dgriffith

Blocking children from online communities

These are adult online communities. They are not communities for children. My Facebook feed is not something I would like a child to see or interact with, and I would consider it pretty tame. Algorithmic feeds that amplify minor / random views into a torrent of reinforcement is not what kids - or adults, actually - need.

Dammit now I have to reduce the block size of my discord-based cold storage filesystem.

They need to learn how to use their tools better. Winscp does all that transparently for you if you press F4 on a file on a remote system. Or maybe they did and you just didn't see it.....

It's quite a handy function when you're diving through endless layers of directories on a remote box looking for one config file amongst many.

If library devs do versioning correctly, and you pin to major versions like "1.*" instead of just the "anything goes" of "*", this should not happen.

Your unit tests should catch regressions, if you have enough unit tests. And of course you do, because we're all operating in the dream world of, "I am great and everyone else is shit".

They are forced by the state government to put aside money for future rehabilitation.

Something else to point out is that "huge methane plume" is actually methane that is always there. It's just that normally there is a huge amount of forced ventilation into (and subsequently out of) underground mines and while that is working this methane plume is diluted to much lower levels.

Telecom wasn't exactly a shining example of a government run service though.

Side note: Bring back the CES , privatised job search is an absolute fucking disaster.

The horse has well and truly bolted on this one.

About 30 years ago, I used to do coal seam sampling around those parts. There are thousands of boreholes going down to the coal seams there. We would drill down to the seam and then take about a 6 metre cross section of the seam.

You'd pull up the core samples, place them in sealed tubes made out of metre long, 100mm diameter plastic pipe and take them back to the lab to see how much gas came out.

Over the course of about 48 hours, about 30 litres of gas would come from about 10kg of coal.

Oh, those boreholes? They were just left uncapped. Sometimes if it was particularly gassy, they'd put a burner on top, sometimes they wouldn't, and if a bushfire went through the area those boreholes would never go out and you'd see hundreds of them burning away into the distance. There's thousands of square kilometres with boreholes in them in that area.

Every kilogram of coal that they take to the surface will vent the same amount of methane as my samples did 30 years ago and the aggregate amount of coal they mine in the Bowen Basin is about 50 million tons a year.

So when they finally close all the coal mines, and seal all the shafts and fill in all the pits, they're also going to have to go and cap the thousands upon thousands of boreholes because they're a direct line to the remaining seams below, and they'll basically vent forever.

in which case I will go one level down, to the calculateExtraCommissions() method.

In which case you will discover that the calculateExtraCommissions() function also has the same nested functions and you eventually find six subfunctions that each calculate some fraction of the extra commission, all of which could have been condensed into three lines of code in the parent function.

Following the author's idea of clean code to the letter results in a thick and incomprehensible function soup.

I shall begrudgingly consider it then, with much begrudgement.

But it's three more letters. No deal.

There's a lot of blame to go around here:

• A string of governments going back 30+ years cooking the housing market via investment opportunities/tax breaks.
• Rental market being an absolute shitshow due to the above.
• Some dickhead at the RBA, the group that sets cash interest rates, saying in 2021 that interest rate rises weren't going to happen for a fair while and then 6 months later ratcheting up the rates.
• People taking 2.05 percent variable rate loans during that time for the maximum they can when a simple chart of mortgage interest rates over the last 40 years would suggest that budgeting for a 6-10 percent mortgage would be a good idea.
• Banks, mortgage brokers, etc, all pushing for - and allowing - people to get the biggest mortgage they can handle right now.
• The warped Australian dream of getting the biggest house you can and living the best life you can with the best cars and toys, pushed by advertising from corporations.
• And then we get to quasi-monopolistic companies that get between the consumer and basic goods and services, cranking up the margins to provide maximum return to investors. That's Coles/Woolies/banks/telcos/power companies/Ampol/Caltex/etc.

The whole thing is a pressure cooker designed to get as much as possible out of the general public.

It seems similar to WA's approach to fuel prices with a bit more bite. Over there changes are locked to once every 24 hours and they have to notify a government agency the afternoon before the change.

And remember: every time you hear the Queensland minerals council crying about royalties on TV and how they're the largest in the worrrrld, this - along with 50 cent fares, cost of living rebates in your power bill, and a bunch of other stuff - is funded by that.