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Daniel Michaels 🇦🇺

@dansult

Former special forces operator turned software dev. Traded bullets, bombs and dive sets for the home row. WDW

Gold Coast, Australia Katılım Temmuz 2019
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Daniel Franke@dfranke·
You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.
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Dave Ceddia@dceddia·
@levelsio See also: try finding or leaving honest reviews for doctors! Can't be done. We need a thepiratereviewbay . com
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Michał Podlewski@trajektoriePL·
Richard Dawkins says that after spending three days interacting with Claude, which he calls “Claudia,” he is certain that it is conscious.
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0xDesigner@0xDesigner·
this is so accurate 😂
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Daniel Michaels 🇦🇺@dansult·
I need a YouTube filter for AI. I get it. It's cool. We love it but ffs I don't want all my videos to be AI related!
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Daniel Michaels 🇦🇺@dansult·
Anzac service in the morning. I never wear my beret but this year I think it's time I say fuck that. I earned my place and I'm tired of the public beat downs on men like me. All these simps who couldn't hold a sandy let alone earn one can get fucked WDW
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Michael Timbs
Michael Timbs@michael_timbs·
GPT image being a bro and helping me with UI design. LFG
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austin petersmith@awwstn·
i made a chrome extension that removes the AI slop from my linkedin feed
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Gearside@gearside·
australia has grown fat and comfortable over the last 30 years – we have stopped valuing the hard stuff. so i'm putting energy behind something called build australia. join us. it's designed to drive the cultural shift we need, get australia building again. to move the overton window and force real change. launching today, it’s a visible platform for ideas and software projects - essays, data visualisation and dashboards that paint an optimistic future. if you believe in building things in this country, whether that's houses, companies, products, films, anything... join us… website in comments
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Build Australia@build_aus

The old Australian dream is dead. Today, we launch a new movement for those who think seriously about the future of Australia, and believe in it. Website is now live. Along with our first essay, outlining what we envision as the future of Australia. Join us to #buildaustralia

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goosewin@Goosewin·
swe in 2026
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Daniel Michaels 🇦🇺@dansult·
@petecodes Someone should call up the smokemarts in Australia to get their current black market cig prices! Cops won't enforce it so pretty safe and easy move to drive a competitive market for them.
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Pete@petecodes·
Someone vibe coded an app that calls every pub in Ireland to check prices Someone vibe coded an app that calls every gas station in America to check prices What is going to be the next app that calls companies up?
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Gearside@gearside·
something big launching down under on wednesday
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Daniel Michaels 🇦🇺@dansult·
Also a subagent just git reset two hours work which I hadn't commit yet. So just burned another couple hundred thousand rewinding it didn't work Seriously that's never happened. Never has it fucked me over before like today.
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Daniel Michaels 🇦🇺@dansult·
Wow I just turned through nearly 20% of max5 Claude in a single session. That's like two days usage on opus 4.6 Wtf and I can't set it back to 4.6 Just booting up codex for a couple days because this is a joke
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