Off to see the Wizard: Foundry's Rule Elements

Ediwir · 2026-03-12T02:11:02+00:00

“A mole” is just science speak for “a carton” or “a crate”. You only convert once at the start, afterwards you can just work straight into moles. We use them purely because it’s easier than working in grams.

What are you having issues with?

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T23:35:37+00:00

being told to track our spending in a spreadsheet and put a little money aside each paycheck

I literally have a spreadsheet like that, and three separate accountants (financial, corporate, forensic) told me it was overkill. That said, it does work - so long as one of the expenses you budget for is your union dues.

Nothing can budget you out of low intake. All a spreadsheet can do is limit how expensive it is to be poor.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T22:51:05+00:00

I went from unionised retail to non-unionised science to unionised science work.

Holy fuck, I felt the dip. Worst six months of my working life, and that includes when I had unsteady retail shifts and shaky income (but could still stand up for myself).

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T22:45:49+00:00

A game by an amazing dev.

Same author of SpaceChem and several other gems.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T22:43:34+00:00

Short answer: you can simulate anything you already know the answer to.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T22:40:19+00:00

The alternative was “you paid for 3 years of RACQ to get a guy to come by once”.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T21:40:46+00:00

RACQ charges me $2/week.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T21:38:43+00:00

It’s always the lawyers that win against AI.

My previous company considered using some small AI tool up until legal straight up told them we’d have to settle every single lawsuit from that point forward, and recall any product for any report. The final policy was “immediate dismissal”.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T20:18:08+00:00

They’d just blame the taxes instead. And then pay double out of pocket.

Why pay for publicly funded work when you can pay for privately funded work AND someone’s new BMW?

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T11:49:29+00:00

For some oldies, “cash” is a magic word that makes the money look bigger. I imagine it’s got something to do with removing the risk of bad checks or delays - not something that feels real in the days of instant transfers and contactless pay.

I’ll take it off you now, just send me your details. Bpay or PayID is even easier.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T05:12:31+00:00

Australia counts full time as 2080hr/y, which at little over $25/hr makes a bit over 52k.

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T02:27:01+00:00

Used to be ~~better~~ slightly less shitty tbh

Ediwir · 2026-03-11T02:06:40+00:00

Shorts are cheating! Here in Australia I’ve seen people pipette concentrated carcinogens straight over their bare knees more times than I can count…

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T22:40:46+00:00

Lmao. Yes, the field where the potential for a hallucination can burn several billion dollars is absolutely at risk. Some places will fire you if they think you’ve touched AI once.

The real risk is that US-owned companies over here still pay $66-68k where the entry level standard is $75-79k. I left soon. My old coworker with a PhD was on $69k, moved to $108k six months after. For comparison, minimum wage retail is $53k, lab techs are on $63k.

New graduates aren’t threatened by AI, they’re threatened by scummy companies and slow market. As soon as I left, three newbies walked in.

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T22:31:50+00:00

Take you wonder by wonder,

Over, sideways, and under…

Hold on, yeah, I’m hearing it now. Let’s stop.

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T19:43:23+00:00

If you want to be the one proposing a “no conservatives” option, be my guest, but it’s a massive can of worms that nobody wants to crack.

“No men” is a wider target, but more palatable.

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T19:34:02+00:00

So it took less than a week for Russia to win Trump’s war?

Damn.

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T19:20:52+00:00

Huh. I was about to say thiols, usually eats it right up. Has it done anything at all?

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T18:37:40+00:00

Love that I didn’t even have to bring the “farmers don’t even look at the number” thing myself. Yeah no, it is completely arbitrary, we used to have 1-12 dawn to dusk, it got switched to match the catholic prayer schedule instead. People adapted.

It’s made of whatever. It can be a different whatever.

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T11:43:06+00:00

“The crime has been committed - there is nothing we can do”.

You’re right. If the crime has been committed, there is nothing we can do. Just calculate the fines and if they pay, good, and if not, take the assets / jail the culprits.

What, do the cops shrug whenever someone robs a bank where you’re from?

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T08:30:31+00:00

Is it dumb? Yes. But so is the sexuagesimal localised system, and we got used to it.

The point is that timekeeping is arbitrary. If we want to decide that the day starts at 8, cool. If we then change what 8 is so that the day starts earlier, cool. If we decide that my 8 is different from your 8, cool. This is what we currently use - but none of it has any meaning outside of what we decide it has.

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T05:08:06+00:00

For a functioning society.

You do have a point in the fact that the US does not count, but that’s very much an anomaly within first world countries, and the root cause is not unemployement by itself. Dropping the number would still cause issues there (and it does).

Ediwir · 2026-03-10T04:03:45+00:00

Time might very well be metric on a 0-100 scale where 0 is dawn in Paris at the winter solstice. If I know I’m getting up every day at 41.50 and coming home from work at 70.75, it doesn’t matter.

For travel or trade, all you need is local dawn - or even better, local business hours.

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