cameron

I don't understand — why does Tasmania have to build a stadium to host an AFL team? They already host footy games there, why not just upgrade those stadiums at minimal cost and community impact?

It's the same for bike infrastructure!

We built a brand new high-quality path with no connections → our surveys show no-one is using it → there's no point in building bike paths → nobody rides bikes due to a lack of paths

Can't wait for the obligatory 'more than 11 senior local residents voiced their CRITICAL opposition to the DESTRUCTIVE and WOKE TRAIN STATION' from the Daily Mail

Newsom gives off really sketchy vibes to me but I think there does need to be a Democratic version of Trump (rhetoric-wise lol not in any other way)

Weather app screenshot; sustained winds, 61km/h NW.

And 61km/h sustained winds makes it just about gale-force haha

Weather app screenshot; Highest wind gust, 117km/h at 6:56 pm.

The weather in Perth is a bit dicey right now 😬

And then what happens? Without negotiation and a deal with the Greens, Labor has no realistic chance of being a viable government. Labor has its chance now, to negotiate and form government, but soon enough the Liberals will have the independents on side and the chance of a Labor government is gone.

I reckon something like 25% of people hate traffic cameras, another 15% just kinda don't like them, and the vast majority of everyone else is pretty neutral.

Although, EVERYBODY hates traffic cameras when you get pinged by one haha

I'm still very impressed by New Zealand's model, it keeps all the benefits of having single-member electorates while being explicitly designed to be almost perfectly proportional.

Yes, the 'winner's bonus' effect. The preferential system does help to mitigate certain issues with the majoritarian system — such as making third parties viable — but ultimately all single-member electorate systems have structural flaws.

It is worth remembering that Labor is a party with strong — and enforced — party solidarity. It is entirely possible that Penny Wong has been advocating for action on Palestine at caucus meetings behind closed doors for years, but the political tide has finally shifted in her direction.

With plenty of parks and good public transport too. Actually, maybe they should take away the casino carpark and turn that into apartments. The industrial areas near Oats Street and Cannington stations also seem like low-cost, high-value development potential.

Instead what they should (but won't) do is intensify the housing density closer to the city. Take out the detached '80s houses — few will miss them — and create European-style mid-rise apartment blocks with tree-lined streets.

The profile pic and erratic nature of the reposting makes me think this is a poorly-built bot lol

As someone who is completely unfamiliar with Auckland's rail, the most confusing parts are the loop as you mentioned, but also I can't make heads or tails of how the on-peak/off-peak sections are meant to work

That way, it would appease both the people who (I think legitimately) don't want to see kids accessing inappropriate content online, while also addressing the concerns of privacy implications of having to verify age on many websites.

Or am I completely stupid and this is not implementable lol

I was wondering if there were any way to make providing ID to access websites more private.

Does anyone more techy than me know, would it be possible to create ID local to the device? Show your device your ID then it communicates with the website saying 'yep OK'.

In fact it will probably be in my YouTube feed by tomorrow morning and feature some guy on a cliff zoomed all the way in, whooping and cheering while his friend catches some crazy tsunami surf lol (and have like 60 views)

I would be shocked if there wasn't at least one guy in Hawaii paddling out to ride the tsunami because it's 6 feet, perfect wave height for surfing

what's your objection lol, I said that Apple's systems already include AI and pointed out how it has a different approach

Apple does already include AI but it might be the best implementation of AI. They prioritise on-device, low-energy models, which means that AI is handled entirely on your phone instead of handing it off to a power- and water-greedy data centre

Apple is overall one of the better companies for privacy. They have explicit long-term privacy goals, and with recent software versions have been implementing a variety of measures which give users more control over their data. I fear you are reading into a conspiracy here that simply doesn't exist!

I think they should prioritise criminalising and institutionalising child rapists but then the Trump team would be running pretty short on leaders

A train passing through Kelmscott Station (A-series set 218, 2 car). The display reads 'Test Train'.

A very exciting encounter at Kelmscott Station for me yesterday: a train running at speed along the platform!

I still can't fathom why Infantino let him have the medal and the trophy. They should have gone to the winning team or stayed with FIFA, for safekeeping. Then again, corrupt recognise corrupt 🤷‍♂️

Not to forget stealing a team medal too lol

I don't know... what sounds more appealing to me is spending a decade arguing about the specific details of a single route (or whether we should even build it) while breaking no ground...

A map of train services in the Perth metropolitan area; shows all lines in addition to water with a depth quality. It also includes a change where lines are branded with a letter for better access. Lines have also been combined (see below), without making any modifications to the actual infrastructure. A = Airport, B = Armadale, C = Mandurah-Yanchep, E = Ellenbrook, F = Fremantle-Midland, T = Thornlie-Cockburn, W = Whitfords-Cockburn.

It's been a busy few days for me :)

I want to present: The first iteration of my improved train services map for Perth! As inspired by cphtransitmap.dk, the concept aims to simplify and beautify the Transperth map. I may make further versions for legibility, accessibility, and additional features.

An email from Transperth: Hi Cameron, Thank you for contacting Transperth regarding the availability of GTFS Realtime data. Unfortunately, the Public Transport Authority (PTA) does not currently offer real-time data access to any third-party applications for publication purposes. We do make our spatial data available to download in the form of a GTFS Static feed, however I understand that you are after real-time data which we are unable to provide at this time. While the PTA’s current priority is to provide accurate and up-to-date information directly through its own services (Transperth app), so that our customers have the best access to the information they require, the PTA recognises the importance of the real-time data to other parties and is currently working towards allowing this data to be used by selected authorised third parties, such as Google Maps, in the near future. I hope the above has provided additional information and we thank you again for contacting Transperth. Kind regards, Transperth

If you take public transport in Perth and have ever wondered why we, unlike many other cities, don't have live service tracking in third-party apps: I wrote to Transperth and got this reply back. Unfortunate, because I would love to use other apps to fully replace the Transperth app.

This may be showing how young I am, but I don't have Facebook. I went over there to check out Metronet's progress because that seems to be their primary mode of communication, and made the mistake of looking in the comments. Do all the commenters share a single braincell?! Made me sad for society.