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by vacri 9y ago
And then you have the flip side of the coin, where you find a German couple who were so uneducated about sex that they'd been together for more than half a decade without having kids, went to the doctor for help... whereupon it was fou
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by vacri 9y ago
The hostility is because it's ridiculously obvious that moving from a minimum-wage job to a run-of-the-mill professional job is going to net you an incredible percentage increase in salary, especially in the US where the minimum wage
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by vacri 9y ago
I'll second this. The NBN is more politics than technology these days - and the politics have meant they've chosen yesterday's technology. I wouldn't use them to back an argument for technical sanity.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Jessica Derkis started her career earning $8 per hour ($16,640 annual salary) as the YMCA’s marketing manager. Over 10 years, she’s changed employers five times to ultimately earn $72,000 per year at her most recent marketing positio
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by vacri 9y ago
Automation also gets rid of context-switching, which has a cost of its own. It may only take you half an hour to do -foo-, but to switch into the mental space for it and switch out again are costs that most people don't factor in.
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by vacri 9y ago
> you still haven't seen a proper configuration management system. No true Scotsman...
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by vacri 9y ago
I started with Puppet and moved to Ansible. Ansible is much easier to debug, because everything happens in sequence and it doesn't freak out and break if you have the same identical command in two modules. Puppet builds this rats-nes
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by vacri 9y ago
That's not 'technically' at all. It's an approximation. The actual IQ test is multivariate and takes several hours to administer, and needs to be given by a trained professional. Hitting a single milestone super-early ju
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by vacri 9y ago
https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2017-07-14/press-conference-atto... Have a read of the comment in context. He's primarily saying that the G20 is going to lean on the providers as the method of action. The journal
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by vacri 9y ago
There was a time when we had a world-class telephony setup, the CSIRO was making waves (literally as well as figuratively), and we punched well above our (actually rather small) weight in the high tech and medical research fields.
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by vacri 9y ago
What straight face? He's presenting the policy, and a journalist asks him "won't the laws of mathematics trump the laws of australia". When have you ever seen a senior politician reply to something like that with "O
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by vacri 9y ago
Yeah, the thing that's missing in the commentary is that Turnbull used it as a throwaway line. He doesn't actually think you can break mathematical laws. He's not a stupid man, and was just answering a comment comparing natur
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by vacri 9y ago
There are more political ideologies out there than just capitalism and communism. It seems to be a very American thing to argue as if there are only ever two possible alternatives.
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by vacri 9y ago
If you can only save $2.5k a year, and you're spending that instead on breakfast rather than other things, then you clearly don't have the will to save even if you earned a lot more. Are you aware that 'being poor' exist
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by vacri 9y ago
Conversely, the young have always been plundered for the old. The old have always held the political reins. This is the bit that millenials are missing. The Xers before them were plundered and misunderstood by the old. The boomers before th
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by vacri 9y ago
So, I have clinical depression, which I take medication for. I've worked in neurology, my formal education is in psychology and neuropsych, and growing up I've known more than my fair share of people with some form or other of men
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by vacri 9y ago
Nitpick: yes, it does. man- is a root for 'hand', and 'manual' as a noun was a term for 'handbook'.
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by vacri 9y ago
I don't understand why the outer orbits are limited to the same number of planets as the inner ones. What's the story there?
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by vacri 9y ago
This kind of petulance is why millenials have the rep they do. 2.5k would be in addition to what else is being saved, obviously. Only the most rampant idiots genuinely think the original statement meant that you could buy a house solely on
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by vacri 9y ago
The smashed avo thing is really just saying that buying your breakfast each workday at $10/pop is another $2.5k/year extra you could save for a deposit. That something that seems so inconsequential does actually add up a little bi
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by vacri 9y ago
> $250,000 deposit on a Sydney 1 bedroom apartment. Median house price in Sydney is 1.1M. Generally you need to put down a 10% deposit in AU. Just how fancy is this $2.5M 1-bedroom apartment you're looking to buy, that it's
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by vacri 9y ago
When you charge $60M to provide a solution, saying "Hey, it failed because we're not domain experts" is not a suitable response.
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by vacri 9y ago
Maybe, but then again you can't buy IBM if you're forbidden from buying it in the first place. https://www.itnews.com.au/news/queenslands-ibm-ban-lives-on-...
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by vacri 9y ago
You want to manage GOPATH as if it were a secret key!? Not ever storing it in repos, having weird dotfiles storing them locally, having to set up a keystore cluster like consul in production? Yuck.
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by vacri 9y ago
Air conditioning also changes humidity, not just temperature. I imagine few cities in Germany are particularly humid.
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by vacri 9y ago
And yet it piqued your curiosity enough to read comments on the issue.
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by vacri 9y ago
I'm going to be 1.5B seconds old! I mean, whenever $random_website demands my birthday, they get Start of Epoch. Easy fake birthday to remember :)
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by vacri 9y ago
> before those specs get widespread usage. 'widespread' This would kill off new features, basically. No-one would implement a new feature, because it would kill off their users in $other_browsers completely, and browsers ad
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by vacri 9y ago
I remember StartCom used client TLS certs, the only place where I ever saw them in use, and the browser workflow was certainly clunky. I'd hate to see a non-techie have to deal with it.
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by vacri 9y ago
I once clicked on a 'russian bride' google ad for a laugh, quite a while back. Google still puts lots of russian and filipino bride ads into my 'bubble' to this day...

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