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Lack of app-based NFC support is another big one.

iMessage is pretty big in Australia and New Zealand too.

Exactly, this is what Apple are doing with their “Ultra” architecture.

It really is the way forward.

It’s likely all online and all multiple choice.

My (insert large financial company) has mandatory testing too, and there are no strict examination conditions. But nobody cheats.

There is no real consequence if you fail, you just resit it again. At worst you might have to brute force it.

Good idea. It needs to be clearly global though.

Apple did the same with Mac OS X, they stuck with it for 16 releases. Then Big Sur came out as MacOS 11.

That computer hardware seems a little too good for 1994.

My guess is that it’s late 90’s hardware.

They are still sold on eBay, with the same photo.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/264733347144

I was once training an intern on the concept of “negative testing”, and as an example someone shouldn’t be able to withdraw a negative amount of money from an account.

Upon a demonstration, at a multi-billion dollar financial company, it caused an error message but the account balance was actually incremented.

The quality of enterprise code is quite poor.

*Except Victoria by the looks of it. :-(

Is anyone still using Cloudformation?

BYD will reach their market space limit in Australia, they just seem to be eating Tesla’s momentum at the moment.

Australia has a long history of brand snobbery when it comes to car manufacturers. Most new entrants into the Australian market don’t make it long term.

My earliest memory of a classroom computer was the Acorn Archimedes.

Terrible computer, with great hardware. It was the beginning of ARM computing.

China has moved onto EV’s for its surveillance apparatus. They are everywhere and are eating Tesla’s lunch.

> Moving a Billion Postgres Rows on a $100 Budget

In a magical universe where your time is free.

As far as I can tell SAF is basically used cooking oil and waste fats.

I would be amazed if there was enough SAF available to reliably supply 1% of the world’s AirBus A320 fleet.

It was notably the first time a Stones track was used commercially, which likely contributed to the high sum paid.

Everything you write is also true if you replace Canada with Australia.

Once I see Tesla’s FSD able to replace humans in chaotic environments like Vietnamese cities, let me know.

Until then it is only a gimmick.

Exactly, one Apple Thunderbolt 4 cable can drive 2x 4K monitors in a daisy chain configuration.

How does this differ from Azure Document Intelligence, or are they effectively the same thing?

Manmade structures are not recognised in international law. This is why Sealand cannot be recognised as a nation.

There is this example of Boeing cutting between 450 and 900 quality inspectors after replacing them with software and “smart tools”.

Boeing said at the time the changes would improve quality.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/boein...

The Australian government runs a fully funded free-to-air children's TV channel, called ABC Kids. Without knowing much about what other countries are doing, I can probably assume it one of the best children's content creators of its kind in the world.

The channel is required to make a certain percentage of Australian content, and without the need to worry about advertising, subscriber numbers and merchandising revenue, it has become a haven of local creativity.

I think Australia also struggles to find global audiences, as in some ways the world is still recovering from Australian craze global audiences had in the 90's (Crocodile Dundee, Crocodile Hunter, Mad Max, etc). So finding a new audience with children is perfect.

It’s very hard to visualise the ‘average person’ when everyone’s environment is so different.

Therefore, I wonder how much your location impacts the amount of microplastics you consume.

If you are located in Los Angeles is your intake higher than someone from Winnipeg?

Is living in Australia or New Zealand significantly advantageous to living in Europe or the US?

If so, by how much?

> Italy’s economy is 1.5% smaller than it was in 2007

That is impressively bad for a developed western economy.

I suspect the country would be in severe trouble if it wasn’t for their membership in the EU single market.

If you want to blow the mind of a non-tech person. Show them a high capacity MicroSD card and tell them how many 1’s and 0’s it can reliably store.

A 2TB MicroSD card really is a modern marvel in engineering.

Halfway down the article it mentions all this testing is with Starbucks coffee beans. Yuk!

This is almost exactly what the article says.

> ...some interrogators reported thinking that ELIZA was “too bad” to be a current AI model, and therefore was more likely to be a human intentionally being uncooperative.

Producing hydrogen from brown coal completely misses the objective.