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Really - I totally missed that! Will have a read about it, but could you elaborate on the ‘grandstanding’ aspect? EDIT: wow, what a mess!

Always good to come across fellow Australians in here! I’d probably argue for an exception on that one, given the Whitlam government didn’t have a senate majority… but at the very …

How many of said countries require more than a simple majority to pass a budget though? To my knowledge the US is quite the exception in that it requires a _special_ majority for s…

If I ever create a trendy SaaS company (or an untrendy one for that matter), I'm definitely cribbing the 'pay more if you have accountants on staff' criteria... love it!

I agree re: quality of leads, but also wonder how many sales are lost to competitors _with_ advertised pricing purely because the user didn't want the hassle of talking to sales (m…

If you have capable hardware and kids, a local LLM is great. A simple system prompt customisation (e.g. ‘all responses should be written as if talking to a 10 year old’) and knowin…

If you want something that ‘just works’, it’s hard to go past the entry level options from Bambu Lab despite their march towards Cloud and ecosystem lock in. If that kind of thing …

It’s the book that started it all for me. The Hotmail story is one of my favourites.

Even a 'microscopic siliceous structure', which is what they're talking about here? To be clear, I am in no position whatsoever to challenge your statement, just curious as to why …

A colloquial term for dogs that were transported via an upboat?

The government is being deliberately non-prescriptive about that, as they are about what qualifies as 'social media' (statement of fact - no comment on the approach itself). Ideall…

I didn't have any trouble, although I have owned full versions of Workstation and Fusion in the past. Having said that, their licensing portal is awful and i wouldnt be surprised a…

In a nutshell, the ‘insider’ gives instructions to a broker such as ‘on the 2nd Wednesday of every 3rd month, sell X number of shares if the market price is no less than Y’ and the…

I always thought of Sun as the canonical example of this… why did all the dotcom era startups burn so much cash on Sun hardware? Because that’s what was in the Universities! But on…

Any chance we could get the link pointed to the source[1] rather than this podcast aggregator? 1. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/co...

This is great - basically an online version of the old Web Design Index series of books, which were a fantastic source of inspiration back in the day (for me at least).

It’s common in many parts of the world for people to get their weekly housework done by someone else. Failing that, there’s always the weekend.

You’re absolutely not too late. We had our first in our mid-40s, no complications whatsoever and I suspect we’d be regretting it too if we didn’t at least try.

I mean there's no right or wrong in any of this, but it's not like that would be an invalid takeaway.

Agreed, it's definitely not one size fits all. The story of Amazon migrating off Oracle is probably in the same ballpark (if that story is true - I don't know one way or the other)…

I don't think people should be down voting you for this comment, but I imagine the reason why is because that's generally not how things work at large companies. Someone in product…

wow - long time Wil :) Good to see you're still knocking around these parts!

I discovered a few days ago that VMware now offer a 'Fusion 12 Player', which is free (as in beer) albeit you have to register to get the download + key. Might be worth looking int…

Same in NSW… no $12 iceberg heads around here!