Yep, dead straight. I think it’s the trucks that want those limits, it’s a long way between Darwin, Alice, and Uluru

Back when usenet was the main subculture channel every ISP had a usenet server and many would mirror parts of the binaries trees of requested. Some would compete by offering more of the entire usenet feed

Everyone on the internet used it.

Now it’s a desert. You can dig for old opinions, old software. There’s no community outside the copyright infringement community.

You think atheists are secretly agnostics?

I like to attribute that to removing lead from petrol

It’s crazy to wash the oils out of our hair and replace them with conditioner. A factory cannot make a higher performance substitute to the natural

Australia has 130 zones in the paved desert roads

Night time without corrective lenses is so pretty. Every light is a wide star, cars ahead are two red stars overlapping

My lemmy is AMOLED black with blue text, no difficulty at all

Contrast is what matters.

People like it being shaped like “on purpose”. I’m sure soon enough “on accident” will be normal and it’ll be really old fashioned to complain about the phrase

I know too many people who would never have been numerate if we used sixty different digits.

Killing yourself in a car is expensive for the community

That’s ok, they’re working on fixing that

The Doug Anthony All Stars as a most liked

Both of my cars turn on high beams automatically on dark roads when they can’t see other vehicles

The not as good at it as me though, the cars don’t see the headlights of an oncoming car illuminating the side of the road, they need to see the headlight directly

Drivers were definitely more aggressive and dangerous 20 years ago than now where I live

It’s useless to gilled animals as they don’t need to conserve oxygen when going under water, so I’m pretty sure it’s an adaptation that came after tetrapods left the ocean

I used to write tens of thousands of words weekly in story for role playing games: Have something you want to write: get a pen get a notebook, I like a4 size (foolscap for Americans is near enough the same). Start writing at the bit you want to start at, you can do the beginning later.

Practice, it gets easier the more you do it.

Now most of my writing is for IT system functional specifications, and in those sort of technical documents just follow the style, they’re too narrowly designed to be difficult

If you can’t stay motivated writing for other people, perhaps writing isn’t the best career for you. I never learnt any tricks, motivation came from enjoying the process, enjoying putting ink on paper, at work enjoying producing a design that will work and that is clear to the people who will build the system

common construction here is structural pine, clad in brick and roofed with tiles

Edit to add: the second most common construction is double brick walls (brick structure clad in bricks) with tile roof

Tiles are mostly concrete, sometimes clay

If I rebuild my place (it’s pretty worn out) it’ll have insulated concrete form walls, and probably concrete tile roof

Yeah, fibreglass batts are the standard here. Foil was installed as a scam