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Ancient retired aviation electronics engineering trainer and software developer in Australia. Classical music. Amateur classical Virtual Pipe Organist. Leash walker & warming pad for 2 rescued cats. Opinions my own. Formerly BobTheBuilder on X. No DMs.
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Ah, "green". A very convenient adjective for any fossil-fuel producer to splash about. Just produce a minimal qty of hydrogen via electrolysis as window-dressing, then generate the bulk from LNG, etc. The final product is colourless so who could discern if it started out as green or otherwise?
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The Enigma machine code was also once considered by many to be "unbreakable".
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Bet that the group in question was made up entirely of Scott Morrison's.
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Oh we do realize that other countries polute more than we do, but we assist some in their endeavors to wreck the environment by contributing the means to do so. Whataboutism is no solution to that.
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Also, from July 1 those of us whose are renters and whose only income is the aged pension may not be able to afford services needed to gracefully age at home rather than moving into aged care accommodation. From that time we will have to stump up co-payments for all but health-related services.
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Yet another reason why cats in general are adorable: most seem to favour the left. 😁
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"Gas-led recovery": Morrison.
AUKUS: Morrison.
"Noone living in poverty": various
We've heard it all before!
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😅😅
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We have 2 rescues that we got at age 3 months. I started training them almost straight away. Now 4.5 yes old & both love it. I take them out separately to avoid tangles.
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Beautiful!
Bambi is comfortable too. Resting on a warm car roof in the sun after a leash walk with me outdoors and now expecting a treat reward. (The other side of her collar tag reads "SPOILT").
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McGrath: "Still waiting to see the white smoke".
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AND, before July '25. Rejig the proposed Support At Home scheme for oldies. In its current form it is a backward step that will make critical services unaffordable for full pensioners who are already living below the poverty line. IMO it's a form of "financial elder abuse" for this cohort.
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I hadn't heard of Wolahan until that interview either. But from now on when his name comes up he will henceforth be tagged as that quiet-spoken guy who foolishly uttered the term "patriot" in one of his responses to an Australian audience.
#australiavotes #auspol #ausvotes
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Bet he wrote this himself. "He Says" posing as "She Says"?
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Another reason why I favor SBS for balance. E.g. One of their contributions in the run up to the election was a doco about the ongoing impact of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion since 1986. 😁
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I'm eligible but haven't received any (yet) either.
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Nor does this 80+ oldie. I haven't read a newspaper for the past 30 years & get most of my news from (filtered) social media posts.
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Most of my experience while employed was in Delphi Pascal against SQL databases which is now an outdated strategy. I'm currently doing mainly full-stack projects in Nextjs (React) plus some C for Arduino. May give Rust a go next.
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Absolutely. I've been lucky enough to work with & teach IT from the 1970's until retirement at age 70. But I never want to stop learning so now at age 80 I still do software development as a hobby, regularly researching & using the latest techniques.
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Yes, I escaped Musk's clutches. No regrets.
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He also once said: "No one will ever need a personal computer with more than 64 kb of RAM".
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But that's two things.
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I'm all in favor of the Douglas Adams how-to-fly technique: "Just throw yourself at the ground but make sure that you miss".
Not game to try it myself though.😆
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Bring on Easter!
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Android.
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Its cool when they're still at kitten weight. But when they have expanded to 6 kg plus - not so much. 😆
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Paranoia comes to the fore when almost everyone really IS out to get you.
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I'm 80 and I cant ???
Oh, never mind!😆
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Can't blame the employer in isolation though, I guess, as all of her customers had drunk the Cool Aide in believing that they wanted us to build Windoze apps for them.
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Business opportunity: An after-market service to whack a few pop rivets into way-ward Swasticar panels.
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The only MS product that I only ever liked was their first one (circa 1975) in the form of Altair 8K Basic which was supplied on punched paper tape. It was virtually the only alternative to coding microcomputers in assembler at that time.
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I ditched Windows in favor of Linux after Win 7, and I only used that under duress because my employer required it.
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Unfortunately Copilot is not just a Windoze affliction. I use Linux all the time, but still get invites to use copilot whenever I access Github. Not been tempted at all yet though.
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Stuff em! I wonder how many patents are entirely dependent on the latest patented medicines anyway. For example I currently consume 14 tablets a day, all of which have expired patents & can easily be replaced with generics (ex India).
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It's not your fault. Unfortunately there is a lot of poorly designed software out there.
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That seems to happen a lot these days. Never used to see aircraft with both wing tips bent up. 😄
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Many seem to be far less visible now due to being obscured behind massive radial-ply lips.
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5G may not be much better in Australian cities either. I recently switched to VF 5G from my old NBN plan for the promise of higher speeds. Terribly unstable rubbish with average speeds of around 5Mbs plus many dropouts on a "20Mbs" plan! Hopeless for streaming. Unfit for purpose. Reverting to NBN.
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Uglies of a feather, stick together.
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I use to find that printing out the whole thing in dot-matrix to one or more blocks of fan-fold paper for review didn't help either.
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Who could trust any American electronics that are glued together with soder rather than solder.
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He had better not say that in public whenever he is in Russia or he could face a 5-year prison term.
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Had problems seeing the last one as it was obscured by clouds in the atmosplane.
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Obviously not to scale. American Eagles are relatively tiny compared to our roos (and wedgies). 😆
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Dreadful build quality too. Just look at that gap under the driver-side door.
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Yes. I had shingles 5 years ago and needed emergency glaucoma treatment a few weeks later. Saved my eyesight, but not without some degradation.