Cail Young

Wide angle photo of the inside of a large hall. Dramatic lighting is on the floor, and a large “DDD” neon sign is on the stage. A projection screen with some pre-show information is hung in front of a huge pipe organ behind the main stage.

@dddmelbourne.bsky.social always such a nice vibe

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep… The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Have you read this? softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

Honestly, I think things would get A LOT clearer if everyone involved described the systems in terms of what they actually do, rather than via these wishful mnemonics.

"I've hooked the synthetic text extruding machine up to other systems that take that text as input and impact the world" != "The synthetic text extruding machine knows how to use tools."

That route seems reasonable. The new trains should be better for CBR but I’m dreading the loss of sleepers for the longer routes.

Have done MEL-SYD-BNE and back several times for work in the sleepers and it’s an ordeal but definitely mostly works to get you from one place to the other.

Splitters!

Oh hi! Welcome to my town. Check out the magic collection at SLV if you have time. They have an entire bequest of artifacts and books:

guides.slv.vic.gov.au/magic

ANALYSES OF A SINGLE SUB-MONTH CALENDRIC CYCLE

Ed Robertson, et al

what is happening in that team

I was gonna ask haha

meirl

Rare European W

It was a couple years ago I spoke to them at a booth but I’d be shocked if they wouldn’t enable self host for The Enterprise™️

Was gonna say this; it’s property-based testing but with time travel debugging. Wild stuff.

Cities aren’t safe from the next firestorm As we face these fires in Victoria, there is deep apprehension among my colleagues in emergency services. We are not just worried about today. Victoria’s most savage fire weather often arrives later i...

"This is how so many will start feeling the climate crisis. Not in abstract charts but in rising insurance renewal notices, with higher excesses and more exclusions. Families will begin agonising over whether they can afford to protect their largest asset."

Seeing Like A Supermarket

Seeing like a state : how certain schemes to improve the human condition have failed | WorldCat.org "Hailed as a landmark work in the social sciences, Seeing Like a State analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail - sometimes catastrophically - in grand efforts to

Seeing Like A State is about (among other things) how measurement and aggregation tends to backfire when used by centralised authority

search.worldcat.org/title/Seeing...

IRQ conflicts when setting up a new sound card

Most likely it’s events that turn out to be false alarms. They still get published the same way until the location gets checked out. Have had a bunch of these up near the Dandenongs this afternoon

heh, see my bio here

The Line scan outline of the two major fires in Victoria overlaid over the base map of Melbourne at the same scale to show the scale of the fires.

Here are the Walwa and Longwood line scans (as of 3:30pm 10 Jan) to give you an idea of the scale of the fires when overlaid on the base Melbourne map.

Yikes!

#VicFires

“In a few words, please tell us the issue you’re calling about?”

“Bees”

You sure that isn’t the shortwave numbers station rattling your fillings?

Worse than risoni?

Made it thanks to the immense support from my partner, our friends and community, and the power of public healthcare in Australia, particularly the @petermaccc.bsky.social

Cropped photo of a pathology order slip, with handwritten “39M with ? malignancy”

Screenshot of pathology results showing CEA, CA 125 and CA19.9 tumour markers all below reference levels

2025. Glad it’s over, to be honest.

How it started (kinda) / How it finished (kinda)

Not shown: cytoreductive surgery and heaps of rehab and recovery.

You can do both, just work harder

Still happening, and I suspect it’s their WAF blocking the iCloud Private Relay exit addresses. Now, how to contact a public service IT team over the new years break? Hmmmmmm