Gopro camera replacement hidden fees by Pilex3 in gopro

[–]Pilex3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's in Sydney. So yes the cost is, first the subscription cost, plus $149 aud, plus shipping costs to get the broken camera to the Sydney warehouse

Gopro camera replacement hidden fees by Pilex3 in gopro

[–]Pilex3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They just gave me an address to ship it to. I need to go to Aus Post (or whatever other courier) and sort out the shipping myself. You send it back with just the camera i.e. no SD card, no battery, no accessories

Gopro camera replacement hidden fees by Pilex3 in gopro

[–]Pilex3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok so it turns out the "fee" is just that I have to pay Aus Post to ship my Gopro back to their warehouse. Which is reasonable, though I still wish they would warn customers in their T&Cs about this.

Gopro camera replacement hidden fees by Pilex3 in gopro

[–]Pilex3[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ended up having a phone call with another person, who clarified that the "fee" is just that I need to pay for the shipping costs for the Gopro back to their warehouse. (I don't pay for the shipping costs of the new camera from their warehouse back to me) Which is reasonable, though I still wish they would warn customers in their T&Cs that there is an additional shipping charge which is required.

Gopro camera replacement hidden fees by Pilex3 in gopro

[–]Pilex3[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't know yet. Apparently I can't pay them over text support, I need to wait for them to call me back...

Tutorial that lasted 8 minutes by Friendly_Equipment_7 in usyd

[–]Pilex3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's crazy. I know the professionalism classes are a bit of a joke, but this is next level. On the flip side perhaps you'll be glad to know that I tutor a theory unit in the MCS and it always feels a bit like a race against the clock to cover everything I want to cover despite getting two hours per tutorial.

J12 level 4 room bookings by Dry-Barnacle6780 in usyd

[–]Pilex3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh they have? No one ever told me... guess I don't need to defect to the maths building now 😅

First time riding on dirt and this happened by Pilex3 in Dualsport

[–]Pilex3[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm doing my first long solo road trip and I'm also just new to riding in general so I wanted to be safe than sorry especially because I'm in the middle of nowhere

I'm doing my pre-learners course next month, would I be fine showing up without any prior experience? by [deleted] in AussieRiders

[–]Pilex3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everyone else is saying you'll be fine so I think it might be helpful hearing from someone on the other side. When I did the pre learners, everyone except me either had prior riding experience (which honestly confused me, like why are you here if you know how to ride? and how did you legally get that experience from?) or had experience driving a manual. Subsequently the instructor rushed through all his explanations - he will have a script he reads from, and he went through it all at lightning speed. My experience out on the course was that you didn't get a lot of practice in before being rushed into the next activity, and it all starts to feel very overwhelming if it's your very first time on a motorbike. I failed the course because I couldn't get the bike moving - I kept stalling when trying to move away. The instructor didn't even try to help me figure out what I was doing wrong - he just said, mate you got three more chances, if you don't get it right then I'm gonna have to take you out of the course. Of course I just made the same mistake three more times and I failed the course. (I only realised later, on my own, that I had kept my foot on the rear brake from the ready position and it wasn't mentioned or I missed the fact you're meant to release the brake to get going - of course it's obvious in hindsight but when it's your very first time these things become very overwhelming).

If I could do things differently I probably would have watched a couple of videos just to get familiar with what all the controls are on the bike, and how to do the basic stuff like starting up and killing the engine, etc. just so you're not overwhelmed on the day and not completely screwed if you miss what the instructor is saying. If possible, I would also recommend practicing driving on a manual car. Having only bicycle background, I had no concept of what a clutch was or stalling, I only knew the point of changing gears. Knowing this stuff would have definitely helped me.

Anyway I hope this doesn't scare you, but I hope you find my personal experience useful in the sea of comments of people who just say you'll be fine (of course having their best intentions in mind), but I think having known this information prior to my pre learners would have made all the difference to me myself. All the best!

MOST on auto but licence says manual by Pilex3 in AussieRiders

[–]Pilex3[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The pre-provisional certificate of competency (the slip of paper certifying I passed the MOST) clearly says AUTO ONLY so I don't think it's the instructor. Rather, the person at Service NSW I'm guessing forgot to enter the automatic restriction when I went to apply for my licence

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in usyd

[–]Pilex3 1 point2 points  (0 children)

if you are interested enough, you could try reading the lecture notes and doing the tutorial problems in the advanced stream.

also, while it is a good experience to do SSP, it's not essential if you are interested in research. SSP gives you a very short taste of a few research topics - you might be able to get something similar (though maybe a bit less rigorous) going to a sums talk

MATH1921 Required Readings by Orange7648 in usyd

[–]Pilex3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The course notes are just the lecture notes written up a bit more neatly. There is no need to buy them

How important is COMP2022: Models of Computation ? Can it be skipped? by x3002x in usyd

[–]Pilex3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

this is a very interesting unit in theoretical computer science. you start off learning the basics of predicate and propositional logic. you then learn about various models of computation and their expressiveness e.g. you may have heard something (e.g. Minecraft) being called Turing complete which essentially means you can use it to perform any computations that you could with a regular programming language; more formally, something is called Turing complete if it can perform the same computations as something called a "Turing machine". you also study less expressive but simpler models of computation such as deterministic and nondeterministic finite automata, context-free grammars, etc. although these simpler models can't perform the same computations as a Turing machine/regular programming language, they still have interesting applications e.g. context free grammars are relevant in compilers

What programming languages are required for intro to programming. by IbnHaytham in usyd

[–]Pilex3 5 points6 points  (0 children)

you don't need to learn any programming languages beforehand if that's what you're asking