brenainn

I would love to build one as a gift but would need to get it working for Australian birds.

I use osmand on my bike, it has a lock feature. And if you dig through the settings it probably has an option to prevent recalculation.

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.

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.