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  • Does vibe coding sort of work at all?

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  • If you "vibe code" your way through trial and error to an app, it may work.But if you don't understand what it's doing, why it's doing it and how it's doing it?Then you can't (easily) maintain it.If you can't fix bugs or add features, you don't have a saleable product - you have a proof of concept.

    AI tools are useful, but letting the tool do all the driving is asking for the metaphorical car to crash.

  • Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks

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  • Rabbits, Cane Toads and Artificial Meat in a three way knife fight, winner gets stomped by the Emus.

  • Australia’s first lab-grown meat will be on menus within weeks

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  • The CEO of Vow, George Peppou, is taking a very different approach from these competitors. Rather than asking customers to pay $71 a kg for frozen shredded “chicken”, he says the company is embracing the high cost of cultivating cells by creating products to match the price.

    “We selected going with these very high end products, very high end positioning … as a way of trying to shape and influence food culture as much as possible,” he says. While foie gras prices fluctuate significantly, at the time of writing Vow’s Forged foie was cheaper than the real deal.

    I like this, just like how Tesla's first release was a roadster - it's not supposed to replace a Camry, why make a Camry with half the range and 4 times the price?Start at the expensive end, match the quality and then work down.

  • Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour

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  • About 200 Australians have money.Almost a quarter of it.

  • Opinion: Australians remain deeply sceptical about the value of private healthcare – it’s time for radical reform

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  • I've read that enough youth are just taking the surcharge and loading on the chin that insurers have started to worry.

    I'm not young, but I'm doing this.My tiny ideological stand.

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  • Me: Hi, I need some high quality components, you know better than office stuff, and I'm willing to pay a premium.Company: Great, we have a huge range. And as a bonus we've covered EVERYTHING in LEDs!Me: Err, can I get the good mechanical switches and silent fans without LEDs?Company: Ooh, that's a SPECIAL item! 3x the price!

  • Telepathy will be real once we master brain computer interface

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  • The concept of direct brain interface is both exciting and terrifying.We struggle to secure offline systems against determined attack, and my brain is not a test bed.

  • Can someone explain Australian parties to me?

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  • Back in 1909 The Protectionist Party and Anti-Socialist Party put aside their differences to take on the Labor party, which was seen as Socialist.The founders wanted freedom (Liberty) from what they saw as Labour Union dominion.

    Funnily enough, an actual Libertarian party has since popped up and the Liberals challenged their name with the AEC, which as I said is funny because the Electoral Commision correctly pointed out that if ANYBODY has an incorrect name, it's the Liberals.

  • AUS MIC REVIVAL WHEN?

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  • Vegemite?Couldn't we just go for nuclear tipped ICBMs like civilized people?We're not animals.

  • Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding

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  • By the end of Trump’s term

    So, when he dies?Because if ever there was US president who intends to try for "President for life", it's this guy.

  • When you forget that you hired THEM because you weren't skilled enough to do it yourself

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  • This is fantastic.Tradie doesn't want to be watched while they work.I want to learn by watching, so I'll hire someone else.We both get what we want.

  • Graphical date and time settings programs other than gnome-system-tools

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  • I can't think of a standalone gui app that does this (and a simple google search didn't find one).If you have a gui desktop (gnome,kde,xfce,lxqt,enlightenment,budgie...) it will have a built in function in it's settings to do this, or leverage one of the parent ones (ie budgie is based on gnome, lxqt on kde).If your custom environment is pared down to the point where you don't have an equivalent to gnome-system-tools and don't want to install it, you might have to just use date at the command line.

  • Local Area FTP

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  • USB-C charging is now mandatory in EU, here's what you need to know - GSMArena.com news

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  • This is basically a botspam talking point.It doesn't matter.If you've got bad cables, you should do the same thing you would do with a bad iPhone cable or any other cable that no longer serves its purpose - recycle it.Now buy another cable that's actually good, if you don't know which one that should be, maybe find out which ones your phone provider sells.This is a self correcting issue over time.

  • Chinese envoy criticizes Australia, US for 'double standards' on human rights, downplaying Gaza situation

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  • Sometimes, it's backwards

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  • Sounds like you’re stuck in a worst practices mindset.

    Worst/Pragmatic.If I get a timeline for a feature request, then everything can be scheduled, tested, whitelisted, delivered at a reasonable time.That's the rarer event - normally it's more like "the scale head has died and a technician is on the way to replace it" and whilst I modify the program in question to handle this new input, hundreds of staff are standing around and delivery quotas won't be met.Is my position arrogant? This is the job.

    Sign your damn releases and have the whitelisting done by cert.

    I'll see if this is possible at the site in question, thank you.

  • Sometimes, it's backwards

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  • It IS bespoke internal development, not for deployment outside of the facility.The computers running the software exist only to run this software and have no business talking to the internet at all.IT is provided by an external third party vendor who operate on an inflexible "best practices dogma".

  • Sometimes, it's backwards

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  • In a rapidly churning startup phase, where new releases can and do come out constantly to meet production requirements, this one size fits all mentality is impractical.

    If you refuse to whitelist the deployment directory, you will be taking 2am calls to whitelist the emergency releases.

    No it can't wait until Monday at 9am, no there will not be a staged roll out and multiple rounds of testing.

    I am more than willing to have a chat; you, me and the CEO.

  • What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?

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  • I have a friend group that insist on all events being planned through facebook.I've missed out on events in the past due to not taking part.It's no longer a hill I wish to die on.

  • What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?

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  • I agree and use Signal myself.But people like the extra features of WhatsApp like desktop/web clients with seamless history sync and all the other little things that WhatsApp provides.The average Joe doesn't even think about security or privacy, they just know that the results of using WhatsApp are superior than using SMS.iMessage is a non starter everywhere out of the US, it just doesn't have the market penetration.As an Australian, no one I know (many of whom own iPhones) talk about the blue-green bubble stuff.They recognise where the fault lies and simply don't use the app.

  • Aussie Enviro @aussie.zone
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    Andrew Forrest says Coalition’s abandonment of 2030 emissions target would ‘decimate’ economy

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/article/2024/jun/18/andrew-twiggy-forrest-coalition-2030-emissions-target-decimate-economy
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    Coalition to impose ‘cap’ on renewable energy investment, Nationals leader says

    www.theguardian.com /environment/article/2024/jun/17/coalition-liberal-government-renewable-energy-cap-nationals-david-littleproud
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    Opposition vows to scrap NSW offshore wind farms in Labor heartland

    www.abc.net.au /news/2024-06-17/national-party-david-littleproud-scrap-offshore-wind-zone-pledge/103987482