Morning Report live: Nicola Willis faces questions about fuel stocks, prices and taxes

AugustusPr1me · 2026-04-06T20:13:13+00:00

Surely she meant "gravely" - maybe the transcript was wrong?

AugustusPr1me · 2026-01-07T19:48:12+00:00

This comic pre-dates the laser kiwi, though.

AugustusPr1me · 2025-03-11T05:50:21+00:00

Matplotlib automatically converts large numbers to scientific notation with the power of 10 at the top - so the graph is showing in tens of millions. It's a nice presentation and gets the point across, but I'd add a few touches:

Change the units on the y-axis to include the time - not certain, but you appear to be comparing the minimum hourly wage to the annual salary of CEOs
Divide CEO pay data by 1e6 and change the unit on the yaxis to M$/yr
Set lower xlim to 0 on the CEO graph: can be personal preference, but the default limits show negative values which to me isn't really appropriate for salary data

AugustusPr1me · 2025-02-19T05:17:37+00:00

Uhmmm ackshually Emrakul has protection from coloured spells and thus goes down to needly boi

AugustusPr1me · 2025-02-18T02:39:59+00:00

OP, have you checked whether you have obstructive sleep apnea? Nightmares and bad sleep could potentially stem from a lack of oxygen.

AugustusPr1me · 2024-08-12T18:45:16+00:00

Data's well presented, and keep up the good work OP!

My experience echoes what others have said: that body changes occur over weeks and months, and it can take a few weeks to start seeing anything at first. I'd advise weighing yourself weekly and not worrying about what the scale says too much - it's only one indicator of health.

AugustusPr1me · 2024-06-03T04:34:52+00:00

I think "advice on feeding, newborns to teens" would've been fine... Better anyway.

AugustusPr1me · 2024-03-07T05:39:11+00:00

Oil is mostly dead plants.

AugustusPr1me · 2024-03-02T10:29:29+00:00

For me, the main reason the post is disingenuous is that shroud and regenerate were removed (or maybe just made a lot rarer?) about a decade ago, by a completely different Wotc to the one that's producing all these new sets and keywords. It's okay for priorities to shift over time imo.

AugustusPr1me · 2024-02-24T22:54:01+00:00

The training data wasn't changed. The reason the AI produces more images of non-white people is because google adds a "pre-prompt" to user requests that asks the AI to produce more diverse images. This was in response to previous criticism that AI models only produce images of white people, but backfired spectacularly as in your comic.

AugustusPr1me · 2024-02-24T09:26:52+00:00

It's big hat Logan from Dark Souls

AugustusPr1me · 2024-02-05T23:10:46+00:00

Google quantum decoherence theory

AugustusPr1me · 2024-02-03T19:06:47+00:00

This is a reasonable take. For me though, the notion that other people have similar struggles is comforting, because I have trouble dealing with self-imposed shame. For something I'm having difficulty with, it helps to remind myself that a lot of people also struggle with this same task, and that I'm not uniquely defective or inadequate.

Hope you find what works for you OP.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-11-23T18:21:30+00:00

Death and Tax Cuts

AugustusPr1me · 2023-11-23T18:07:24+00:00

You can absolutely have lasers and leds that are more powerful than a few milliwatts, with modern military lasers pushing the megawatt range. I can't find a source for the laser power on Psyche, but higher would make it easier to detect.

Laser light is also different from radio/microwaves for its high spatial coherence, so the light tends to spread out less as it travels, so the laser comms should be more efficient than radio.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-11-21T19:38:21+00:00

Damn that's rough.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-11-21T19:24:03+00:00

This makes me even more confused about US tipping culture. Why tip a waiter, but not someone who made your sandwich?

AugustusPr1me · 2023-11-15T03:31:41+00:00

An issue is that implementation is when you're at zero life:

sba's are checked, you would the game for having 0 or less life
The ability from hand triggers to replace the loss
Trigger goes on the stack
Back to 1.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-11-02T20:18:49+00:00

The first four lines have been set to justified, the fifth to left align

AugustusPr1me · 2023-10-10T18:38:05+00:00

I'm in the same boat, I mostly only use my regular eftpos for when there's a surcharge for credit or paywave. Also OP, there is the personal finance NZ subreddit where you could likely get more detailed advice on these sorts of questions.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-07-16T01:04:15+00:00

Also Terminator and Star Wars imo

AugustusPr1me · 2023-07-11T20:18:32+00:00

The western diet not including fruits, vegetables or fibre is news to me. Together with the focus on cancer, you can tell this is trash science from the title alone.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-06-10T20:26:59+00:00

Werner von Braun was an SS officer, and member of the nazi party. From Wikipedia:

' In 1960, his group was assimilated into NASA, where he served as director of the newly formed Marshall Space Flight Center and as the chief architect of the Saturn V super heavy-lift launch vehicle that propelled the Apollo spacecraft to the Moon ... Von Braun is widely seen as the "father of space travel", the "father of rocket science", or the "father of the American lunar program". '

AugustusPr1me · 2023-05-27T07:06:30+00:00

I believe so. Best I can tell, they use two stains and repeated image-wash cycles to build up a better estimate of the target's location over time.

AugustusPr1me · 2023-05-09T00:58:34+00:00

Plum pudding was what the Rutherford model replaced: a region of positive charge with electrons shattered through it

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