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I assume they’re referring to Fable’s guardrails?

Yes they’re not related and are much more humane imho No Orcas, good rehab program, seal exhibit is good (no true seals), Polar bears are a bit sad though I did the seal diving exp…

In wealthy parts of the US, maybe The vast majority of the world is nothing like this From Scotland to Tasmania, most courses congregate around already wet and mostly sand/loamy so…

Is the Lake course as good as I’ve heard?

Seems to be mostly be a US-only phenomenon And even then, a broad generalisation It’s $10 USD/round in my area, cheaper than bowling by a mile

There’s a lot of change occurring in the industry and am curious if it’s burning others out

The answer is we don’t know for certain There are even some philosophers/mathematicians who attest to finitism (they’re not mainstream, though), but if correct would undermine our …

A parallel concept to this is from functionalism/theory of mind in Philosophy is that of Multiple Realisability

One thing that irks me quite a bit is when adjacent fields adopt the same acronym for different things LoRa (RF tech) vs LORA (AI optimisation technique) GLM (statistics) vs GLM (A…

The new Primary Constructors syntax is an absolute god-send for simple classes

What Malcolm Turnbull did to the NBN was absolutely disgraceful The reforms also resulted in a lot of people never getting FTTN/FFTC in the first place - so will forever be 5G only…

Another LoRA moment

Jaycar in Australia still sells them Just released new packaging actually

I mean in the same way getting Wolfram Alpha to solve a really hard/ugly differential equation I suppose

I repaired some of ~10 years ago (Australia) Just low end uncustomised NUCs overheating behind the screen No idea if that’s still the case

Their voter base is largely dying off I don’t see them being one of the top two parties in a couple of decades unless younger generations start actually having resources/assets to …

Geoff Provest (Nationals MP) recently did the same thing commenting on an Albanese social media post pretending to be a disgruntled Labor voter

Not an expert but every node in an UHVDC network would need expensive equipment Point to point is just two nodes, but scaling that outward would be very expensive AC transmission i…

Yeah the Blue Quandongs get pretty big Tweed Valley in NNSW so lots of water and volcanic soil Edit: turns out the Blue Quandong and the Quandong are very different species - my mi…

As someone who grew up with a Quandong in their backyard please don’t plant quandongs without serious planning It grew 40m in ~10 years and spanned ~200-300m^2

Only place I’ve ever seen it is the main stretch along Palm Beach on the Gold Coast 1st through 27th Avenues - they’re over 100 years old now funnily enough

I was surprised to find out they still have hardware repair technicians (extremely expensive but reliable: ~$400 per computer around 2022 iirc) But yes they’re mostly enterprise/se…

Someone get this in front of Tom Doak immediately

This seems to be largely an American phenomenon In more minor markets like Europe/Australia it seems to be a lot less leetcode and a lot more (1) experience (2) degree (3) actual i…