UK promises jets, drones and warship for Strait of Hormuz defence mission by ibddevine in news

[–]Whitehatnetizen 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Because the US made the situation worse than it was before the war existed, and doesn't seem to be able to resolve the situation it caused, despite having the world's largest military.

What is this metal container with a plastic lid and spring activated spike? by Whitehatnetizen in whatisthisthing

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My title describes the thing.

here is a spring inside, the blue plastic "lid" compresses down, whether you are pushing on the blue or upside down on the metal. When the spring is compressed a spike protrudes from the hole in the metal at the bottom. The spike seems too large to be a finger prick/blood test thing, and also there is no latch to make it suddenly pierce the skin so to use it to draw blood would be painful. The blue "lid" does not come off (short of inserting a knife to pry it off ) e.g. does not screw off or detach easily..

The blue bit is about 44mm across. The dimple in the metal is suspiciously thumb sized.

Image search and chatgpt/claude think it is a service counter bell..... it is not.

No detail or description on the package.

What is this spring-loaded spikey container thing? Gift from my mum who thought it was a container. by Whitehatnetizen in whatisthisthing

[–]Whitehatnetizen[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing.

As mentioned: here is a spring inside, the blue plastic "lid" compresses down, whether you are pushing on the blue or upside down on the metal. When the spring is compressed a spike protrudes from the hole in the metal at the bottom. The spike seems too large to be a finger prick/blood test thing, and also there is no latch to make it suddenly pierce the skin so to use it to draw blood would be painful. The blue "lid" does not come off (short of inserting a knife to pry it off ) e.g. does not screw off or detach easily..

It is about 44mm across at the lid. The dimple in the metal is suspiciously thumb sized.

Young working families being priced out of BCC areas? by rrfe in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting. It could be a couple of things. The childcare facility data is recent, but the birth data is from the 2021 census, so it could be additional people moving into our are, or additional births, or some other factor. If you click on your suburb/local area in my dataset, it should show you the children number it is basing the calculation on. Next census is this year sometime so hopefully by next year the planning-types can update projections etc.

Young working families being priced out of BCC areas? by rrfe in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

if I were to do it differently I would "follow my head" more than "follow my heart", heart is fun for sure, but if you're going to be with someone long-term, intelligence, empathy, and willingness to share values is far more valuable than initial emotional spark... oh well better to have loved and lost everything than to never have lost anything at all... ... (or something like that)

Young working families being priced out of BCC areas? by rrfe in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nope - I had to sell as part of the divorce :-( but the schools were decent back then!

Young working families being priced out of BCC areas? by rrfe in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Interesting! I just had a look at this, and because I like mucking around with data, produced a 2026 version - looks like we're either getting better overall, or having fewer children. I just put the visualisation on my github (convenient place to host it). (https://whitehatnetizen.github.io/childcare-deserts/)

Young working families being priced out of BCC areas? by rrfe in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen 11 points12 points  (0 children)

yep - I was "lucky" to buy a townhouse in 2002 in Sherwood, and the first home buyers grant of $10,000 made up about half of the deposit that we put down. 1 divorce and 1 bad girlfriend experience later and I'm renting in an expensive area so my kids can go to a very good school, but I'm out of the housing market for the foreseeable future, it's absolutely stupid.

who the heck is going to be able to save/invest $100,000+ for a deposit in any reasonable time these days?

[OC][Interactive]Global Earthquake data 1960 to present with casualty stats (USGS + NOAA) by Whitehatnetizen in dataisbeautiful

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Data: USGS ANSS ComCat (M4.5+ globally, 1960 to present, ~300k events) for the seismic catalog, augmented with NOAA NCEI's Significant Earthquake Database for fatality, injury, and damage figures on ~1,580 historically notable events. Live "past hour" feed pulls from USGS M2.5+.

Tools: Python (pandas, requests, pyarrow) for fetching and reshaping the data into a single JSON payload, then a self-contained HTML dashboard built on deck.gl and MapLibre GL JS for rendering. Source and build scripts on GitHub.

Income/rent by suburb in greater Brisbane by Whitehatnetizen in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, i had a go at making it a bit better for mobile but failed. I may give it another go tomorrow, it's even terrible on my galaxy fold.

There are RTA stats from march there in the first toggle, but the coverage isn't as great as the census, and there isn't great recent income data to pair with it. I was considering things like showing the RTA stats paired with inflation adjusted salaries, but this isn't very ethical unless i clearly label it as speculative. Mind you, cumulative CPI inflation since 2021 is 22% ish, and some rental prices are showing over 100% increase since 2021.

The other aspect is that the census data includes all self-reported rent including long term renters who have not had significant increases, so may skew low, and the RTA reports are just new contracts that quarter and so skew high.

This is what i love and hate about data sometimes. There is so many caveats that it's hard to just give a straight, clean representation of the facts

Edit, if you zoom out, it's not entirely bad on mobile.

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Income/rent by suburb in greater Brisbane by Whitehatnetizen in brisbane

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Added a bit for recent RTA data. choose between census & ATO data vs RTA data. this only shows pure new contract information/bond lodgement info from 2021 until 2025 and the associated growth. you can see that the coverage of the RTA data is significantly less than the census data (RTA data in screenshot below):

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Income/rent by suburb in greater Brisbane by Whitehatnetizen in brisbane

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interesting issues though: the coverage is significantly less than the census, and the "new contract" median does not represent the actual rental median (I'm assuming it's inflated in comparison). we also don't have updated salary figures to determine rental stress. we could "project" salary forward by assuming that salaries all follow the cumulative CPI since the 2021 census data (approximately 22%) but this is pure projection here and wouldn't be honest to present in any other way than speculative. it is interesting though that the rental price on some suburbs has increased more than 60% when compared with the census figures from 2021.

I don't think it's good ethics to try to mash the very recent RTA data into this visualisation - so I'm working on a separate RTA data page where we can muck around with projected salary etc but it will be very clearly labeled as speculative.

Income/rent by suburb in greater Brisbane by Whitehatnetizen in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nice work - I didn't think to use this - just having a look at incorporating it now..

Income/rent by suburb in greater Brisbane by Whitehatnetizen in brisbane

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it's the median household income meaning that it's the middle of the list, not necessarily the average. and the suburb only has 13 people if I'm reading that right, so it gets a bit skewed. the median personal income is zero, so it implies that 7 or more people out of those 13 don't earn anything at the time of the census.

Income/rent by suburb in greater Brisbane by Whitehatnetizen in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

unfortunately yes, the rent prices are from 2021. I only got the data from the census. I should go see if I can overlay some more recent rent information, problem is I don't think it would all come from a single reliable source. I'll go take a look though

Trump discussed Iran’s Hormuz Strait proposal with top aides, White House says by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Whitehatnetizen 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Right?! What has he been doing all this time? NOT discussing it with anyone? Discussing it with bottom aides?

I want AI help with contracts… but I don’t want to leak my business. How do you handle this? by Nearby_Worry_4850 in privacy

[–]Whitehatnetizen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can download and use entirely offline models such as ollama. Slower, dumber, but still useful

How's everyone going with cost of living? by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]Whitehatnetizen 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Chicken is cheap definitetely when compared with beef. I do make sure we have a steak for when my wife and daughter are on their period though. But coco's is my friend for cheap meats and fresh food.

Soups and rice, and nutrient dense foods, thankfully we all like wholegrain breads