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Bonus words for me just now included NITS and TITS! I think the explanation about them being lesser known just confuses; it's more that they're not essential to completing the puzzle.

Same - loved those other games but Doom 3 felt miserly in comparison to the previous games where you had space to move and options to target. D3 felt like it was just random jump scares more than much else.

I didn't love Q2, but really enjoyed Q3A.

How does that not become a legal issue?

Dual vanities/basins (at least in an en suite) is not uncommon. (Edit: was looking at wrong bathroom - yes, very weird there.) Nor having separate bath and shower.

We had both in our last house which was a mid-range build and not overly expensive at the time (very cheap in hindsight).

Not commenting on the placements though. Looking at the floorplan, it’s a pretty silly layout that could at least be used as a starting point then tweaked, but at that point you might as well start with an off the shelf plan first. Reminds me of a procedurally generated dungeon game.

Next up is the argument that it was to be used for future park land, but: they didn't specify a timeframe... taps head

Not sure if this is sarcastic? It's like 20 minutes each way if you're not walking that quickly?

  - little visual web app cataloguing a small vineyard by vine vigour
  - 5 min web app that helps show my daughter netball zones per position
  - web app to track manual irrigation runs of 30ish taps across our property
  - a calculator to cost-compare types of retaining walls by length
  - a virtual card deck for testing a game idea
  - scripts to help clean up an unruly Gmail inbox

Many people would've seen the tweet:

"Ok how about this: No more billionaires. None. After you reach $999 million, every red cent goes to schools and health care. You get a trophy that says, “I won capitalism” and we name a dog park after you."

If there isn't the political will to ramp up taxes on extreme wealth, I'd be interested to know how much effort there is in pitching legacy projects (more exciting than dog parks) to those with the means to execute them. Like crowd-funding, but for major developments and with further tax incentives if necessary.

It wasn't pitched to him, but in Australia, a wealthy individual put Hobart (more) on the map with a now famous contemporary art gallery complex which is an excellent drawcard for the state.

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

That is an extraordinary development for sub-$100m. Supposedly Australia has 150+ billionaires. Build us some crazy things.

Educate women? Isn’t that broadly considered to reduce birth rate?

I wonder if AI or something else changing (developing anxiety, etc) has made the pay-off of the degree less certain. If you're confident that your years of effort will pay off, it's probably easier to see it through. If you're worried that AI will wreck your industry before you hit the workforce, maybe the equation changes and you're more inclined to gamble with shortcuts?

Super Off Road... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Off_Road

Down at the bottom of the article it's revealed that Contrary Research (article host) is an investor in Galadyne and another of the discussed manufacturers. Galadyne is introduced as a company with a stake in the liquid propulsion angle that the article pushes. One of the authors is listed as CEO of Galadyne. Bit like an advertorial?

I would absolutely agree with that about basic security, and that it's been the case for about 20 years.

I think that comment about sophistication is absolutely key. Not even just data harvesting, but actively working against the interests of a user to keep them actively engaged.

Are political revolutions really brought about by children under 16? I think there's an argument that these policies push for identifying adults and that that might stifle speaking out, but I don't think any of it would be about stifling uprising from 15 year olds.

And when you speak of governments doing this to stay in power: which governments? All political parties in general? Just typical old-school politicians? Because there's a fairly atypical leader in the US, and there's an atypical rising force in Australia, and so on, and I think their popularity is stronger in older age brackets than aforementioned 15 year old.

"The rules ... apply to platforms with at least 8 million users..."

There'd be loads of people with rough houses they're about to renovate who'd take payment to allow you to test a robot.

Definitely far fewer kids living in that street - almost never see any. Possibly some adult kids still at home, but I would've guessed that on the whole there are fewer people living on that street. I'd say it's people parking their second or third cars off the property because their garage is used for other storage.

Easier to park on the street and theft risk has been negligible.

We did similar within the last couple of years, moving from quarter-acre to 25+. And there is no season you get off. Forgo irrigation in our climate and things flat-out die or you would be full-time watering things.

I would love to go back to myself 10 years ago when I was griping about the hassle of netting 5 small fruit trees, or cost of landscaping, and insist that I appreciate the scale and cost of that moment. Now we are dealing with a kilometre of vineyard netting, pruning hundreds of trees and vines, etc. Replacing all our nets back then would've been $200. Now it would be $5000+. I wouldn't give it up though.

I thought it was telling that the promo site leads with an overhead view of the car's shape, a perspective almost no driver or on-looker will have. If I was buying a status car, I think I'd be mostly interested in how great it looked from the ground...

I say it every time on this topic, but the situation hasn't changed in 10 years so it holds true IMO. I agree, the big change is absolutely cars and street parking. My parents have lived in the same house for 40+ years (South Australia), in an area where every home has a driveway and garage/carport that can fit 2-3 cars combined.

When I was young, that block had maybe 1-2 cars parked on the street, visibility was good and you could kick a football and ride bikes out there safely. When I visit now, there are so many cars that it's sometimes hard to find a park. I would guess the bulk of it is residents who don't want to shuffle cars in the driveway or have their garage full of other stuff rather than the cars.

I would not want my kids playing out there unsupervised.

ChrisMarshallNY has consistently posted like this about their work/hobby post-retirement for some time, and often with a bent on 'I do things my own way'. Didn't seem like advertising to me. Including a version number is hardly unnatural extreme effort in a comment, surely?

One possibility is that the finding as news is more likely to resonate and reach print given the looming movie?

Your sound design comment reminds me of seeing Inception in the cinema sitting next to a friend who works in sound (Frozen, John Wick films, etc). Early in the film, I offered him some of my popcorn, and he politely declined. I spent a good portion of the film partially distracted by the idea that maybe he didn't want to be crunching away on popcorn because he was keenly focused on thinking about the sound experience, and the cinema speakers and the like. I ate my popcorn even more quietly than usual.

After the film, I asked if he'd turned down the popcorn for professional reasons. He said, "No, I just didn't feel like popcorn."

The sports gambling ads and offers to young males in Australia are absolutely relentless. Here's a recent story:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/may/16/how-b...

"Hudson also redeemed 489 gambling inducements, including 302 from Sportsbet and 72 from Bet365, the court heard – likely to be an underestimate of what was offered to him."

"On multiple occasions, Gray said, Hudson withdrew all the funds from his gambling accounts, and did not bet or deposit again until he received a deposit match inducement."

He opened his first gambling account literally on his 18th birthday. He had gambling accounts with five different bookies. His behaviour triggered alerts at the bookies dozens of times.

Also not uncommon in Australia back in the 80s maybe, with the glasses from spreadable cheese.

Some quick feedback - your top two screenshots are absolutely generic: city map, and then featured locations. If you're about the routes, then maybe lead with the other two screenshots and more like those.

I would forget UGC for a long while yet. Just commit to seeding/curating routes yourselves. If you want to involve influencers, generate the routes based on their travel blogs or comments and then link back to them. Saves them doing any work on what will be a wasteland app to start with.

For how long though? I like my accountant, but I use Claude Code enough to know the SOTA and potential, read through the Claude for Small Business skills and texted a friend "How long do you think accountants have?"

- an Aussie half-wog

Even a 2015 MacBook for me ran the fan hard almost constantly. First Apple silicon MacBook was silent. Now using an M1 Max MBP from 2021 and external hard drives are the thing making noise on my desk.

Have you used any of the Apple silicon machines? In discussions about modern Apple devices and RAM, I don't know that pre-Apple-silicon experiences are all that relevant?

My first was underspec'ed and I used Resolve, Lightroom and Photoshop on top of the usual other stuff and it was quite impressive. The relationship of performance to RAM for earlier machines felt incomparable.