Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on Australia's housing crisis in 10 graphs, from the federal budget 3 days ago:
I bet a significant number of those people came from and and now heading to Aussie!
- Comment on Australia's housing crisis in 10 graphs, from the federal budget 3 days ago:
Yeah, everyone came back to NZ to weather the storm, then left again. People are leaving pretty much as fast as their passports can be issued, which is pretty slow at the moment. Prepandemic passports for most people were issued within a few days. Now it’s taking 10 weeks.
I don’t think this was unexpected, there was always the expectation that people would leave once the pandemic had settled down.
Not only is there a bunch of people who came back and are now leaving, all the people who would have left during the pandemic but couldn’t will now be making their move.
- Comment on Australia's housing crisis in 10 graphs, from the federal budget 4 days ago:
Over here in NZ we had the biggest influx of expats back to NZ in memory. Perhaps you had the same?
Another possibility is perhaps a drop in the number of rental properties overall. Money got cheap, house prices went up, perhaps lots of landlords sold up, and lots of renters suddenly could afford to buy?
- Comment on Iron 4 days ago:
And then you can apparently donate like 470 millileters every 8 weeks.
Safely, you could probably speed it up a bit if you have a higher risk tolerance.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 5 days ago:
I think it’s like this: if your game is not on Steam, you won’t sell many copies. Publishers fight to make sure the game is on Steam.
If your movie isn’t on Steam, the company doesn’t care. No one goes to Steam for movies. So Valve has to fight to get the rights to distribute (and compete with streaming services).
- Comment on The Price is Right television show is a low-key way to normalize inflation. 6 days ago:
The (orginal) idea of a target of 1-3%ish (depending on country) is that you want inflation small so businesses can ignore it for their planning. A business will avoid spending and possibly lay off people if they are expecting big increases in costs coming up.
“Good” inflation is driven by demand. Company doing well -> expand -> need more staff -> not enough people in job market -> have to raise prices to pay higher salaries = inflation.
Bad inflation is more like: sales down -> cut staff to save costs -> less people have disposable income because they are losing their jobs -> sales down even more -> have to charge more per item because low sales remove economy of scale benefits = inflation
Deflation is a sign that the second one is starting. Sales down, so companies cut prices to try to get their sales up, they then have to cut jobs to stay afloat with lower prices, then those people cut don’t have disposable income so sales fall further.
You may have noticed the problem, which is that issues with inflation impact employees. Deflation is bad for employees. Inflation is bad for employees. Most larger companies are fine either way.
- Comment on The power of AI 1 week ago:
The best part is how the original comment is on a post about AI.
- Comment on joyous skittering of the least-bird 1 week ago:
Penguins man. The biggest species can get to a bit over 3ft tall, most common species about 2ft, smallest 1ft adults.
I’ve seen lots of penguins in my life, and yet I always think if I show up to Antarctica it will be full of people sized penguins.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 week ago:
Hey ChatGPT, how can I …
“Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]”
- Comment on DropBox says hackers stole customer data, auth secrets from eSignature service 2 weeks ago:
What a weird thing to say about a company that had $2.5B in revenue last year and 17M paying subscribers.
It’s like saying “who users gmail these days?”, where the answer is a shit ton of people just not the early adopters that have moved on.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
Hmm maybe I’ll check it on in 5 years. Cos holly hell that price! Priced like a AAA game.
- Comment on party poopers 2 weeks ago:
All the good ones do.
- Comment on Take-Two Interactive shuts down the Studios behind Kerbal Space Program and Rollerdrome 2 weeks ago:
Is Kerbal Space Program 2 worth playing for someone who had fun with but was bad at 1?
Reviews are - not good.
- Comment on Can’t stand it when they do that 2 weeks ago:
I think I’ve read previously they do it because if they rearrange they can get you to walk past stuff you wouldn’t have previously seen as you try to find the stuff you want. I.e. it increases sales.
- Comment on I lost mine 2 weeks ago:
Do we have to know where it is?
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
Oh for sure. There’s a massive grey area in the middle.
I guess Three Body builds on our physics knowledge, with assumptions about new things being discovered, where as Star Wars ignores it.
Some stuff that happens later in the series (the books) does seem to be pretty much fantasy, but it doesn’t have people warp across the galaxy with no time relativity issues so it’s probably closer to hard sci fi than soft.
- Comment on trapped! 2 weeks ago:
No one really gave examples, but hard sci fi works within our understanding of physics. It’s realistic, e.g. when people go to space they put on a space suit, climb into a rocket, and launch like how they would in real life.
Soft sci fi can ignore physics. Think of star trek or star wars, where the ship gently lifts off the ground and flies up into space, no gforce issues and no trouble just chilling in the sky without falling to earth. Their ship has gravity in space, they can turn sharply and no one feels it, and if they want go go somewhere far away they just warp there. Ships often run on magic crystals. None of that is realistic based on our current physics knowledge, so it’s soft sci fi not hard sci fi.
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
It’s 30 years old so I’m not sure you could call it new 😆
- Comment on kids are gowing up faster and faster 2 weeks ago:
It’s a programming language used primarily in data analysis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(programming_language)
- Comment on Too Many Bones just arrived; excited to play 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know what premium board games normally cost but holly hell, now I really want yo play it! But I don’t really want to spend that much 😅. I guess I can take out a mortgage.
- Comment on Best options for entry level 3D printing available these days? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t entry level basically mean “what’s the cheapest you can get, while still being worth getting”?
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty much it 😐
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
As someone who likewise freaked out when I got a pohole setup and 30% or more of requests were blocked, the early days are normally just the sane requests endlessly retrying. So while it blocked 11k, if they weren’t blocked it would probably only be a few hundred. Probably poor programming not covering the fact it can be blocked.
Still better to block, though.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
Some phone OSs (definitely GrapheneOS that only works on pixels) will have the option for it.
Another way is to use something like Tracker Control (installed through F-droid not the info-only one on Google Play) and that let’s you disable internet access for a specific app.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 3 weeks ago:
I love KISS!
I love testing out weird stuff! I was using Pielauncher before, then worked out this one gives me a clean home screen and swipe gestures!
I’ve been using it a few years now. I use Muzei and the NASA APOD plugin to get the astronomy picture of the day as my background, then have swipe actions for commonly used apps, favourites for the less commonly used apps that I still want an icon on the home screen, then I have the app list show with commonly used apps when I tap the search field.
It’s also a great talking point when people see me use it, because most people don’t realise you can change how this core part of your phone works with a couple of taps.
- Comment on A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS 4 weeks ago:
I know this is a joke but I’m pretty sure there are modules of the ISS made by Boeing!
- Comment on don't tell iceland 5 weeks ago:
They talk about their process. It involves a whale harness, and divers to do the milking.
I’m honest still wondering if this is an elaborate joke 😆
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- Comment on Are we the "Cold Ones" to our dogs? 1 month ago:
He’s probably thinking “human, you’re so cold, like death, gotta warm you up!”
- Comment on My Overconfidence Killed Me and My Immich Installation 1 month ago:
I have minor beef with Immich and basically any larger project and the way they go about their Docker Compose. Basically I feel they make the assumption that they’re the only thing running.
^Disclaimer: I fully accept this is all just me being too stupid and not the Immich development team.
This might be my turn to be too stupid but isn’t the point of docker that they all run in containers so it doesn’t matter? They can all use the same database port, because the database is in a container and so doesn’t prevent another database container using the same port. The port doesn’t need to be exposed to the host.
The only issue that comes up when running lots of services is accessing them all over http, and that’s what a reverse proxy is for. I run a dozen services on the same machine, mostly using the default docker compose files, and never have to mess with things like you have here.