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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yes to this. It bugs me so much that they have the “follow system” option and it’s practically never the default.

It would be such a simple way of giving users a slightly customised experience out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I recently bought a new Logitech mouse for my fiancée and absolutely loved how it was packaged. Aside from that tiniest bit of sticky tape, all of the packaging was cardboard. And it wasn't the waxed type of cardboard that so many things come in. Everything apart from the mouse itself went straight into recycling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I've personally been trying to cut back on plastic where I can.

One thing I've been avoiding is plastic wrapped fruit and veg, opting for the loose ones wherever possible.

At some point I want to start logging our garbage and see what we can cut out to reduce the waste. That's definitely on my nerdier side, and thankfully shouldn't be too hard for just the two of us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So basically with all the solar panels putting extra power into the grid, they’re already coordinating thousands of distributed systems and this is about balancing those against the actual demand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

No kids, just lots of things.

Friday night will have to be something special for the citizenship + graduation (but small since we still have the actual events yet to come).

Friends have a 1yo birthday party on Saturday for a late lunch, and then dinner plans with some other friends about 30km the other direction. Then some other social things on Sunday.

The next two weekends are all clear at the moment, so we've got that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Usually, the exhaust gases will force the water out of the way, which is why you basically never see an exhaust snorkel on a car that has an intake snorkel.

I think the question was more like "Would the increased water pressure at that depth put too much back pressure on the engine and prevent the exhaust coming out / force water into the engine?"

Either they were concerned about that, they didn't want water to rush in immediately if the engine stopped, or they were just being on the safe side.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My fiancée has passed her citizenship test and is now just waiting for the invite for the formal ceremony. And in the same week, her sister has received final exam results and is all good to graduate later this year. And we've got Paramore tickets for when they're coming to Sydney in late November.

So it's been a good week.

Today I'm back to work, and I guess tonight is the one night of normal before the weekend chaos starts tomorrow night.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re already looking at implementing a odometer based tax on EVs. They should just implement that for all road registered vehicles and leave the fuel tax as is (or lower).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Regular movement results in regular movement.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Waze is quite a different experience than Google Maps when driving, so it's made sense to keep them as two separate apps.

Google Maps is "I want to get from point A to point B in a normal way."

Waze is "I want the most aggressively quick way; no back street is too small for me."

I feel like OP has gone too far with the editorialised headline this time, as the only thing that's happening at this point is switching Waze over to use the standard Google ad platform rather than their custom system.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tumblr CEO David Karp reported to Yahoo’s Simon Khalaf, founder of the analytics platform Flurry (also acquired by Yahoo). In an anecdote from an unnamed former employee, Khalaf walked into one team meeting about Tumblr saying the popular blogging platform was “going to be the new PDF.”

“It didn’t make any sense,” the employee recounted. “We’d walk away scratching our heads.”

I’m with them on this. That makes zero sense.

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