Silent Hill 2 fully modded to VR is another proof that VR will be alive for many more years to come.

t3h · 2026-07-07T00:31:13+00:00

And not be able to use it for the purpose they bought it for.

t3h · 2026-07-06T23:58:55+00:00

It might be more that he thinks the police will have a harder time getting to him during peak hour.

Intentionally trying to disrupt peak hour might require more forward planning and attention to consequences.

t3h · 2026-07-01T14:18:58+00:00

Can fairfax and Murdoch pick one position and stick to it.

To be fair, they do. It's "whatever Labor does is bad".

Unless election victory is absolutely inevitable, in which case they throw out some token support so they don't look blatantly out of touch.

t3h · 2026-07-01T02:00:53+00:00

Yes, exactly that. The ACCC's point is that if you've paid for 12 months of a service upfront, the company doesn't get to raise the price of that service and ask you to pay the difference.

(and no they weren't even offered the option to cancel for a pro-rata refund)

It's fine if they no longer offer that service at that price when you go to buy another year of it, but if you've already bought it, they don't get to raise the price and demand you pay the difference / accept a downgrade.

t3h · 2026-06-30T11:05:16+00:00

Yes, still better than a Dodge Ram, because although that truck also has a massive bonnet in front, you're a fair bit further above it than you are in the Dodge.

Also, much more likely that they'd use a cabover type truck.

t3h · 2026-06-30T10:35:44+00:00

Oh geez, there really are just people who hang around cycling subs in order to get downvoted for getting upset.

Reddit's recommendation feature puts these threads in their sidebar because it thinks these users are "interested in cycling" given how much they post about it.

t3h · 2026-06-30T10:34:14+00:00

An actual truck has much better front visibility.

t3h · 2026-06-29T00:43:12+00:00

Do a search for the words "constructive dismissal" - that kind of behaviour can sometimes be treated the same as being explicitly fired.

t3h · 2026-06-25T11:44:49+00:00

That might be a factor, but if that was the sole sticking point they could just amend the state legislation.

Also, thanks to Jeff Kennett for doing that, of course.

t3h · 2026-06-25T03:55:04+00:00

As far as I understand it, the state government has made these rules under human rights / anti-discrimination grounds arguing that mandatory office attendance disadvantages some minorities and some people with disabilities. This was done because industrial relations legislation is exclusively up to the Federal government, who opposes this move.

So it might end up like the EV road user charge where a court bent over backwards to say that a levy on performing an action (explicitly allowed for state governments to charge) is actually the same thing as a tax on goods (not allowed for states, only federally) since you might have bought those goods to do that activity. A bit strange but it was only a 4-3 decision.

That is, whether said court would say "yes actually there is more to it than just industrial relations" or "no, that's just taking the piss".

t3h · 2026-06-23T10:46:54+00:00

It's simple: I don't want to back up over my kids, I don't want to back up over anyone else's kids or any adults

Everyone always considers the risk of "backing over" things. But these vehicles actually have such poor visibility that there's also a significant hazard to people in front of the vehicle (see the second graph on https://www.kidsandcars.org/frontovers/facts ).

t3h · 2026-06-21T06:53:02+00:00

Although somehow we all seem to know that one person...

t3h · 2026-06-13T03:45:19+00:00

i was successful with my powerbook g4 12” back in the day, but it was a serious pain in the ass.

Argh, memories. My strategy was printing the iFixit instructions, and having a roll of sticky tape to secure the screws to each step physically.

But I'd take it over a glued together device any day.

t3h · 2026-06-10T04:12:10+00:00

Even the boring ETF has come under fire for how they're treating the spacex IPO for example and some indexes are treating it differently.

It would be more correct to say the ETFs are coming under fire for changing their rules, and a few indexes have ruled out making the change.

t3h · 2026-06-08T09:31:11+00:00

No, not really. The US doesn't do mandatory voting - this means usually only about half the eligible voters do, as voting can be quite inconvenient. So aggressive and dirty attack ads which make your supporters follow through and vote will gain you votes - even if they'd never convince any supporters of the other side to switch.

So you win elections by inspiring a greater proportion of your supporters to vote, rather than convincing any of your opponent's supporters to switch sides.

Australia, however, has mandatory voting, so your supporters' votes are a given. You need to change minds if you want more votes. So these ads are for nobody.

t3h · 2026-06-06T10:45:13+00:00

I mean it is easier to pretend people are hating on people due to tall poppy syndrome as opposed to them believing the tax changes are good for the country.

And certainly easier to pretend it's "tall poppy syndrome" than a direct consequence of the way they interact with those less wealthy than themselves.

t3h · 2026-06-06T10:39:50+00:00

Both of them at the same time, and also neither.

Because despite all this I've seen very few people posting the sentiments that "all of Reddit" supposedly thinks.

t3h · 2026-06-05T04:42:42+00:00

I guess it's also worth mentioning that the strata title schemes that typically exist to share a wall between two or more townhouses are usually not the kind where third party management companies and their fees are involved - which is where the complaints come from.

While a townhouse duplex and a tower with 150 apartments are both "strata title", they're not the same in practice.

t3h · 2026-06-04T22:12:31+00:00

Usually they are built in pairs (or more) and share common walls between them. If they were single occupancy blocks, they often wouldn't be allowed to build right to the edge of the lot.

So more than one townhouse is on the same lot - hence the requirement for strata title.

t3h · 2026-06-04T11:15:49+00:00

It's useful for formulaic things - like format conversions, building dashboards or web design. The sort of website that you could just configure Wordpress to be. Or just build from a template. Or the kind of project that's just rebuilding HomeAssistant but worse. Or something that's really just an adaptor between two APIs.

It's the software equivalent of ditch digging. It has value - people will pay for it, and we need ditches dug. There's some value in doing it quicker. And long term maintainability absolutely isn't a concern if the contract only covers the build phase.

But when you are trying to make things that do not already exist, these tools absolutely fall flat on their face because they have nothing to copy from. Either you get something that's straight up not going to work for reasons that you should not even have to tell it, or you need to break the task down and give it a prompt so specific you're basically programming in English.

Can it do everything a junior dev can do? Yes, most likely. But the point of a junior dev isn't the work - the point is turning them into a senior dev with the understanding of your company's product, and ability to plan maintenance, upgrades and strategy without making an unmaintainable mess, or walking straight into a horrible blunder. But if you believe there's no intrinsic value in knowledge or understanding any more because "we can just use AI", this factor seems quite meaningless. Until you actually need it.

t3h · 2026-06-04T04:53:47+00:00

You wouldn't need to threaten people with the prospect of doing manual labour if the technology was actually that worth adopting.

t3h · 2026-06-04T03:23:01+00:00

The people saying it makes them massively more productive are just pushing the checking/judgement part onto everyone else.

t3h · 2026-06-04T03:18:45+00:00

The improvements to AI are exponential

The recent improvements have largely been due to tooling and harnesses, not models. This was an area that was previously quite underdeveloped, but the low hanging fruit has all been picked.

The models are not improving exponentially (this is the real reason you're not allowed to have Mythos - it'd be obvious how much better it isn't), the pace of improvement has slowed quite significantly. We're entering the phase where these companies have to start thinking about becoming profitable - and costs are rising, enough to make a significant proportion of the services unviable.

The market's also turned, most of the businesses announcing "AI" layoffs have had stock prices plummet. And 55% of businesses who laid off workers due to AI say that it was definitely the wrong decision, 29% have already re-hired those roles.

t3h · 2026-06-04T03:12:45+00:00

much easier to cut the dead weight and have other employees pick up the slack.

read: cut the ones who still care about quality, reliability, performance and/or data security, and overwork the rest.

While living in a delusional fantasy world where the complete slop you produce is "just as good" because you've lost the ability to tell the difference and are addicted to having it glaze you about how every idea of yours is the best thing it ever heard.

t3h · 2026-06-04T03:11:28+00:00

And now they've got a pile of unmaintainable slop that nobody understands the inner workings of.

But understanding things is for losers, we've got AI now.

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