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  • Sounds like you’re stuck in a worst practices mindset.

    Worst/Pragmatic.
    If I get a timeline for a feature request, then everything can be scheduled, tested, whitelisted, delivered at a reasonable time.
    That’s the rarer event - normally it’s more like “the scale head has died and a technician is on the way to replace it” and whilst I modify the program in question to handle this new input, hundreds of staff are standing around and delivery quotas won’t be met.
    Is my position arrogant? This is the job.

    Sign your damn releases and have the whitelisting done by cert.

    I’ll see if this is possible at the site in question, thank you.



  • MountaineertoProgrammer Humor@programming.devSometimes, it's backwards
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    In a rapidly churning startup phase, where new releases can and do come out constantly to meet production requirements, this one size fits all mentality is impractical.

    If you refuse to whitelist the deployment directory, you will be taking 2am calls to whitelist the emergency releases.

    No it can’t wait until Monday at 9am, no there will not be a staged roll out and multiple rounds of testing.

    I am more than willing to have a chat; you, me and the CEO.


  • Purnell Real Estate principal Nick Purnell, who bought an apartment in Canberra as an investment property in 2020, said people will stop investing in property if negative gearing is abolished.

    Don’t threaten me with a good time.
    Investors, with their ability to outbid potential owner-occupiers are a significant component in the current rise in housing prices.
    Those rising house prices are DIRECTLY related to the raising rent prices.

    Negative gearing was implemented to achieve a change in the market, a large thumb on the scale by the government.
    Now it’s time to step back and reassess the market and figure out what we need to do to achieve our desired outcomes.

    Million dollar plus shoe boxes, whole suburbs dominated by short term rentals, people using the 15% equity on their 4 investment property to back a 5th in a giant house of cards gamble are NOT HELPING.



  • I agree and use Signal myself.
    But people like the extra features of WhatsApp like desktop/web clients with seamless history sync and all the other little things that WhatsApp provides.
    The average Joe doesn’t even think about security or privacy, they just know that the results of using WhatsApp are superior than using SMS.
    iMessage is a non starter everywhere out of the US, it just doesn’t have the market penetration.
    As an Australian, no one I know (many of whom own iPhones) talk about the blue-green bubble stuff.
    They recognise where the fault lies and simply don’t use the app.


  • MountaineertoPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhat's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?
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    In certain places like India, WhatsApp is the default means of communication for everyone.
    You can use it without phone data if you are on wifi, it supports better quality than sms for sending images, you can video chat with it, it’s cross platform, etc etc.

    What’s more amazing to me is that it’s not more popular in western countries.




  • Just one example of the lies and misinformation out there:

    Smart people I know believe that we have to go Nuclear because it’s the only green way to achieve baseload.

    When press on what baseload is, they seem to think it’s the minimum amount of power needed to keep the grid up.

    Which for anyone listening in, is backwards, baseload is actually the minimum amount of load required because it’s un-economical to spin old coal burners down. That’s why people used to heat their water at night on the cheap, because the power HAD to go somewhere.

    And these are smart people, just disinterested in the how and why of electricity generation.
    They flick a switch, the lights come on.
    Every 3 months they pay a bill and tut-tut about how expensive it is now “because of the green obsession”.



  • MountaineertoMemes@lemmy.mlDear iPhone users:
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    Funnily enough, I’ve got a few friends who are long time iPhone users, who actually point this stuff out themselves:

    “OMG! Have you seen the eye watering price of the new one?”
    “Yay, I finally get stuff you’ve had for years.”

    Neither party would ever consider anything else, and they both buy the new model every year. 🤷

    At this point I admit that my reasons for choosing Android all those years ago no longer exist or matter, but I can’t imagine changing ecosystem either.




















  • You’ve clearly got a lot of energy Nath, that’s quite a post - including hints of antigun talking points, such as the reference to US suicide statistics.

    So you’ve got a position, and you’re clearly more educated on the topic than your “just asking” question implies.

    Fundamentally, I think people are good, that by and large they don’t hurt themselves or others without cause.

    You seem to think of people as awaiting an opportunity or the day they snap or whatever.

    That colours our perception of risk a bit.

    Most of the new law in WA is just tidying up around the edges of existing legislation that has been doing the job for decades just fine.
    Nothing that has been proposed would have stopped the impetus for this change, the double murder we keep circling back to.
    Arbitrarily limiting firearms ownership to a certain quantity has got people annoyed for that very reason - it does nothing to stop this from happening again.

    As I’m sure you’re aware, you already have to justify each individual purchase, you already have to store them in a certain way, you can only really use one at a time, and used for evil, a .22LR kills a human just as dead as a .50BMG.

    My personal gripe with the law is the categorisation, which doesn’t group based on danger or anything like that, they were written with the secondary aim of pulling as many guns out of the community as possible back in 1996.
    The two most commonly owned firearms at the time were the .22LR semi auto and the 12 Gauge pump action.
    Now you have to be a farmer to get them, and most farmers don’t bother, because they are expensive beyond rationality, they have absurd storage requirements and they are limited to a single one each.

    As I said before, to most farmers, a gun is a tool, and having a spare gun in case your primary one breaks is just sensible, and you can buy 3 bolt actions for the price of one semi auto.

    In my collection I have a literal museum piece, a matching serial number 1943 SMLE Model 1 MKIII* made in Lithgow NSW:

    It’s not pretty, but it is mine.

    It’s far more accurate than I am, and could realistically kill at well over a kilometer.
    A 12 gauge shotgun firing solids (to give the best range and stopping power), is probably good out to 250m. It holds 10 rounds and can be fed quickly with stripper clips, which means it both has more rounds in it and can be reloaded faster than the 12 gauge.

    This is a category B firearm, which anyone who qualifies for a standard hunting, collecting or target shooting licence can get with justification.

    Meanwhile, the far less dangerous 12 gauge is category C, IF you limit it to only 5 rounds. Category D if it holds more.

    But the law is the law, and we work within it.
    Until some politician needs to be seen as “tough on crime” and the most law abiding group in Australia gets told “it can’t be blue any more”.