jbarham
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Comment · 6 days ago
More precisely, there have been zero passenger deaths due to crashes or derailments on Japan's bullet train network since its inception in 1964.
Comment · 8 days ago
I have the Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8550 printer and have found it to be excellent for printing photos. It prints up to A3+ size (13" x 19") and ink costs are low since it uses tanks, which can be refilled using ink bottles, vs cartridges. The main caveat is that it uses dye inks which theoretically don't have the longevity of pigment inks, but for my purposes (family photos and photo club competitions) it doesn't matter.
Keith Cooper on YouTube has lots of informative videos about the ET-8550: https://www.youtube.com/@KeithCooper/search?query=8550
Comment · 3 months ago
Yeah, I wondered about that too as normally Django "actions" mean admin actions (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/acti...). But in this case it seems the blog post is referring to this pattern: https://www.jmduke.com/posts/in-praise-of-actions.html (same author)
Comment · 8 months ago
What other services have you used to track stats?
Comment · 11 months ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Condo means an apartment that you own (vs rent).
Comment · 1 year ago
> I pushed for anonymous temporary age verification tokens generated through a government app.
Cute. Let's see the reviews for an existing Australian government auth app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.gov.mygov.m...
And the kicker is that the above app doesn't even need to exist since myGov could just use industry standard TOTP two-factor auth like the dozens of other services I use.
Aussie politicians once again conforming to their lucky country stereotype:
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise."
Comment · 1 year ago
According to https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma... iPhone also has > 50% market share in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Australia and Japan. FWIW I live in Australia and most group chats are via WhatsApp vs SMS/iMessage.
Comment · 1 year ago
> This reminds me of Rob Pike's article "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant," written about 15 years ago.
25 years ago: http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf (Time flies.)
Comment · 2 years ago
Tesla has cut prices very aggressively here in Australia [1] such that the "driveaway" prices for the Model 3 and Y are now ~AU$60k (or $US40k). There aren't a lot of government subsidies to buy EVs in Australia so that's what most Telsa buyers will pay, but those prices are very competitive given that many popular ICE SUVs now cost AU$50k+.
[1] https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/tesla-model-y-model-3-...
Comment · 2 years ago
I think that should be https://datasette.io/
Comment · 2 years ago
Ironically despite Australia being a major producer of uranium, its current Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, constantly denigrates nuclear power [1]. But that's par for the course in Australian politics ("Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck").
1: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ftwit...
Comment · 2 years ago
Prompt: draw a picture of a fish and chips shop owner from queensland who is also a politician
Results: https://twitter.com/jbarham74/status/1760587123844124894
Comment · 2 years ago
There's a short cut & cover freight railway "tunnel" near me in Footscray, Victoria, Australia (just west of central Melbourne). Here's the Google street view: https://www.google.com/maps/@-37.8035409,144.9065655,3a,75y,...
I used to walk over it almost every day when I worked at a coworking space in the old Lonely Planet HQ building. I think a lot of locals drive over it without ever realizing it's there.
I built and operate SlickDNS (https://www.slickdns.com), a DNS hosting service.
I co-founded YouPatch (https://www.youpatch.com), the world's most popular pixel quilt pattern generation service.
Location: Adelaide, Australia (via Canada, California and Melbourne)
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