> "The furnace produced pig iron. Someone stamped “steel” on it. Now it’s load-bearing. [...] Everyone knew the numbers were fake. Everyone reported them anyway, because the alternative was being labelled a saboteur."
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We missed an opportunity calling it "Prompt Engineering" when "Endjinneering" was right there.
Australia should probably look into that.
Oh look, credit card fees jumping up right after the RBA removed credit card surcharges.
Quelle surprise.
The current generation of AI tooling has moved on from spicy autocomplete to spicy scripting.
Got an email from Amazon. Apparently despite their mind-bending profits, they are really mad that they sold me a Kindle that still works after 14 years. So they are going to break it.
Meanwhile, spare a thought for the actual copilots out there, just minding their own business...
The other big one is cost control. People are starting to think about how tokens are spent, and what they're spent on.
LLM adoption seems to be (finally) moving into the stage where people start thinking about it like any other code or asset.
Most of the innovation at the moment is around maintainability and relative repeatability. Getting prompts into source control, sharing common skills, baking standards in, etc
I think the analysis is correct though - everything on the menu just goes up. Prices will be more predictable but nobody is saving money.
Vapes aren't safe. Vapes are a pivot by the tobacco industry to keep making money. They may help get off tobacco but you have to get off the vapes too.
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Who can't just buy an EV to help with the fuel costs - poor people.
Who can't just get solar panels & a battery to help with energy costs - poor people.
Who can't stockpile food to help with rising costs - poor people
See a pattern?
The poor always suffer most & can afford it least #auspol
RogueMap: an unofficial roadmap
See also: Skunkworks
Happy Opt Out Of Github Copilot Data Collection Day, to those who celebrate.
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It's not specifically about Bullock by the way - her predecessor was no better. It's about the system that produced them. The RBA is a bubble of extreme privilege, and it extrudes disconnected governors as a sort of self-defence mechanism.
> "Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock settled on the purchase of a luxury $2 million holiday house [...] on the day the bank raised interest rates."
She is also one of the RBA staff who bought their first home with a heavily discounted mortgage.
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Did Their Own Research(tm)
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They're still disturbingly popular for a party with no real policies and essentially zero legislative success. Just the same troll bills reintroduced over and over.
To be realistic if ONP end up with more seats than the Libs, that does become a story - but even that's about the Libs self-destruction more than ONP riding the protest vote.
Given Aussies vote out rather than in ("it's not who you put first, it's who you put last"), the story is ultimately about a supposedly "major" party repeatedly getting destroyed in elections and changing nothing in response.
Yep, used to customise sounds, startup graphics, desktop theme colours, everything we could get into. With the Maxx theme it probably reflected the direction my musical taste was going. I did use a lot of stuff from TV shows though - X Files theme, Red Dwarf snippets, random movie quotes, etc.
Bluesky is just twitter lite so it seems inevitable that it will end up with the same level.
They may squeak in 3-4 seats in the final count but they're nowhere near a majority. The level of media coverage is over the top for a party as dysfunctional as ONP/PHON - presumably people tune for the drama like they do with shit like MAFS. #auspol
(aside - yeah I know, I'm talking about the animated series not the graphic novels, but yaknow)
In Australia it was late at night when Liquid Television had its all too brief run. Back when we used to tinker with such things, for a long time my Windows startup sound was a clip from The Maxx theme music.
Sadly they have been able to shove Cory Bernardi back up the grease trap of public discourse, which is a shame. Thought he'd been flushed for good.
#auspol
SA Election count showing ALP with 32 seats, LIB with 4, ONP with zero, other with 1. 56% of votes counted and 10 seats in doubt, meaning absolutely no way the result can be anything other than a landslide for Labor.
While the media breathlessly reports about One Nation in South Australia, we need to keep in mind the surge in primary votes is a concern but there is no "orange tsunami" - they have won a single seat in the Senate and nothing at all in the lower house.
It IS a Labor landslide though.
#auspol
People comment about the cost of the paint, so I guess they don't know the first painting sold for GBP£59,950.
Don't get me wrong if I was incredibly rich I'd buy one. But you don't need to worry about the material costs ;)
The bar is not so much lowered as gone.