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Yep, seems like the big expectation here is to retain jobs and keep a competitive market in Australian domestic travel. Doesn’t seem likely anymore, which is a shame, because I alw…

There’s also some fantastic videos explaining the inner workings of the 555 timer (from a practical perspective) in this series on building a clock module for a breadboard computer…

And that hasn't IPO'd yet.

Also available from http://www.antarctica.gov.au/about-antarctica/history/explor... Can higly recommend. It seems like there was a completely different view as to what were "accept…

After reading only the headline, I for one assumed it was the official's child, so it's at least somewhat misleading, perhaps not intentionally though.

I just realised we just spent more on 5 days for a holiday rental over Christmas than this family received for selling 2 kidneys to try and escape their debt. It’s crushing to read…

Interesting interpretation of the data. It would proably lead to the same conclusion though, that teachers are being rewarded for having naturally smarter/more developed students r…

This one... :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jl9hTIkXXc

Like he says in the video, catching is actually the easy bit. Having the booster survive the re-entry heating and aerodynamic loads while only using passive methods to slow it is t…

Microservices, essentially. It's not really 1 x ten year project as such, but heaps of smaller 3-6 month projects (many running in parallel) to add chunks of new functionality (as …

We're in the process of migrating off a 4+ million line Delphi application that basically runs the whole business, but it's a 10+ year project to "grind the monolith", so who knows…

Absolutely. I think his main issue is with Pinker and Gates way overselling any successes and attributing them to neoliberal globalization. I'd posit that anyone characterizing thi…

To be fair, that's only a very small part of his rebuttal, dealing specifically with the period prior to 1970, as well as the fact that GDP estimates for this period "take little i…

The title is a play on the old saying "Those who can't do, teach". Whether this is actually the case or not is debatable.

It's not the gross population that's the problem, it the rate of growth in population and the infrastructure that's required to support it. The basic problem is that if infrastruct…

In C the interviewer is also spending time reviewing the assignment. Maybe not the same amount, but if you also have a handful of your current devs review it and give their feedbac…

Good for you. Thankfully we have marginal abatement cost curves and EVs are pretty far down the list of priorities at this stage.

I've also heard there's no true Scotsman either...

Between shipping modes, yes. Hence the name "Intermodal Container". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermodal_container

Greece/present day/crap plumbing. https://www.worldnomads.com/travel-safety/europe/greece/toil...

It doesn't accelerate the air like a typical air breathing engine, but it certainly ingests the air like one. It's basically a ramjet but uses electric charge to accelerate the exh…

There's another photographer as well (Brady Kenniston) who got some magnificent shots of the Falcon Heavy launch. This is my favourite: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bradykenniston…

The phrase that jumps to mind is "Easy come, easy go". Companies built on slow painful progress inevitably have a broad customer base, customers that were acquired through slow pai…

7 cents per employee per month isn't exactly a generous discount either. Even if your chat is down for half the work day (4 hours), you're looking at $3.55. I mean, it's better tha…