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postnataldrip

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  • Not covered by insurance, and yeah it was not a great time for us.

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  • Termites.

    Mutiple professional treatments to eradicate them from the property and surrounds, then major structural repairs, for which the place had to be vacant.

    0/10, do not recommend.

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  • It's spam and probably malware. Just downvote, report, and move on

  • What are the best airports?

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  • In my limited experience I cannot stress enough how much I prefer small regional airports.

    Walk in, bags checked and through security in 5 minutes, walk a short distance through an area that's not crowded and not full of shops, and be seated near the gate with a coffee a few minutes later. After a short wait, because you don't need to get there an hour or more early, walk across a bit of open tarmac to a plane that's not bursting at the seams, then take off after hardly any taxiing. So good.

  • Microsoft paywalling features in Notepad and Paint

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  • Tl;dr is just the AI stuff you'll need the subscription for.

    That said what made things like Notepad so useful was, largely, the fact it had no bells or whistles. It was simple and lightweight, and did exactly what you told it to do, and nothing more. Exactly what I want to edit config files and the like.

    Now it's almost a document editor that requires an M365 subscription... sounds familiar...

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  • Turtle GT

  • What are some names for kids with advantageous meaning?

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  • What's the most obscure piece of knowledge you know about your hometown?

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  • I don't think you necessarily had ill intent, but this kind of question will get some resistance because often, obscure = specific. Eg 30 seconds of internetting says that was [redacted].

    Whether that's enough anonymity is up to you, but for many here it won't be.

  • TIL In the USA, PMI Can Be Canceled With a Good Payment History

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  • Wish that was the case in AU, ours is paid upfront in a lump sum and is non-refundable. If you refinance above 80% you pay it again, in full, upfront. If you pay the loan down to below 80%, doesn't matter, no prorata refund. It's 20-30k down the toilet, just in LMI. That's on top of the 50-80k in stamp duty also pissed away :(

    To make it worse, many add the LMI to their mortgage, so they pay interest on the higher balance. It's also a deterrent for people to refinance while they're within that 80+% LVR bracket, so shopping for a better deal is mostly pointless. Banks aren't just disinterested in pushing for a better deal, they're actively incentivised against it.

  • Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs

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  • Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn't the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it's called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.

    Afaik they're not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far...) that's the only place it's been changed, so it's not like they're pushing that name in places where it's not official.

    It's also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.

    Not saying the name change isn't stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren't scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?

    Am I missing something?

  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?

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  • There are some excellent apps already listed that I won't repeat, but I'll add FFmpeg. Not sure it's quite what you're after, but it's incredible.

  • They were probably thrilled to find work

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  • Guessing this might be non-essential workers as per covid lockdowns, ie how important it is for them to attend a workplace in person, but it's definitely funnier if it is a ranked list of perceived importance to society, so let's go with that

  • What is a “qwar”?

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  • Suspect you might be looking for meaning where there is none. Looks like standard "let's make an in-joke" stuff to me

  • *It has to be paid from something

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  • Australia seems to be doing its best to ditch it. Medicare levy plus a surcharge above a certain wage, but that surcharge goes away if you have private health cover. Health insurance companies have zero incentive to set premiums below what that surcharge would have been, particularly when, if you take up private health after you turn 31, then there's a govt loading on it. Gap charges (ie the cost over and above that covered by Medicare) grow every year, bulk billing is disappearing, the public hospital system is constantly being underfunded, etc.

    Just privatise healthcare, what's the worst that could happen?

    / looks at US healthcare, and how well privatising just about everything else has gone for us so far

  • [SOLVED] Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help

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  • That is brilliant, should I be worried? 🤣 (Just noticed I had a message, oops)

  • [SOLVED] Noob stuck on port-forwarding wile trying to host own raw-html website. Pls help

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  • Does your ISP block ports? Many do, at least where I am. Some allow you to opt-out.

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  • She makes some good points, but only focuses on Google's monopoly being an issue. It is, but there's no mention of privacy concerns, the oversaturation of ads, space being created for ads by deliberately worsening the UX, etc. The industry itself is a shitshow.

    The issue isn't so much that Google has a monopoly on the enormously invasive data that's collected. The issue is that it is being collected.

  • Meta and Sage geosystems reach significant milestone by developing 150 MW geothermal project located in the east of the Rockies Region

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  • As cool (heh) as this is, it saddens me knowing it's just going to be used for data mining and ads

  • Amazon ready to use its own AI chips, reduce its dependence on Nvidia

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  • Bet you they will make them work in inhospitable conditions and forget they exist until they don't meet an unrealistic performance target.

    No wait, sorry. I was thinking of their human workers.