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gazter

@ gazter @aussie.zone

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  • Favorite Kim Stanley Robinson book?

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  • There's a section in the Mars trilogy where several pages are given over to describing how a farm is laid out, with the wind coming over this rise and hitting this rock, which means a little pool of moisture forms in this particular spot, making a little ridge in the soil that shelters a bit of grass. Oh and someone blew up a space station with a missile.

  • Happy Birthday

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  • I spent way too long wondering why your sentence looked wrong. I re-read it several times but it all seemed fine, I mean, that's obviously how you spell ladel. But then I realised it's actually ladle, and English is stupid.

  • What's an example of something that usually goes unnoticed when done well but very noticeable when done poorly or not done at all?

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  • The location of light switches relative to the light.

  • Which timezone would win in a conflict?

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  • ...what?

  • I see your canal, and raise you a water bridge

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  • I see your water bridge, but ask, what happens when a big boat wants to get past? I'll tell you what happens- The Barton Swing Aqueduct.

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    thick skinned employees, how can you be so thick skinned?

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  • The only way to win the game is to not play.

    It sounds like you currently care more about the people at your job than your job itself. Perhaps you can tell yourself to flip that?

    We are a reflection of the people around us. Maybe next time your colleagues are lazing around, instead of joining them and ignoring the work, you can join those two you admire and ignore the others?

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • Precisely- it's a concept that is ingrained in people to the point where anyone who doesn't understand it is viewed as lacking. However, it's needless.

    I don't need to understand IP addressing subnet routing to go to a website. Why should I need to understand a file and folder structure to find an old tax document?

  • What problems does Linux have to overcome to get more users

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  • You use an interesting example- personally, I feel like while files and folders have their place, I prefer they be part of the background and not presented to the user. Take photos, for example. If I'm looking for pictures of my dog, I don't want to go into the 2022 folder, then the August folder, then look through all those files, back out into 2022 then go into the September folder, etc. I just want to type 'dog'. Or pick from a dropdown list of common tags, or anything other than digging through files and folders.

  • A game, or series of, you believe belongs in a museum?

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  • Shadow of the Colossus was such a landmark game. The few little changes to the standard video game formula combined together just made for an absolute masterpiece.

  • Hail protection for vehicles?

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  • A picnic rug and a nice thick blanket do the job, and as a bonus you are always ready for a cosy picnic.

  • If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport?

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  • Don't even need an Opal card- just tap your phone or your bank card.

    The network is also massive. You can tap on in Kiama and tap off in Scone. That's about 400km, roughly equivalent to Berlin to Frankfurt, on regular metro trains. Might take a while, but you can do it.

  • If americans come to germany and act like german public Transport is the best, how frickin bad is american public Transport?

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  • Am I in the minority, thinking that the London Underground is actually pretty amazing? Wherever I was across the huge area the city takes up, I rarely needed to check a timetable- There would be a station within walking distance, I could be relatively confident that a train would turn up within fifteen minutes and get me to basically anywhere in London in fairly short order.

  • What's your best tip or hack for camping?

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  • Headtorch.

  • What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?

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  • I bet you there is a distro called Pikachu, just to fuck with people like us.

  • What's the most unexpectedly useful item you've ever bought under $20?

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  • Not to mention the broke single mum tech neckbeards!

  • I had to work with Excel today

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  • The hardest part of excel is knowing when to not use excel.

  • xkcd #3106: Farads

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  • You're right, the imperial units are not S.I. units, but each (most?) imperial unit is defined by an S.I. unit.

  • Why am I so slow at cycling?

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  • City riding is slow.

    Pump up your tyres.

    Go at whatever speed you like.

  • What topic do you have the most knowledge, and can you explain it so a child can understand it?

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  • Ok can I test your ability to explain it to a child? Why are phone batteries measured in mAh but car batteries are measured in kWh?