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by shirro 6y ago
I liked dropbox early on. There was nothing radical about what they were doing but it was very well executed and simple enough to recommend to less technical people and share files with them. Even with the big companies offering cross subsi
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by shirro 6y ago
We don't want anything to do with them in the context of an EU replacement including open borders or any form of of political or monetary union. The UK is a part of our history and we will always have ties. I don't think there is
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by shirro 6y ago
Everyone wants trade with everyone to their benefit. We also want to be friends and play cricket. But there is no discussion of the other things related to CANZUK in Australia and NZ. We don't want open borders with the UK or to roll b
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by shirro 6y ago
Except the ex-colonies want nothing to do with the UK. We can smell the fear and desperation. There is nothing in it for us. We aren't going to bail out the UK or take the influx of economic refugees.
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by shirro 6y ago
Not sure if I got it from the atlassian post or the original hacker news post - I am aware of both. It don't see the need for anything more complex. My first config commit is in early 2017.
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by shirro 6y ago
I know that most tech forums are overwhelmingly against DST. Not sure if there might not be a US bias as well But I enjoy the advantages. Perhaps because I live in a comparatively well organised country but I have never had an issue with te
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by shirro 6y ago
Typical X terminals ran xclock and xterm back in the day and not much else. Pretty cool for the time though. I remember lan gaming with friends in the 90s sometimes turned into hacking sessions. I would sometimes have a few Mosaic browsers
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by shirro 6y ago
Many years ago we used to run loadlin under dos to load linux and dosemu under linux to run dos. And by many I mean before Windows 95. And ofcourse if you wanted the worst of both worlds there was cygwin.
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by shirro 6y ago
They have monetized stalking. How could that go wrong?
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by shirro 6y ago
For a language which seems to have been intended initially for writing maintainable network services the absence of a means to set timeouts or cancel requests in the original network apis was clearly an oversight. I like what they have prop
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by shirro 6y ago
The ACCC is there to enforce competition laws and if those laws are designed to benefit the government's mates then I expect that is what they will do without fear or favour.
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by shirro 6y ago
A small number of media owners control old media in Australia. There is a single national newspaper and most cities have a single daily. They are generally owned by the same person. That person flies in people at election time to aggressive
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by shirro 6y ago
They don't do this in my kids' school. Phonics all the way. It has its weaknesses as well. English spelling is a mess and there are so many rules it is hard as a parent to remember them all as adults don't read like this. And
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by shirro 6y ago
Running a personal mail server in these times is a little bit complicated but well within the capabilities of anyone who manages servers for a living or even advanced hobbyists. That doesn't mean it is a sensible thing for most people
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by shirro 6y ago
Go cheats with some built-in generic types. So you can declare a hashtable as a map of any comparable type to any other type. But yes you typically have to implement things yourself for more complex cases so that does limit the sorts of lib
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by shirro 6y ago
The Google backing and hype kept me away from Go for years. After being stuck with a succession of scripting languages that weren't doing it for me and being frustrated at the time it takes to be as productive in something like c, Go i
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by shirro 6y ago
I really like the Go standard libraries. I can do most of what I need with them. I worry some of the people calling for generics will move the language in the direction of massive abstract libraries. I don't want to include a Go versio
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by shirro 6y ago
Tin foil hat time but I can't help feeling a lot of things promoted as privacy solutions like VPNs and DoH are just aggregating data in a handful of locations so it is easier to intercept. Sure they have privacy policies but are they w
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by shirro 6y ago
Apple wants to put its users in chains and keep them locked to the platform for life. It is important to keep the system closed to third parties like independent repairers and other operating systems. Once they have their own CPU they can k
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by shirro 6y ago
A lot of keyboards optimize the wrong things at least as far as programming is concerned. All the optimizations seem to focus on letters but most of the time an editor or shell can auto complete keywords or identifiers. A ridiculous number
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by shirro 6y ago
Being an island means nothing with air travel. But being remote certainly helped some countries a lot.
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by shirro 6y ago
Just another Pearl Harbor/9-11 for the US. They could have responded early and mitigated this like Australia/NZ/Taiwan but now there is massive community spread there is no right answer. You open things up and more people die
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by shirro 6y ago
> The next such fallacy is that of testing and contact tracing That is an odd opinion. Australian and NZ and some other relatively successful countries are well past flattening the curve and have both new cases and active cases rapidly h
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by shirro 6y ago
Ideally you have a highly functional public health system, testing and tracing, implement quarantine, reasonable isolation measures and border controls and don't need need these heroic medical interventions. By the time you have hundre
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by shirro 7y ago
Other federal systems face the same dilemmas. In Australia the powers of the states and federal government are set by the constitution. The feds don't have jurisdiction in many areas. It has to be a team effort. So they have whole of g
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by shirro 7y ago
I stopped going into the office a decade ago to be a home dad. I raised 3 kids at home while doing home duties and casual web dev and server support. It is very isolating and I think a lot of people are going to struggle with it. I have alw
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by shirro 7y ago
Zoom works so well, given a lot of us can't work or learn face to face at the moment, I think we just have to work with Zoom constructively. There are equivalent or better solutions in niches but no general solution that really stacks
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by shirro 7y ago
On Linux I have used a v4l2loopback kernel module and an obs plugin called v4l2sink. The obs module has not had any development activity for 2 years but seems to work. This a such a useful feature it should be upstreamed for all platforms.
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by shirro 7y ago
I feel very conflicted on Zoom. It mostly just works and on every platform, even Linux. My kids use it to do their music lessons now. It really is very good at what it does in a time when such solutions are needed. Also they responded to t
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by shirro 7y ago
In Australia I noticed it was in the promotional material that the patty is cooked with meat and that there is some other vegetable patty for people who find this a problem. I guess there are different audiences for the product. The meat is

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