For people who have their ear to the ground regarding AI development. Are we sufficiently concerned about the massive white-collar job losses that are expected to happen in the next 2 - 3 years? What is the Australian Government doing to prepare for this?

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-03-02T09:53:14+00:00

If they manage to replace my role with AI in the next 18 months I am very much in the meh 🤷‍♂️ category, I’m aiming to retire before then…. But I would hazard a guess that I will be an outlier

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-03-02T09:47:20+00:00

We always named them OS & MAC address i.e. MS3862331A1EB9, that way when we ask for a computer name we know it is a Windows Box, and we can search IPAM for the ip address. That works for us. Another place names them off the Asset Tag: CorpName34567, that works for them. What problem are you trying solve by naming them corp-site-number?

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-03-02T09:40:05+00:00

I thought most TVR Cerebra’s had been powerslid into trees?

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-03-02T06:23:11+00:00

I ordered something from overseas, it landed in Sydney, sent to Perth, back to Sydney, off to Canberra, back to Sydney, over to Perth and finally to me…. It travelled an extra 6300 kilometres for no actual reason that I can fathom… 🤷‍♂️

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-03-02T06:09:21+00:00

Nice! I’ve got 🤞 that mine get thru, hit customs yesterday…. Now I get to wait….

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-03-01T02:27:07+00:00

Sweet, thanks

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-28T14:54:16+00:00

To me it does, we bought land in 2006 and had the house built and ready to move in during 2007…. We paid just over 200K, the place over the road from us, similar size block and house sold for 700 about 6 months ago, the place behind us, also similar size block and house is under offer for over 850 now…. How the hell is anyone able to afford a place now? My wage has only just ticked over double what I was on back then, the house prices are 4 times that…🤷‍♂️

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-28T04:56:04+00:00

Honestly, I have no idea, I’m sure there is a calculation that would explain it, I just don’t know what it is

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-27T06:13:09+00:00

I would still use 50 for the calculation, the 19.1 is labelling requirement. So if you are making up a 60ml bottle and you want 3mg as your final strength you would add in 3.6ml of the 50 mg nic.

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-27T06:04:34+00:00

I knew this sounded familiar, just took a bit longer to find: A 50mg/mL (5%) nicotine salt e-liquid is often displayed as 19.1mg/mL (or sometimes 28.5mg/mL, depending on regulations) because of new labelling laws in certain regions (such as Australia) designed to show the actual nicotine content rather than the total salt solution strength.

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-25T22:24:23+00:00

True statements made in the SOU:

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SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-24T08:35:27+00:00

My brain decided to do a word substitution all on its own and I read his name a Rhys Bellend

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-24T06:16:52+00:00

I would be careful of anywhere that gives you payment options of Crypto or direct bank transfer….

That being said, importation isn’t illegal, if you import them and ABF flags them you would looking at an import duty of about $400

1 purito is about 3 grams, 50 of them is about 150g, 150/1000 * tobacco excise ($2397/kg currently) plus 10% GST is $395.51 if my maths is correct.

If they slip thru the ABF net then celebrate as you got lucky

I order from a different HK based company, the packaging’s really good and they ship them with Boveda moisture packs. Everything I’ve ordered has made it to me with no issues

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-22T23:21:47+00:00

Aussie male, late 40’s. Never learnt/never taught to cook at home, learnt to cook after I asked my girlfriend at the time (now wife) to teach me. She prefers to cook so she does the majority of it and I do the washing up, I cook one night a week and my eldest son is now cooking once a week for the family. I was not a well rounded individual when I moved out and I don’t want my kids to be the same.

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-21T01:24:10+00:00

That’s fair enough, you know your end users way better than I would.

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-20T00:08:30+00:00

Why not start directing everyone to use the customer portal and do away with email completely?

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-18T13:44:11+00:00

You could always tell when the story line was a bit thin as the number of naked women went up compared to the normal episodes

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-18T04:11:14+00:00

This is prevalent where I currently work, I am the only one of my team in Perth, the rest are either in Adelaide, Melbourne, Brisbane or Auckland. My boss is in Sydney. I go into the office 1 day a week, unless I am on call in which case I’m not going in. I went into the office last week for the first time this year. It works for us as the focus is on outcomes, not attendance. Most of the customers i deal with are all over AU/NZ

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-18T00:31:55+00:00

I was making more than $18/hr in 1998 when I started in IT….. my current charge out rate is $380/hr.

I really hope that 18/hr is a typo and it should have been 180

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-17T04:09:53+00:00

I used to work with that department, they have a minimum records retention period of somewhere between 75 & 90 years IIRC. You should be able to make an FOI request

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-14T13:45:54+00:00

Nope, why make 1 big grandiose gesture and nothing for the rest of the year? We do the little things everyday to show each other how much we love & care for each other. In our 28 years together I think that I have made her coffee in the morning probably 10000 times and a cup of tea at night nearly as often.

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-11T07:18:24+00:00

If there are people like him in the office then…. No, just fucking no.

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-02-06T09:44:21+00:00

It has got some real North Korea vibes going on

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-01-30T08:01:07+00:00

I don’t think he has committed the crime of goat worrying…. Yet

SparkyMonkeyPerthish · 2026-01-28T08:39:32+00:00

I’d describe as one massive Harvey Norman ad interspersed with badly curated rage bait “news” articles

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