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The battle for Wendy's garden will pale into insignificance compared to the battle for a "Sydney Harbour High Line". https://www.sydneyharbourhighline.org.au/ In 2023 the NSW gover…

> made by an equally obscure manufacturer, YiQingTeng Electronics, in Shenzhen, China. Is this what is meant by "Shenzhen Speed"? Dump all safeguards and get any piece of crap out …

A similar story to Wendy's Secret Garden in Sydney, Australia? https://www.wendyssecretgarden.org.au/ After her husband's death in 1992, Wendy Whiteley took to cleaning up an unuse…

Nice! Thanks too for putting the work into this library.

I got caught out by my Australianism! "How do you find the speed of the Rust version of your FEC vs, the C version?" translates from "Australian" to "English" as: "What is the spee…

How do you find the speed of the Rust version of your FEC vs, the C version?

I'm beginning to think that my '96 Toyota Starlet is "peak ICE". It has EFI, no infotainment, no power windows, no power steering, no automatic transmission. It is basically an eng…

MMR vaccines would be a net positive to the US economy, to the tune of $3.5B in direct savings (14x benefit/cost) and $7.6 billion (26x benefit/cost) in wider societal benefits [1]…

A big chunk of that 72% are legitimately labeled "Made in China" or niche brands. The brands that failed, plus the products that are actually labeled "Made in China", dominate Aust…

It's about trust.

Thanks for that informative link. I looked to see if there was any data beyond the ABC article and didn't find it. Some of the truthful brands listed in the BBC article are availab…

Check their tomato paste. It turns out that nearly every tomato paste in Australia comes from Xinjiang in China, including those marked as Australian or Italian. Simplot (Leggos), …

Best I heard was someone who taught their "friend's" young child to screech like a cockatoo [1]. You can take a drum kit away, but you can't take a cockatoo screech away. The recor…

Okay. I should have interpreted it to mean "So clearly that isn't the full answer". I interpreted it to mean "So clearly that isn't part of the answer". I think reducing the "satur…

> So clearly that isn't the answer. Quite an assertion. What Australia is doing works by one measure that matters: number of people killed by a gun. In 2024 the gun murder rates we…

Probably no compensation. Under "English" law (Canada is a Commonwealth country), the wrongful conviction will probably to taken to be without malice and reasonable given the infor…

A complete USB voltmeter/ammeter costs $1. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/MX17-Current-and-Volt... Ignore the case and connector, on the basis that the circuit will be inte…

If I was building a black box to detect hidden data on a USB stick, I'd include a feature whereby it measures power consumption and flags USB drives that don't consume the expected…

Conventional wisdom is to use a bound notebook, as a court will discount reliability if pages can be removed without leaving a trace.

Where I live, it was front page news four weeks ago. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-16/nsw-bureau-of-meterol... Not that it lead to any particular action or recognition.

Online retailers are also responsible under the law, as the laws apply to all retailers. In practical terms, if it's an online business with no Australian presence it makes it hard…

I'd encourage Australians not to muck around in this regard. Fair Trading gives explicit instructions: 1) Contact the organisation 2) Suggest a resolution 3) give them a reasonable…