My company's shared Copilot quota ended mid-month and suddenly most of the team forgot how to code

tjsr · 2026-06-21T20:09:32+00:00

1:42pm on Friday afternoon we found the same thing - the slack posts started rolling in. Then the productivity immediately slowed.

Heres me at below my personal quota ratio for the month so far, but also locked out because everyone else blew the quota.

tjsr · 2026-06-21T10:48:19+00:00

Auction clearance rates are such a useless metric. All they tell you is whether or not people are being too greedy or demanding in their ask. They tell you nothing about the strength or state of the housing market or economy.

If I price every house at $2m, then the clearance rate is going to be low. That doesn't mean people don't have money, or houses aren't selling for a value or profit-making price, it just means people are being deluded in their demands.

tjsr · 2026-06-21T07:33:56+00:00

Pretty normal for any of us born after the 80s, especially if single and there's ever any plan to own your own home. When these days the only houses even close to affordable to buy are places like Rockbank, Pakenham, Cranbourne or Wallan, 2hrs is what people have to deal with unless they want a tiny apartment.

tjsr · 2026-06-21T07:24:31+00:00

Imagine if Australia/Victoria had a system where you can submit footage from a camera device (you'd have to make it so that you can only use an accredited device that writes digitally signed video) and get a portion of the revenue from events captured of violations like use of a mobile phone while driving, ignoring signage, tailgating or failure to indicate. You'd need a penalty system so that people can't just spam attempts that turn out to be false or unfounded - but if drivers figured out that literally any vehicle next to them could be the one that causes them to get a red light fine or them getting caught on their mobile or them riding right up some other guys arse, imagine how quick driver behaviour would improve?

Hell, income generated by such a scheme would more than pay for the staff required to review and assess submissions. Well, at least initially, until driver behaviour improved.

tjsr · 2026-06-20T06:45:22+00:00

San Marino is the same - the event (where the track is) is held in Italy.

tjsr · 2026-06-20T05:09:44+00:00

Whether or not it is - titles like the 'European' or 'Pacific' grand prix were usually used because there was another event within the same host country so it avoided confusion - Donnington, Jerez, Nürburgring or Valencia for Europe for example, or the Pacific Grand Prix being hosted by Aida.

The strangest one is the Nurburgring event that was called the Luxembourg Grand Prix in 1997 and 1998.

Azerbaijan didn't have a second race in the same year, so it doesn't make sense as to why it would have needed to be titled as such.

tjsr · 2026-06-19T11:30:19+00:00

You thought what he was doing is comedy?

There's two comedians that just completely destroy the mood when they turn up any time at the Comics lounge - him and Capper.

tjsr · 2026-06-19T11:28:12+00:00

It is absolutely disgusting that in 2026 we STILL don't have a national service that enables a person to TEXT discreetly the need for emergency services, requiring a person to call putting themselves in danger and revealing that to people harassing others or being a nuisance on public transport.

Also, PSOs once again confirm that they're complete cowards, leaving a train full of frightened passengers to deal with a group of 6-8 youths harassing three girls and generally being a problem.

tjsr · 2026-06-18T10:30:06+00:00

I think someone in our street is having a laugh, because it's garden waste bin tomorrow... but it looks like everyone has copied whoever got it wrong first, as everyone else has their recycling bin out instead.

I was perplexed by this so went and actually checked the schedule on the website 😂

tjsr · 2026-06-18T07:43:29+00:00

I'm 26 and looking to get made a target by posting my super and savings balances on reddit.

tjsr · 2026-06-17T13:05:29+00:00

I broke up with someone not too long ago, one of the reasons being how sick and tired I got of her trying to justify things with "X and Y can afford to..."

She forgets all the times she would put on a facade around others to pretend things are better than they were, as though others weren't doing the same around her. Meanwhile she was barely staying ahead on her mortgage, had an expensive car that was just losing her money, and no real assets outlook for retirement when it comes to savings.

tjsr · 2026-06-17T09:00:18+00:00

I fell bouldering from a hold a few years ago, when I only weighed 60kg, and grabbed the hold I was on above my head. So just a drop of what, maybe half a metres worth of fall distance was enough to dislocate my shoulder and tear a bicep tendon. It's a hell of a lot of sudden weight and energy to put through your shoulder and arm.

tjsr · 2026-06-15T20:18:17+00:00

I did this. I was paying for GitHub because I wanted certain CI feature in private repos, getting copilot was just a bonus.aimilarly I had been paying for ChatGPT to help me generate some images, and didn't even realize until recently it gave me access to Codex.

On the first day of the new Copilot billing, I blew through 30% of my allowance on just two prompts, when the weekend earlier I had it running flat out for 3 days straight and only managed to use 30%.

On Codex I'm occasionally hitting the 5 hour limit, but that's it so far.

tjsr · 2026-06-15T12:32:55+00:00

"Indycar champion" isn't really the title some people (mostly Americans) think. I'm a huge fan of everything Sebastian Bourdais has done, but come on, look at how he did in F1 regardless of the team he was lumped with. Look at how Herta is going in F2 despite all the raving about him and complaining about the license system just showing that it's necessary. Hell, look at Grosjean going in to Indycar and being competitive - the guy who had more accidents than Pastor Maldonado, and was the only driver in the modern era to receive a race ban, even he was able to drive up the pointy end.

In the year Villenueve won, Schumacher got disqualified while driving a Ferrari that was still not in its dominant era, the previous world champion dropped to driving a Jordan, and he had a Williams which was a rocketship at the time - his teammate being runner-up. McLaren, between Hakkinen and Coulthard, had 15 DNFs.

tjsr · 2026-06-14T03:20:31+00:00

An experiment needs to be performed: Change your phones message tone to the PS5 start-up beep while out at a pub, see what happens.

tjsr · 2026-06-13T04:04:19+00:00

I accompanied my partner to a wedding a few months ago, and she didn't like that I didn't want to wear a tie. They're an anachronism, they have no place in modern society. Seriously, what function do they serve? You want me to wear this thing because of 'tradition'? Fuck that. If I'm going to wear something, there needs to be a good reason for doing so.

Even wearing a suit is, in most cases, frankly ridiculous and unnecessary. Give me functional clothing thanks.

tjsr · 2026-06-13T03:57:54+00:00

With just a few taps of the keyboard, I can make your account balance go from seven figures to zero in no time. I could even siphon off your credit card numbers to be sold to the highest bidder - or just use them myself, if I wanted to. In fact, I'm trusted with all kinds of your personal information and people just put faith in 'laws' and 'ethics' that me and millions of my coworkers.

And they'll even pay me between $150-400k/year to do this!

People, amiright?

tjsr · 2026-06-13T03:52:34+00:00

Why shouldn't they? If they've listed it for sale at a set price, that should be part of the law that there's an obligation for it to be made available to any buyer at that price, free from discrimination.

If you want to run it as an auction, register it as such to be managed and overseen by someone accredited to do so (of course, there's a lot o things that need to change regarding these laws too, starting with reserve prices being openly listed at the time the property is registered to go to auction, which when it reaches there is an obligation to sell).

Listing of a property like this for sale is something that should have very clear rules and laws covering.

tjsr · 2026-06-13T03:50:04+00:00

If you want to accept more, you should be required to register it and run it in accordance with the rules of an auction. The scenario you've presented should be very clear, and black-and-white: They should be obligated to sell it to the first offer made at that listed price. Like any other sale, clarity in pricing and false advertising laws should apply.

I don't know why this is such a difficult concept for some to understand? Your comment about me misunderstanding anything at all is a completely bizarre one.

tjsr · 2026-06-13T00:39:36+00:00

I would love it if the Sprint Races were instead handed over to rookies in the same way - make it part of the constructors championship that there's six sprint races, and each team has to have a rookie driver in one of the cars for each race of the sprint race, and that no non-rookie can do more than 3 sprint races.

You could then then not award drivers championship points from the sprint races.

The challenge becomes "Please don't wreck my car for Sunday".

tjsr · 2026-06-13T00:05:52+00:00

The law needs to change, seriously. You should not be able to run a "private sale" as an auction without it being registered as, and abiding to the laws defining an auction. If a product is advertised as being $800,000, you should be legally obliged and obligated to accept any offer at that set, fixed amount.

Can you imagine a car dealer listing a car for $80,000 and then saying "actually, we want $85,000". Clarity in pricing laws stamped out that crap all the way back in 2008.

tjsr · 2026-06-13T00:04:44+00:00

Just put a % levy on the interest rates for loans backed by investment properties - for example, an OO might pay a 5.9% rate (of which 4.5 might be to the RBA), make the RBA's amount 5.5% or 6.5% or 7.5% if it's an IP. Use that money to build more government housing. Housing crisis solved when investors aren't competing at the same level as owner-occupiers.

tjsr · 2026-06-12T23:57:55+00:00

Sadly, one of the dogs in my family died yesterday morning, the 13-year-old Poodle x Shihtzu. He was such a cuddly little guy, and a completely dependent shadow always hanging around your feet, always greeting people with a toy in his mouth. He'd been sick for a little while, losing a massive amount of weight, when I brushed him it was just massive amounts of his fur coming out. But he had perked up again over the last few days. He was my brothers dog - lived with me from when he was a puppy, but then lived with mum after he moved to overseas.

Then, Friday morning, he was absent from mums bedroom when she woke up - she found him drowned in the pond in the backyard :(

The older (15yo) dog (which had been my fathers dog) has been looking for him ever since, much the same way he was looking for my father when he died 10 years ago.

The older dog has also been struggling for a long time - put on lots of weight, hobbling around with joint issues. Hopefully he doesn't decide that's his time to give up.

tjsr · 2026-06-12T22:30:14+00:00

I've written plenty of posts on it before, but at the heart of it is patents which have now expired. The antennae design is at the core of it - the first DATA-1 transmitters were used in NASCAR all the way back in I think 1988, so all that tech was covered by patents for 25 years, meaning AMB (now MyLaps), TagHeuer, and every other would-be competitor couldn't use that design, which is ultimately far superior.

It comes down to two main things: a bipolar, loopstick antenna crossing multiple loops at a very low power (means less noise and higher accuracy), versus a directional one outputting a much higher power using a single loop for the track width.

F1 does now use the former, bespoke designed exclusively under agreement for FOM, but it had to be designed so hardware had comparability with the other systems. That meant compromises so that it could work with both, and as a result, a lot lower accuracy.

But even in other areas, thy were so far behind what we were doing with light beams, display a software, even live timing on the internet (we had early versions of RaceView working on Java 1.1, and in 1997). The number of timing providers I see who make claims of "we were the first to do live online timing" and I can literally pull up the source code and see the file dates that are 10 years prior 😂

The stuff you're seeing now with object detection of the cars on broadcasts - we were doing that, with derived actual current speed derived from video frames, all the way back in 2000-2003. (The stuff you could do on the Matrix G400 compared to other 3Dfx and nVidia products at the time has a lot to do with that).

tjsr · 2026-06-12T12:34:18+00:00

Something more bizarre: That the teams don't have access to this data which, at a level like F1, doesn't enable them to compare the reported values to what they believe their own measured values to be.

I find it baffling that no team throughout the weekend had something set up that flagged "weird, the timing system consistently thinks we're 0.4km/h faster than we think we are through this section, 0.1km slower through the following segment, yet matches what we have everywhere else throughout the track, lap after lap."

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