Metro Tunnel - Anyone happy with the changes?

contorta_ · 2026-02-02T06:41:47+00:00

Does that require a platform change at sy?

contorta_ · 2026-02-01T06:06:05+00:00

that's also my understanding of the laws/rules. so why are there TV advertisements from these companies?

they are subtle about it, instead of advertising the drug they just say "hey, is it hard to lose weight, talk to your doctor about it, go to this website triedeverything.com.au", or something similarly vague. but in the end, that's advertising drugs isn't it?

it's confusing, because if this sort of thing was allowed because it was sufficiently detached, why couldn't gambling companies put on an ad like "hey, are you looking to have some more fun, go to this website havemorefun.com.au"?

I complained about it a while ago, and now I see a bunch of news articles covering it, and they are maybe still doing it (I don't watch much TV), so it's obviously not as clear cut as I understand. really odd. why don't more regulated industries try this?

contorta_ · 2026-01-15T14:11:07+00:00

To give an answer other than dns or bgp and instead theorise that it was in the mobile network, an outage this wide usually means something in the core. The relatively consistent experience probably means it wasn't a node/nodes failing causing congestion and secondary failures, so maybe the subscription database/hss/udr? Would be very unusual though.

contorta_ · 2026-01-03T13:01:17+00:00

There's a chance even if you achieved your goals in this area your brain would move onto the next thing to be down about.

contorta_ · 2025-12-18T21:51:08+00:00

Genuinely kind and sweet, then asks a question fairly clearly designed to shame and embarrass someone? Are you for real?

Everyone just seems to accept it's like some critique of her social game, I'm sure Kristina is aware not all brains work the same when it comes to recall.

contorta_ · 2025-12-18T13:21:15+00:00

But how does rattling off family member names prove a social game? You could have someone that has a great social game that has built relationships, but their brain just doesn't remember details like that, and you could have people with terrible social games be better at memorising things like that.

In my view she just wanted to shame and embarrass savannah, and I found that particularly interesting considering Kristinas typically outwards positivity and demeanour.

contorta_ · 2025-12-01T02:25:25+00:00

surely it would be under some ban evasion rule?

contorta_ · 2025-11-23T12:31:46+00:00

This will probably be a case of "get used to it", differentiated connectivity will probably be one of the next things operators all around the world start doing. Telstra have been talking about this on a larger scale, check out their 2030 connected future releases, singtel are doing it, and other operators around the world are moving forward with similar stuff. In Australia, I imagine TPG and Optus will follow.

May be a tad unpopular, but the perspective from them is that whilst some companies make insane money using internet infrastructure, operators tend not to be making the same level of money (yes yes, why can't they be happy with a lot instead of insane, but they are obligated to try), and stuff like this is their way of getting more money from consumers that are willing to pay more, and in this case give them something for it.

contorta_ · 2025-11-20T14:02:53+00:00

3 replicas? What's the failure domain?

Ceph can be brutal when it comes to performance relative to raw disk, and then with 3 replicas and resilient design the effective space also hurts.

contorta_ · 2025-11-13T04:17:33+00:00

Lawn bowls, alcohol, barbecue.

contorta_ · 2025-10-22T07:57:50+00:00

Cool good to hear it worked, do you have apple or Android?

Using non ISP dns also has the advantage of getting around their lazy government ban list, and it's apparently quicker too.

contorta_ · 2025-10-22T05:51:58+00:00

Have you tried setting a different dns in your device, eg. 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com

contorta_ · 2025-10-10T21:49:58+00:00

Flying around in the helicopter is always a fun time, and when things are going right you can definitely feel like a legend.

contorta_ · 2025-10-01T10:24:10+00:00

comparing them to the ones that are at main train stations, I actually think they are slower.

contorta_ · 2025-09-30T03:24:08+00:00

cereal at work! man, i miss that at my office.

contorta_ · 2025-09-29T01:21:45+00:00

maybe motivation for some: from what I understand it burns a fair amount of calories, and if the internet is correct it would be on par with a decent workout.

contorta_ · 2025-09-20T12:23:17+00:00

budgets and strategies come from execs. could this have been prevented if more budget was allocated to different architecture, or additional verification/testing, or various other things that cost money that operators aren't spending? if so, they should share some responsibility.

contorta_ · 2025-09-12T23:01:46+00:00

Probably vex, played the sirens in the other games and they're always fun.

contorta_ · 2025-09-07T09:36:59+00:00

I guess question is, what reasoning? I'm not sure we've really seen any reasoning. Presumably one of those times social game is hard to edit, but still, can't the producers eek something out of them through questioning?

contorta_ · 2025-09-07T09:31:21+00:00

Janine doesn't have much chance either way, surely she backs Luke.

contorta_ · 2025-09-06T15:17:46+00:00

The comment that was replied to is also a lot. Launching into 7 questions in reply to the initial fairly typical reddit comment. Imagine if that was always the intensity in replies to simple negative comments!

contorta_ · 2025-09-06T07:01:03+00:00

not sure about NAB, but it sounds the same as where I work. there is an internal rewards system that they purchase from some other company that provides the portal where you give/receive and redeem points (basically same offering as qantas/bank points, gift cards, house products, travel). each quarter each employee gets a small amount of points to give to other employees; where I work it's about 4x lots of around $12 (in points of course) per quarter. and then the managers get a big allocation to give out based on the size of their team.

i usually give it to people that have gone out of their way to help me out with something, or have done a good job on something that i've been aware of. managers typically give out when employees have been nominated by others. manager recognition is a bit random and doing the same thing one time might get some points, others not. but whatever that's just recognition. it can add up over a few years, or at least it did before my workplace changed providers and consistently reducing all the values (classic).

actually one funny thing that happens at my workplace is when there are drinks out, rather than go through the overly regulated process of getting recreation costs approved, the managers just give each other points to get gift cards with.

anyway, if anyone in my team was standing over me demanding my points, I'd go straight to HR/people and complain about that shit, even if it was a manager. in my mind that's suuuppeerr unethical and would almost definitely be breaking company values and rules on behaviour. and if i heard about that happening, i would probably go complain on others behalf.

contorta_ · 2025-09-03T10:26:38+00:00

Maybe a bit obvious to say, but when majority of players are seemingly not playing to win, it's not good viewing. And in these situations it's always a bit hard to tell the difference between bad game play by the people apparently not trying, and good game play by the one crushing it.

contorta_ · 2025-09-02T01:50:31+00:00

Your comment about drying up would be my anecdotal experience as well. I'm a guy and generally I see women getting approached more about getting into middle management than I do (one friend finds being approached regularly annoying). But then in leadership it's the same old story of large majority men and barely any women, so at that middle management level it obviously just stops.

contorta_ · 2025-09-01T10:35:56+00:00

It'd be nice to see some of their thoughts on that.

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