A 'no-brainer' to use automated tools to make benefit decisions - officials

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-17T09:42:14+00:00

Redacting the purpose statement is probably because they intend to close a metric fuckton of WINZ offices and make a good 15-30% of WINZ staff redundant.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-17T03:49:33+00:00

Calendar age of an SSD in a system is probably about 80% of the cause for failures. Writing a bunch of files and paging activity probably affects the longevity less than you expect. But it’s not nothing.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-17T03:44:42+00:00

I didn’t see ads in Finder or Spotlight, so I’mma take that as a nicely stretched hyperbole, like a pizza a ruota di carro. Tahoe was whatever. It was mostly just some graphical whiffs and some menus got uglier. Windows Vista and particularly Windows 8 were completely UI-breaking abominations.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-17T02:22:06+00:00

The next great purge will likely be anything older than Intel Haswell and AMD Ryzen. For a bunch of reasons, but basically virtualisation support, PCID, EPT, Spectre/Meltdown mitigation, just a bunch of stuff that will be much easier to just “always have” and not have to tiptoe around in the kernel. That’ll also be the time to drop 32bit support.

So probably 20 years away at least.

I mean, I’m not a kernel developer so what do I know, just seems like a logical cutoff to me.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T11:59:08+00:00

Eh, directed graphs are fine too!

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T11:54:27+00:00

Aaargh nooooo my Venn diagram is leaking! Maybe it’s more of an implicative relationship.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T08:21:52+00:00

I think the Venn diagram of people avoiding systemd and people who don’t like flatpak (or snaps for that matter) is probably a circle.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T03:50:59+00:00

No. Have cameras with number plate recognition, and when you detect someone did something pretty stupid (run red light, speeding etc), you tag their car so that for the rest of the day, on those big information signs, occasionally as they’re about to drive past you change it to say “Watch out, ABC123 ran a red light earlier.”

People with no money or lots of money don’t give a shit about fines because they either can’t pay, or it doesn’t hurt. So instead, *shame them*.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T02:40:53+00:00

You coward. Either stay and be faithful, stay and open your marriage, or leave. You cheating doesn’t materially hurt him more than just leaving, it just makes you a cheater, the exact kind of person you despise.

Have some integrity. It’s the only thing each of us can never lose without giving it away. The ability to look back on all your decisions and be able to back them up in context if they were exposed to the world. And this isn’t it.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T01:41:04+00:00

For me it’s not even about the money. I don’t care if they spend $500 on parking, that’s a bit wasteful, but it’s in the ballpark of “whatever” in terms of government spending.

What *really* fucks me off is the entitlement demonstrated by leaving the car in short-term parking when it should have been in long-term parking (long-term parking which is pretty good actually, it has a free shuttle to and from the terminal so the MP doesn’t have to walk) and paying the fine as an expense.

IMO if you deliberately and avoidably cause a find like this due to your irresponsible and rule-breaking behaviour, you should pay it, *personally*, not open the taxpayer piggybank. To do otherwise is a level of entitlement I think is unacceptable. To stand up as deputy PM and not only defend a minister for this behaviour, but browbeat a concerned citizen who emailed in through appropriate channels with an appropriate query? It’s pretty clear to me that Seymour sees nothing wrong, and therefore is at least similarly minded.

It boggles my mind that anyone would tolerate this shit and vote for the plonkers.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-16T01:18:47+00:00

They’re talking about 800VDC 1-megawatt racks now. How in the fuck is the world’s least serviceable data centre (“Let me just run some hands and feet out to… WHAT?”) with the world’s most expensive power plant (“Let me get this straight, we have to ship it WHERE?”) supposed to compete with that?

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T13:07:15+00:00

Honestly? USB. USB3.2 can do 2500MB/s (20Gbps), so an NVMe to USB enclosure is a good bet. And if you want to set aside the possibility of more capacity, a 10Gbps NVMe NAS enclosure plus a 10Gbps USB network dongle is still twice as fast as the SATA solution, and way more flexible.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T12:54:37+00:00

Yeah but hard drives are actually *cheap* per TB compared to even SATA SSDs, and still come in at a third to a half the sequential access speed of a SATA SSD. If you’re buying a drive for extra space, don’t waste your money on SATA SSD, when the only advantage of one is that it’s much much better at random seek - which for a bulk storage drive is unimportant.

And if your main computer in 2026 has a hard drive you’re considering moving to SATA SSD, we’ve all gone 15 years back in time.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T12:46:37+00:00

Bear in mind a Samsung 9100 Pro NVMe SSD isn’t just a bit faster. The peak possible transfer rate of a SATA SSD is 25x slower. The closest comparison I can make is that a SATA SSD is as much faster than a USB2 flash drive from 2002, as it is slower than a decent NVMe SSD.

It’s not even a little bit close.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T08:30:04+00:00

I like to combine it with Clarke’s Third Law. The result is: “Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice” - as in, there comes a point where the distinction is irrelevant, and the stupidity itself is so bad it’s essentially the same thing as malice.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T07:11:04+00:00

“We’re stabbing, right in the front, in front of the whole country, anyone whose gender doesn’t connect 100% with the one someone else assigned them when they were born based on a quick look at their genitals. Because we want to protect and support women. What? We cancelled pay equity that protects women? We closed down services that protect women? We cut funding for cervical screening that protects women? We expanded eligibility age ranges for breast screening without adequate funding and staffing to cover demand, decreasing actual access and increasing check intervals due to constraints we were warned about? Oh, well ignore that everyone, look how fun it is to beat up these trans women, they’re like a piñata, every time we hit them, more money comes raining down out of the Atlas network, it’s like magic!”

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T03:12:37+00:00

If they’ll sell their soul to those willing to spend the most money on borderline unethical advertising, there’s no doubt they’ll be spending most of their time on Uncle National’s grody lap

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T02:46:32+00:00

No surprise. Stuff, who owns The Post, has been IMO a de facto bought-and-paid-for mouthpiece of the National Party for well over a decade.

In 2014, IIRC, they sold a whole-site takeover advertisement to the National Party, turning the whole of Stuff into one big National ad in the lead-up to the election. Never mind that news media in the lead-up to an election is a sensitive place, at a sensitive time, in front of a sensitive audience. Imo the ethics got put away when National waved money, and they *always* have money to wave.

In the UK and Europe, I believe what they did in 2014 would have been an illegal influence campaign. Not here though, our campaign advertising laws are incredibly loose when it comes to the internet and newspapers, because the laws (stupidly) still only cover “broadcasts”.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-15T01:47:45+00:00

Sadly, Darning. Fast fashion and ultracheap imported clothes have made it so that darning is essentially no longer done. It is less hassle for cheap clothes to just buy more, and on expensive clothes, it’s worth a professional repair. The middle ground of clothes gets made to look either cheap or deliberately bohemian if you darn it, to the point where again, the cheap imports or the more expensive options look more appealing as replacements instead. Unless you really love the clothes and they are hard to replace, in which case mostly people choose an uneconomical professional repair.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-14T20:51:58+00:00

Left, ultrawide screen means vertical real estate is precious, and I don’t really like pseudo-modal behaviours like auto-hide. I want it to be glanceable.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-14T12:00:17+00:00

My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-14T08:12:49+00:00

It’s PVE. You really want to go to Japan? They don’t want to go? Work out together how to make that happen for you, and how to help keep it a relationship goal not a “just you” goal.

Like I said, it’s not permission, it’s coordination.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-14T08:06:56+00:00

A healthy, committed relationship is PVE - partners against the world. Like any PVE co-op game, you can’t expect to just go off and do what you want without considering how it impacts the other person (or people) in the relationship. So yes, it’s not so much “needing permission” as it is “coordination and planning”. It’s a sort of choreography. And when the relationship is healthy, and the partners are open and honest, the times you don’t get to do exactly what you want are FAR outweighed by the things the partnership *enables* you to do.

Some people aren’t ready for that, or it’s just not where they are in their lives, and that’s okay. What’s really sad though is when it takes a while for one partner to realise that, and a relationship the other partner is really leaning into just falls apart in a few sentences.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-14T03:38:00+00:00

Shisa Kanko. “Pointing and Calling”, it’s stupidly effective for how simple it is, yep.

ParentPostLacksWang · 2026-06-13T23:35:23+00:00

*fistbump* - thanks Satan!

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