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by bigger_cheese 6mo ago
The Australian parliament is weird but it kind of works. Members of the House of Representatives ("lower house") are elected via preferential voting and each member represents a single electorate (there are 150 electorates), all o
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by bigger_cheese 8mo ago
I think it is very difficult to secure internet voting, someone can stand behind you and twist your arm or otherwise coerce you to vote for their candidate. Much harder to do when there are observers and witnesses at the polling booth.
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by bigger_cheese 8mo ago
I've lived with deg C my whole life it is what I'm used to, the way I experience weather is in 5 degree increments - I live on East Coast of Australia. My Internal rule of thumb is: Below 10 deg C - it is cold, Heavy jacket weathe
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by bigger_cheese 9mo ago
Physics has "Strangeness" and "Charm Quarks" My own field Materials Engineering has: "Hardness", "Toughness", Resilience", etc. which all describe different properties. "Ferromagnetic"
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by bigger_cheese 10mo ago
The issue is people trying to use these AI tools to investigate complex data not the throwaway UI part. I work as the non-software kind of engineer at an industrial plant there is starting to emerge a trend of people who just blindly trust
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by bigger_cheese 10mo ago
One big feature at the time was Firefox had a built in popup blocker, IE did not. Popup ads were rife towards the backend of the 90's and the internet felt borderline unusable without a blocker.
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by bigger_cheese 10mo ago
I'm an engineer I think there is definitely some pain points translating math to code. I've written some nasty numerical integration code (in C using for loops) for example I'm not proud of it but it solved my issue. I rememb
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by bigger_cheese 11mo ago
I work at an industrial plant, we use "edge" to refer to something inside the production network. As an example the control system network is air-gapped so to use ML for instrument control or similar the model needs to run on some
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
Yes I am sick of constantly getting Copilot and One Drive shoved down my throat.
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
>There are no "higher level details" in software development, those are in the domain of different jobs like project managers or analysts. Once AI can reliably translate fuzzy natural language into precise and accurate code, so
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I suspect it is to do with the amount of pedestrian traffic passing through an area. When you have a high population density there is an increased amount of foot traffic in the area you can charge less per individual serving because you hav
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I'm an Australian in my 40's almost everyone in my immediate circle (family, friends, work-peers) has an Android, at least in my world iPhone is a minority. I grew up with Nokia phones all I want out of my phone is something cheap
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
For Splines I found Christian Reinsch's classic paper to be a really good resource. You can find it various places on the web i.e here: https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu/AppliedUGMath/auxpaper_Reinsch_19... The algorithm
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I work at an industrial plant we use boolean datatypes for stateful things like this. For example is Conveyor belt running (1) or stopped (0). Sure we could store the data by logging the start timestamp and a stop timestamp but our data is
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
A lot of the Unix/Linux Syscall api has a version 2+ For example dup(), dup2(), dup3() and pipe(), pipe2() etc LWN has an article: https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/ It talks about avoiding this by designing fu
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
The AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) website has some good data can see price of electricity in realish time. This is for the NEM (which is east coast states + South Australia), the west coast is on a separately managed grid with n
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
Yes I have observed this as well. It happens if I watch one off sports highlights on Youtube. Most recently I watched a highlight video of Australia vs West Indies test cricket series my home page was endless cricket videos. A few weeks bef
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
My intro course at university was also done in Eiffel, this was at the ANU in early 2000's
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I think Snow Crash is an interesting book but I can see how people could be turned off by it. It kind of straddles a weird line where parts of it almost read like parody or an attempt to troll the audience but at the same time it explores s
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
In my opinion the most likely way it gets torpedoed is by Trump threatening the Aus Gov over trying to regulate US Tech companies. Feels like Albanese is walking on eggshells at the moment trying to get Trump not to cancel AUKUS, not ramp u
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
>We see PMs easily enacting massive legislative reforms and even Constitutional changes that are nigh impossible in the US I don't know about UK but in Australia we need a Referendum ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I can share my experience I am not a software engineer. I am the "other" type of Engineer (chemical engineer). I tend to use AI in the same way I use google or Stack Overflow, mostly when I get stuck on syntax and my code editor i
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I have been using Python recently and have found a lot of the data visualization tools seem to be wrappers around other languages (mostly JavaScript), things like, agGrid, Tabulator, Plotly etc. Sometimes you end up embedding chunks of java
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I studied Materials Engineering. Similar experience. Carnot, Thompson, Clausius, Gibbs, Rankine, Boltzman etc all made big historical contributions to modern understanding of Thermodynamics. And for Fluid Dynamics: Euler, Bernoulli, Mach, S
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
>1) We are talking about the late 90s, well before Ubuntu, where Desktop Linux was pretty poor in terms of features and polish. I think it's hard to understate how much traction Linux had in the late 90's/ early 2000'
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
In "In the Beginning was the Command Line" Neal Stephenson used a car analogy to describe consumer operating systems, I always thought his analogy was pretty apt: To paraphrase him a little bit: Microsoft sells Family Station Wago
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
I studied Engineering rather that physics. In our lab reports we were expected to include a discussion of the results and the experimental method. It was basically expected that the report should include associated commentary around potenti
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by bigger_cheese 1y ago
As an Australian I've have repressed childhood trauma from being forced to dance to Kylie's "The Locomotion" over and over again in Primary school, it was the Macarena of it's time... She collaborated with Nick Cav
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
I lived through that time as well by 1999 it was pretty clear Google was "the best" search engine site. Alternatives like Lycos, Infoseek, Altavista etc. were on the downswing. I can remember the characters in an episode of Buffy
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by bigger_cheese 2y ago
In Civ I there were resources, for example jungle tiles could have "gems", hills had "coal", grasslands had "game" etc. There was also another resource "luxuries" which is what I think you are talking

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