Nath
@Nath@aussie.zone
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 16 hours ago:
I got home after a graveyard shift one time many years ago and had a minor existential crisis because I truly didn’t remember the drive home. I read a couple of years ago that this phenomenon has a name: Highway Hypnosis. In theory, I shouldn’t have been fatigued that day, but that’s also a plausible explanation.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 16 hours ago:
It truly doesn’t matter. An automated task would be out by a few seconds occasionally anyway.
If you are interested in playing with it, brisbot’s code is here. (I’ll edit this comment in a sec after I dig it up)
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🗿🗽🗼 Saturday, 21 December, 2024 16 hours ago:
I’m on holidays. 🎄
Feels good. Now to scramble for the remaining presents. - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
In Victoria at least (not sure about WA), air cons not working are considered urgent repairs.
It’s very likely the same in WA; I haven’t looked into it. Which I regret now, as the landlady took ages (over a year) to approve an Aircon repair in our old house.
This topic sort-of skirts around the issue of solar panels in WA. They’re very common among home owners, but rare among renters. You can almost tell whether a house is owned or rented here by looking at solar panels in the street. Landlords have zero incentive to install them, because they cost a decent amount and don’t change the amount in rent by very much and then they’re on the hook for repairs/maintenance of them.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
Well, they actually do though. We just had our Landlord pay to service our aircon this week because it wasn’t cooling. Given what we pay in rent though, I have zero qualms about making sure the stuff in the place works as agreed.
I gripe about how much we pay fairly regularly, but I will concede that our landlord does actually approve the maintenance stuff we raise. Gotta be fair to the guy.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 1 day ago:
I hereby dub thee “Eureka - Moderator of the World ~news~!”
I’m open to the idea of renaming the Community. There’s no Admin tool to do that, but I expect that a couple of edits to the database will permit it to happen. I feel like we need a flow chart for this: Do we rename the community?
If yes, Rename would be preferred to abandoning it and leaving over a year of posts behind. There’s no Admin tool to do this, so I’ll want to spin up a test community/rename it in the database before trying that approach on World News.That’s a problem for future Nath - and only if we go ahead and rename the Community.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
The way my project manager was talking yesterday, I may be in a minority, planning on getting stuff done today. She has mostly written today off in her timeline calculations.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎊🥳🎉 Friday, 20 December, 2024 1 day ago:
Ok Hugh & Eddie, it’s time for you to take it away again: One Day More!
- Comment on Vale @Ilandar 1 day ago:
It’s more typical for people to “ghost”. I don’t think in those case there is any particular decision, they just stop checking in.
You’ll likely find the most common reason people leave is they’ve shared too much of themselves and someone either recognises them or they worry someone will. Some people start new user accounts and keep going. Some people will switch to a different instance. We aren’t a particularly attractive instance if you want to engage with a lot of lemmy.world communities, for instance. There’s a lag for when you’ll see their content until they upgrade their Lemmy version.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 2 days ago:
I’m mentally calculating the “Hours left” for 2024 and the “Hours of work” to do in my head. I’m not going to get it all done. I’m left trying to decide who I have to let down.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 2 days ago:
For all the stupid technology added to cars over the past 20 years, it’s easy to forget that there has been some awesome tech added as well.
- Comment on Pages randomly not loading 2 days ago:
Confirmed. 3am (Perth time) Lemmy restart to negate the memory leaks. Not sure whether that’s still needed after the software update a couple of months back.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?
Alas, the promotion I was making use of ends on Dec 20. So that method won’t work. It’s a good idea, though.
Not sure how such a site would handle payments for the gift cards, though? I sure wouldn’t want to be collecting credit card details and passing them through to Woolies via some API. Any API they have (if they have one) is unlikely to accept payments. It sounds like it’d be less work to make a competing egift card site.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
Buying an eGift Card for Christmas:
Nath: ‘Hey Woolies, I wish to purchase a gift card on your site, but want to delay the gift until Christmas morning. Can this be done?’
Woolies: ‘Of course not. If you buy a gift card at 2am, we send a text message to your recipient at 2am. They clearly want this gift right now!’I’m not going crazy, right? It’s a super obvious thing when buying a gift card that the person buying the gift would want to specify a delivery date/time as well as a recipient yeah? I told my work colleague and he reckons I’m an edge case. Most customers would want the gift sent immediately. Even if I wanted it same-day, I’d want the option to send it during waking hours.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
Huh. And here’s me grumbling the last time the kids and I got our heir cut and it came out to $80 for the three of us. :)
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🚆🚇🚥 Wednesday, 18 December, 2024 3 days ago:
“ONLEEGUCCI”? Or the Bananas in Pyjamas?
- Comment on Here's what Australia’s richest state government did with four years of dominance 3 days ago:
I rather like this presentation style, personally. If you want so skip it and the background stuff it covers though, you can just search the page for “We asked a panel” and it’ll go straight to the part where they give grades for what the government has done with their term.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: ♥️💜💙💚💛🩵🩷🩶 Tuesday, 17 December, 2024 4 days ago:
Ooh - I have first-hand experience with this! I had green, but needed to stop because a pedestrian was crossing the intersection illegally somewhere in Hawthorn. I was over the line, but not 100% over the line. When the pedestrian cleared the way, I continued and the camera went off. Your whole car needs to be over the line when the light turns red. The flash goes off the same millisecond, there is zero grace on that.
I challenged, and had to go to court. Explained what happened and the magistrate and he agreed that I was not breaking the law. I can’t find the outcome term online now - I’m at work and don’t have time to research it. I can explain what happened in layman’s terms though:
When you challenge the offense, you are saying the police made a mistake. That you shouldn’t have been issued an infringement. The police will fight you in court over that.
In my case, I was given a verdict that basically meant “person is guilty but there are extenuating circumstances”, and I didn’t need to pay the fine etc. It did cost me a day off work, thoughIf you are saying your front tyres were over the line, so you’re not guilty, I don’t think that’ll fly. Your whole car has to be over the line when it turns red. In my case, they could see I was doing like 5-10km/h when I went over the line, I obviously wasn’t zooming through. So while the photo didn’t show the pedestrian, they believed me.
- Comment on Here's what Australia’s richest state government did with four years of dominance 4 days ago:
Not giving them an A or better on Transport is just being a jerk. Three rail line projects completed, including the Airport train line. $5 fare caps to anywhere in Perth (including the airport). Train services to hundreds of thousands of new homes. And they’re not done, yet. Armadale line works are going very well, and another two lines are in the works if they get re-elected. No government in WA’s history has invested so much in transport, ever. Probably no state government in Australia’s history, but I’m not certain.
And that’s just the rail stuff. There’s also the new Tonkin Hwy project. The Reid Hwy and the Mitchell Freeway. And Wilman Wadandi Highway was just opened on the weekend. They’re still going with major road projects, also. Plus, no toll roads. Any other state would introduce tolls.
That grade is just scandalous, Prof. Newman. I honestly can’t see how you can stand behind that.
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- Comment on Woman who doused Nigel Farage with milkshake handed suspended jail sentence 4 days ago:
Why would she go to gaol for throwing a milkshake at him? Is it a greater offense to throw a milkshake at a member of parliament than it is to throw one at a regular person?
The fine is understandable for him to pay for clothing maintenance and shampoo. No issues there, either.
If she were an everyday office worker at some normal office, would that have mentioned that in the article? I don’t see the relevance in mentioning that she has OnlyFans. I don’t really see the relevance in mentioning that the milkshake was banana flavoured, either.
No Nige, there isn’t a two-tier justice system. It appears you are calling for one, however.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 4 days ago:
Semi freeze. Stuff that is already approved/scheduled is ok. Stuff in lower environments is ok. Nothing in UAT or Prod except emergency changes with manager approval this week.
I did have one change I was meant to implement on Friday, that now has to wait four weeks. But it is just to delete some old VMs that have been powered off for a couple of weeks. They can totally wait until 2025.
Total change freeze for three weeks starts Monday; but I have those three weeks off (so does half the office) anyway.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 4 days ago:
For whatever it’s worth, I bought my iPad at David Jones 3 years ago. At the time, stock was very limited - with a 2-week wait time even at the Apple Store. But because nobody thought of David Jones as an Apple seller, they had stock. They charged the same price for Apple stuff as everyone else.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 5 days ago:
So we get far more hot days in Perth than in Melbourne. If you ever get a Perthy telling you to harden up: Melbourne’s heat is worse than Perth’s. Perth’s weather comes from the west and every afternoon we have a sea breeze come in (Fun fact: The sea breeze used to be called the “Fremantle Docker” because it brought the ships in to dock) to take the heat away. The evenings are far nicer. In Melbourne, that heat tends to come from the north. It moves down into Melbourne and just settles over the city. You can get days where the minimum is still around 30.
Perth doesn’t have that. Even on 40 degree days, our minimum temperatures tend to be in the low-20’s. We can still sleep. Remind anyone from here of that sea breeze if they ever get smug about Melbourne’s hot spells.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 5 days ago:
Does David Jones sell gift cards? Can you use your David Jones gift card to by a better gift card? 😆
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 5 days ago:
Oi I’m not pottering anywhere, yet!
Just looking forward to the days when I can. - Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🔆🥵🍨Monday, 16 December,.2024 5 days ago:
I join their ranks in fewer than 20 years, hopefully. I’ll try to remember this when I have all that time. But I probably won’t. 😆
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 5 days ago:
Sorry for a slow reply - I’d say it was a busy day, but in truth it has been a busy weekend/month even.
To answer your question: yes. We can set a community local-only. That’s probably a step too far, though. I’ll have to play with it to be sure, but I think if you set a community local-only, it isn’t even visible to non aussie.zone members.
I’ll have to have a think about it. Maybe a rule that goes something like ‘if it is obvious from your comment that you assume USA is the centre of the world, it’ll be removed’. Then we can report/remove such comments with a simple ‘rule 3’ comment etc. let them figure out what that means.
- Comment on [META] Participation by non-Australians? Should we change this comm's display name? 6 days ago:
Unless something has changed with the newest Lemmy release, then no. The setting to block/permit instances is site-wide.
- Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 👻👻😱 Friday, 13 December, 2024 1 week ago:
Nah, it makes perfect sense. People who are introverted or have issues relating to people are usually fine for this sort of work. The customer comes to you, and the list of things that they will require is manageable. There’s a formula to it. I thought of it as playing tracks on a CD to the customer. Your job is to know which track to play to them. Far easier than being required to think up conversation topics on people you need to approach in a social setting.