[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago

"Aint webassy we doms?"

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Old theme ABC news link (www.abc.net.au)

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 46 points 2 months ago

This would have been even more troll with a 0% answer, because that would add another layer of paradox.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"Eat now, ..." is terribly depressing. It sounds like you're trading financial autonomy in exchange for another basic human right.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 36 points 3 months ago

File I'm printing: A4 PDF
Default printer setting in Windows: A4
Default setting on printer itself: A4
Setting that gets chosen automatically in the print dialog: Letter

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

8PM (right now) +/- 10 hours

Better call the tiberium harvester back in.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 77 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

There have been constant news articles coming out over the past few years claiming the next big thing in supercapacitor and battery technologies. Very few actually turn out to work practically.

The most exciting things to happen in the last few years (from an average citizen's perspective) are the wider availability of sodium ion batteries (I believe some power tools ship with them now?), the continued testing of liquid flow batteries (endless trials starting with the claim that they might be more economic) and the reduction in costs of lithium-ion solid state batteries (probably due to the economics of electric car demand).

FWIW the distinction between capacitors and batteries gets blurred in the supercapacitor realm. Many of the items sold or researched are blends of chemical ("battery") and electrostatic ("capacitor") energy storage. The headline of this particular pushes the misconception that these concepts can't mix.

My university login no longer works so I can't get a copy of the paper itself :( But from the abstract it looks first stage, far from getting excited about:

This precise control over relaxation time holds promise for a wide array of applications and has the potential to accelerate the development of highly efficient energy storage systems.

"holds promise" and "has the potential" are not miscible with "May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries".

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 53 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I had to look this up, so I'll leave it here for others:

youth group = religious organisation trying to sign people up

(In my country if you look this term up on the web you get https://youth.gov.au . They probably wear thongs too)

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[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 94 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

"Thou has missed daily prayers for two whole weeks"

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 36 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

4.5PB holy shit. You need to stop using UTF2e32 for your text files.

I'd be paranoid about file integrity. Even a 0.000000000022% (sic) chance of a single bitflip somewhere along the chain, like a gentle muon tickling the server's drive bus during the read, could affect you. Did you have a way of checking integrity? Or were tiny errors tolerable (eg video files)?

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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?

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 54 points 9 months ago

Workaround for fingers having the wrong count.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I've been encountering this! I thought it was the topics I was using as prompts somehow being bad -- it was making some of my podcast sketches look stupidly racist, admittedly though some of them it seemed to style after some not-so-savoury podcasters, which made things worse.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 90 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Other manufacturers of all manner of stainless products seem to have figured out a solution to the problem.

Two design choices together probably make the problem multiplicatively worse:

  1. Flat panels are not anywhere as stiff as curved panels.
  2. Mechanical parameters of the stainless alloy they're using (eg it might retain the coiled shape more than some other plain steel alloys).

I can't get over the flatness... those panels surely rattle too? Or do they void-fill the doors and body with something?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by WaterWaiver@aussie.zone to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works

The real reason we warn kids to stay away from the tracks. It turns out that confectionery is cheaper than gravel in some parts of the world (and resists water erosion better because of the wrappers). Sadly they didn't anticipate anthropomorphic erosion events such as this leading to extended rail line outages.

Once the secret was out it became a nation-wide phenomena for kids to raid the tracks.

Railway engineers have been attempting to address this problem by tweaking the infill composition. A recent experiment involved infilling with only licorice, however it turns out some kids still like it. Local newspapers claim the railway engineers were quite confused by this result.

On the right the girl's hairdo reveals she had a recent near-miss at one of these railway digs. The adults now keep an eye on things -- if you pay close attention you will notice that there is actually an adult (or at least teenager) in this scene. Analyse the image closely and you might spot it.

An aspiring railway engineer at the top of the sketch, wearing blue, is pointing out a flawed sleeper. Either that or he's making a fat joke about one of his friends sitting on it.

The dirt desire-paths around the tracks show that locals regularly walk this line. Maybe it's safer than you think? These kids might not have been the first to raid this spot (how did they lift the sleepers?), I suspect the adults cracked it open sometime last night. Usually rail workers cover these sites with a tarp and signposts within a day of reporting.

Prompt: "The lost powers of childhood. Group of children in a park next to a rail line, discovering flaws in the world. Chocolates are everywhere." Generator: Bing DALL-E

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Just some kids enjoying the outdoors. Someone must have split a pinata. One of the human kids is helping his aquatic friends get some of the chocolates.

Kids are kids and there's enough chocolate to share. It's the parents you've got to be worried about. "Hanging out with warmbloods again Rexy?" "No he can't visit later! We're going. Now.".

I guess the true power of childhood is not fearing new people. A 5yo family member of mine once got lost in the park, it turns out she had joined a random birthday party (and no-one had blinked an eyelid).

Prompt: "The lost powers of childhood. Group of children in a park next to a rail line, discovering flaws in thez world. Reality is tearing apart and monsters are streaming in, stealing the chocolates." Gen: Bing DALL-E

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Prompt: "Mk II Austin 1800 competing in the London to Sydney Marathon. Driver has long grey fuzzy beard and steam is coming out of his ears." Gen: Bing DALL-E.

The drawn car is nothing like an Austin 1800 (but possible some other Austin model instead)

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I promise I did not ask for the Australian to be captured and then wrapped (blindfolded?) with a flag. That was purely the interpretation of our inter-cultural antics by the model.

Prompt: "Confused American trying to communicate with Australian" Gen: Bing DALL-E.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 47 points 10 months ago

Very misleading title. This is not an energy efficient process (what we need for energy storage), instead it has a high chemical yield.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WaterWaiver@aussie.zone to c/gaming@beehaw.org

I enjoyed this review (and that of Kings Quest 1) thoroughly. I am very glad I did not try to play it myself, The Scam Bridge would have destroyed me.

I now feel some questions about a few other games that I've played before are answered -- they copied some of Kings Quest's style and feel. Vague memories of a Trogdor game are now haunting me.

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