WaterWaiver

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[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago

"Aint webassy we doms?"

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Perhaps the software OP is using has a second layer of generation (with a different network) that focuses on details like eyes. It might not even know the input prompt (and if it does then it might not have the training background to reward keeping things pixelated).

 

The new theme seems deadset on replacing content with whitespace, driving my father in particular mad (he's having more luck finding Australian news on DW than the ABC right now; and he is sore that he has to hunt for the "Science" news category now in menus).

Not sure how long they'll keep the ?future=x flag available, but for now it gives you about double the number of articles per page.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Can confirm, 20 decimals gives you 100.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Can't be much sunlight normally, the curtain rail is decorative.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

The bed is make of pork mince and the house is flooded. No bushfires though, so not realistic.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Perfect dark has a fan PC port that's really good. I couldn't stand it on console (low fps made me motionsick) but it was a hoot when I played it on PC. https://github.com/fgsfdsfgs/perfect_dark

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Oof, that sounds horrible. Hope you're doing better now.

(Serves you right for rubbing your glands on other peoples glands! No more neck hugs allowed.)

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

or simply inconveniencing them though

Screwing. 100% screwing.

An inconvenience is not being able to get someone on the phone in minutes or hours. Screwing is making someone spend days, weeks or months trying to get you on the phone and navigate a system that's supposed to help them, not hurt them.

My dad isn't at pension age yet and has been struggling the last few years whilst being a full time carer of my grandmother. It has often taken days to weeks of calling to get through and weeks to months get things approved.

Whereas, there are so many services we have that are for ACTUAL emergencies, and require fast service, where the money would save lives.

You have this so backwards.

Centrelink saves lives. Support saves lives. Welfare saves lives.

If you don't support people then they end up having to use the emergency services. Is it cheaper to support people before the need emergency services rather than after. You can't house all the unemployed, disabled, pensioners, veterans (and other people I've probably forgotten) in emergency wards, these people don't magically end up fed, housed and cared for if make Centrelink and related services a nightmare to deal with.

My dad has been keeping my grandmother out of hospital. She's now in a nursing home, funded mostly by government, that is keeping her out of hospital. It is extremely costly to put her in a hospital bed.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I click on my "From" address and then select "Customize From Address...". I can then type anything I want up there. It's a little annoying when replying to an email chain with an alias, but not too many steps.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The actual quantities are pretty small

In pure, stable form, yes. A hundred or so grams released in my house won't be noticed or cause any problems.

But a few hundred grams of burnt fluorine hydrocarbons? 😬 That's a whole other story.

Most modern domestic fridges stick with a plain hydrocarbon refrigerant anyway (akin to butane) these days.

I'm yet to see R600a in Australian domestic fridges, I thought we were lagging in that department? Can you just get them at retailers now?

if you’ve got burning refrigerant there are much bigger problems going on seeing as the refrigerant circuit is hermetically sealed

Strong disagree xD Inhaling burning fluorine compounds > fridge not cooling any more

That kind of thing would also provoke a product safety recall.

I'm not diagnosing the most likely cause of a normal fridge failure, but considering some interesting causes that align with the unusual scenario depicted in the article. Don't panic, I'm not going to go all "fridge bad" on you.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Could be burning refrigerant (some are flammable AND fluorinated).

 

8PM (right now) +/- 10 hours

Better call the tiberium harvester back in.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by WaterWaiver@aussie.zone to c/environment@aussie.zone
 

Encountered this fellow during bushcare today. He was sitting right on top of the bridal veil roots we were pulling, looking suspiciously like a rock.

We probably shouldn't have handled him (I hope turtles don't get dizzy from being turned upside down). We put him back down and hid him under some other groundcover as a local Kookaburra was loitering.

 

I could not find any mentions of these problems online. The article itself has no technical detail.

Looking forward to seeing what the actual problems are. It seems this is the first product to market.

Guesses based off the general subject matter:

  • Silica concentrations probably vary depending on the exact position of your head, especially since it's heavy material. If you mount this sensor even a few meters away from a worker then it's readings could possibly become invalid, eg because an angle grinder is firing dust a different direction to the sensor.
  • Silica is a slang term for a very big category of materials. Some might look completely different to others under certain laser observations, leading to some getting missed (bad) and others materials triggering false positives (leading to the sensor's screams being ignored by workers).
  • Self-cleaning routines might be needed to stop it clogging up, otherwise the sensor starts reporting a higher baseline. They could either choose to report this ("pls clean me" light comes on) or ignore it (bury head in sand mode).
  • Alternatively it's performance might actually be fine, but perhaps it's still being spruked inappropriately. Government involvement in funding the project might (?) magnify this problem.
 

Context: https://aussie.zone/post/5207334

I'll make an account through Slrpnk if this doesn't work.

 

I accidentally held down the photoshoot button on my phone and ended up with a sequence of photos of the same scene taken over about 1 second. Interestingly the series of photos contains two very different styles of image:

The first photo looks how I'd expect. Sky is overblown from the clouds and foreground of the forest is dark.

The second photo has somehow magically made the sky darker and the foreground brighter.

At a guess I think a software algorithm is trying to separate the foreground and background, then individual levels adjustments are being applied to each region. Checkout these two close-up crops:

The first photo shows what I'd normally expect from a camera (bright light bleeding into the trunk), the second shows a white halo around the trunk on the sky (probably artificial/software blending from foreground to background). I think I can also see see some evidence of artificial sharpening on the trunk texture; or perhaps the photo was just better in focus (some of the photos were a bit blurrier than others).

I'm using a Pixel 3 with OpenCamera.

Does anybody know what this feature is called and more info about it? I'm particular interested in how binary it is -- it's either activated or not -- some some heuristic must be involved.

 

Internode used to be a high quality home internet brand.

My understanding is that loyalty is never rewarded for competitive subscription services (gas, eletricity, water, internet, insurance, etc).

I wonder how long until AussieBB enshitifies?

 

Key excerpt:

According to the late professor Patrick Troy, here's how things were viewed in the early 1970s:

"The cost and price of housing continued to be a source of social and political concern. Over the period 1969-1973 the number of years' average earnings required to buy a house site increased substantially. In Sydney, it increased from 1.7 to 2.7 years, while in Melbourne it grew from 1.2 to 1.8 years."

Compare that to what modern researchers have to say about Australia in 2023:

"Since 2001, the national ratio of median house price to median income has almost doubled to 8.5, and the time required for the accumulation of a deposit for a typical property has increased from six years median earnings in 1994 to 14 years currently."

 

I want to make my own iron-on labels and patches (small scale, for fun).

Does anyone know what the name of the adhesive is? All I can find when I search online are people wanting to sell me pre-made patches, not information about their composition.

I presume it's some low melting point (<100degC) polymer. For all I know a wide variety of things might work (maybe even PETG 3d printer filament, which softens around 70degC, or hot glue shavings), but I'd like to see if I can at least find out the name of what's commercially used.

EDIT: Solved, see https://aussie.zone/comment/4326482

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