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The first time we tested cutting the power back in the day, the backup generator didn't fire! Turns out someone had pushed the big red stop button, which remains pushed in until re…

We were once enjoying a nice picnic in a park when it started raining bees. It turned out their was a drone above us attracting bees (not sure if it was the sound or if it had dist…

One thing I've found helpful is that you can find out the current UV levels for your location, e.g. https://www.arpansa.gov.au/our-services/monitoring/ultraviol... I live in the an…

It goes against mainstream advice that no sun exposure is good exposure, and that getting a tan is not healthy. However I never "tan" my hands and they don't look any darker, but I…

I've been living in Australia and New Zealand, and have been terrified of sun exposure - during peak times (summer mid-day) it's scary how quickly you can burn. However I also have…

Not extremely unlikely if they were identical drives from the same manufacturing batch. It's good practise to use diverse manufacturers or at least batches when adding disks to a r…

I had to laugh at the commonality of experience. My toddler bathtimes often involve negotiations as to which vehicles he's allowed to bring in too! Keeping his brand new fire truck…

Blind people who use screen readers usually turn up the speed to something unintelligible to the rest of us. Maybe reading a computer screen is a simpler task than talking person t…

I made a command line music playing frontend. It has a list of all my music as a flat text file, then if I run "music" it shuffles randomly, or I can add a regex as an argument to …

How do you see things playing out now that we're near 0 interest rates and in some cases negative? Will governments continue to be loose via negative interest rates, through some o…

If you're in a high UV area and you want to try something like this, use a UV tracker so you can be informed about the risks. I have a widget on my phone that displays the current …

To help support this, keep an eye on a UV tracker. I used to be terrified of the Australian sun, but with a UV tracker I know when it's safe to be outside for hours with no sunscre…

I used "Regularly" and it worked great. I've now upgraded to my own system which plugs into my dashboard and can generate graphs. Each time I complete a task I can give it a score,…

I actually agree with both you and the parent poster - this is a real problem. My position would be that you still need assistance programs as well as the UBI for people like the a…

So what if someone spends it all on whiskey or oxy? They're maximising their own preferences. If they were addicted to alcohol, sudden withdrawal can kill. One of the big reasons f…

Some big wave surfers do. Apparently it's pretty disconcerting, as you need to let go of the air you're holding before taking a big breath on the device, which may or may not work.…

Looks like they were super experienced body surfers wearing swim fins - the guys that would usually be doing the rescuing. It sounds like the bigger problem was that they got lost …

I once got tanned on just half of my face, skiing. Apparently I took much longer going up the lift with the sun on my right than I did coming down :)

To help control my sun exposure, I use UV widgets on my dashboard. They help me know when I can expose as much skin as possible to get gentle exposure everywhere, and when I'll bur…

I'm a fair skinned Aussie, who doesn't really like sunscreen. I can 100% understand nl's position - skin cancer is really prevalent here, and the sun can be incredibly harsh. The s…

I use different desktops for different tasks/clients and have a script that keeps track of which one I'm on. Using the desktops is an extra bit of information I can use to give con…

Have you come across arbtt? It's a script that pretty much does exactly the same thing, but comes with a few extras for categorization and analysis.

Download an export and import it into gnucash. It remembers previously processed items. It's a manual process, but much easier to do a monthly export than record items one by one.

I'm thinking of doing the same! Living in Sydney at the moment, but am an NZ citizen. Looking at Northland or Taranaki for the kitesurfing :) Could I ask you a bit more about North…