense to find clothes that suit you and stick with them. Jobs and his turtlenecks is a well known example. Saves a lot of bother in the long run. Not to mention the benefit of being able to order something online with some
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by shirro 13y ago
Yeah, it could turn into a corrupt feudal state ruled by religious police. What a nightmare.
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by shirro 13y ago
Bike helmets are mandatory Australia wide and it is enforced. I have no idea if the net effects are positive or negative but the behaviour is so normalised now people rarely question it. I don't think it represents a disincentive to pe

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