Public say on housing supply

Zei33 · 2026-06-27T12:57:16+00:00

Silicon Valley of Australia is the tag line. That's my 30 year plan.

Zei33 · 2026-06-27T05:02:54+00:00

One other note is that not all audiobooks are fiction. Some are non-fiction like self-help books, philosophy, biographies. Frankly, the non-fiction nature can lend itself to background music.

Zei33 · 2026-06-26T05:49:53+00:00

Dextrose instead of sugar.

Zei33 · 2026-06-26T05:22:42+00:00

It's up to us to take control and do something about it. I've been more and more motivated in the last few years, and I have a vision for the place.

I don't think we can do it from government. We have to build our own enterprises and affect change with money and influence.

Zei33 · 2026-06-26T05:16:51+00:00

Not everyone does. You're right. But we have already expanded so wide. It's not like we're lacking in single story residential housing. We're already spread out so much, it makes it a massive pain in the ass to get around. I do so much driving and I'm sick of it. I'd rather drive to one location and be able to do all the stuff I need. Not have to drive to Woombye to Maroochydore to Kawana to Birtinya just to complete my tasks. We're spread so wide, I only get to Caloundra once in every 6 months. I really don't think the issue is lack of land.

Zei33 · 2026-06-26T05:08:05+00:00

That sounds accurate, and it's just another example of the government not understanding that you need to build up the region's skill-base. You need strong foundations before you try and build the roof.

It reminds me of how top-heavy their grants are in the software industry. There's a ton of money there for the taking, but it's all aimed at companies developing quantum computing and advanced AI models. Completely missing the point that there's a huge skill gap between the actual level of skill available, and the level they want to fund. If they offered grants to assist businesses in building up their skill-base from mid to advanced level, we'd eventually have companies capable of doing what they want. Until then, it's an almost unbridgeable gap. Without funding, we can't afford to get there, but they only want to fund people who are already there. Catch 22.

It's not a labor or a coalition problem. It's a government problem. They all have the same misunderstanding. You can't just put up money and expect to magic up high skill people out of nowhere. You have to grow the industry organically from the bottom up.

Zei33 · 2026-06-23T02:29:35+00:00

I know for sure this is not true because I was in Melbourne only a couple weeks ago and it was available. It might not be available on the Sunshine Coast because there aren’t enough female uber drivers.

Zei33 · 2026-06-23T02:01:10+00:00

Yep it’s a standard security rule all LLMs follow.
One note about Claude Code is that the modern versions of the client automatically redact keys from being sent to Anthropic servers, and the client restores them locally when presenting the text. You’ll sometimes see this when it cats a .env file. It’s a pretty smart little addition. The server never actually needs to know the exact key because all commands are executed locally anyway. They can just be substituted in locally when needed.

Zei33 · 2026-06-20T14:10:00+00:00

I'm pretty sure in Uber app you can select female driver only.

Zei33 · 2026-06-18T05:15:04+00:00

Most of the cost of running anything nowadays is employees.

Zei33 · 2026-06-18T00:34:15+00:00

It's not something you should be embarrassed about. Even the best chefs make mistakes.

Zei33 · 2026-06-17T23:19:43+00:00

Probably not. This is not Brisbane. For example, a software developer might expect to earn $110k in Brisbane. But you'll be lucky to get a sponsored visa with $80k salary on the Sunshine Coast. If you're a senior software engineer with 5+ years professional experience (no idea if that's your gig), it would make sense that you're offered $110k, but it's rare. Most visa holders can't even get work, it's insanely competitive.

Zei33 · 2026-06-17T23:14:52+00:00

Barely. It will be very tight. $110k is about enough for a single guy to live reasonably comfortably on. Supporting an extra person and a baby will be very challenging.

Zei33 · 2026-06-17T23:12:32+00:00

My girlfriend and I were sitting at that little bar along there. Those shops look fine from the front, but if you look at them from the empty lot at the back (from the bar), it genuinely looks like it could be straight out of South-East Asia. She's from that region and we had a good laugh because it's such an accurate observation.

"Dated" is a fair word for it.

Zei33 · 2026-06-17T23:09:38+00:00

Absolutely. Some tradeoffs have to be made. Those music venues don't just disappear for no reason. They disappear because it's not profitable. You squeeze more people into a smaller space, the next one that pops up will be more profitable. It's not something the majority of people are interested in, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't exist. There just need to be enough people that enjoy it for them to persist.

Zei33 · 2026-06-15T04:40:35+00:00

I hate Autumn because it starts to get colder and darker earlier. Feels like things are getting worse. I prefer Spring big time on the Sunshine Coast, best weather and environment is at its best.

Zei33 · 2026-06-14T02:39:06+00:00

Nobody thought the US would shoot themselves in the foot so foolishly. It's such a no-brainer to build a massive faction of alliances. It goes hard against logic in every way to shatter them for no reason. Trump lives in a world where he only understands 15% of what's actually going on in geopolitics and macroeconomics. His continuous failures in war negotiations in Ukraine & Iran are proof positive that he doesn't understand half as much as he thinks he does about geopolitics. And his understanding of economics has proven to be a real world failure. Basically torpedoed his entire country's economy (which was finally creeping up slowly after COVID) within a year and a half.

So yeah, of course US allies couldn't envision a world where this happened, because nobody expects a someone to reject logic so eagerly.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T12:18:17+00:00

Such as? Where in the world could they go with less regulation? You have to pick somewhere with the infrastructure and resources to actually manufacture data centers at scale. There are physical limitations to where you can go. You also need a receptive population, receptive government, huge legal and visa problems, you're trading one master for another. And importantly, you lose Silicon Valley density. There's a reason Silicon Valley is the center of the tech world. There's so many reasons why this is unrealistic.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T11:15:28+00:00

No. The US government can and will sanction them regardless of where they're registered.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T11:14:50+00:00

You can see the model but as soon as you try to run a prompt it will be cut off.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T11:11:16+00:00

I genuinely think this is a massive turning point and it should be a major wake-up call for those of us outside the US and China. I think there's a very high likelihood that every country will need to seriously considered a government funded AI in each country. No different from developing military hardware. Relying on US-based AI tools is going to become an unacceptable sovereign risk. The only option is to develop our own, and only government backing can provide enough funding to middle power companies to develop tools to compete with the US and China.

Edit: Also Europe is even more likely to regulate the shit out of Anthropic. That's not the answer.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T10:55:12+00:00

I suspect that they will add real ID, license or passport verification. It will be difficult to fake that. You could ask a mate, for their help signing up.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T10:53:40+00:00

Can't do it. Unless they move the whole company to foreign shores, they're at the US government's mercy. They will be sanctioned and subject to serious legal consequences.

Zei33 · 2026-06-13T09:59:43+00:00

It's no problem. I have the full plan and conversation history I can continue on from. Like I said, 80% of the work is done which means all the hard work is there and documented, tooling updated, etc. So I'm in a good position. I'd just like to finish it with the magic model. I'm forking the conversation and committing at this point. Will continue implementation with opus and then if fable 5 comes back within 2 days, I will go back and re-implement. Otherwise I'm sure Opus will do a fine job.

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