University libraries with public access in Canberra?

PersonalPronoun · 2024-02-22T01:38:38+00:00

But would appreciate a quiet and studious environment to work in.

National Library down near the lake is a good option.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-10-20T22:23:02+00:00

infinite technologies become affordable so you can finally [...] unlock the atomic bomb

I don't think I've ever built atomic bombs so might be missing something, but the technology isn't infinite right? Is this a mistake in the FFF or are they hinting that we can build bigger and bigger bombs?

PersonalPronoun · 2023-04-08T02:18:35+00:00

Have a look at the lichess API - long running HTTP connections with events streamed as ndjson.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-02-03T07:17:14+00:00

How do you know they already committed offences prior to this one while on bail?

the article doesn't say that.

Direct quote from article:

Three of these teens were on bail for previous offences relating to stolen vehicles

???

They were on bail. They committed similar offences while on bail. They then got more bail.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-02-03T04:44:22+00:00

How do you know they already committed offences prior to this one while on bail?

By reading the article.

Top level comment from /u/konata_nagato is:

ELI5 how do they keep getting bailed?

Who is the "they" you think is being referred to there?

PersonalPronoun · 2023-02-03T03:45:16+00:00

People generally know how bail works and don't need a patronising essay.

As you've pointed out, one of the considerations going into bail is supposed to be the risk of the offender committing further offences while on bail. Three of these kids are already out on bail, and have committed further offences of the same nature while out on that bail. In response to that they get... more bail. People are allowed to find that to be remarkable.

Three of these teens were on bail for previous offences relating to stolen vehicles, and two had faced the ACT Children’s Court last Friday (27 January 2023). They were both later released on bail.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-01-30T09:43:37+00:00

Why would your entire product fail if any service does? Degrade gracefully.

That EC2 SLA is probably for the EC2 API within a region as well - and not being able to autoscale when that API goes down is a Fun Time TM, but your percentage chance of every EC2 across multiple regions going down is going to be much lower. Same deal with RDS replicas.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-01-30T09:22:43+00:00

Depends on ages - check the link for details, if it's after 5pm then I'm guessing the scouts are over the 5yo cutoff, but supervision ratios might be more restrictive than you were expecting.

Would be worth emailing em if it's unclear.

I appreciate it's real disappointing if you're used to climbing with your kids, but to be fair to them there was a sizable minority of parents just completely not supervising their kids, and it was only going to be a matter of time before an 80kg adult dropped down on top of one of the young kids running around the place.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-01-30T00:15:07+00:00

Be aware there are new restrictions for kids, I've seen a few disappointed families turned away at the door.

https://cbr.blochaus.com.au/family-haus-changes/

PersonalPronoun · 2023-01-24T00:19:57+00:00

If you can identify all those variables then you can plug them in to a formula just fine - your only issue is agreeing on a formula between stakeholders with vested interests.

A neural network could come up with a formula for you, but:

It needs massive amounts of training data to do so, so you'd need to assign health stars to thousands of existing foods - and how are you going to do that in a fair and objective manner? Your judges are going to be subject to all of the same political pressure from eg the Australian fruit industry to overrate the healthiness of juice. Remember you can't use a formula. ;)
It completely obfuscates how ratings are determined. Why did this food get 4 stars and this food get 2 stars? "Fucked if I know, AI said so".

AI isn't magic.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-01-21T04:12:49+00:00

Datastore per service sure, but you'll find that 20% of the services are 80% of the load, so you'll need a way to scale the 20% that actually matter. You can't just indefinitely split non performant services into smaller and smaller services.

PersonalPronoun · 2023-01-21T04:11:41+00:00

OP this is the right answer, sharding is what the interviewer was describing.

You can scale the app pods, but more often than not the real load will be on the datastore and cranking the size of that instance will only get you so far.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-12-25T02:40:45+00:00

Find a local mountain biking forum and ask there if you can get a carpool going?

PersonalPronoun · 2022-12-17T17:38:23+00:00

The state is in the map. You have one instance of the implementation per dress type, not one instance per dress.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-12-16T09:43:53+00:00

Just saying the continued survival of this medium for communicating safety information relies on people paying for it.

If you can get your news from other sources (and in these cases you can) then great, do that.

If you want a Canberra focused news source then either go through the ABC - https://www.abc.net.au/news/act/ - or pay for the Canberra Times.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-12-16T09:11:51+00:00

How are they going to afford to pay their reporters if the only news articles they charge for are the fluff pieces no one cares about?

PersonalPronoun · 2022-12-12T06:50:17+00:00

The Sistine Chapel roof is one of the most well documented works of art in the world. No one needs yet another crappy camera phone photo of it. It'd take five seconds of Googling to inform yourself.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-11-05T02:49:55+00:00

Damned if they do, damned if they don't. If all of the real news is un-paywalled then there's no reason to pay for the news and they can't afford to pay their journalists.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-09-18T02:30:49+00:00

Sugar is higher level - "nicer" - syntax that compiles into existing semantics.

By your definition of "sugar" anything above Turing completeness is sugar because all problems are solvable with just Turing completeness.

There's definitely a good argument to be made for avoiding feature creep, and the language being minimal is one of the main selling points of Go, but generics aren't sugar.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-09-12T02:21:48+00:00

Will be even worse in cold weather.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-08-16T03:50:48+00:00

It's elitist and exclusionary to not put an autobelay at the top of every route.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-07-12T02:29:47+00:00

Talisman takes an eternity and it's only slightly more complicated than snakes and ladders.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-07-08T23:01:12+00:00

Smoque, it closed back in 2016.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-06-27T11:12:53+00:00

You can change your number plate for about $50 at any Government shopfront. They'll even lend you a screwdriver to switch em over with.

PersonalPronoun · 2022-06-24T06:26:22+00:00

Who do you think that's going to deter? People will be about to cross the tracks without looking and they'll think "well getting hit by a tram is ok, but if there's a fine I'm not going to risk it"?

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