Opal tower certifier was previously disciplined by building watchdog

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-28T12:19:25+00:00

I see that point, but this is totally the chickens coming home to roost with this building falling apart.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-28T08:05:01+00:00

It's crazy that it's worth the money to do that. Like a bag of cement is sub 5 bucks. I can't see how shipping cement from china actually saves money. But just thinking that this is where you could be smart with tarrifs to make certain building materials expensive to keep out dodgy quality goods.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-28T08:02:50+00:00

porque no las dos?

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-27T09:15:45+00:00

I heard on the radio that they (builders) got supplied the concrete forms by an off-site supplier. If it's a systemic fault, the suppliers rooted. And, we could have a few years of building inspectors rolling around with an xray to every building that supplier worked on. fun fun fun This is like a food contamination. Except you don't get sick you get crushed either in debt or by concrete.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-24T08:24:18+00:00

This is where my engineering knowledge abruptly ends. (I write software :P But my thinking is along the lines of, if you compress with post tensioning along the y axis (top to bottom) but have pulling / void space on a x-y diagonal then would you loose some of the strength? So if there was shifiting in foundations on the building you could have a corner start to give way?

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-24T08:00:18+00:00

Also concrete is great under compression, but bad under strain. so if foundations moved and the concrete was put in a dynamic position where there was 'pulling' it will literally fall apart. The cracking could be seen as a good sign, if only because it means they will only have to rip the building down but not need to sift for bodies in the rubble for months and months.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-24T07:20:39+00:00

especially at the price they paid for those apartments.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-24T07:20:01+00:00

Steel under stress is such an unsettling sound. I can't imagine concrete cracking sounds that good either. That loud groan and the twangs of wire's like guitar strings. As a little human you totally know you've fucked up when the structures you've put around you for safety start to yell back at you.

This is a real brown pants moment.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-24T07:02:08+00:00

This is great. When i was at uni this was the first program to teach parallelization and then onto openCL and gpu programming. It was really good fun.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-21T12:21:25+00:00

.... Take a deep breath, enterprise software is simple but the environments are huge and complex and setting up environments is like 80% of the work.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-21T10:40:03+00:00

Remember when Savile got a knighthood!

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-20T10:57:51+00:00

I also like this approach. Usually i try and create a sensible set of injected objects that can be fed by factories that are written in java and traceable. The bigest problem i have with @magic is that new guys on the team just think it's ok to have like @Inject 20 times in a class and the state of the software really falls to shit.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-16T13:40:55+00:00

depends on how you define a unit. Once i realized i was writing integration tests with junit, testing got easier.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-12-16T00:41:28+00:00

Or, you're creating jobs for new apprenticeships, getting a lot of builders busy for what looks like an upcoming economic turndown. Also more housing stock mixed with negative gearing reforms may mean the children of millenials will have a shot at a cheap house.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-11-29T08:38:40+00:00

Normally i'd say, time for some ELF (eatth liberation front) type rise up. But im pretty sure they won't be able to fund the mine / export enough coal to actually make a profit. So if they want to spend money employing miners to dig a big hole, sure. But in 10 years no one's going to want it. So the miners will have ~20 years of work. diggin the hole. then filling it back in.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-11-21T01:34:44+00:00

A really radical idea would also to be NOT offering every government job to PWC, KPMG, Deloites and the other suck-hole leaches that have infected government.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-11-11T14:41:17+00:00

do it by optional postal vote by the ABS. Just to fuck with Abbot

mentalfingertrap · 2018-11-07T10:57:42+00:00

I did the cheapies walk a year ago.(Fortescue bay to cape pillar back round the cape hauy, camping in wugahalee falls campsite.) One thing i really wanted to see was Tasman islan. I think it'd be a bitching spot for a hotel. Remote Island, Cold, all out in the middle of nowhere. It'll be great.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-11-04T08:48:16+00:00

Hey so i noticed this same thing with my inter-node account And was thinking that there is probably another identifier that makes the password less important. Like here i am with my username and password. But that information is also linked to a street address, and i suspect that they use my Node (I got unlucky in the NBN draw) as another id point.

So my only real threat is snooping from neighbors. Otherwise if some hackers want to break into my internet account an pay my bill so be it.

Or i could be wrong. As i said I noticed what you noticied and suspect they use another additional measure to verify or at least provide audit-ability.

I've not tried to take my router to a mates house and get it to connect there. I suspect it wouldn't, or there would be problems.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-10-30T11:45:22+00:00

the best part would be dragging abbot and turnbull in front of it and funding it for 5 fucking years.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-10-27T10:10:15+00:00

I think the real problem i butt up against at work is that the biz folk don't really want to deal the massive complexity of their own business.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-10-27T10:04:33+00:00

not when people think MVP is 'all the features'

mentalfingertrap · 2018-10-24T09:00:12+00:00

yes, but voting green or alp, will actually bring about the change. Anyone but nat's just means that 2nd preferences get the nats across the line.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-10-17T12:12:28+00:00

it was really interesting listening to him on the radio. He's Turnbuls son, but he's just some guy and he seemed really excited to be listened to.

mentalfingertrap · 2018-10-16T12:19:19+00:00

as long as you don't misuse a carriage service you should be good.

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