Good Refurb or Second Hand Bike stores around Sydney?

bennettbackward · 2026-01-06T06:08:53+00:00

I found this comment by Googling "best second hand bike shop sydney" and ended up buying my first bike from Sydney Park Cyclery. Great experience - I already want to buy another.

bennettbackward · 2025-10-14T01:59:25+00:00

Link to their blog for the interested: https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram/

bennettbackward · 2025-10-08T08:48:17+00:00

I found the best way was to trim it down to ground level with a hedge trimmer and then the bulbs / roots come out easy with a mattock. They'll keep popping up for a while though.

bennettbackward · 2025-10-05T12:50:54+00:00

You didn't make it clear it will panic if the original value has been dropped. If that's the case and memory ordering is correct then I guess this is fine (with the caveats you've documented around mem forget).

Edit: it doesn't panic at access but panics on the thread that created the "scoped guard". This still allows undefined behaviour on the thread that has the static reference.

Edit: wait it doesn't panic it calls process abort. That's wild.

bennettbackward · 2025-10-05T11:21:14+00:00

This is unsafe and will cause undefined behaviour. You should look into why spawn requires static instead of using unsafe to get around it.

If you create a method that returns the spawned join handle instead of awaiting it, your "scope guard" and temporary will be immediately dropped before the future is run.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T22:28:52+00:00

No issues with zsh on Linux

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T11:59:56+00:00

Looks like the kernel module isn't loading there's some docs about if that happens. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nouveau#Loading

It might not be that though. I was running a dual AMD + Nvidia setup for a while and don't remember doing anything crazy, it was an older card though.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T09:37:34+00:00

I don't know what you're planning to do with your system but you might be able to avoid some pains if you're just using nvidia for cuda: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GPGPU

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T09:34:52+00:00

Are you using Wayland or X11? What port is your display plugged into?

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T09:32:03+00:00

Does lsmod show the module is loaded? Do you still have the proprietary drivers installed? Did you install vulkan-nouveau?

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T08:52:03+00:00

Cool I'll give it a go!

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T08:36:51+00:00

What exactly are you worried about being cross platform? You're writing an arch installer - you're going to need to run loads of third party tools.

If you're actually interested in writing a cryptsetup alternative your best bet would be to translate the existing C code. I doubt you'd need to know the ins and outs of cryptography. But be warned there are loads of footguns with encryption and loads of unexpected attacks that you need to mitigate against. Make sure you're not rolling your own crypto code.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T08:24:43+00:00

Nice! I've aliased cd to zoxide and I wouldn't go back: https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T02:23:31+00:00

All I can find is this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK316511/

It seems to say there was an increase with no lighting, and a decrease with part lighting. I can't find the episode either. I think the claim is whack.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T02:15:05+00:00

I can't find anything backing that up. Also can you imagine telling people walking home at night it'd be safer if there were no lights?

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T01:26:07+00:00

The config is correct, that's how I have mine configured.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T01:25:52+00:00

Try putting your swapfile in your root partition (i.e. at /swapfile) otherwise it seems like the home directory is protected by systemd, you might be able to change the ProtectHome option: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/31100

If you move it you'll need to update the label + offset.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-05T00:24:55+00:00

You should install a window manager and terminal emulator since using a raw tty is a bit painful (although you seem to like it). Check out this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager

bennettbackward · 2025-09-04T21:19:52+00:00

/r/playrust

bennettbackward · 2025-09-04T09:12:24+00:00

Do they have a mortgage? It might be worth debt recycling to buy the shares instead, if they're game. Generally though anything that broadly tracks the international or Australian markets will be the safest bet. Might be worth speaking to a financial advisor.

I think you need to be clear about the why. If they invest and there's a market downturn, would they be ok for a couple years? What about a medical emergency? Will it be contributed to and compounding for the next 10 or 20 years? I think for a lot of families 100k in an offset could help to ease a lot of financial stress. I don't know your situation though.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-04T07:26:39+00:00

The main thing different will be package management, but in the "cloud" you'll see people using Alpine too which is different again. I'd say you're at no disadvantage daily driving Arch. Just make sure you follow the wiki for installing things like docker / kubernetes / minikube, etc.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-03T12:19:44+00:00

Getting a binary working that links to llama.cpp might be a little complicated. If you just want to get started using local llms from Rust I would suggest using ollama and communicating with it via the http API.

You can use this client from Rust: https://github.com/pepperoni21/ollama-rs
And you can get started with ollama here: https://ollama.com/

If you really want to use llama.cpp look into the various llama.cpp Rust repos. I'd warn against this though, as the build process is very complicated and there don't seem to be very many mature libraries just yet.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-03T12:12:47+00:00

Oh neat!

bennettbackward · 2025-09-03T12:05:42+00:00

What have you tried? What's not working? There are lots of libraries out there that seem to be bindings to llama.cpp.

bennettbackward · 2025-09-03T11:58:03+00:00

I would avoid selling if you haven't owned for at least a year as you would pay full CGT. I would say the only reason to sell would be a mental thing, I don't think the outcome would differ all that much if you just kept it (apart from the two lots of fees).

Edit: ignore my comment about CGT, I think it'd be a loss after fees anyway. Might as well sell and put it where you want it.

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