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by tastysandwich 4y ago
This sounds simplistic/naive, but have you ever tried just starting a project? With every project I have an initial reluctance to start. But once I start I usually feel compelled to finish it (these are usually woodworking projects). J
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Pictures would be really helpful. Also being able to filter by certain characteristics - eg "budget friendly", "pocket-sized", "hunting", etc. You have knives covered, now the obvious next step is torches ;-).
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
> In my own experience, Alexa and Google's query pucks were improving for a short time, and then got considerably worse, losing features every month until they basically stopped understanding or responding to anything but the simple
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
To be fair, plumbers have to deal with a lot of shit.
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Personally for me the best way of finding new music is friends whose opinions I trust. I find going by similarity will pull up a lot of derivative artists that suck (eg Last.Fm/Pandora). I want something good, and if it's radicall
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Many elderly Eastern European migrants - at least in Australia - refuse assistance programs like home help, where someone will come and clean their house, a nurse will help bathe them, etc. Instead they insist their own children do it. (Cou
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I used it in my high-school multimedia class instead of Photoshop and my (female) teacher never bat an eyelid. I can't imagine many workplaces that would be more prudish than a Catholic school? The biggest obstacle I find is that peopl
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I tried "replacing VS Commodore gasket", expecting to see pages from justcommodores.com.au. Those are the go-to forums for anyone into Holdens (Australian cars that are no longer made). Instead 8 out of the first 10 results were H
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I first used Wine about 15 years ago. Fast forward to today and I'm astonished at how well some things run. I'm not a power-user - not even close. I just want things to "work" without any fiddling. Well luckily, most thi
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I never experienced anything like this until my wife had a baby. NOBODY prepares women for this, but the cervical examinations can be extremely painful. She has an exceptionally high pain tolerance. But the excruciating pain she was in as s
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Gotta say I love these random Wikipedia articles that pop up. They're always something I didn't exactly need to know, but verge enough on the absurd that I just have to read. Despite it being a big joke, I wonder what contemporary
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
As a software engineer even I sometimes can't help romanticising hacking in my imagination. But so many times it turns out to be just like some company left the front gate wide open and the "hacker" walked in and took a look
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Fixing the shitty bluetooth experience. Specifically, ability to disable both autoconnect and autoplay. When my wife takes my car, when she returns the car will automatically connect to my phone even when I've already got headphones on
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I think it's common as we (a fairly small company) got a similar email. Exact same thing, "No DMARC Record found". Almost certainly automated. We just ignored them. We don't have a bug bounty program and this isn't
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Imagine starting at a new company and you view a big diagram of all the services. "Flipper connects to klunker, which has a database called plomb. There's an arrow going from gonky all the way down to zippydoo, which generates a r
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
And the sample was of healthy people, rather than people with ADHD (who benefit from Ritalin).
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
That's interesting. This article takes a further look at the issue. https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-waste-trade I estimate that a few percent – possibly up to 5% – of the world’s ocean plastics could come from rich
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
That's from 2019, so do we know how it has fared since then? Have any other studies confirmed their results? I'm fascinated as it sounds too good to be true (and usually such things are)
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
My understanding is that 81% of ocean waste comes from rivers in poorer Asian countries. And the rest is from marine sources (fishing nets, lines, ropes, and abandoned vessels) [1]. Not much seems to come from wealthier nations, let alone p
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
> 2.5x walking speed without extra effort If we're normalising speeding around the city at 2.5x speed, can't we just start walking faster instead? Like, with our legs? It's free and no extra equipment required. (Yes some p
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Fair enough, hence the additional comment just clarifying that I'm not being critical of them for that.
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Just a reminder that BusyBox have been known to be quite litigious regarding licensing violations. Your company might want to look at Toybox instead, which has a more permissive license. (Not criticising BusyBox's use of GPL or even th
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I have a few code projects. I recently had to rewrite one (due to my main data source closing their API), so I blocked out a weekend and did it then. But other than that, I only have to maintain them a few times a year. Choose technologies
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
It's a cliche, but do what you enjoy! After coding for 8+ hours the last thing I want to do is keep sitting at my computer coding other things. My current hobbies are: - Practicing guitar - Making stuff (woodworking, lately. I ju
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I've had three Dells. Two 15s and a 13. All have worked fantastically with Linux (Ubuntu). I'm using a 13" now. It even hibernates perfectly when I close the lid. However... All were purchased within a few months of them bein
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I should probably have added (for an international audience), this is in Australia which has a pretty high alcohol tax. Plus the exchange rate - $17 AUD is $11.50 USD.
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Not to mention the money you save. I was recently at a cocktail bar for a party. I think the cheapest cocktail was $17, but most were between $20-$30. And most people had at least two. Meanwhile a lot of these places have cheap food (to enc
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
A similar thing was attempted in Australia [1]. I just ask people to consider that even though we all have bank accounts and we take that for granted, there _are_ actually people who don't, and they're not operating a criminal ent
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
Just curious if it accounted for other factors, like socio-economic status? also of note: Further, the researchers stress that this cross-sectional study does not allow for cause-and-effect analyses, and that it could be that children w
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by tastysandwich 4y ago
I once had a coworker who used to take his morning coffee into the toilet with him. (He also used to clip his fingernails at his desk) It's funny how quickly you get used to seeing weird behaviours.

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