it is the blessing and the curse of this city that the harbour is solidly the best natural landscape of any large city in the world, hands down. there are other cities with good harbours but my god this one is an amphitheatre of the public life of the city and the mirror of our subconscious
From @fictilli.us on X
> Sydney Metro has added three new trains to boost services from Monday 13th April.
> Peak service frequency increase from every 4 mins to every 3.5 mins
> Weekend service frequency will increase from every 10 mins to every 7 mins.
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fucked up that the burgers are genuinely better at hungry jacks
Transport Solutions to the Energy Crisis
Energy crises invite energy theatre. Governments panic, subsidise fuel, toy with rationing, announce some restriction, and hope voters confuse motion with progress. Then prices ease, the measures are unwound, and the system that made the crisis painful […]
Politicians habitually dissemble and at best offer no good information, so simply repeating what they say has limited value and interest
F10 Blackwattle Bay ferry now on Opal! “Passengers can now tap on and off and benefit from fare caps and seamless connections with the wider public transport network.” “Seamless connections” is a stretch. F4 and F10 transfers at Barangaroo are hit and miss. www.transport.nsw.gov.au/news-and-eve...
Since people are banging on about free public transport again, here's a very accessible paper from IPART discussing the results of fare-free public transport in NSW.
In short, it'd make PT worse, wouldn't get people out of their cars, but would reduce active transport (walking/cycling).
Fucken hell this is so dumb. We are running low so… drop the price? Stimulate demand?
Cutting fuel excise (which also would very likely not end up temporary) is a truly terrible idea and we shouldn't even be considering it.
In the next version of AGP
- R8 makes coroutines 2x faster
Managed to check out the new pedestrian plaza and Trains entrance at BANKSTOWN today. It's really opened up the Bankstown CBD, connecting the shopping centre and uni on the north side to the shops and businesses on the south.
The new Metro entrance looks ready and waiting. (1/2)
A massive victory in the war against upper-level setbacks!
The Mid-Rise Code offers greater housing certainty for Melburnians. It also winds back one of the most damaging and poorly evidenced planning controls: upper-level setbacks.
Great to see. They need to make Burwood Rd pedestrians and buses only. There's way way more people than cars, and the footpaths are made too narrow to squeeze in four lanes.
As much as I like the George St entrance to Wynyard, I've always thought could do with some signs or something to give it more of a sense of arrival.
Two beautiful women in yellow dresses stand in a field of sunflowers. Text: Using words from the bank, write a poem to impress the Yellow Dress Zealots. Hit Enter when you are done. A duck, it is yellow, Its quack is its hello, The sun favors goldenrod, As luck, Texas Hold'em god, An egg, jolly yolker, A man's folly, poker, Night's end, you'll be broker, Be you joke, or the joker. This is the best I could do. I hope you guys love my poem. (aside: when the chips are down you can wear a gold crown)
IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN
Ok so I have had time to properly read and digest Hogg's paper in detail and it will not shock you as his former postdoc that I agree with close to 100%.
But the spiciest take here isn't anything about LLMs, it's the assertion that astronomy lacks a right edge. This is true but you can't say it!
this thread is now complete. stay safe out there
Geekbench 6 single-core scores over time at 4 price points: - fastest iOS - fastest Android - mid-tier Android - low-end Android
How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.
In software we can release MVPs and then continue to build the plane while it's flying, because nothing is real. It's not a goal, just a milestone where the thing is no longer useless.
It's not a concept that migrates well to things built from concrete and steel.
Just got bit by bazel run_under not taking the terminal last week. What a pain! Having to debug on a port and open another terminal, wish bazel worked like nextest here!
