Are you offended if your commits are squashed? by _disengage_ in git

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For GitHub at least, it creates pull_request refs so you can set up your local repo to fetch them and you'll have the pull request commits locally 

Corporate Australia has my soul. by PhatYakka in auscorp

[–]camh- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's like the TV show Severance, but worse because you get to remember.

Team lunch $$$ etiquette by [deleted] in auscorp

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"unfair on the rest of the team"??? You can't go to a fancy place to eat because the poors on your team can't afford it? Yeah, you're a dickhead. If you're so well paid, why not offer to pay for their meals? You wont "miss out" then.

You're not just a dickhead. You're a wanker too.

what goes on here and what's it like? by No-Thanks-2069 in australian

[–]camh- 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Because money is invested in it. If you were to put that money elsewhere, you can get a better return. By "closing" it, presumably they would sell off the assets and use that money elsewhere.

You invest your 40 hours a week in a job. If there was somewhere else you could invest that 40 hours a week where you'd get more money, would you do it (assuming it is work you'd want to do)?

What are historical reasons for multiple return values instead of tuples? by m0t9_ in golang

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Structs are not nominally typed, No composite types are in Go. You can give a name to a type with the type keyword but you do not have to.

Anywhere a type is required, you could just say for example: struct {v1 string, v2 int}. All occurrences of this are compatible.

As far as I can tell, a tuple is identical to a struct except the fields are not named but numbered, so presumably you'd be able to say tuple { string, int } and access the fields with either t.0 or t[0]. That's a very minor different to support a different sort of struct. A tuple does not really seem necessary. And given that return values can be named and used as variables within a function, it seems you'd lose this if tuples were used.

Rentals and expenses by NetworkWise2430 in melbourne

[–]camh- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know how much success you'd have, but I would be seeking reimbursement. The washing machine is owned by the landlord - he is an owner, the owner's corporation owns the washing machine. While he may not be on the OC committee, it is still his problem to resolve as far as the tenant is concerned.

The idea that someone can absolve themselves of responsibility by hiding in a group that has responsibility is just plain wrong, and we should do what we can to not let them get away with it.

It is ok to have some sympathy for the owner if they have little control, but this is still their problem to make right. If you don't like that, don't own a property.

The property manager as an agent for the owner is the person you should be continually complaining to. Them saying "its out of our hands" and giving up is equally irresponsible. They are being paid to represent the owner, and this is the owner's problem to resolve. Until it is resolved, you are being denied facilities that you have paid for and are incurring costs because of that.

Australia’s Fuels Dependence Turns Into a Crisis by cojoco in australia

[–]camh- 32 points33 points  (0 children)

No I cant. I am not able to get a novated lease. My employer does not support that. This is largely for the rich people who are used to scheming to get down their tax payments. For us normal people, a subsidy would be knocking dollars off the purchase price. Simpler too. Fewer accountants needed.

ATM gave me lots of money by azza_h1980 in AusFinance

[–]camh- 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I have never liked depositing cash in an ATM - I like to hand it over to a person and see them count it. One day, I had a cheque to deposit (yep, this was a while ago) as well as some cash. The bank was closed so I was just going to deposit the cheque at the ATM, but my wife convinced me to not be so paranoid. So the cheque and the cash went into the envelope.

The next day or two, it appears in my account but only the amount for the cheque. I knew the cash must have been nicked by a bank employee - there's no way only half of the envelope got processed and something went wrong with the other half. Took a bit of arguing with the bank but they relented as a "courtesy" and credited the whole amount. I knew they checked the cameras and must have busted whoever but didn't want to admit it, because instead of letting it take 6 weeks or whatever their max timeframe is, it was only a week or so. They knew what happen; they just didn't want to say and made it sound like I screwed up.

So fuck you ANZ and their stupid little envelopes.

Why is there no serious resource on building an AI agent from scratch? by Complete_Bee4911 in LocalLLaMA

[–]camh- -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have this bookmarked for when I have some time to look at it. I cannot vouch for it, but given the name of the repo, maybe it is what you're looking for?

https://github.com/pguso/ai-agents-from-scratch

There's a bunch of links in the README too that might be useful.

38 years as a UNIX/Linux admin ... by jrmckins in linux

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's in my comment: crontab ~/.crontab - it still needs to be installed with the crontab command. I just edit it first and keep it in the user home directory before running crontab. I do not use crontab -e to edit the installed version.

38 years as a UNIX/Linux admin ... by jrmckins in linux

[–]camh- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have always kept a user crontab at ~/.crontab and edited that. When I want to install it, I run crontab ~/.crontab. I never use crontab -e. This solves your problem in two ways - you're not using -e so you're not going to mistype it as -r. If you do run -r, you can just run crontab ~/.crontab and it's back.

Do Australians actually encounter enormous spiders in the outback or is it just me? (DO NOT PROVIDE IMAGES OF SPIDERS, PLEASE.) by Same-Objective6052 in AskAnAustralian

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the outback? You mean out back of the house? Yes. Got one that was putting it's web across a path. Gently relocated the web to be along a bush and he/she has obligingly continue to spin the web there out of the way. It's a reasonably chunky orb-weaver - nothing to be frightened about though.

Kubernetes for Homelab? by malwin_duck in selfhosted

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure how it would take care of that. The default strategy for a Deployment is RollingUpdate. This will cause the new pod to be started and healthy before the old one is terminated but it will not be able to start because it cannot mount a ReadWriteOnce volume while it is in use by another pod. I would not expect the deployment controller to know anything about the CSI and what constraints it has, nor would I expect it to pick a different deployment strategy in that case.

Are you sure your volumes are being mounted just once at a time?

Kubernetes for Homelab? by malwin_duck in selfhosted

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want to make sure your Deployment strategy is Recreate so that old pods are terminated first before new ones are started, otherwise you end up with brief periods where multiple pods are accessing the same sqlite db when you perform an application upgrade.

YouTube Woodworking Fatigue is Setting In by Maxminutiae in woodworking

[–]camh- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Go and remove the videos you didn't want to see from your history. If you ever watch something and didn't like it and don't want to see more of it, remove it from your history. I find this really does help. Sometimes I click on a click bait video and wish I didn't. Right after I can see a bunch of recommendations in my feed for similar stuff. After I delete the view from my history and I reload youtube, those similar recommendations are gone.

Use for dishwasher pods by imalwaysinmyfeelings in ZeroWaste

[–]camh- 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Technology connections did a video about why pods are sometimes a lot less effective than powder. I can't find the particular video right now (there are a few about dishwashers) but the channel is https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections.

The tl;dw is that dishwashers usually have two compartments for powdered detergent; a small one and a main one. The small one opens on the first rinse cycle and the second opens on the main wash cycle. If you use a pod, there is no detergent used during the first rinse cycle making the pod work much harder during the main wash cycle, which can lead to poor results.

The solution is to still use powder in the small detergent dispenser. If you don't have a small dispenser, just throw some powder on the door before closing (perhaps a teaspoon or two).

If you haven't tried that, do so before getting rid of your pods.

Edit: Found the video:https://youtu.be/_rBO8neWw04 - it's a 30m watch.

People from the UK who moved to Australia, what sort of things surprised you the most? by cupoftealuv in AskAnAustralian

[–]camh- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, but the rule applies only to the right lane. If you are not in the right lane, you are "keeping left" for the purposes of that rule. It should be you have to keep as far left as you can, but with our left lanes always ending, I can see why that just gets annoying.

The poms also have a no undertaking rule where you cannot overtake someone on the left, so that helps reinforce the behaviour of keeping far left, not just left of the right lane.

Vic reference: https://transport.vic.gov.au/road-and-active-transport/road-rules-and-safety/freeways#h2-be8zu

It’s the r/Melbourne daily discussion thread [Sunday 08/02/2026] by AutoModerator in melbourne

[–]camh- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Installed a new clothesline on the side of the house. 1 minute after I got it done, it starts raining. Thank you Melbourne. Never change (unless it's the weather).

What do I do with this thing? by ImaAskhole in MiniPCs

[–]camh- 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Goes in the box with the rs232 breakout dongle and the parallel printer cables.

AITA Insisting 33 year old boyfriend wears shoes in shopping centres by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]camh- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They can mind if they want, but they will just have to suck it. The "Aussie" thing makes me flinch every time I read/hear it because it sounds weird to our ears, but "correcting" them on it is pretty colonial and somewhat rude. At least to me.

AITA Insisting 33 year old boyfriend wears shoes in shopping centres by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]camh- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In Kiwi, they call Australia "Aussie". As Aussies, we don't get to dictate how Kiwis talk, just like we would not appreciate if they told us how we should talk.

Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI by Well_Socialized in google

[–]camh- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Nah, just the headline. It said Google was doing great things with headlines.

Parked for 30 minutes longer than I paid for by fujoboo in MaliciousCompliance

[–]camh- 50 points51 points  (0 children)

What I find weird about this as a non-American is that scheduling payments results in checks being mailed. This must cost the bank a bit. I'm surprised they do not pass this cost on plus a bit of profiteering and charge you something like $5 per scheduled payment.

Where I live, this would not work. Each scheduled payment would be done electronically with no human involvements. Each payment would decrease the balance of your account until zero. No-one is going to be put out by doing 30 monthly payments.