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nikau··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Sounds about right, buying all those gatorade bottles to piss in adds up
nikau··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Used bicycle tube cut into rings make the best elastic bands, they don't degrade
nikau··on Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush
But it doesn't have any fan blades in it!

Only an impeller with blades

nikau··on Matrox: Graphics for Professionals
The fixed frequency was a pain as text mode didn't work, i ended up installing a Hercules monitor which Linux would use in text mode until xf86 started
nikau··on The bond market isn’t buying what Fed Chair Warsh is selling
I can't understand the logic behind party A did something, and then blame party B for not undoing it.

Not everything is a simple ctrl-z, and the blame lays squarely on who implemented it.

nikau··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
Unfortunately too many Australians are swayed by scare campaigns and vote against their own interest.

The mining super profits tax, franking credits, and similar failed reforms benefited only the top 1% of 1% of Australians, yet people voted against them.

Hopefully the recent negative gearing and trust changes stick.

nikau··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
So really its all conjecture unless an actual project plan is written up with supply chain sources, and the plan is kept up to date with inventory of items scrapped vs placed in storage and capacity from current importers & manufacturers.
nikau··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
I guess that's the question - how fast can you build required plants during war time?

How do you get the very bespoke equipment from overseas if supply chains are being attacked?

Where do you get the designers and operational staff, bearing in mind the industry might have been closed for a while and all prior talent has retired or died?

What's the risk of above vs the government subsidising a plant to keep it operational and known good state?

nikau··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
I wouldn't be so sure about that - as an example, I know at least one Victorian refinery is being torn down and scrapped as seen by my own eyes.
nikau··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
right - but in the context of this thread, manganese is a vital ingredient to smelting iron - so Australia seems it is no longer self sufficient.
nikau··on British Steel taken into public ownership to protect 'vital' UK supply
Meanwhile Australia's last remaining manganese plant shut down last night...
nikau··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
I've held this stance on agile for a long time - it coincided with mainstream adoption of ssds, windows with memory protection and google search - all of which sped delivery despite agile, not because of agile.
nikau··on A human postmortem of the 1996 AOL outage
In a touch of irony this blog is throwing some null error
nikau··on Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts
Most were enjoying not having to stop whatever they were doing at whatever time a show was broadcast to watch it live on air - time shifting recorded TV was a game changer.
nikau··on Donald Trump's Superficiality Is Bone-Deep
Bone spur deep
nikau··on Samsung Overtakes Apple for Top Smartphone Customer Satisfaction
2012 called and asked for their snark back.

Samsung software is fine now.

nikau··on I'm going back to writing code by hand
Time will tell if outages and defect resolution sky rocket or if ai can deal with it
nikau··on Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one
That's because windows locks the file name vs inode like Unix, so was really the only way to update any file in use like libraries.
nikau··on Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI
Except you burn a tonne of cash on redundancy payouts
nikau··on Stop using grey text (2025)
Found secretary of education Linda McMahons account
nikau··on DHS keeps trying and failing to unmask anonymous ICE critics online
It's the same as all the Tesla subreddits, they ban and delete anything negative so casual readers don't get anything but a very biased and curated viewpoint.

They are propaganda from vested interests.

nikau··on I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too
Is your macbook air running 8 different corporate security products eating CPU?

I had a macbook for work previously and it was just as shit as windows due to all the junk running in the background.

nikau··on How Markdown took over the world
Best thing about markdown is the barrier to entry of non technical folks, it stops them shitting over technical documentation and steers them to Confluence or sharepoint for their die on the vine slop.
nikau··on I use Samsung's Wi-Fi menu to seriously improve my connectivity
I find it hard to feel sorry for anyone stupid enough to buy a fridge with a screen
nikau··on Return of wired headphones is restoring friction to our convenience-addled lives
I mean it's better than having wind and background noise because the mics are by your ears...
nikau··on Return of wired headphones is restoring friction to our convenience-addled lives
I saw some buds where the charging case had a microphone which is a clever solution i hope more brands adopt.
nikau··on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
Is the eu or apple the toddler here?
nikau··on A human-accelerated neuron type potentially underlying autism in humans
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nikau··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
How is \\server\share any harder than finder?
nikau··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
Can't wait to start my stolen id as a service for the botnets
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