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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 b…

After then nth time copying and tweaking boilerplate Go code to enable HTTP graceful shutdown, I decided to package it up in to a library which I've called rsvp (i.e, "please respo…

What other services have you used to track stats?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234180

Condo means an apartment that you own (vs rent).

> 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://p…

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 Austr…

> 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.)

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 su…

I think that should be https://datasette.io/

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…

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

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.c…

>> will do nothing for emissions > How can that be? Because a reduction of domestic gas usage will just be diverted to less efficient LNG exports. Given that by far the largest sou…

The only reason that natural gas prices in Australia have gone up in the past 10 years is that gas producers in the eastern states were able to start exporting gas as LNG. As of 20…

Re: architecture in Japan the typical lifespan of a house is less than 30 years: https://robbreport.com/shelter/home-design/japanese-homes-ar... I'd recommend the book Jutaku by Na…

Fujifilm also sells Instax printers ( https://instax.com/printer/ ) that you can print to using smartphone apps. Note that the printers use the same film cartridges as the Instax i…

Ironically the #2 post on /r/canada right now is titled "'I'm done with Canada': High cost of living leads some to leave the country" ( https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/153…

I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 9 and I'm very happy with it. It's fast, quiet, absurdly light, has a 16:10 screen, a decent selection of ports and the famously good ThinkPad keybo…

Thanks, my mistake! I did misread it as China having a surplus of EV cars instead of ICE cars. Either way Africa is a tough market. But I think my point about a stable electric gri…

Africa doesn't have the grid capacity to support a shift to electric vehicles. Right now South Africa (i.e., the richest country in Africa) has daily rolling power cuts (aka "load …

Sure, but I only used the roof box on occasional long trips when we had lots of luggage (e.g., visiting the grandparents interstate for Christmas). So I might have paid a few tens …

A cheap and easy way to increase the size of the car you already have is to buy a roof box. Our previous car was a small hatchback and interstate trips with our three kids in the b…

> Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnepeg, Halifax, Saskatoon, Regina, and St Johns Yeah, all of these cities also have long, harsh winters. FWIW I'm a Canadian who live…

For photos or documents like wills I think the best long term storage solution is still physical prints in a shoebox. Yes, they'll fade slowly over time, but will still be viewable…