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If that is so, why is Australia's housing problem Australia wide and not isolated to high student population locations?
Australia's problem with housing is Australia hasn't/doesn't treat housing as housing, they have treated it as a tax efficient investment vehicle with negative gearing.
The hardware looses them $80m+ while the add and media distribution brings them in $1b+.
The hardware is a side hustle run at a loss to acquire users for the main business.
I'm an infrequent big fast food customer. Last week I'd been out all day, not eaten, it was late afternoon, cafes where shut and I was walking past a food court in a shopping mall. There was a McDonalds, I thought I hadn't had McDonalds in a longtime, I'll get a BigMac as that's my guilty pleasure for the once, twice a year most I eat McDonalds.
Gone were the servers on the counter, not one to be seen, instead a wall of screens. I walk up to one, two buttons displayed, "Sign in" or something similar to get rewards, "Continue as guest", with the UX promoting the sign in option as the active call to action (CTA), "continue as guest" being more discreet.
I press "continue as guest" and the screen freezes. Me being me, i walk off, if they make it hard for me to buy, well i'm not going to buy. I wasn't invested in buying McDonalds I just thought I'd not had one in a while so while there and not eaten all day i'd give it a shot.
I digress, the actual regular customers don't even use the screens. They already signed up for rewards and installed the app on their phone they've been coerced in to installing and registering for, so they get discounts. Maybe that's why the screens are so bad as most of their customers don't use the screen, they use the app.
I treat Lambda purely as compute and ignore everything else related to "serverless". My Lambda's are monolith webapps using Axum Rust framework. Using cargo lambda I generate a static binary, upload to s3 and point the lambda at it. Sometimes I'll package as a docker image so can run in Lambda or locally by passing a `--aws-lambda` flag.
If serving HTML i'll use Function URLS with IAM auth and put a Cloudflare worker in front acting as the gateway. I also serve the static assets from cloudfront bucket i.e. static.example.com. Advantage is I use Cloudflare free tier so get denial-of-wallet prevention when my free credits run out. Using IAM auth also means the lambda doesn't execute if for what ever reason someone discovers the url and tries to DoS it so only get charged for the requests not run time.
On the inside of the Citroen 2CV from photos I’ve seen elsewhere, do the designers even drive?!
Speedometer display, tiny, then a large display to the right of the steering wheel with all the other controls.
As a driver, having to deal with speed limits and speed cameras I want the speedometer to be highly visible infront of my line of sight, not an afterthought.
Then the steering wheel. Why does every new electric car have to have a non round steering wheel just because it looks good in a photo. There’s a reason steering wheels have been round, basically forever.
This is my biggest gripe with electric cars. I want to like this as like the retro style but they go and ruin it adding tech and design for the sake of tech and looking good in photos, not as an improvement to the driving experience. Cars primary purpose are for driving, not tech masterbation.
This highly depends on location
If you buy fresh vegetables, I don't necessarily think they're pricier but they do require more planning. You need to buy what is in season, which means planning meals around what is in season and cheap to buy, which changes on the season.
For certain staples, buying frozen is extremely cheap, can be cheaper than fresh, can be better than buying fresh as frozen as soon as picked, and extremely easy to cook. I've always got frozen broccoli, carrots, peas, green beans, spinach in the freezer. Three minutes in a microwave steamer and it's an easy side, or add in to meals near the end of cooking.
I also always have a bag of potatoes in the house, cheap, keep well, easy to steam in microwave, can mash, can bake, pop in the airfryer etc.
Protein is made up of amino acids, different sources of protein have different amino acid profiles.
Animal protein matches the amino acids profile we need the best. Whey protein is close, soy isn't bad. You can vary your food groups to balance the amino acids, so if one source is low in one amino acid, you can compliment it with another source higher in another. I found the video intersting and been using protein supplements for near 20 years.
Technology Connections "Ceiling fans: the simple idea we keep screwing up" YouTube video is interesting. The old old fans had oiled bearing baths and overbuilt motors, extremely overbuilt compared to today standards which means they'll probably keep going forever. If you are nerdy and interested it's worth a watch.
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I specifically purchased a Fanco Horizon DC fan as it has an optional physical wall switch which connected to the existing wiring for the fan it was replacing.
The caveat being if you use the wall remote, it's not compatible with the model with built in LED light fixture. This was a non issue for me as wanted to avoid any fan with built in LED light due to when the led panel fails, it'll be extremely difficult to replace vs having independent lights in the room.
I think most DC fans don't support wall remotes because it's cheaper and simpler not to, and provide a remote control instead. It's not a technical issue as you can absolutely find DC fans with wall controllers they are just harder to find.
Also seems as this is an billion dollar organisation, the prime minister had “frank” words while an individual faces jail time for using open AI for web scraping https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/christopher-duff-to-s...
Only two weeks ago an individual was in court, in Australia, for scraping an Australian states court website, using OpenAI. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-10/christopher-duff-to-s...
2010’s was when more traditional CS courses also started moving from traditional languages and content to JS etc…following industry demand.
A lot of tech conferences were pure tech. Now a lot of them are agile, soft skills based, introverted nerds pushed out.
It’s certainly a different place from the 2010’s.
20 years ago it was the fast lean option when there was Netbeans and Eclipse. Today it's ok, still good feature wise but fast and lean it is not anymore when I've used it for Scala oand Kotlin.
Sure electric in raw numbers wins on top trumps.
This is fine for a lot of people who want to go to A to B and car is just a tool to do that
Cars like the GR Corolla are about the engaging driving experience, the road feel / handling, the gear shifts, usable power, not outright top speed. It's a machine and some people like mastering controlling the machine and that mastery makes them smile, some even find fun.
Coinciding with this, suppliers put daily connection charges up.
It's not even the new one being "less deterministic and often costs more".
Application prompts overfit the model they are using to get the output they want. Switch model, the prompt no longer produces the output you expect and you may not be able to get the output you need anymore.
If a model is critical for your application/business you want the ability to run it yourself otherwise you are stuck when it becomes unavailable.
Atlassian has values "Open company, no bullshit" which they selectively use. "Open company, no bullshit" until it isn't. Example, this case, upsetting Mikes ego.
I was on a team at Atlassian that got constructively dissambled after not being happy with some changes for the worse. Worst retro I've ever been in, all developers heads on desks, manager: "suggest how we fix this issue", developers silent as every answer from the developer got the reply from manager on the lines of "no, you know we can't do that anymore". Then the digging through historic slack messages and social media posts started followed by departures...
That was a very long time ago now, seems not much has changed.
Currently driving a 2010 euro hot hatch, when that dies will be looking at a 2016-2017 vintage.
I watched a very interesting video over the weekend, the lost discipline of the alarm. It goes in to the research of alarms and alarm fatigue negative consequences.
Seems very relevant to the latest generation vehicles.
https://youtu.be/Ira28fgSF7M?si=-GrsTTGemLY1LwLw
If I ever buy a “modern” car I’ll pull the fuse for all the annoying beeps and bongs and safety features. The only safety features I care about are traction control, abs, parking sensors and maybe blind spot mirrors. Blind spot mirrors are a double edged sword as it means people now stop doing shoulder checks relying on the blind spot mirror light only.
Yamaha’s blue core engine used in its mid sized 300cc scooters can do 2.8L per 100km. It’s 125 engines can do 1.8L per 100km.
They’re incredibly efficient little vehicles
So far electric scooters can only compete in inner city with the equivalent power of a small 125 and limited range/speed due to size/weight constraints
A modern 300cc four stroke Vespa will use 3.3 litres of fuel per 100km and Euro 5 means noise is quiet.
As far as things go, modern scooters are great, practical, economical vehicles.
Facebook groups has taken over a lot of the old automotive forums as they shutdown due to running/maintenance costs. They were a treasure trove of information.
Facebook groups makes it impossible to find information.
The search simply doesn’t work and doesn’t even try to work. Seen something posted before, good luck finding it again.
They’ve now removed chronological ordering option, your choice is algorithmic feed or algorithmic feed. That means you view it once you get some content, view it again, get different content, based on some unknown heuristic.
Forums are great for the consumer. Publicly indexable, easy to find content you know exists, easy to find historic content. Easy to interact with.
Social media only cares about new (fresh) content that drives engagement (clicks,views,shares) that it can put an advert on. Great for mindless doom scrolling, not so great for the treasure trove of easy searchable information forums were.
So they're following best practice, not committing secrets but agents running locally can still see them even if sandboxing to the working directory.
I've taken to storing configs using XDG_CONFIG_HOME and have the app auto resolve them by convention or take a cli arg to specify the config path. All secrets are in files, not env vars.
That way when using sandboxing the agent can never see the configs or secrets as outside the working directory.
Cars are more and more becoming white goods appliances with the driving experience becoming less and less a priority. Even enthusiast cars now are about raw numbers and need electronics to reign them in to make useable for the average driver on the average road.
The average user probably doesn’t even want to drive and have AI do it for them.
Repairability is becoming less viable as mechanical parts replaced with screens and digital locks. Parts availability is already an issue, only going to get worse especially with the pace of new cars are being churned out from China.
The end will be car as a subscription. We already have it with leasing, and BMW having to pay to use your electric seats.
I was a paying customer for 15 years and migrated away with the last price increases due to "AI-powered functionalities" and the new features making the product worse on top of already being salty over when they stopped the one-time licenses in favor of subscription.
Happens on Windows/Mac
It seems to do an update check before rendering any UI, if there’s an update it must download and apply it before showing the UI. To a user trying to open the app, it’s as if it’s broken not loading.
It’s a massive pain, trying to access email but need to wait five minutes as the app decides it’s not going to open and update instead of giving the option not to, or doing it transparently in the background so app useable and prompting to restart when ready
Trying to save files in office is just as frustrating. Some dark UX going on making it difficult to save locally instead of in one drive.
He has since purchased a private jet under controversy.
His company now sponsors an F1 team.
He now seems to be a typical billionaire. You don’t get to be a billionaire without being ruthless.
He probably is now a rich jerk. When I worked at Atlassian and on boarded, one of the managers said if you are in a lift with Mike or Scott, and they asked what you do here, you better tell them what value you are bringing…
Mike was also very public he was proud Atlassian was not a high payer, he wouldn’t compete with Google etc on pay, at the time, yet people still wanted to work at Atlassian. Also didn’t hide the fact they absolutely utilised lack of local market knowledge for visa holders when nearly have the office was a temporary visa holder at the time.