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It isn’t what you are asking for, but I was a bit surprised/happy to discover that the Ruby AWS SDK has a good stub client implementation: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/advanced-client-stubb...

I found it useful when updating some existing old ruby scripts we had. (Of course they had little to no testing before that.)

Melanoma treatments have come a long way in the last decade.

Immunotherapy is a game changer for so many people, and I’m excited to see these mRNA trials.

OT, but as a page on “Literary Hub” the typos in this really do my head in and kept dragging me out of the details.

Hared instead of hated? Tide instead of title? Was this voice recognition or OCR or something?

Edit: I’m not dignifying this junk with a real reply.

If you have any doubt, see a professional. Don’t trust this crap.

Beans produced for supermarkets or chains use the “best before” because it is a relatively long time. The beans might not taste their best but they are safe to use.

Speciality roasters will print a roast date.

James Hoffman just made a video on exactly this topic: https://youtu.be/O9YnLFrM7Fs

Warning: once you start on his videos you may never return.

I think it will be interesting to see how some of the companies in Australia with head offices in the US go over the next year. There are signs from the FANG (well “GA” here, the rest effectively don’t exist) will push for people back in offices.

On the flip side Atlassian just came out and said the reverse. https://www.smh.com.au/business/small-business/four-times-a-...

To your “note 1” ASIC might strongly disagree with that. Insolvency and directorships don’t go well together.

It sounds like things are a mess, but also see how they are doing on compulsory super (SG) payments. The ATO can get punchy if they are a long way in arrears.

(Been there, had the pain of failed startups running out of $, now working at places everyone has heard of because they do pay the bills on time.)

I see that domain and immediately I’m back in the conference room at Usenix 2000 watching dugsong perform wizardry with dsniff during his lightning talk.

Standing ovation. So good. A lifetime ago.

On iOS it only switched to Herald in v2.0 which - according to my phone - was installed 2 days ago.

For anyone in Australia, BBC's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the follow-up Smiley's People are both available on Amazon Prime Video here - I don't know about elsewhere.

I'm gradually watching through TTSS now. So good, although the first episode suffers from the common problem of no subtitles for the Czech scenes in Ep 1.

Could you describe what you mean by a distributed SQL database?

I don’t think RDS would generally fit that concept as I understand it. Aurora’s data store possibly but you choose to use that specifically.

There are a number of credit cards in Australia that do not charge annual fees. Many require being linked to an active transaction account, but not all.

They generally don't have any kind of linked reward points structure, but that's not a huge loss as most of those got nerfed after the ACCC changes a while back (see elsewhere in these comments).

I only just noticed this reply - many apologies.

Yes, that's the one! Our fix was explicitly deleting the copy constructor. In essence a one-liner for us, but you can't see the iceberg of an issue beneath the surface.

Thanks once again. :)

Amazon has Chime.

Not heard of it? You aren’t alone there.

My experience buying a couple of things from amazon.com.au recently has been "will be delivered in 3 weeks" => arrives in next 2-3 days. They ended up being Flex deliveries to a residential address, not courier/AusPost.

No guarantee of course, but it seems they are setting low expectations they can beat.

Implementing a simple filesystem using the Linux VFS interface is a fun thing to do. You can start by implementing the bare minimum and then add more functions over time.

Yes, it is C, not Rust, but for systems work it is absolutely worth knowing.

A while back I filed an issue on the MSVC std::vector implementation as the behaviour of a weird corner case differed from GCC/Clang.

The reply I got from STL himself was fantastic, pointing out that it was [paraphrasing here] a wart in the spec, and that neither were actually incorrect.

To my lasting regret, I didn't keep an ahem offsite backup of some of those corp emails. Hence I can't recall the exact details.

The inland of Australia is nothing like inland North America. There is very little water, much is literally desert.

Something like 85% of the population lives within 50km of the coastline.

Truthful name, though? Google, we blight.

There are listicles with these kinds of stats every now and then (and I’m usually a sucker for them), like this one: https://www.traveller.com.au/airline-weight-reduction-to-sav...

Scaling any kind of issue changes things dramatically.

It seems Central Canada is more philosophical than Geographical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Canada

I’ve spent time writing CPU detection code for previous projects, and there is nothing that jumps out at me as biased in the linked ISA check. In fact that is really the bare minimum required to split the AVX variants, and will detect AMD support just the same as Intel.

You can compare it to other detection functions - one relatively easy to read, non-vendor biased example that does dig into all the extensions is this Go implementation (not mine): https://github.com/klauspost/cpuid/blob/master/cpuid.go

And TV, Hunting Aotearoa: https://www.maoritelevision.com/shows/hunting-aotearoa

Great stuff, in a mix of Māori and laid back NZ English.

The article on CT gets into much more detail about this system: https://cyclingtips.com/2019/09/ceramicspeed-driven-can-shif...

tl;dr: interesting and shows promise, still more work to do.

edit: don't be scared by the not-a-paywall greyed out text and box.

Recently in the news: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/health/sacklers-purdue-op...

Often used as a slight pejorative, especially if you can’t immediately recall old mate’s name.

And for extra points explain the addition of “but” as a sentence final. Maybe it reverses the meaning of what proceeded it, maybe it is just a full stop.

“Nah yeah but.”

They’ve killed goo.gl? Ok, that was news to me.

I’m pro-“fast rail”, but I’m even more pro-“just build a damn train between Melbourne Airport and Melbourne City”.

Without the political will/ability to do that, I don’t see how a fast train to SYD/CBR is happening.