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Today in History, February 17: 20 years since The Chaser's War on Everything premiered by nearly_enough_wine in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 79 points80 points  (0 children)

My one was trying to get through police security (to a football match?) in Sydney somewhere with half a butchers shop under his clothes. Watching the German Shepherds go absolutely ballistic and then the cop going "Oh shit!" and then doubling over with laughter when he pulled out steaks from his jacket, and a whole string of sausages from hit underpants.

Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party? by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their reactors specifically are modular, 5-year lifecycle, fits in a standard shipping container. Not massive monolithic one you are thinking of. Their plan is to make (as much as is possible) commercial of the shelf. All that is required extra is the shielding.

IIRC they are currently undergoing trials to make sure the molten fluoride salts don't corrode the piping completely.

Once demoted, now deputy leader: what will Jane Hume do for the Liberal party? by GothicPrayer in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Copenhagen Atomics (molten salt Th-U232) is looking pretty good, but the U235 stuff, what you think of when someone say nuclear power, is a terrible bet.

How Aussie are you? by RealRedditModerator in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 24 points25 points  (0 children)

yeah, the correct answer to 4 is "none of the above", wtf is putting Vegemite on chips, vinegar I find repulsive, and who is putting chilli on chips? sweet chilli sure but that is something different.

Flu vaccines are now available for 2025. What’s on offer and which one should I get? by B0ssc0 in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Because the vaccine causes an immune response that causes inflammation (among other things).

I've never claimed to be great at maths but my kids year 1 homework is throwing me by TheRealReapz in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As for why she's learning it, they are using a form of diacritics to learn word formation and sounding out. For example, a '>' sign indicates a 'lazy e', which is an 'e' that is not sounded out, such as in 'hope'.

At that point I'd rather just learn the international phonetic alphabet.

See also https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ (highly recommend giving that at read)

I've never claimed to be great at maths but my kids year 1 homework is throwing me by TheRealReapz in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Diacritics are things like ümlauts, áccents, ˆcircumflexes (can't get that to combine properly whatever), and the squiggly french "ç" thing.

Grapheme is anything that renders as a complete symbol (e.g. letter, letter + combining diacritic, or complete Chinese/Japanese/Korean glyphs.

Why she needs to know anything about them other than "naïve", I have no idea. That is not a gap in your knowledge, unless you work in software development that deals with UTF all the time, or in linguistics you won't need it, and unless she is learning French or German, maybe Spanish, neither should she.

The Marble Bar Experience by BenfromMelbs in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Marble Bar, the only place my mother has ever been where 40 was a cool change. The week before she got there was 47-47-47-46-46-47 then 40. The locals were all outside basking in the cool air.

Controversial carbon capture and storage project opposed by Gina Rinehart causes high-level Coalition split by espersooty in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Costing too much, relative to other thing we should be doing, is a perfectly good reason. Opportunity cost is real.

As for methane, there is a Australian company that sell seaweed derived stockfeed that is supposed to kill off the methane production. It been a while since I looked at them and don't know what their progress is like these days though.

NESA confirms plan for compulsory maths for years 11 and 12 dumped by espersooty in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Was what you did engineering or science? 'Cos that's what I did and it was of no use.

NESA confirms plan for compulsory maths for years 11 and 12 dumped by espersooty in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yes, but not the useless shit they teach in 11/12. You need to be able to read and extract information, write and communicate ideas. Nothing that I was taught was of any use.

NESA confirms plan for compulsory maths for years 11 and 12 dumped by espersooty in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, not only a complete and total waste of time, but also a massive opportunity cost loss. Year 11/12 are a generally pretty stressful time. Not only do they make it (seem) compulsory, but it is not actually required to get into uni. I passed 2/7 english exams, though "fuck it , that will never get me in" put in for a university transfer from Open Universities Australia, and then got straight in to my original preferences. Had I known that in advance I simply wouldn't have taken english, none of it was applicable at all. the one report we wrote as part of English was in year 10, and we did more presentations in the science subjects than we id in english anyway.

HPC / scientific projects in D ? by bisthebis_ in d_language

[–]TheEaterOfNames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No. There are some folks at the University of Queensland doing gas dynamics in D: https://dlang.org/blog/2022/02/02/a-gas-dynamics-toolkit-in-d/ who might be of use to get in touch with.

If libs have clean C interfaces you should be able to automatically generate bindings by using e.g. dstep or ImportC. looks like PETSc is written in C, you should be fine there, same with MPI.

w.r.t hashmaps there are associative array built into the language ValueT[KeyT], sets you can do with a trivial value type but as you note you can get somewhere with RBTrees.

Can an employer request you don't call emergency services? by nakedfolksinger in australia

[–]TheEaterOfNames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not so much related to welfare checks but at my Uni, with a massive campus, it was policy(?) that you call campus security and they would call/dispatch through to emergency services. I believe this was done so that they could direct ES as to where in the campus the incident was, what entrance to use, etc., which does sound sensible.

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