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by sien 6y ago
Good thought - this can be quickly searched for too: https://pudding.cool/2017/03/timeless/index.html Nirvana are waaay out in front.
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by sien 6y ago
Deleting twitter from my phone was very much worth doing. I'll log in at a conference, otherwise keeping it off your phone helps. Also as others have said keep your phone away from your bed, preferably in another room.
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by sien 6y ago
It would be interesting to see how much impact better espresso machines and cheap grinders are having on Nespresso. A decent burr grinder, a Nanopresso and a milk frother is much cheaper than a Nespresso and does something as good. $AUD 10
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China to build 6 to 8 nuclear reactors a year from 2020 to 2025: Report(channelnewsasia.com)
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by sien 6y ago
Perhaps, but Asian Americans do better than Caucasian Americans in a raft of measures : https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/06/19/the-rise-of-asian...
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by sien 6y ago
It should also be noted that Australia has had 102 C19 deaths. From a population of 25M that's a pretty good record. The lockdown, which has been of different levels depending on the city, has worked well here. Schools have been back i
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by sien 6y ago
It's also a huge plus for places that lock down their computers so you can't install software on them. I used to use WebEx on a personal laptop for work conversations with other organisations because my work machine wouldn't
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by sien 6y ago
Markets happily developed cheap powerful computers, cheap powerful phones, cheap clothes and cheap food. In the US there is also reasonably cheap housing in large cities like Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Denver, Chicago and Indianapolis. In so
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by sien 6y ago
Israel's development of nuclear weapons owed a lot to France, Germany and the US. From here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/truth-israels-... "In Dimona, French engineers poured
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by sien 6y ago
HARM missiles don't seem to be active and a special HARM derivative might be suitable. Something that may not have been made public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM Normal HARMs have hit radar emitting a
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by sien 6y ago
It's what is done in Australia. It works pretty well. Failing grades are not handed out this way, if you demonstrate a basic understanding of the material you pass. But actually getting an HD, the top mark, is only for the top 20% or s
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by sien 6y ago
Fair enough. I had the free plan for ages and really only changed to the paid one so they would get something after I'd used it for years. Edit : Their free tier has 150 RSS subs allowed. So it's pretty reasonably. I have the midd
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by sien 6y ago
Inoreader is better than Google Reader was. You might want to check it out. https://www.inoreader.com/
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by sien 6y ago
The Lego games can be really good with younger kids. FIFA / NBA 2K for older kids.
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by sien 6y ago
That's a Tango. Apparently Sergey Brin had one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_Cars_Tango
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by sien 7y ago
It's funny how lots of people, including myself, get kinda stuck into a set of music. I do go out and try to find new music, but not nearly as much as other forms of media. I don't reread books that much, mostly watch films I have
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by sien 7y ago
Oh that's cool. Thanks for posting that.
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by sien 7y ago
That's interesting. However, Danes spend the second highest proportion of income on housing in the OECD after Finns. See the chart on page 2. http://www.oecd.org/els/family/HC1-1-Housing-related-expendi...
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by sien 7y ago
Is the book - Sidewinder - Creative Missile Development at China Lake? https://www.amazon.com/Sidewinder-Creative-Missile-Developme...
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by sien 7y ago
The F14 was even quicker. 1969 selection to 1973 deployment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_F-14_Tomcat#VFX It's interesting how things changed from that generation to the next. The introduction of sophisti
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by sien 7y ago
That looks cool. I have two nanopressos which are also very good. One for home and one for work. https://www.wacaco.com/pages/nanopresso
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by sien 7y ago
I actually had a boss who was a CTO who would do something like this. He was a good boss. At another job I did something daft and tried to recover a backup. The backups hadn't actually been recoverable for at least 2 years.
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by sien 7y ago
Me too. It really does capture the absurdity of big organisations brilliantly.
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by sien 7y ago
The Friendly Orange Glow : The Untold Story of the PLATO system and the dawn of cyberculture (2017) is a really interesting book about a system few people here would probably have heard of. https://www.goodreads.com/book&#x2
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Pixar CG Pioneers Pat Hanrahan and Edwin Catmull Share $1M Turing Award(techcrunch.com)
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by sien 7y ago
Why do you prefer CloudFormation?
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by sien 7y ago
Good point. Sorry. Some older Australians are parochial about sport. Soccer is seen as foreign and something not really Australian. It's similar to the way soccer has been described as un-American in the US.
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by sien 7y ago
This was pretty similar to my experience trying to add up to date participation numbers to Australian sport. There is a big survey done in Australia, the Ausplay survey: https://www.clearinghouseforsport.gov.au/research&#x2F
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by sien 7y ago
There was a list posted of the companies around working on fusion recently: https://www.fusionenergybase.com/organizations/ And an article about why this is the case from the same person: https://www.fusione
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by sien 7y ago
You sort of answered about understanding the question with your comment about Skype. Lots of work places are Windows / Office effectively only. Many places have a SOE that is windows only. At home I play games sometimes. Again, that dr

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