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They do mention their OS being out of date. One possible interpretation is they are using packages provided by a Linux distro, and getting up to date may have required a full OS up…

When I was there NBNCo hadn't really moved into the inner city yet. We did have some kind of financial agreement with the building developer/management to install our VDSL DSLAMs i…

To clarify, NBN is a monopoly on the last mile infrastructure which is resold to private ISPs that sell internet services. The history there is that Australia used to have a govern…

It's noted in the Effective Go guide: https://go.dev/doc/effective_go#package-names

I was a little confused about this as well - until I realised they don't actually specify that this is the Linux kernel. I suspect what they're talking about here is the Windows ke…

The newer weather.bom.gov.au is behind HTTPS. It's fairly javascript heavy though, which might make it hard to index.

In that case you would bundle a copy of the CLI utility into your docker container, with the correct version. This also applies to any system libraries your code might be compiled …

It's fulfilling the same role, definitely. In our case, the payout is defined as 4-12 weeks of salary (plus 1-4 weeks notice), based on length of tenure. Since this scales with wha…

I suppose it would be "instead of". Unemployment insurance isn't really a thing here.

In Australia it's not negotiable. Our employment laws dictate what severance payment is required if a company is letting people go to reduce costs. Those laws don't apply if the em…

First thing to keep in mind is that the Case Shiller data you linked to only has data up to February. The FSI data is more up to date, but the big upswing was only getting started …

AWS already had a web based shell via SSM. This allows native SSH connections using credentials tied to AWS IAM users.

It's a different approach to managing risk -- minimizing impact of failure rather than minimizing the likelihood of failure. It's nice to know that you can kill a process and the o…

The caveat working that way is that you can end up working towards a local optimum, and lose sight of the forest for the trees when it comes to making the bigger algorithmic change…