Viewing profile — bigger_cheese

The Australian parliament is weird but it kind of works. Members of the House of Representatives ("lower house") are elected via preferential voting and each member represents a si…

I think it is very difficult to secure internet voting, someone can stand behind you and twist your arm or otherwise coerce you to vote for their candidate. Much harder to do when …

I've lived with deg C my whole life it is what I'm used to, the way I experience weather is in 5 degree increments - I live on East Coast of Australia. My Internal rule of thumb is…

Physics has "Strangeness" and "Charm Quarks" My own field Materials Engineering has: "Hardness", "Toughness", Resilience", etc. which all describe different properties. "Ferromagne…

The issue is people trying to use these AI tools to investigate complex data not the throwaway UI part. I work as the non-software kind of engineer at an industrial plant there is …

One big feature at the time was Firefox had a built in popup blocker, IE did not. Popup ads were rife towards the backend of the 90's and the internet felt borderline unusable with…

I'm an engineer I think there is definitely some pain points translating math to code. I've written some nasty numerical integration code (in C using for loops) for example I'm not…

I work at an industrial plant, we use "edge" to refer to something inside the production network. As an example the control system network is air-gapped so to use ML for instrument…

Yes I am sick of constantly getting Copilot and One Drive shoved down my throat.

>There are no "higher level details" in software development, those are in the domain of different jobs like project managers or analysts. Once AI can reliably translate fuzzy natu…

I suspect it is to do with the amount of pedestrian traffic passing through an area. When you have a high population density there is an increased amount of foot traffic in the are…

I'm an Australian in my 40's almost everyone in my immediate circle (family, friends, work-peers) has an Android, at least in my world iPhone is a minority. I grew up with Nokia ph…

For Splines I found Christian Reinsch's classic paper to be a really good resource. You can find it various places on the web i.e here: https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu/AppliedUGMath/aux…

I work at an industrial plant we use boolean datatypes for stateful things like this. For example is Conveyor belt running (1) or stopped (0). Sure we could store the data by loggi…

A lot of the Unix/Linux Syscall api has a version 2+ For example dup(), dup2(), dup3() and pipe(), pipe2() etc LWN has an article: https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/ It talks about a…

The AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) website has some good data can see price of electricity in realish time. This is for the NEM (which is east coast states + South Austra…

Yes I have observed this as well. It happens if I watch one off sports highlights on Youtube. Most recently I watched a highlight video of Australia vs West Indies test cricket ser…

My intro course at university was also done in Eiffel, this was at the ANU in early 2000's

I think Snow Crash is an interesting book but I can see how people could be turned off by it. It kind of straddles a weird line where parts of it almost read like parody or an atte…

In my opinion the most likely way it gets torpedoed is by Trump threatening the Aus Gov over trying to regulate US Tech companies. Feels like Albanese is walking on eggshells at th…

>We see PMs easily enacting massive legislative reforms and even Constitutional changes that are nigh impossible in the US I don't know about UK but in Australia we need a Referend…

I can share my experience I am not a software engineer. I am the "other" type of Engineer (chemical engineer). I tend to use AI in the same way I use google or Stack Overflow, most…

I have been using Python recently and have found a lot of the data visualization tools seem to be wrappers around other languages (mostly JavaScript), things like, agGrid, Tabulato…

I studied Materials Engineering. Similar experience. Carnot, Thompson, Clausius, Gibbs, Rankine, Boltzman etc all made big historical contributions to modern understanding of Therm…

>1) We are talking about the late 90s, well before Ubuntu, where Desktop Linux was pretty poor in terms of features and polish. I think it's hard to understate how much traction Li…