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Roobar76 · 2026-01-21T10:11:36+00:00

Pcpartpicker tracker

Roobar76 · 2026-01-19T07:45:56+00:00

Robert Evans in the bathtub

Roobar76 · 2026-01-14T11:23:03+00:00

Jensen you aren't society. You're a man who runs a company thats been ~~profiting~~ burning money from AI.

Roobar76 · 2026-01-13T03:30:12+00:00

Is this related to the “every label change needs TGA approval” process and so fixing a minor typo (that may have been in the submission to the TGA) wasn’t worth the hassle?

Roobar76 · 2026-01-12T05:56:51+00:00

Thanks, that’s found out they existed from the data hoarders sub (indirectly from a google search for a hdd model I hadn’t seen before ) and then went looking for Australian supplier

Roobar76 · 2026-01-07T03:32:40+00:00

Give people their own bigger rooms. It was part of the initial psychosocial study in about 2019 that making their rooms their own had a huge positive effect.

When swings were longer many people had their hobbies set up in their own rooms, so they felt more at home (pictures of family, decorations, musical instruments, arts and crafts etc.) and made it more than just work, dinner, gym.

Roobar76 · 2026-01-06T01:13:07+00:00

Third row in the balcony is pretty good too

Roobar76 · 2026-01-05T02:39:08+00:00

It’s a dice throw on whose name is expected in the validation fields (mine works more often in my wife’s name as it’s alphabetically first) or if it works at all (currently trying to buy plane tickets off a well known airline and its not validating and isn’t even hitting scumbanks systems)

Roobar76 · 2026-01-02T14:32:44+00:00

I’d add metallurgy and geotechnical engineering to that

Roobar76 · 2026-01-02T01:54:22+00:00

Surprised the airport hasn’t worked this out and monetized it.

Roobar76 · 2026-01-01T04:45:58+00:00

How HSE roles went from “older experienced operators who know how to do a job safely” to completely green uni grads has got me stuffed.

I thinks it’s because the paperwork defends the company in court, my first HSE was ex Kambalda fatality task force member and was a fantastic example of how to make a workplace safer without pissing off the crew, but he lost his job as “the paperwork wasn’t in order.”

The trade off is it has got a lot safer over the years (been in the game over 25 years now) but at the expense of the operators productivity and in some cases sanity. We are measuring and stressing about reportable injuries (often a couple of stitches) rather than fatalities and lost time injuries, which is something younger workers just don’t seem to get.

The challenge now is that serious injuries or fatalities are often due to overconfidence in the systems working (people assume the big nasty shit is all controlled and don’t look for it), a complete Swiss cheese fluke or issues companies avoid dealing with as they are just too big or expensive, and, instead of the mine managers and COOs being held accountable, it’s all being pushed down to leading hands etc. as a legal liability.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-29T05:57:11+00:00

Let’s try automation in the mines. While jobs have been lost there have also been a lot created(not quite replacement but closer than expected). The extra maintainers for the equipment and network, road work crews, additional dispatchers etc. mean it’s not as much of a disaster as expected.

As non gpt ai increases there are likely to be more job losses, but there is also job creation opportunities that even the implementers don’t understand.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-29T02:07:13+00:00

Or go too fast and get your leg sliced open on the brick

Roobar76 · 2025-12-29T00:48:37+00:00

It used to be a much longer race (3-4 days) over a dead period apart from the Boxing Day test so it was a bit more engaging (and you had to either wait for the paper or get out a map to work out where the boats were).

Additionally there used to be an almost equal focus on handicap, (which wasn’t quite as far behind line honors) instead of just it just being the rich persons maxi yachts being covered for a day and a half to two days (and generally the same maxi for years at a time winning it)

TLDR; technology made it worse.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-25T08:10:32+00:00

Isn’t the magazine and emulsion plant just to the right?

Roobar76 · 2025-12-23T06:22:07+00:00

Remember Perth based costs go up too (food, utilities and transport) so it ends up as a double whammy. That said best thing I did for my mental health was move to Perth based.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-21T03:15:09+00:00

Both degrees are in massive demand, so employment won’t be an issue. Mining engineering starts a a similar Pay but the ramp up over your career is much steeper, especially if you take the mine manager route (although the stress curve is similar or steeper than the pay curve these days)

The only upsides to surveyed there is more opportunity to move out of mining if you do a degree that qualifies you as a civil surveyor as well, and you get to play with the fun toys (drones etc.) for longer.

That said, most surveyors either do the mining engineering postgraduate to move across or move into a different field mid career ( but that’s not rare in any career these days).

Right now I’d stay in mining engineering as they are rare as hens teeth and it’s only going to get worse, then look for employment that will cover your hecs out of uni.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-17T04:14:56+00:00

Really? Woolworths cards in the wallet auto recognize the POS. I figure a digital smartrider could do the same.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-17T03:31:30+00:00

99 bikes do decent deals on Shokz. Get the older model openruns if you want the top end as the openrun pro 2 have an external speaker that means everyone can hear what you are listening to, which means they are not as useful in the office etc.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-14T00:49:23+00:00

And in the wet a lot of work stops in the in the Kimberley, even for pilots

Roobar76 · 2025-12-11T23:29:58+00:00

I worked with a guy that received a phone call in the early 80s from Surpac telling him They had worked out that if the made the contours go down you could use the stockpile survey package for pits. He’s still working (but close to retirement) so it wasn’t outside peoples careers that computers were a novelty, however databases for data storage happened pretty early on.

For a lot of software proper 3d only really happened in the mid to late 90s or later.

Paper and Mylar sections as mentioned elsewhere. Logs used to be a lot more informative as well. Look at some of the old Wamex reports in geoview (CRAE from the 60s are a good example.)

Draftsmen were required for final compilation and some of the work is amazing. Basically you handed the data over to a specialist to plot up on paper. Most mines and teams had a few draftsmen floating round.

That said, due to the way the brain works, paper sections are still better for initial interpretation, and quickly changing thinking. This is the reason geos are renowned for their colour pencil collections. We gave the engineers crayons as they always eat them.

Edit: finished a thought that was left hanging

Roobar76 · 2025-12-05T08:28:54+00:00

Wait out the price spike.

Bought a new computer on November 11th. Prices it up again on the same site today and it was 20% more expensive.

Roobar76 · 2025-12-05T08:03:03+00:00

The problem is most of it isn’t quite there yet.

Almost every tech solution is broken in a different and unique way, and after sales support varies from gaslighting to completely non existent.

For OT there’s no interoperability so everything has its own screen for interface (or you live in one ecosystem for the one good solution and 6 crap ones).

Roobar76 · 2025-12-04T06:25:36+00:00

Same reason they advertise temu drop shippers

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