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Comment · 1 year ago
Excellent work and very interesting to read. DX9s very occasionally pop up for sale for silly small money, and now I would seriously entertain getting one just for the fun of having a crack at installing your custom ROM.
Comment · 2 years ago
'Laser-trimmed resistors' will be the next selling point on a boutique guitar FX company's 57th clone of a Tubescreamer.
Comment · 2 years ago
8 months is not that long; these days the wait is longer. However, you are aware of how long the wait will be, there information is right there on the Australian Immigration website:
https://immi.homeaffairs.gov.au/visas/getting-a-visa/visa-pr...
Providing updates to everyone waiting simply wastes time and resources; again, you know roughly how long it's going to take as the estimated times are provided. Hassling the agent on your case is unnecessary.
Regarding leaving and returning Australia - Bridging Visa class Bs are made available if you have good reasons to be leaving and coming back.
I can see this from two sides - my (now ex) wife went through getting temporary then permanent residency in Australia; yes, it was a pain and expensive, but Australia has high standards of living etc, which is why lots of people want to come here. The other side is this - immigration is one of the reasons why there are not enough houses to buy or places to rent, making life difficult for citizens or people who have PR or TR. So if the process of having more immigrants who also require housing is expensive or difficult, I think you'll find a lot of people are not particular sympathetic.
Comment · 2 years ago
I remember when blue LEDs started appearing in guitar FX pedals just out of novelty,resulting in a pedals becoming harder to use as when the pedal was on the brightness meant visibility of the controls was reduced. On pedals I made I always used fine sandpaper to increase the diffusion of each LED, and the result was significantly better. Early blue LEDs,especially, seemed to have a very narrow projection angle.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've just stuck with a single printed page, placed inside the bag and it's outside pockets, with my flight and multiple sets of contact details. However, I haven't lost a bag over hundreds of flights while doing this, so am unsure of the effectiveness.... guess at least the ritual has been working in terms of heading off a loss proactively!
Comment · 2 years ago
Might I suggest that swearing to learn to improve your swimming skills may be more beneficial to your long-term survival? Plus a lot more fun once you have more confidence in the water.
Comment · 2 years ago
Not to mention saved significant hospital costs as people were unwell but not sick enough to require more intensive and expensive treatment.
Comment · 3 years ago
They've been working on those things in Tallinn for years, and I've only ever seen them operate in a very limited area, and even then it's not unusual to see them seemingly stuck at the nearby rail crossing. Meanwhile a human on a Bolt scooter ate their and their investor's lunch IMO.
Comment · 3 years ago
In that case, I'm happy to be 'just' a good developer who has used an ORM to create a product that runs an entire company, and has been doing so reliably for 12 years and counting now. OTOH, I took over a role years ago where the 'great developer' before me left behind masses of crazily complicated and hard to understand SQL queries.
As long as you can deliver reliable and maintainable software in a relatively timely manner, it doesn't matter how it's done, and clients sure don't know or care either.
Comment · 3 years ago
Sounds quite human.
Comment · 3 years ago
A few things:
1) I went through Stripe checkout to upgrade to the $10/month plan, but it's still showing me as on the free plan on the billing page.
2) I guess related to 1), but I want to show my business partner the results of a quick dump of a PDF plus scrape of our website; it's not clear how to supply him with the public chat/bot URL.
3) 'Last scraped' always shows 'invalid date'.
Feel free to reach out to me directly (email address is ***[email protected] for my account). Thanks, good luck with the product!
Comment · 3 years ago
Graham's writings and book helped me make it through Covid isolation and a relationship breakdown. He and his partner have done very good work for many people in the area of mental health in Australia:
https://www.bigfeels.club/about-honor-eastly-and-graham-pant...
Comment · 4 years ago
No mention of 'voting' to spend time with friends or family, getting outdoors, giving to charity with one's time or money, painting or trying to learn how to? Perhaps the author does these things or perhaps their context was restricted to work, but this kind of life seems a little hollow to me.
Comment · 4 years ago
Australia (my home country) is another that comes to mind in terms of multiculturalism, and I also took it for granted before I spent time in a very different country (Estonia).
Comment · 4 years ago
"Joining Megaco also means you join our corporate wellness program, via which we track your important life parameters and help you achieve Maximum Happiness and optimise Life Satisfaction.
* Please note that a Happiness score of at least 70% must be maintained to retain employment. Additionally, you must think about Megaco in a positive way for at least 2% of your out-of-work hours."
All bleak jokes aside, interesting work by the author.