Swannie

Far more capable, barely and different in cost. Maybe higher power draw. But can run far more things, more capably.

It looks quite clear that they have split/subdivided their plot. In Australia this would be called a battle-axe property. The listing talks about "land associated with 123 Street Address".

They are basically selling off the far back garden of the main house. A long thin access road, the pool, the glasshouse/conservatory, the workshop, the tunnels, and the planning permission.

And whilst EV's or Hybrds are about 50% of new vehicles, there are a lot of existing ICE domestic vehicles.

So, yeah, we actually care.

It was a nice surprise to see teenagers working in my local brewery this past weekend, collecting glasses, clearing and cleaning tables, etc. They were probably between 13 and 16. Not allowed to serve alcohol until they are 18, and can take on the personal legal responsibilities for Responsible Service of Alcohol.

Most jobs for teenagers here are in fast food service - two of my friends have mid/late teenagers working these jobs. Most jobs in retail, at least near me, seem to be taken by adults.

I know Simon follows this "Issue First" style of work in his projects, with a strong requirement for passing tests to be included.

It's been a best practice for a long time. I really enjoyed this when I read it ~10 years ago, and it still stands the test of time:

https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/#24-development-process

The rationale was articulated clearly in:

https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/cha...

If you have time, do yourself a favour and read the whole lot. And then liberally copy parts of C4 into your own process. I have advocated for many components of it, in many contexts, at $employer, and will continue to do so.

Oh, there are, for years :D This has really stood the test of time:

https://rfc.zeromq.org/spec/42/#24-development-process

And its rationale is well explained too:

https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/cha...

Saddened by realizing that Pieter would have had amazing things to say about AI.

Very nice.

Most people are not self reflective reflective enough to notice. Need to trust the studies.

Far more plausible than the AI ideas.

I find it far more likely these are smart people running without oversight for years pre-COVID, relying on being smart at 2am change windows. Now half or a full std. dev. lower on the IQ scale, hubris means fewer guard rails before change, and far lower ability to recover during change window.

I had assumed that correlated to the temperature... I would be smoking first, then sous vide if I was going for smoke and internal texture.

But if you're going for a bark/crust, I am not sure sous vide helps, as the moisture coming out of the meat is part of that process.

How would a buildings and pest inspection have missed it?

Or, maybe he found it during inspections, knew he would never convince his wife to buy the house on the strength of the train set alone, but did managed to convince on the strength of the house... now he has to sell the lie?

It filled the critical gaps in my intuition that I didn't have the brain cycles to formulate hypotheses against.

This is one of PG's worse essays.

I worked on telco grade systems running on Rhino, in interpreted mode, in 2006. Leveraging Java to JS bindings. Responding to HTTP/JMS/etc.

If I am not careful, and "asking the question" in a way that assumes X, often X is assumed by the LLM to be true. ChatGPT has gotten better at correcting this with its web searches.

I am able to get better results with Claude when I ask for answers that include links to the relevant authoritative source of information. But sometimes it still makes up stuff that is not in the source material.

https://pygraphistry.readthedocs.io/en/latest/performance.ht...

Successful politicans and sociopaths are experts in double meanings.

"I will not drop bombs on Acmeland." Instead, I will send missiles.

"At this point in time, we do not intend to end the tariffs." The intent will change when conditions change, which is forecast next week.

"We are not in negotations to acquire AI Co for $1B." We are negotiating for $0.9B.

"Our results show an improvement for a majority of recipients." 51% saw an improvement of 1%, 49% saw a decline of 5%...

It's just as funny today as when I first heard it in 2002/2003... to which my professor at the time would add:

"But really, naming things is colouring. And cache invalidation is colouring. So really there's only one problem in computer science, colouring and counting... which doesn't sound so hard after all".

There were always a few "filler" episodes that didn't move the story forward much, if at all.

But sometimes those filler's are just good tropey fun! :-)

Of those that do, firearms officers - why would they carry a handgun?

And you are right - there is of course an element of security theatre!

This allows the plane to land at Brisbane and refuel if the calculations are done wrong. Couldn't find stats on how many times it's had to land in BNE.

Pre-COVID, it was apparently common to try and off-load passengers to single stopover flights to reduce fuel needs (I was one of those passengers, and the crew confirmed it was a regular occurance).

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