brenainn

I can't find the particular Malcolm Douglas documentary at the moment but there's a part that stuck with me. He visits with some of the Pintupi. One of them had decided to go back into the desert to continue being a nomad. They would regularly go out and try to find him. Malcolm documents one of the trips. They find an old watering hole and millstones beside it. They would stash the millstones for making bread from grass seeds. They give up the search and take the millstones with them, which is the part that stuck with me. Packing away tools that could have been there for generations because there's no one to use them any more.

Stark Varg or any of the electric motocross/enduro bikes? People love them.

My 64gb DDR5 kit started having stability issues running XMP a few weeks out of warranty. I bought it two years ago. Looked into replacing it and the same kit is now double the price. Bumping the voltage a bit and having better cooling gets it through memtest thankfully. The fun of building your own computer is pretty much gone for me these days.

No one "deserves" free time.

I do! So does everyone I like.

A good time to point out https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo.

I haven't tried it personally because my particular model of vacuum has some complicated and potentially destructive procedure to get the required access, but there's quite a few models where it can be installed easily.

I had my own reply, but using your analogy if I may: if I asked an apprentice carpenter to measure up and build some sort of structure in front of me with the tools provided, and they stumbled and made some awkward choices but the result was otherwise sound and they had other good qualities, yeah I'd consider hiring them. I think the scenario you describe though would be more equivalent to someone who flat out doesn't know how to even use a computer, which is a different case (I wouldn't hire that person).

I think going by that, for juniors anyway, isn't great. Remotely coding during an interview isn't a great environment to start with, and you're probably seeing a lot of people unable to achieve any sort of flow because their mental capacity is devoted to the interview. Some people also won't pick up more advanced tooling until they have to start coding day after day for a living, and until they have other people to learn from. That was my situation anyway.

I like lit. I'm not primarily a web developer and I've found it intuitive and easy to read and write. What I find more confusing than frameworks is building, bundling, ES modules, the whole NPM ecosystem.

I got more of a LinkedIn vibe. "I am good at sex, here's my take on Eastern philosophy".

In your experience, what have you seen that works?

Me too! Amazing that he's still alive.

As someone that's bought their first house in the last few years, it's hard not to take offense.

A car or a TV are much smaller investments relative to a house. Over a decade of savings is tied up in my home. If the ass drops out of the market, myself, and others like me, who have broken into the market without assistance at the peak of housing prices will be virtually permanently financially set back. And to call buying a house around this time a mistake is crazy. I would be as much a speculator if I continued to rent and pay someone else's mortgage, hoping that prices dropped so I could get a good deal. It's a home and this attitude of treating homes as investments or mere purchases is why we're in this mess in the first place.

Not uncommon for Australia. The housing market is very competitive so being a nuisance as a buyer, such as hiring someone for a thorough inspection, could hurt your chances.

What inspectors actually do also depends on who is engaging them and how much they get paid. For example, in the ACT it's mandatory for sellers to have an inspection done. This will generally go to the lowest bidder and they will put in minimum effort, e.g. the report will have things like "Roof inspected as far as can see from ladder placed against the house" and "furniture present, unable to inspect area". If you were the buyer and engaging an inspector, and the seller cooperated, you could have them inspect as much as you were willing to pay them for.

[flagged]

The four times I've paid for removal, I've ended up doing as much lifting as they did on the day. I don't know who I hate more; the guys who showed up four hours late, pissed all over the toilet seat and asked me to order them a pizza (I didn't) or the guys who showed up four hours late, told me we had been underquoted by 75% and that there was only 3 hours to get everything in the truck or they would miss the freight cutoff.

From now on when I move locally I rent the biggest thing I can drive without a truck license. If I have to move interstate ever again I'm selling everything and starting over.

and PAGER: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000pn9s...

I read this previously and from memory it relies a lot on what Athens wrote about Sparta? I'm no historian but I was wondering if there's bias there, because they mostly despised each other and Athens kept records whereas Sparta didn't. It seems reasonable that you'd write a bunch of stuff about your enemies being inhumane and generally shit. Maybe the sometimes nicer things written about them coincided with periods of peace and alliance? Just spit balling, it's still an interesting and informative read.

I'll provide some background for people that aren't familiar with the game. It's an online vehicular combat game where you pilot tanks, planes, helicopters and warships. The vehicles range from pre-WW2 to modern. The game aims for realistic vehicle specifications, like armour thickness, penetration values etc.

For older, actually real vehicles, that information is more easily available. For modern, classified vehicles, and vehicles that were never actually produced, they have to make reasonable assumptions. Sometimes players get upset about these assumptions and how they impact the game balance, and post classified design documents on the forums to argue their points.

The Australian War Memorial has a volunteer program for transcribing old letters and diaries and such: https://transcribe.awm.gov.au/

I gave it a go but it was too hard for me! I write in cursive but I found most of it illegible.

The ban hasn't really changed much on the crime side of things. Nicotine vapes were already illegal and they continue to import them through the same channels. The organised crime is primarily tobacco. It's low risk and poorly enforced, and probably very high margins where a pack of Chinese or counterfeit cigarettes is resold for $10 to $20 or so. Vapes and nicotine pouches are part of that too but I would wager tobacco is moved in significantly higher volumes.

I read up about it after watching Deadwood. The most surprising I found is that they still exist in some form: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinkerton_(detective_agency).

From the gaming side of things, I'm disappointed that Intel and AMD are focusing on the midrange market going forwards. I'm on Linux with a 6900XT and wasn't going to upgrade until there's a compatible option with acceptable raytracing performance (and when HDR is finally sorted out). The 4090 and other high tier cards are absurdly expensive, would be good to have competition in that segment.

I liked the books and television shows of both but I personally thought The Terror was in another league entirely.

Which is to say people should still watch/read them both.

Although I could've done without the gratuitous and seemingly unnessecary sex in The Terror (novel), but that seems typical of Dan Simmons.

To add to that fun fact, it's why the Yamaha logo is three crossed tuning forks.

I thought Bloodhounds (K-drama on Netflix) had some of the best fight scenes I'd seen in years. I'm not a big k-drama or even drama person but I came for the fights and ended up liking the characters. There's a weird character write-off towards the end because apparently the actress had a DUI accident and so they took her off the show, but otherwise it's a pretty solid show.

Not directly related, but brings to mind the training video for the fire control mechanical computers on US Navy ships: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4

My remedy for the RSI in my right hand (stiffness and pain in the fingers and knuckles) is gripping as hard as possible. If I work out I remind myself to grip everything as hard as I possibly can, and I add light dumbbell exercises so I can specifically focus on gripping as hard as possible. If I'm at my desk or wherever I also occasionally make a fist as hard and tense as I can. The pain has gone away and my hand has its full range of motion again. Of course, for all I know I could be doing something wrong and my hand will blow out in a few years. Just adding my anecdotal experience.

If anyone is playing on Linux with an AMD GPU and has texture issues (missing FBI text on the characters' jackets is the give away), it can be fixed with applying a patch to mesa-git: https://github.com/HansKristian-Work/vkd3d-proton/issues/175.... It should hopefully be implemented soon. I think it's only limited to RDNA2.

Under the headline is a video with the tagline "Google Flights has a new feature to help you save money - An upgrade to Google Flights will tell you the best time to book your next getaway." Hilarious.

Reminds of me of strapping a milk crate to the back of your motorbike or scooter. In Australia at least, it seems stranger to me to see a Honda CT110 without a milk crate bungee strapped to the back than with.