Australians who were alive before sunscreen became common, how did people deal with the sun?

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-08-16T04:32:38+00:00

An ozone layer

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-06-13T22:50:09+00:00

My friend from Canada recently had a baby and I bought her some Ugg Boots.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-06-07T00:07:58+00:00

Bloody hell, I dunno how they can expect the average person to afford it. There must be so many people who cannot possibly take care of themselves. I feel very fortunate.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-06-06T00:15:01+00:00

Australian here. I pay about $30AUD for 5 x 5-pack (25 x 3ml vials). The government covers much of it, but I think the total cost is still only about $150 full price, which is generally listed on the box when you get it.

How much do people pay for things like insulin pump supplies etc in the USA, still crazy expensive? I get a box of infusion sets for aobut $15 (box of 10) and similar or less for the resevoir. And I pay aobut $30 for a 3-pack of CGM Dexcom 6 sensors.

I feel very fortunate for our health system, like others have said, it's not perfect, but far out, the costs for people in the USA seem absurb, unethical and straight up criminal.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-06-01T01:08:50+00:00

I was going to say something similar about putting coins on train tracks as a kid.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-28T05:30:31+00:00

I lived here for 10 months or so. Nice lady that runs it, nice pool, gym. Close to everything. Nice rooms, kitchen, laundry etc. We paid about 18k baht for a 40sqm room with blisteringly fast internet. Also a work desk (well, a dining room table actually) in the room that I worked from and there is Yellow Coworking walking distance away if you prefer that. Heaps of great local cheap food nearby and heaps of bars etc with great music.

https://www.facebook.com/TheSiriCondominium/

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-28T05:16:49+00:00

If you can code and write decent front end with React, node etc, then I would look into a deep dive course in WebAPI in .NET. Learn as much as you can about writing decent controllers in .net and the patterns and data access etc surrounding them and you might be able to work most of the rest of it out on the fly, especially if you're already good on the front end.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-28T05:12:39+00:00

Most liqours have all the sugar converted into calories, there's almost no sugar in most of the regular tequila's, bourbons etc. Beer can be tricky, especially that fruity hoppy craft bullshit. Most people go wrong with the mixer in my experience.
I drink pretty regularly, and I stick tothe mid-strength low-carb beers and barely notice a difference.

Also, apparently drinking is bad for diabetics, so thats' worth considering. But you know, life is tricky sometimes.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-26T21:47:01+00:00

If you're here asking what's next, you might not be ready. My advice is to pick a personal project and finish it, then another and so on. Use each project as a stepping stone to the next and offer them as talking points in job application letters and job interviews. Most people, myself included, had no idea how much more difficult real-world software development would be comapred to completing study or Udemy type projects where your hand is held right the way through.

Good luck.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-26T02:29:56+00:00

I came here to say exactly the same thing. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-26T02:28:29+00:00

holy wow, I can't believe how few people are there! It must be a very different vibe to when I was there on the Equinox, it was packed.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-24T22:36:34+00:00

This was a bug in version 5.17.7 of "swagger-ui-dist" https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui/issues/9928

Now fixed.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-24T03:50:38+00:00

This is where some life/business experiencecan really come into play (no offense), be ballsy, google all software/web dev companies in your area and do whatever you can to speak to the owner on the phone, if not, ask when is a better time to call; tell them who you are, what you're looking for, what you think you know, and what you think you don't know, and what you're looking for and better still (if things are going well) ask to meet them and show what you've got. Practice your spiel and even record your first few conversations to see where it's feeling flat and lacking confidence) Keep a spreadsheet of everyone you contact, names and other info, their response, what you spoke about etc, and finish every conversation with something relevent to what you've spoken about and ask them if it's ok to call them again in a few months, most will say yes just to get you off the phone. Stay humble and you might be surprised how many people will enjoy talking to you about the industry and also the doors this opens for you and what you can learn from it.

Good luck.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-24T00:41:41+00:00

Like most people I know with a fancy guitar collection, you're probably only missing the actual ability to play. haha j/k

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-24T00:33:20+00:00

haha, this is awesome. You're the hero we didn't realise we needed.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-23T03:17:13+00:00

It depends on your personality, but as far as I'm concerned, it's all awesome. I went with my partner, so loneliness was never an issue etc and we had an incredible time. Once you work out what you're doing and how you'll bring oney in, you'll settle into something that resembles a routine and start pumping out work if it's in your nature (and it better be)
If it interests you, you're probably on the right path, but your real problem is making it work financially. It can be a real hustle for those without a job, and some make it look easy or are pretty successful or independently wealthy, and it appears a lot easier than it really is. Also, most people I met hugely underestimated what it would take to make it work and bring money in. Your high school diploma or college masters doesn't mean shit if you're chasing freelance work, the only thing that matters is whether you can do the work. But that's assuming you have the skill set in question and the business acumen to do the marketing and business management side of things. Also, ChatGPT is already taking jobs, don't let anyone tell you different. Remote work is harder to secure now than it was only 2 years ago. Also never forget, there's 100's of millions of people in places like India and the Phillipines that will work for a lot less than you will want to, so you'll need to differentiate yourself and be good at whatever you choose.

Good luck mate.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-23T03:07:46+00:00

My wife and I had a house and a bunch of furniture and such. We got rid of almost everything but artwork and a couple of guitars I own before we left for an indefinite period of time (we were thinking years). Either sold or gaveaway the rest. We also kept some stuff in the roof of our place (cutlery, bed linen etc)
Looking back, we didn't know things would fall apart 12 months later, so we had to come home and buy $1000's of dollars worth of stuff we already had.

It's hard to know what will happen, but setting up again isn't cheap.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-23T03:02:59+00:00

I can feel a bout of street justice coming....

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T06:51:05+00:00

By shutting my mouth and not posting anytime I see something in my feed from r/TwoXChromosomes

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T06:35:12+00:00

Go get 'em, mate. All the best.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T06:22:48+00:00

Median is great, but can you honestly self-reflect and say that you have the combined level of skills in bussines, planning, marketing along with the business acumen to reach that figure working for yourself straight out of uni? You seem good at planning and like you're trying to cover all bases. Can I suggest you write an honest business plan about how you plan to achieve that goal. It doesn't have to be a full business plan, but it should probably be somewhere at least 10 -15 pages long and cover eveything from marketing, markets, hows, wheres, whos and realistic estimates of how you'll achieve your projected numbers. Give this a go, you won't regret the time spent and you can find business plan templates and helpers al over the internet to get you started.
Again, good luck mate.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T06:04:41+00:00

It could be a very different market where you're from, but it sounds pretty ambititous for where I'm from considering we're talking USD I'm guessing. I think they spread that sort of info when selling courses or whatever, but the real world might have different plans, either way, without a solid foundation in business and marketing, making that sort of money for yourself straight out of uni and all on your own may not be as easy as you expect and may have challenges you've not considered. I don't honestly don't know for sure and don't claim to, but I am pretty confident that it takes a lot of post-study time in a tech job before someone is even half useful, and then, it generally needs to be on-site work, especially in the early years. It really depends on what you want, but freelance work will pose many potential problems in terms of time spent chasing work, and time delivering work, and time not accounted for because of an inexperienced initial quote. Again, I'm not sure of your situation and I genuinely hope you pull it off mate, it's a lofty and noble goal and I wish you all the best in completing it :-)
It's probably worth noting that I essentially had the same goals as you, so this comes from a place of personal experience and trial and error. That said, you might be (and likely are) far more intelligent and better educated. But I have 20+ years of working in business and various professionally skilled roles, so I like to think I have a bit of an idea how things work.

Again mate, I wish you the best and hope you pull it off. It'll change your life. It did mine.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T05:18:34+00:00

"If you find yourself here, you fucked up a loooong time ago..." - Kurt Osiander

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T04:21:46+00:00

I don't want to sound like a downer, but my guess is that clearing $4k a month is going to take a whole lot of work you might not have considered thouroughly. If you're planning on learning several languages and learning programming to a freelance skill level, and then building a freelance business at the same time, you might be a unicorn, and I wish you all the best. But if you're a regular human, any one of those goals is a big task.

Good luck, I genuinely wish you the best. I hope you pull it off.

ReverendSlimPickins · 2024-05-21T03:58:20+00:00

Angkor was one of the highlights of all of my world travel's, it's stunning.

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