John Dillane

Wait, what? What is the point of painting the crossing on the road if it doesn’t indicate pedestrians have right of way? Are you saying in the US there is no right of way?

How are you on the whole red light green light thing?

possibly good car porn though, if that's your kink

A light fitting with a rope looped around and around that looks like it could be a series of nooses.

had to go to the strata managers office to pick up a new key.

Looks like they have some pretty brutal meetings.

YouTube video by nzoz1978 Flash And The Pan - Down Among The Dead Men (1978)

Funny, I took the dog for a walk, and got an ear worm, and realised, I forgot to mention this absolute banger from 1978.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZFo...

I also here there was a ship built in Belfast once that has had
- Several films
- at least one musical I have seen (OMG, i have no words)
- a museum dedicated to it.

you could perhaps google that one.

Not an industrial accident, but I also saw Embers, about a bushfire that hurt no people. Its just a lot of whinging about how "we didnt get burnt out and no one seems to care"

I left at intermission, at which point I was cheering for the fire.

apt.org.au/product/embe...

Its a long time ago, but one of the really challenging characters in The Permanent Way takes the view that you can never be really safe, and the fact that her face was virtually burnt off in a train crash was just bad luck, not a sign of systemic failure.

Its quite a challening point of view.

He was on a hot run at the time, later did Stuff Happens (about the second gulf war) and the power of Yes. they're all Verbatim theatre, iirc The Permanent Way is probably the best, but Stuff Happens was really thought provoking (made George Bush look better than he deserved)

years ago I saw The Permanent Way, a David Hare play about a famous train crash. Discussing issues of privatisation of public assets, infrastructure maintenance, risk.

Despite that description, it was really very good.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Per...

there is an argument that an old school kettle on an induction cooktop is probably much more efficient than a standard electric kettle, because induction is more efficient than the heating coil of an electric kettle.

I've used both, heating time is similar, much faster than a kettle on gas.

I have to say, this looks better than our Australian democracy sausage.

Updating my LEGO White House

I had a similar problem with different big chain jeweller.
Wanted new band for a watch I was handing down to son, they said they couldn’t put bands on that brand (!?)
Mr Minit happily provided a band

Simple case, when you look at your phone and it says the time is 10:33am (aest), how does it know that?

i flew to europe recently my phone knew the time when it went off airplane mode. How?

b/c there are time services that phones communicate with.

But SOMEWHERE, there has to be a source of truth.

Musk is always announcing these proposals, they rarely happen. He got a gullible Australian politician to spruke a tunnel from Sydney under the blue mountains. it would have been an environmental disaster, but that didn’t matter because it was vapour ware.

Network chips. I left the industrying 2019, but even then dc networks were standardising on broadcom based gear (cisco/arista/juniper all use Broadcom).

big dcs need lots of switching capacity.

So I would guess they are putting the switching gear into the end points instead of separate switches

I’m thinking of the famous Mitsubishi 0 0 0 deal where they basically gave you a car. Worked until it didn’t.

I had to google him didn’t I? He ticks a lot of boxes. Anti vax, home schooler, anti semite (quoted as saying hamas is a Zionist front !? Ffs)

I hadn’t heard about fire ant truthism before. I’m sorry I know it now.

He says typically a GPU rack is maybe 120kW required.
But new nvidia Vera Rubin racks will be (est.) 600kW per rack, so a 6MW data hall will be 10 racks. 2/2

I used to understand DCs, but it has changed since I retired in 2019.

An ex colleague tells me it is the power draw. This is now the limiting factor, and the internals
will depend on the generation of kit installed, the
last dc he worked on was 70% empty racks b/c the gear was power hungry 1/n

Tbf, since the period 2010-2016 (Rudd/gillard/rudd/abbott/turbull), our pms have lasted longer.

Even then, we were not in the same territory as the French.

The thing is though, Americans are so impervious to non Americans, he probably will just shrug it off.

I’m Australian, and have had an ev for 6 years. The apps were essential in oz, and worked mostly ok. (I have 11, but 3 cover most of my usage)

Almost none of the fast chargers had card payment until recently in Australia.

We hired an ev in Northampton, and found the most common fast charger required an app. So I try to download the app.

I don’t know if this is Apple or Blink, but the App Store told me that app is not permitted in my region.

I don’t like charging at BP, but it didn’t care where I was from.

Reminds me of the anecdote of asking Joe Namath if he preferred grass or astroturf.

Joe: “ I dont know, I’ve never smoked AstroTurf ”

This surely is the point. No one under 60 really remembers these cars.
And there was a big difference between a gtho and the bulk standard falcon 500 I owned.

leaky heater, column shift that stuck if you weren’t careful on 1-2, rear end that bounced around corners.

Just no.

a medal for lt calley for my lai cannot be far away

So sorry to hear this, we went through this with my mother in law, and it’s a journey. I hope you can find something for her that she is happy with.

YouTube video by jhughs3 "The Day The Earth Stood Still" Medical Examination

Also, this classic scene…
m.youtube.com/watch?v=bWnT...

We watched it very nervously with our 20yo budding comedian daughter.

She loved it.

especially “these lentils are South African! I bet you hate gays too!” which is like every social media thread really.