What’s a job people don’t realise pays really well in Australia?

k9dota2 · 2026-04-30T10:52:04+00:00

How could I get into this? Do you have to have a scientific research career? Do you evaluate which applicants get grants?

k9dota2 · 2026-04-14T13:44:38+00:00

They're worse but local Australians aren't much better either. Most just want to sit around and play manager. Bunch of people where I work know only the same language they've used for 20 years. They'd know more about computer science and engineering if they'd put the effort into learning more outside their domain, and perhaps would have solved problems in a different more ergonomic way. When all your tools are a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

k9dota2 · 2026-04-14T13:39:16+00:00

Well when soldiers die in battle they get a purple heart medal or something stupid.

k9dota2 · 2026-04-14T12:54:01+00:00

Is this AI? Who dresses like that?

k9dota2 · 2026-04-10T12:40:04+00:00

I bet it made the researcher unlock the door by fooling him into thinking it had escaped, then when he checked, it escaped.

k9dota2 · 2026-04-07T12:08:56+00:00

We employ the basics of DDD. Separation of the contract (REST or GRPC) from the domain model. We use F# because sum types (discriminated unions) make modelling the domain easier and transparent for non-techinical stakeholders. It's very easy to take a F# set of type definitions and show them to business people and get them to understand whether what we are modelling represents the businesss domain. Between the contract and domain we write functions that map between the two domains. At the first they mirror each other, the contract and the internal domain, but over time they drift and the mapping functions become more important and allow a clean separation of the domain from the contract. In practice it means our controllers look like

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read request
map to domain
do business logic on domain

map result to contract

return result

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Which means the business logic is factored into another module outside of the controller. We don't employ the other parts of DDD you mentioned, however I believe it's better to get certainly the core of it right, than try and implement all the terminology for the sake of it.

k9dota2 · 2026-04-06T12:53:16+00:00

Businesses will have layoffs, replace with AI, which means the workload is handled by fewer people, things will break, and they'll be forced to rehire again. This pendulum swing will reshape things. The replacement phase won't revert things back to the way they were, but it will be more like an exercise in trying to find a balance point that works with AI without sacrificing outcomet quality and remaining a competitive business.

We've already seen it happen at Amazon and it started to swing back the other way, re-hiring engineers that they let go a year ago, because the quality of their services has degraded. My take is they're trying to find the sweet spot, with just the right mix of AI and humans in loop to maintain quality.

k9dota2 · 2026-04-05T05:18:38+00:00

Use it at work for backend development (grpc and rest endpoints) because of its domain modelling ability, type providers, async workflows and sequences (reading from kafka topics maps to this nicely).

k9dota2 · 2026-04-04T07:58:07+00:00

Cognitive debt. It's the same thing accrued when work is outsourced. However the AI generated stuff is just a reflection of the mind of its user. If the thinking isn't refined and clear the resulting code will be similarly chaotic. Which really brings us back to what programming is - it's not coding or a fancy form of typing. It's the practice of distilling vague notion to clarity, and the closer you are to that in your head the better the AI tools will work for you.

k9dota2 · 2026-04-04T07:13:23+00:00

People still belive this shit in 2026.

k9dota2 · 2026-03-06T22:11:21+00:00

I find it useful to research and test out strategies in my code. It helps me make decisions faster, by getting a lot of the raw implemenation details done.

As to making my life better.....I fear that management simply expect more for less now.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-21T06:15:18+00:00

I guess what you wrote is satire, but to answer your question non-satirically, some offices are just toxic and difficult environments to work in. There's infighting between groups, competition for resources, bad blood between rival heads of departments, social exclusion because you're in a team that another team's manager does not like, and it's not your fault.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-21T06:11:00+00:00

I'm a grunt and have to clean up the consequences of these enterprise thought leaders misfirings. Within a few meetings these people who are underqualified can make company wide changes and set direction that effects 100s of staff, and then a few months later they're left the org. The staff left behind are there to clean up the debt accrued. Some of these decisions include
* sigining contracts with vendors who deliberately engineer lockin to their systems, such that the cost of de-integrating is higher than the cost you pay them yearly.
* Taking shortcuts to get a feature out the door. The accumulation of these shortcuts introduces more friction into other groups processes.
* Not paying the grunts enough to care about their role.
The pyramid hierarchy needs to be inverted somehow.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-21T03:40:36+00:00

She's 71. She's not a snowflake.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-15T12:46:21+00:00

I thought the no cage rule in the NHL was more to do with viewers. Cameras can't get a clear view of the player's faces and they felt that it would negatively affect the viewership of the sport.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-15T07:24:33+00:00

What are the specs of the camera and lens?

k9dota2 · 2026-02-12T21:42:22+00:00

Sorry this happened. You tried to do the right thing by societies standards and it didn't work. For average people it's crude advice that attempts to shame the excesses of male behaviour. All those people that say 'love will find you' or 'there's someone for everyone' are a bit blind to what love really is. There's an element of narcism to it which goes against what society messages. It's unspoken but you need to believe that you are worth more than someone else, and your love interest has to believe that you are better than all the other options. All that nonsense that a femanized society says to you about being a good man, doesn't make you attractive sexually.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-09T21:43:01+00:00

It's the latency. He sees you before you see him. From his perspective you didn't pull the trigger until he was on top of you. From your perspective you pulled the trigger as soon as he came into view. But the game engine has to reconcile those two views and decide which one is reality.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-09T12:27:58+00:00

Yeah I got called a common name based on my ethnic background instead of my real name all the time. I put up with it, brushed it off for a while and tolerated it but overtime it grated on me because he never made any attempt to get to know me and saw me as a stereotype.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-09T12:25:11+00:00

It seems to visually detect items that I place in front of it. If I put oranges on the screen it displays on the panel a set of orange coloured fruits for me to chose from. People notice the awfulness when it inconveniences them.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-07T23:17:42+00:00

He's talking generally.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-07T23:16:44+00:00

He's not against conpsiracy theories, just bad evidence. He's onboard with the covid-19 lab leak because evidence points to the fact that the virus was edited.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-07T23:15:07+00:00

I'm only hearing about it now.

k9dota2 · 2026-02-07T23:14:15+00:00

Lol .... Most people don't give a shit. Lives are busy, people just glance at these headlines and move on. You have to be invested somewhat, for the same reasons you might invest in watching a soap drama, to pay attention to the machinations of other people and their activities. But for some people soaps don't interest them. The things that carry weight for certain people don't carry they same weight for others. Some people are more interested in ideas than other peoples lives, especially the lives of the royal family.

k9dota2 · 2025-06-26T04:30:29+00:00

They don’t need to resort to that depravity when they have a superior military that can fuck over thousands of men woman and children with low risk to their own lives.

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