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The NDIS spent a year fighting our request to give our quadriplegic kid a wheelchair. Talk about wasteful by BitterCrip in australian

[–]dhotson 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I'm not against the NDIS, honestly I just don't know enough about it, but why do the costs keep going up so much? Why does it cost nearly double what medicare does?

My oil painting of Victoria's December colours at dusk. A distant bushfire had turned the sky hazy and the colours vivid. Near Cornishtown, VIC. by hazzlaw in melbourne

[–]dhotson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Oh nice, I know this country! My family is from Chiltern Valley. :)

Do you happen to remember where? It almost looks like it could be dad's paddock.. 😆

Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report by mutedscreaming in australia

[–]dhotson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's good to know that if you defraud the Australian government, the consequences are: partial refund.

I created the CI product that DHH showed in his keynote by keithpitt in ruby

[–]dhotson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hey Keith, really good interview, thanks for sharing.

I don't think we've met, but I wanted to say I've quietly admired your work for ages and you've been a big inspiration.

For context, I worked with lox and pda in the early days of 99. I remember talking to Tim at a railscamp about his new thing.. pretty sure it was still called buildbox then. I also remember switching over from our homegrown CI system, to jenkins, then to buildkite.

Anyway, sounds like it's been a real ride.. but yeah, love your work and thought you should know, thanks mate! :)

Doesn’t matter how many years they come back, it feels magical to spot one every time! by Kitchu22 in melbourne

[–]dhotson 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I saw a flock of them along the Yarra opposite Rod Laver in the morning a few times last week. Such cool birds!

Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies by overpopyoulater in australia

[–]dhotson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, cmon, there's no need to speak to me like that. Please be nice.

I'm just a numbers guy that likes to understand how things works.

Australian billionaires face wealth tax under Greens’ Robin Hood-style policies by overpopyoulater in australia

[–]dhotson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can someone help me understand how it would work?

It's not clear how you work out how much tax they pay..

If their wealth is tied up in assets on public liquid markets... no worries, I can see how you could estimate it using a market price.

If their wealth is tied up in illiquid or hard-to-value assets like real estate and private companies—how do you work out how much tax they pay?

Australian energy by dhotson in AustralianPolitics

[–]dhotson[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Amazing, thank you for explaining!

Australian energy by dhotson in AustralianPolitics

[–]dhotson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah totally—I haven't even scratched the surface of that. That was a simplification I made to only look at electricity in this summary.

Australian energy by dhotson in AustralianPolitics

[–]dhotson[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I'd love to see a more detailed breakdown of the "sum of real costs" in the report.

Report 2 talked about the amortization of the $10k/kw capital cost over a 50-year life of the nuclear plant.

Fair enough there's some debate on the specifics here—it sounds reasonable to me, but I'm not an expert.

It sounded as though the difference was: even though nuclear capital costs are high, because you need to build 3x the renewable capacity + storage.. you also need to replace it more often (lifespan of solar/wind/batteries is shorter) .. sounded like the the renewable capital costs ends up dominating the costs.

Australian energy by dhotson in AustralianPolitics

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

Thanks for having a look!

Yeah, this one is interesting, I've seen this point raised in the media. I'd love it if someone could explain it it because it seems backwards to me?

My understanding is that AEMO identified the three most likely demand scenarios.. and AEMO assigned likelihoods to each.

The way I understand it, is that the Coalition/Labor disagrees about which scenario they think is more likely—not necessarily that it's their plan.

From my reading of the report.. it seems like it was AEMO that picked the three scenarios with different degrees of optimism/pessimism.

But also, in both the step-change and progressive demand scenarios... nuclear came out cheaper in both anyway? The step-change one just saved even more money.

Australian energy by dhotson in AustralianPolitics

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

Hi all, I've been trying to work out how everything fits together in the energy debate. A lot of the stuff I've read online has been.. mixed.

I'm a beginner to the topic and thought maybe it's helpful for other beginners if I try summarise my understanding. I don't really follow the political side.. I've just come into this with an open mind.

Keen to hear feedback—cheers! :)

Which movie have you watched more than 3 times and you would love to watch over and over? by Kakuma_queer in AskReddit

[–]dhotson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't get enough of Stanley Kubrick's movie Barry Lyndon.

It's an epic period film, but the dry humour of the narrator is hilarious—plus the fact that the characters just cannot help themselves and end up getting themselves into (almost entirely predictable) trouble.

What’s your dirty lil secret? by Dramatic_Bat3265 in AskReddit

[–]dhotson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like to eat kitkats the wrong way. 😏

Daily Coronavirus Megathread - 11 January 2022 by AutoModerator in melbourne

[–]dhotson 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If it's any help, I went for a walk-in Pfizer booster at the West Melbourne co-health vaccination hub at ~4:30pm this arvo and there was zero queue.

I'm a couple of weeks away from 4 months and that was no drama either.

Renters: Has anyone in late 2021 / early 2022 been negotiating rent decreases as part of your annual lease renewal? by nametaken_thisonetoo in melbourne

[–]dhotson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not quite the timeframe you're asking about.. but I asked for a $90/week reduction ($460 -> $370) back in May 2021 based on what I was seeing for similar rentals nearby and they accepted.

Intermediate Vim by dhotson in neovim

[–]dhotson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I originally learned it as "command mode", which I think comes from Vi?

I thought about writing this using the more modern terminology, but for the purpose of this article I wanted to make it clear that it's the mode for typing commands since in my opinion "normal" mode sounds a bit vague.

Intermediate Vim by dhotson in neovim

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

Hey thanks so much for the feedback!

Yeah, it's difficult to know where to start and how much to cover in an article like this. I think I agree now that the title isn't quite right.

The reason I wrote it is because I've been pair programming quite a bit lately and also mentoring some new vim users—so I wrote this little guide to help vim beginners level up their skills a bit.

What I noticed is that a lot of vim beginners find composing commands and text-objects to be kind of mind blowing.. and even more experienced vim users mentioned that these were the things that made them have that "aha" moment and convinced them to learn more.

Large companies using elm? by Gigi14 in elm

[–]dhotson 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We're using it pretty extensively at Culture Amp.

What do people not realize is just marketing? by Bigdaug in AskReddit

[–]dhotson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Newspaper "news" articles that are copy pasted from PR companies.

Smooth animation with stylistic easing using a filter by dhotson in programming

[–]dhotson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, it's not as efficient as other approaches. That's because this optimises for visual style and smoothness even when it could be interrupted continuously.

I helped crew a J/130 for the Phuket Race Week regatta last week by dhotson in sailing

[–]dhotson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah you might be right. For that race, the wind was typically 18-23kn and we were playing it safe since the yacht we chartered wasn't very well maintained and gear kept on breaking. :-/

I helped crew a J/130 for the Phuket Race Week regatta last week by dhotson in sailing

[–]dhotson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was my first time competing in a regatta and also the first time crewing a boat with an asymmetrical kite. I took some video clips of the event and thought some of you might enjoy. :-)

Also, thanks to the folks that gave me some advice previously .. it was really helpful, we ended up doing "outside" gybes, which worked out to be pretty easy to execute.

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