Had a winter solstice bonfire last year. I’ve had two since.
I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
- 4 Posts
- 573 Comments
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a busEnglish2·8 days agoAlso fuck that private section of the track, that’s horrible.
The rest of the train and bus network for a hundred kilometre radius is 50 cents.
Previous state government in the late 90s “did a deal” with a private corporation to construct the line out the to airport and allow control for 35 years.
10 more years of this shit and then it gets handed over to state government.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a busEnglish2·8 days agoIt’s mainly because there are 15 stops along the way a couple of kilometres apart through the CBD, plus a 7 minute wait in the middle to change trains to another line.
The trains are capable of 100 km/hr but basically through that area they get up to 40-60km/hr before having to slow for bends/switching tracks/the next stop.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a busEnglish14·8 days agoIt’s super hard to resist public transit at higher prices
It was 65 dollarydoos for a projected 25 minute uber home from Brisbane airport on Friday night.
I took the train for 55 minutes instead. $22.30 of my train fare was for the 10 kilometre section that is privately owned by “Airtrain CityLink Limited”, the public owned section that took me the remaining 10km cost 50 cents.
Fuck the corporations that want to try to replace public transport.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire worldEnglish71·19 days agoPerhaps it’s time to start researching alternative materials.
Plenty of metals floating around in space. Just need to go and get them.
Only need to capture one decent sized metalliferous asteroid from a near earth orbit and we’d be set for a century or two.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto SpaceX@sh.itjust.works•SpaceX blames Starship Flight 8 mishap on engine hardware failureEnglish93·23 days agoSaturn V was done with the resources of a nation behind it, because they had to beat the Soviets. That rocket also only went up, and was not reusable, with a tiny fraction of the Apollo mission hardware returning to Earth.
All of this with less computing power than some egg timers of today.
There was considerable computing power on the ground supporting the missions.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections41·23 days agoshowed the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’” had declined over the past two years, from 22 to 17 percent on Facebook and from 11 to 7 percent on Instagram.
This is ENTIRELY because of Meta’s content algorithms that buried the content from everyone’s friends under a torrent of shit. It’s pretty disingenuous for the company that controls that algorithm to present this as some inevitable fait accompli, something out of their hands, oh well.
But of course Meta was terrified of people just viewing all their friend’s posts and then logging off for the day because, as everyone knows, line must always go up.
Australian here.
Step 1: design your damn toilets so they do not clog.
Step 2: there is no step 2.
Seriously, half a century of toilet use here in Aus and I’ve never caused - or discovered even - a blocked toilet at home.
Clearly the fact that I can buy a toilet plunger from the local hardware store indicates that this can happen here. But it seems that every American household has a toilet plunger and poop knife on standby and many articles are devoted to what clogs, and how to unclog, American toilets.
There are better designs for both toilets and plumbing out there guys, maybe you should look into using them.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Technology@beehaw.org•A year later, Apple Vision Pro owners say they regret buying the $3,500 headset - "It's just collecting dust"5·27 days agoEverything is fine in the Apple ecosystem as long as you want to do something The Apple Way™.
As soon as you want to do something differently to how Apple decrees it should be done, then you’re screwed.
These kind of “manual” a/c units normally have a little sticker or a caution in the manual to “wait 5 minutes before restarting”.
People can easily trigger this kind of thing just by turning the thermostat back and forth, so there is usually a thermal cutout on the compressor to keep them mostly safe.
You can usually hear it when it activates, there will be a hum from the stalled compressor for a few seconds and then a little click, and then the compressor won’t start for a minute or two.
It’ll be fine as long as you don’t try and start it up again within a few minutes of turning it off.
Pressure just needs to slowly bleed from the high pressure side to the low pressure side of the compressor before it starts again, so that it isn’t initially stalled against high pressure.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Android@lemdro.id•Anyone else getting really sick of Gemini assistant?English6·1 month agolove that it has to repeat my command back to me before executing it
This is inserted to give enough time for the LLM to process your command. Otherwise Google would have to pony up for a lot more compute horsepower to make it performant.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Technology@lemmy.world•GOP sneaks decade-long AI regulation ban into spending bill - Ars TechnicaEnglish40·1 month ago"automated decision systems "
“IF X THEN Y” satisfies this description.
Soooo basically just take the handbrake off practically every chunk of software ever written then?
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•I fucking hate modern design and modern designers.English3·1 month agoAre you familiar with https://old.reddit.com/
How much longer do you think Reddit will keep an option that doesn’t maximise end user engagement metrics?
Dave.@aussie.zoneto News@lemmy.world•Why student loan debt collections could be more painful than anticipated8·1 month agoI was reliably informed at the start of the year that the US was just days away from the best jobs, the biglyest paychecks, and a golden age.
Was I misled‽
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Relationship Advice@lemmy.world•Can people like this still be kind? Does my disability actually make me a bad person who deserves this?English8·1 month agoIs it possible that she can act like this and still be a good and kind person despite hating people with problems and being a bit homophobic?
Her kindness is conditional. For people who match those conditions that “activate” kindness, they can’t understand the problem because they don’t see the other side of her, thus it must be “your fault” somehow.
I’ll bet that she never shows her bad side when her supporters are around. If she actually does , and they are fine with it, then I advise you to distance yourself from all of these people.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Linux@programming.dev•Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities61·1 month agoPublic with conditions on behaviour which can lead to your licence being revoked, just like the current GPL. 🤷♂️
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Linux@programming.dev•Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities16·1 month agoThose who use AI to report to open source projects and flood the volunteering devs who keep the World going, should be disqualified from using those open source projects
I propose a GPL-noAI licence with this clause inserted.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto Linux@programming.dev•Open source project curl is sick of users submitting “AI slop” vulnerabilities17·1 month agoLinus was ahead of his time in the human-identifiabilty stakes.
But they had “kernel tweaks for buttery smooth performance!!! *”
* oh yeah bluetooth, wifi, fingerprint sensor doesn’t work, camera takes green tint pictures, phone app crashes, and I’ve had some hard lockups, but it’s been my daily driver for two hours now and it’s awesome!!1!