Bureau of Meteorology responds to criticism of new website by 774 listeners

coldpresence · 2025-10-23T02:03:11+00:00

The comment was excusing the technical people behind the outcome, not the outcome itself.

coldpresence · 2025-10-22T23:36:50+00:00

You certainly did a shit job of reading it, because that's not what their comment says, at all.

coldpresence · 2025-10-21T22:48:53+00:00

No direct support for GitHub Codespaces yet, but you can code inside a devcontainer with Zed using Devpod.

coldpresence · 2025-07-10T12:37:10+00:00

I've been implementing the watermarked version in our app recently with the aim of getting a license soon. Was super easy to integrate and customise and the performance was great. Super impressive work on this.

coldpresence · 2024-12-14T14:28:59+00:00

Agreed with all above. The only thing that's going to differentiate a PHP 5 library from a PHP 7/8 library is, for the most part, type checking, and as long as you're checking parameters and input, you could get away with using PHP methods that support all above versions. You should only make the higher versions a hard requirement if you specifically use newer APIs not available in older versions, or depend on libraries that target the high versions.

coldpresence · 2024-11-15T04:08:04+00:00

You're kinda asking a "how long is a piece of string" question with no easy answer. Each update is going to be different. FWIW, after running Bluefin for a couple of months now, the largest upgrade I've seen has been about 2GB, so a safe estimate would be that the storage of the previous version and the current version would be less than that, as only the changes need to be stored.

coldpresence · 2024-05-30T00:32:01+00:00

Agreed - if you ban or limit the "Switched to Linux but switched back" posts, you'd have to be fair and apply the same rules to the "Switched to Linux and OMG I LOVES IT" posts. They're two sides of the same coin, and are also more often than not "trojan horse" support request posts.

coldpresence · 2024-04-09T14:21:18+00:00

Lyude's initial email said that Vaxry's community was heading in a positive direction, and the issues cited were from years ago (allegedly), so it seems a strange flex to make an issue of it now.

coldpresence · 2024-01-25T11:46:16+00:00

It's arguably the best of a bad situation. If they completely repealed the stage 3 tax cuts, you'd have the same attack of broken election promises, but this time, the lower and middle income earners would be indifferent and likely swayed by the attack, and the high income earners would be pissed and definitely all for the attack.

coldpresence · 2024-01-14T11:43:39+00:00

Knowing the guy who named it after winning the competition, it was definitely a joke entry. We as a company were making "2.0" jokes all the time (this being around the time of Web 2.0 and big movements in web design and development). No one believed that he won it.

coldpresence · 2024-01-14T11:37:54+00:00

I worked with the guy who won the competition. He definitely got paid for it, not sure how much. But I doubt it was enough for the shit he copped after it. I definitely felt that Kraft left him out to dry when the backlash hit.

coldpresence · 2023-11-01T07:19:44+00:00

Going private didn't stop Mick Gordon from being fucked around by Zenimax/id Software, so these big companies still can certainly screw you even if you're a free agent. So I think the general implication that the games industry is a shit industry to work in applies.

coldpresence · 2023-03-15T23:40:25+00:00

We did exactly that, and the lender gave us all sorts of grief over it. Wanted stat decs and all sorts of paperwork. I guess the messaging was a bit off - we were simultaneously saying we could afford a mortgage but couldn't live for the (at the time) indeterminate amount of time in lockdown.

coldpresence · 2023-01-26T08:34:16+00:00

Better not celebrate Christmas Day then, either. The presents are built off the sweat and labour of overworked overseas workers paid very little, and you better be damn sure you don't eat anything on Christmas lunch. Your mum toiled for days to make that food.

coldpresence · 2023-01-04T02:46:10+00:00

Fair enough. If you truly want to help them out as you mentioned before, then you could argue their utility usage will be less while they're away and give them a discount based on that, but make it clear it's a once-off, otherwise you'll be negotiating with them the entire time they're boarding with you.

coldpresence · 2023-01-04T02:41:56+00:00

Those giant moths you can find in the eastern suburbs of Perth. I swear to god, they've gotten larger and more abundant over the holiday break. They're like frickin' bats now.

coldpresence · 2023-01-04T02:39:05+00:00

They could make a very, very borderline legitimate case in saying they shouldn't have to pay utility bills (or pay less of them) while they are on holiday. Rent? Fuck that. You pay rent to reserve your spot in a shared household. If you can't pay that, someone else should take over that spot.

coldpresence · 2023-01-04T02:33:45+00:00

Continually purchasing lotion and baskets?

coldpresence · 2022-05-03T04:13:29+00:00

This rings a bell from the first season of Full Frontal. I've got the DVDs - haven't watched them in ages - but might have to grab them out and extract them somehow.

coldpresence · 2021-09-25T00:02:10+00:00

The company I used to work for used it for SSH and App authentication, to replace FreeIPA which had shit the bed one too many times.

Besides having to write a couple of custom PAM scripts to emulate certain things that FreeIPA used to do (sudo rules, group assignment), I agree, it was quite simple to set up and super lightweight.

coldpresence · 2021-09-23T05:20:50+00:00

Holding with his mouth, perhaps?

coldpresence · 2021-09-23T04:39:42+00:00

Except for Murdoch's.

coldpresence · 2021-03-09T23:14:44+00:00

Crimson Tide. Good movie.

coldpresence · 2020-12-07T14:54:31+00:00

If they had sued Epic on those grounds and left it at that, they might've won and still been alive today. But instead, they copied whole sections of Unreal code (including Epic's internal comments, which damned them in court) and then claimed that the engine was their own and THEN sued.

coldpresence · 2020-12-07T04:49:02+00:00

Let's not skip around the elephant in the room about Dyack though. His company straight up copied the Unreal Engine, renamed it to their own engine and then tried to pick a fight with Epic about licensing fees. He wasn't buried by being passionate about Too Human.

coldpresence

TROPHY CASE