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Really - I totally missed that! Will have a read about it, but could you elaborate on the ‘grandstanding’ aspect?

EDIT: wow, what a mess!

Always good to come across fellow Australians in here!

I’d probably argue for an exception on that one, given the Whitlam government didn’t have a senate majority… but at the very least, I feel like a single case in the last 50 years is pretty supportive of my argument. The US government is on the verge of shutdown so often these days that I wonder how many people are desensitised to the situation!

How many of said countries require more than a simple majority to pass a budget though? To my knowledge the US is quite the exception in that it requires a _special_ majority for such things.

A simple majority could be challenging if the government is formed via coalition, but if you have any examples where 1) a single party formed government and 2) a simple majority was the only requirement to pass a budget and 3) a budget failed to pass… then enlighten me by all means!

If I ever create a trendy SaaS company (or an untrendy one for that matter), I'm definitely cribbing the 'pay more if you have accountants on staff' criteria... love it!

I agree re: quality of leads, but also wonder how many sales are lost to competitors _with_ advertised pricing purely because the user didn't want the hassle of talking to sales (maybe not purely, but you get the gist).

If you have capable hardware and kids, a local LLM is great. A simple system prompt customisation (e.g. ‘all responses should be written as if talking to a 10 year old’) and knowing that everything is private goes a long way for me at least.

If you want something that ‘just works’, it’s hard to go past the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing bothers you, the new Creality ‘Hi’ series is probably where I’d start if I was starting today. For other useful things to print, check out Gridfinity as well!

It’s the book that started it all for me. The Hotmail story is one of my favourites.

Even a 'microscopic siliceous structure', which is what they're talking about here? To be clear, I am in no position whatsoever to challenge your statement, just curious as to why it would be unlikely for something invisible to the human eye to be shifted around the planet via plate tectonics (which seems entirely plausible to the layperson that I am).

A colloquial term for dogs that were transported via an upboat?

The government is being deliberately non-prescriptive about that, as they are about what qualifies as 'social media' (statement of fact - no comment on the approach itself). Ideally the legislation is accompanied by a government digital service that allows 3rd parties to verify age _without_ divulging full identity, but I don't see that side of things being discussed anywhere down here :(

I didn't have any trouble, although I have owned full versions of Workstation and Fusion in the past. Having said that, their licensing portal is awful and i wouldnt be surprised at all if things were getting lost somewhere in the back end.

In a nutshell, the ‘insider’ gives instructions to a broker such as ‘on the 2nd Wednesday of every 3rd month, sell X number of shares if the market price is no less than Y’ and the broker executes on those instructions without any further contact with the insider.

The instructions are typically given well in advance of the first sale (and there is typically a schedule of sales rather than one-off sales).

So as the GP said… nothing to see here.

I always thought of Sun as the canonical example of this… why did all the dotcom era startups burn so much cash on Sun hardware? Because that’s what was in the Universities!

But on the other hand, look at how that turned out :(

Any chance we could get the link pointed to the source[1] rather than this podcast aggregator?

1. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/co...

This is great - basically an online version of the old Web Design Index series of books, which were a fantastic source of inspiration back in the day (for me at least).

It’s common in many parts of the world for people to get their weekly housework done by someone else. Failing that, there’s always the weekend.

You’re absolutely not too late. We had our first in our mid-40s, no complications whatsoever and I suspect we’d be regretting it too if we didn’t at least try.

I mean there's no right or wrong in any of this, but it's not like that would be an invalid takeaway.

Agreed, it's definitely not one size fits all. The story of Amazon migrating off Oracle is probably in the same ballpark (if that story is true - I don't know one way or the other). To which point, again... it's a totally valid perspective that you have!

I don't think people should be down voting you for this comment, but I imagine the reason why is because that's generally not how things work at large companies. Someone in product and/or sales might have made the same argument you have, but in my experience the business response to that argument is something along the line of "you can quantify the cost, but you can't quantify the value (i.e. sales upside) and there's no change in business capability? No." Revenue doesn't come into it... money is money. Or perhaps more correctly, value is value.

wow - long time Wil :)

Good to see you're still knocking around these parts!

I discovered a few days ago that VMware now offer a 'Fusion 12 Player', which is free (as in beer) albeit you have to register to get the download + key. Might be worth looking into that?

Same in NSW… no $12 iceberg heads around here!

According the article, come Windows 11 that will be incorrect.

Do you think more of a peer based approach to recruiting would have any legs? I built something a little while back that was a kind of "keep track of the people you'd hire", and anyone on your list had the power to grant you visibility to various parts of their profile (current employer, whether they are looking or not, what kind of role they are looking for, etc). Never targeted recruiters as a potential user, but I guess that probably isn't a bad use case. I'd much rather get contacted by a recruiter (albeit a recriuter who was known to me) with "hey I see you're looking for X, let's catch up to discuss opportunities Y and Z" as opposed to the cold calls / linkedin messages that are the current status quo.

Such a good magazine, I (finally) threw a bunch of them out when I moved house maybe 10 years ago… I should have least kept the issue that introduced Johnny Knoxville to the world - who knew it would go so far!

That talk is fantastic, and I don’t even write Python. Thanks for sharing!

I was literally remarking to a workmate 'this looks like Sun 2.0', then I see who's on the team :). Congrats, I'll be keeping an eye out if you ever start shipping to Australia.

Sheep is perhaps a better example for comparison with Lego. Unless you know of an example where ‘sheeps’ has legitimate usage.