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Comment · 3 years ago

You don’t even need to do that. Once you have Residency (distinct from Permanent Residency and Citizenship - the one with the passport) you are allowed to start your own company which you can use to contract yourself out to Australian companies for annual amounts double those of a lot of NZ roles.

(My last role paid 240-250K NZD depending on exchange rate; the local role prior to that: 120K NZD)

Didn’t know about E3 visa route. Very interesting, thank you

Comment · 3 years ago

I’m very happy with SimpleWall: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

Comment · 6 years ago

This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep [0] which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too!

Honourable mention also to FZF [1] which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory tree, but has revolutionised my history use with its fuzzy matching.

[0] - https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

[1] - https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Comment · 6 years ago

Same. How hard is it to make it optional?

Comment · 6 years ago

I tried that but that just makes you set a PIN which I don't want to do! I appreciate the help though, thank you.

Comment · 6 years ago

Long-time Signal user but I'm on the verge of moving I think. There are several UX shortcomings but the new PIN nag is a bridge too far. What are my options for alternatives? I imagine Telegram is the next best bet but very open to suggestions.

Comment · 6 years ago

You can inline the JS to achieve this. ublock will allow you to prevent inline JS execution but NoScript didn't last I checked

Comment · 6 years ago

A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective:

I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little getting used to.

I looked into why this might be, and discovered (at least back in 2015) that authors are paid in part, per minute of engagement [1], which might account in part for the length of the courses.

Judging from what I've read subsequently, I may just have been unlucky in the courses I selected (I didn't watch any Microsoft ones for example) so if anyone has any recommendations on particularly good courses, I'd be interested to give it a second try.

[0] - https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

[1] - https://www.troyhunt.com/on-being-pluralsight-author/ (germane text under 'Royalties' heading)

Comment · 6 years ago

Yep! This is how I started out (I run it one a VPS now so I'm not tied to my home network) and it works fine. The only limit you're likely to run into is your blocklists filling RAM. I have a 5M+ long blocklist and it won't fit into 1GB, so you might want to spec up a little bit in that area, depending on how block-happy you are.

Comment · 6 years ago

Glad to see it finally officially accepted. I've been using it on all my devices for over a year now and it's been rock solid. The ease of setup and initial connection speed alone blow any of the alternatives (that I'm aware of, at least) out of the water. Long may it continue!

Comment · 6 years ago

Looks like he sold his medal [0] to ameliorate his loss of earnings; perhaps that's to what GP was referring.

[0] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Wats...

Comment · 6 years ago

I don't have one. I did use the web interface for Spotify though and it did some JS stuff when I left it for a bit; that's how I noticed.

Comment · 6 years ago

A genuinely enjoyable long-form post I read a while back involved Casper [0]. Not sure how germane it is but perhaps someone will enjoy it.

[0] - https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

Comment · 6 years ago

Not sure if this has changed but I ditched noscript when I discovered it doesn't block inline script execution. These days I use Ublock Origin:

Settings -> check 'I am an advanced user'. You should now be able to block 1st party, third party and inline JS from executing and save on a per-site basis. Hope this helps someone!

Comment · 6 years ago

Yep! I have this and it works perfectly.

- about:config

- dom.webnotifications.enabled = false

That's it. Haven't seen one in months.