Andrew Starr

Hydrogen demand down from 55TWh to 34TWh but the drop absorbed by a convenient 29TWh of data centre load..

Would be handy if they did an alternative scenario excluding the tech choice gov policies (eg. Vic offshore wind, Qld keep coal until 2050 etc)

Edited Bluesky age verification screen. Face scan: Do you remember where you were on 9/11? Our scan can see it in your eyes. Yes, even now. Credit card: We check your banking records to confirm if you've ever rented a video from Blockbuster. ID Scan: Safe and secure management of your personal details, just like Optus, MediSecure, iiNet, Qantas, Latitude, Ticketek, Ticketmaster, Telstra...

idk seems reasonable to me

Yeah I thought they would have locked down VSC extensions like they do for Chrome but apparently they're utilising the yolo approach for that..

It also has the line "train riders remain scarce on weekends" without any evidence. Is this even published on a regular basis? Anecdotally trains on weekend are infrequent but much fuller than weekday non-peak times..

Explains why I got an email today saying IT were replacing it with VS Code, seems overkill IMO but I can kind of see their logic..

First time I've seen someone subtweeting a funeral on here..

Hierarchy of controls diagram.

IMO they're useless for construction OHS.

Think about something like dust from engineered stone, which causes silicosis.

The hierarchy of controls says that Elimination is the most effective control and PPE is least effective.

A Hepa filter in the corner is much less effective than N95s etc.

I am as guilty of it as everyone but it's kinda funny we're all quoting a content mill account that doesn't cite its sources to be mad about AI slop

Now it makes sense why I saw this on another site - 6 packs of tim tams at CostCo in the US for the equivalent of AUD15.

Meanwhile, $6 per pack at Woolies..

It's probably well known in the industry and for those of a certain age, but I can't recall ever reading about it.

And can definitely see the libertarian point of getting rid of regulations /s

Extract from the wiki article However, Appendix H of the report was not published at the time, and was only made available to the public in 2012, nearly 30 years later, after a Freedom of Information request first made by the Canberra Times in December 1982 was finally successful. The appendix noted that: The flesh of donkeys, goats, kangaroos, buffaloes and horses, killed in the field and without regard to any consideration of hygiene ... was used indiscriminately to produce food for human consumption

Good times if you were a vegetarian...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...

Interesting thread and article, but there's an offhand reference to an "Australian horse and kangaroo meat scandal of 1981" that made me look twice.

So apparently we had a massive issue 45 years ago with exported beed (sometimes horse/roo) and it led to a Royal Commission and big changes..

Alt link for non paywall

archive.md/6o3lj

Victoria spent $100m on school air purifiers. We don’t know if they worked More than 110,000 machines were sent to schools around the state. The data doesn’t show they made any difference. Was it money well spent?

I still don't know whether they're effective for schools, a great science journo @liammannix.bsky.social in our local paper did a good piece on it a while ago.

OHS wise, do what Australia has done and eliminate stone bench tops because trades don't risk manage..

www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

I suppose if you got rid of the Glen Iris Level Crossing, you could probably do the tram line extension at the same time for an extra $100m.

Seems like PTUA even suggested it back in the day per below.

Personally I just want a better service on the 734 bus..

www.ptua.org.au/files/2006/T...

The example of Ashburton is also interesting given it's relatively well serviced, with the article map highlighting a lowish cost of $0.139 per person per weekday.

Not sure extending the Route 6 tram line to Ashburton per her suggestion would be high on anyone's list of priorities...

Much more difficult on desktop given it's testing my spelling skills as well...

I assume anything less than 150 and I have to hand in my PTUA membership?

FML..

Surprisingly still lickable...

What an over of bowling! 2 wickets and one of the easiest dropped catch you'll see...

#ashes

Mine back to normal now, bit of a glitch

Ars homepage being weird.. Same on multiple devices (desktop and mobile) and multiple networks (home wifi, 5G, Work VPN). Using google vpn and it is fine

Hey, am having issues with your website on multiple devices/multiple network connections.. Can you check your CDN in Oz?

Via google VPN works fine..

We've got one of those on my bus route, the maps have it at 140m but in reality one of the stops has moved/is wrongly documented so it's actually 100m.

Is it very common here?

Other EV data is now out in the linked article, and 2025 already has more EV sales (92,885) with one month to go than in 2024 (91,293).

It's not growing fast enough but at 8% y/o/y growth it's definitely not going backwards like some of the haters think..

Spotify playlist option: "exclude playlist from your taste profile"

When my Spotify year in review went the same way I discovered the feature that stops this from happening - now no more Wiggles/Piano sleeping music!

Unfortunately Apple doesn't look to have rolled out something similar yet..

Melbourne forecast - it's actually going to be nice!!

Actual Melbourne summer starts tomorrow..

Town hall station platform

Took a slight detour on the way into the office today and wandered through Town Hall station. Looks great! #metrotunnel

Melbourne forecast for tomorrow, the start of summer. Top of 16°C and 15mm of rain

Looking forward to summer starting tomorrow! Melbourne - beautiful one day, perfect the next...

it's the classic programmer trap: just because something works in our domain doesn't mean it will work in other domains! "how hard could it be, it's only rocket science" etc

the sheer hubris to think that a robot that is 80% right will be good enough for other, less fault-tolerant domains.

Ray’s Metro Tunnel idea was blocked. So he broke the rules (and won) We reveal the secret history of how Melbourne’s landmark rail network project became a reality almost three decades later in a series of fortunate coincidences.

A good piece in the paper today that references that 2005 article..

www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...