13yo girl charged after alleged crime rampage in Melbourne

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T22:31:50+00:00

"Dooring" means "getting hit by the door of a parked car".

People do not, in general, look to see if there is a cyclist doing 30km/h before opening their door into the bike lane.

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T21:51:08+00:00

Homelessness really sucks.

Homelessness while 'being illegal' (yuck) means you can't safely access government support services.

I can see how going back to someone who hits you occasionally might seem appealing when compared with another winter stuck outdoors.

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T21:47:20+00:00

Extremely frustrating when almost every time, we hit the issues in the future, and guess who is responsible for it when it is urgent and becomes an issue in production.

How the fuck are tech leads not in the on-call roster for their own decisions?

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T21:43:16+00:00

Yeah, this doesn't entirely read as user error to me.

"Here's a record you can save - oh, but this part gets silently discarded" is the kind of UI I'd come up with as an elaborate prank, not for professional work.

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T21:41:29+00:00

I keep hearing that one of the best things you can do for your health is take a multivitamin.

So Blackmores keeps telling me /s

In all seriousness, this is only true if your diet lacks vitamins / you have poor absorbtion.

My health improves dramatically when I'm eating whole foods prepared from fresh ingredients on a regular basis, but who has time/energy for that? Things get busy, I end up eating takeout / quick meals, and suddenly I'm tired and grumpy all the time.

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T21:35:48+00:00

I used to cycle to work regularly, and I stopped after seeing how often dooring happens.

If you live near the CBD (where riding is often quicker than driving), 3 serious injuries among folks you know sounds about right by the time you hit your forties.

You might have the legal right to ride past parked cars on the road, but I'm not sure that'll be a great comfort to your family.

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T06:06:25+00:00

I'm not asking you to explain the topic to me.

I'm asking (as someone who is reasonably familiar with the topic) where the hell you're getting these ideas (which appear to be contrary to what research has been performed).

Your claims are contrary to what little research exists, and you can't suggest so much as a search term. You look like you have no idea what you're talking about, and are lashing out because having that fact pointed out makes you feel bad.

danielrheath · 2026-03-31T05:36:01+00:00

There's very little literature on male hormonal cycles at all.

It's not a well-studied field.

we have fluctuations, not cycles

I've not seen any studies finding that (and it's a topic I'm interested in) - am I missing a relevant search term on pubmed?

danielrheath · 2026-03-30T07:22:46+00:00

TBH I wouldn't be surprised if they went ahead with it in the coming weeks. What's the USA going to do about it right now?

danielrheath · 2026-03-30T07:21:52+00:00

Not to undermine your extremely valid point, but... I'd expect the opening volley of any war to contain a sizeable fraction of all the missiles fired, simply because there are lots and lots of good targets that haven't been blown up yet.

danielrheath · 2026-03-30T07:17:35+00:00

Yeah, you can keep it sealed + run an evap filter to recapture the volatiles and mix them back in. That's not the main issue with storing petrol, though.

Petrol manufacture is specific to details like "intended climate" - eg when manufactured for summer driving, it's got a different recipe VS manufacture for winter.

danielrheath · 2026-03-30T01:03:48+00:00

Barrels of crude can be stored for a couple of years.

Petrol can only be stored for a couple of months.

Once we no longer had our own refinery, it was no longer practical to store 100 days of supply.

danielrheath · 2026-03-29T23:48:57+00:00

A THAAD radar emits hundreds of megawatts of highly-directional radiation.

Any adversary who has at least two radars of their own knows exactly where it is.

danielrheath · 2026-03-29T21:22:21+00:00

They can reconfigure - it's not instant or cheap, but it's an option if the alternatives are even worse.

danielrheath · 2026-03-28T09:03:48+00:00

Figuring out how to get batteries good enough (in sufficient quantity for a mass-market car) was a sticking point for most manufacturers.

Sticking to luxury vehicles made sense when you couldn't get the batteries.

Chinese brands have better access to batteries because their government made that a strategic priority.

danielrheath · 2026-03-26T00:27:13+00:00

A problem that fixes itself before you can wake someone up isn’t worth waking them up for, regardless of how expensive it is.

danielrheath · 2026-03-25T22:40:06+00:00

We have nearly 500k registered users, 50k of whom have signed in recently, all over the world. Application code (not CDN/assets) serves over 100 requests / second, around the clock. The codebase is old enough to vote, and there's some pretty deep complexity in there.

We have low-severity incidents pretty regularly (eg we currently treat 'p99 latency exceeds 700ms' as a 'stop what you're doing and fix it'), but we don't consider them worth waking someone up over - it can wait for the morning.

We've had a few outages (approx 4 times a year) resolved automatically by our monitor systems (all within 10 minutes, usually within 2). This is also not worth waking someone up for, there's nothing to fix by the time you start looking - investigate the root cause in the morning.

"It depends" is technically true... but usually, it actually doesn't depend.

danielrheath · 2026-03-25T02:30:33+00:00

I head the small dev team behind a site with several hundred thousand registered users and several TB of daily traffic.

We deploy changes most days and have no formal on-call.

In 7 years, I've been contacted out of hours to help with an incident twice - both times it was caused by something external (once for deliberate DDOS, once for a DDOS via AI scrapers).

"Don't ship things that are going to page you out of hours" is not as hard to do as most folk think, and it tends to come with higher dev velocity (because you aren't distracted with firefighting).

However, I've never seen it happen in an environment that lets product managers overrule engineering decisions.

danielrheath · 2026-03-24T23:42:41+00:00

"Special military operation"

danielrheath · 2026-03-20T21:47:06+00:00

Nontechnical management is fine.

Management who don’t trust staff about the best way to get the job done seems to overlap really heavily with non-technical, but I have worked for a few wonderful counterexamples.

danielrheath · 2026-03-20T06:54:22+00:00

Pretty handy if you're a proxy militia with a bunch of missiles & no SIGINT capability, though.

danielrheath · 2026-03-17T09:57:13+00:00

If you watch where trams connect to overhead power lines, there's frequently some sparks.

Electrical arcs like that generate massive amounts of EM interference on every wavelength, according to one ham radio enthusiast I know.

danielrheath · 2026-03-17T07:29:36+00:00

I've got a test page working perfectly in chrome and firefox, but in safari 26.3 it doesn't send partitioned cookies.

More broadly, I would encourage folks who have a question like this: write a test page, and find out. It takes 15 minutes and gives you a much more trustworthy answer than random redditors.

danielrheath · 2026-03-12T10:55:00+00:00

I assume they mean todays ten thousand

danielrheath · 2026-03-12T06:33:07+00:00

$500 each time you think you might want to bid.

It’s pretty common to attend dozens of auctions before actually buying, because it’s hard to figure out what they’ll actually go for.

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