It almost makes the Australia Tax worth it
It almost makes the Australia Tax worth it
TIL the greatest poster ever exists
So apparently Australia Post have run out of forms to get a Victorian ID card. You can’t download the form and Aus Post don’t know anywhere else nearby to get them. AND they won’t get new stock for a couple of weeks π
If Qantas had influence over the government they would have scored billions of dollars in subsidies/bailouts over the past few years without giving the gov any equity
If I were a government agency I would simply constantly change my methodology so nothing is comparable to anything else
So much of the NLP documentation uses these lovely, pristine datasets that are packaged into libraries and can be loaded in one line. And then I have to spend ages figuring out how to bolt on my mangled, holey data that fell off the back of a truck
Ok what’s up with the huge (seemingly permanent in Melbourne) sheep grazier warnings on apple weather? How big a percentage of iPhone users could sheep farmers possibly be?
If I were an academic group that painstakingly created a website (and blog) to share my research, I would simply include an rss feed so nerds could follow it easily…
Got to love the personal touch only a big Telco can give
About a week into our rental tenure the lightbulb in the bedroom blew. We’re moving out in two days and I finally remembered to buy and install the replacement
Can’t believe I went more than a week with a new personal laptop without having installed Beautiful Soup
Never get between a government agency and their Microsoft Power BI
Got one of these fancy ergonomic mice over the weekend coz Officeworks mispriced it and damn I’m a convert.
Apparently when American special forces are doing some operation in another country it’s that country’s language that is foreign π
Does anyone in Melbourne use Pineapple for internet? These prices and speeds seem too good to be true
Orange Is the New Black Signalled the Rot Inside the Streaming Economy www.newyorker.com/culture/n…
Someone needs to do a long read on why kinder surprise toys are so simple/easy to assemble nowadays
Got a new work laptop and its my first post-touchbar Macbook. Honestly, forget M chips or whatever, dropping the stupid touchbar is enough of an upgrade to make it worth it.
With how much everyone is screenshotting on bluesky there really isn’t any reason to go on Twitter anymore
If I was in charge of announcements in an airport I would simply make them so quiet no one could ever understand them
Still boggles my mind that you can buy (genuine) Lapis Lazuli based paints/pigments
If the issue is companies scraping Twitter to train LLMs wouldn’t the easiest solution be to create an official Twitter corpus and sell access?
How come delivery apps have figured out taking food from one side of a city to another without it being stone cold, but hotels can’t manage it with room service π€
Long, hot walk in the sun today. So we stopped at a little shop for ice creams and cold drinks. Everything we bought was a product of either Unilever or Nestle…
There should be a filter on hotel booking sites so you can exclude hotels that give you daily wifi codes rather than just having an open network