I love seeing the ways that people abuse Breakfast Buffets. Woman here this morning has gone to the waffle bar for a bowl of double cream and put it on a piece of white toast. Go off Queen.
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Evan Beaver
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Electricity, fermented vegetables and cricket. Recent football (soccer) convert. Works in electric vehicle charging
Darug and Gundungurra country, sometimes called Glorious Blue Mountains
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@oxy@social.bsdlab.au Apparently it's a "Layshaft / countershaft gearbox" not that I understand what that means
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@peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange Love this topic. This Vanity Fair article is also *excellent*
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash
I've been banging on about this for years on Bird Site, but I feel like everyone here already knows that climate impacts aside, gas cooking is properly bad for your health
https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-stoves-asthma
If LinkedIn is going to have jobs you should be able to exclude all SaaS businesses
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@dotjayne Yeah it's fine on some level to let AI help you do computer. The not fine bit is letting it do engineering without oversight. That's bad engineering practice and you deserve work-related pain.
1999 Evan is very interested in this event
Eating a prawn and chorizo pizza
Slightly related: when I was 18 a mate got hold of a vintage dual microphone tape recorder. We got pissed one night with it and spent a few hours recording burps in glorious stereo. Like 15 second burps that pan left and right 10 times.
The tape was lost for years! Until one morning I'm driving back from the airport and put in a random tape from Dad's car. As I arrived at the M4 toll gates (when they had people!) the tape hit its crescendo and the toll booth lady must have thought I was dying.
Airlines are basically criminal organisations IMO. Looking at prices, $800 each. Accidentally refreshed and they went up to $1100.
KPIs are a double edged sword. Sometimes they're insane and soul crushing. Other times the KPIs you are given are embarrassingly easy to achieve, but everyone thinks you're actually working incredibly hard on something impossible, and KPIs become a lovely shield to hide behind and do your own thing.
Extremely excited about lunch today. Bring back lunch posting I say. 350g rump, salad and a massive LLB today
Just learned that these exist: $60k electric ute in Australia
https://kgm.com.au/models/musso-ev
Junior football chat: daughter started playing this year, and she's in a team that I'm not coaching. The other coach does things differently to me. I'm finding it challenging.
The girls have been winning games comfortably in Div 2 U12. We got informed that the association would watch our game Saturday and decide if we should go up. Old mate tried everything he could to win that game, putting stress on the girls and leaving the worst players on the bench as long as possible.
I learned about Pam the Bird yesterday then saw some today.
Interesting thing last night, travelling for work I googled the nearest pizza with the highest rating and went there for dinner. In the restaurant were 4 other business travellers who seems to have done the same thing
I don't watch many movies but I watched Ender's Game last night and thought it was good. Hadn't read it before. Some interesting ideas
I reckon I'll comfort watch Fellowship of the Ring today
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@bastardsheep At the risk of being well actually (I'm really not), did some work with disability folks on EV parking spaces and they talked about how different folks have different access requirements, so wide spaces allow everyone to get what they need. That parking arrangement might be optimum?
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@TheCoolDown@flipboard.com @the-cool-down-TheCoolDown Phwoar I don't mean to brag but this is very slow! First battery? We've had one at our house for 10 years! The US has strangled solar
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@jpm@aus.social Yep, it's the Thursday night where the juniors show up at training and go "when did winter start!"
Junior Football Chat: My junior boys were *excellent* this morning. Played a good team who dusted us last year. We've got a bunch of new players and are very much still coming together as a team, so the defence has been a bit of a mess. I asked them to defend first this week, then we build out from strength, and they did perfectly. clean sheet after letting in 6 last week.
Just need a bit of finishing finesse and we would have smashed them. 0-0 on the day, away from home.
What was the @ sign doing before email was invented? Just hanging around waiting for its time?
My lovely little Charity Insight of Dreams is hosting a track day at Eastern Creek this sunday. A few tickets are left
https://insightofdreams.org.au/blind-speed-track-day/
This is an event designed to let blind and vision impaired people do something that is almost impossible anywhere else. There's a guy coming Sunday who has been racing carts since 6, but has developed neuromuscular disease at 18 and has maybe 3 months of driving left in him. He's doing hot laps at Eastern Creek Sunday night.
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@stephen We've got a cheap Ryobi and it does all the simple pruning type garden jobs easily. Wouldn't use it for keeping a fireplace stocked though
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @CatherineBabault Sorry, a more accurate question should be, is this the same species that occurs at the San Fran pier?
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@davidculley I'm not prepared to say that all use of AI is unethical, no. For a start, my friends in the blind community ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT, complete game changer.
And on the water/energy use question, that's a subset of resource use in general. If data centres use too much water that's a regulation problem, not an AI problem. Potable water use for cooling is illegal where I live, as it probably should be everywhere!
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@MissingThePt@mastodon.social I think it depends a lot on the terrain.
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@tomw@mastodon.social [youth pastor voice]
There was another guy who invited us to look up into the BlueSky; that man was Jesus, and that beautiful Blue Sky, well that's heaven, and this is Jesus's invitation
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@moriel@chaosfem.tw Agree so hard my head spins. I do use the phrase "touch antennae" for getting technical people to talk directly to each other, and it's not facetious.
To a large degree I'm working in vehicle electrification because I find the hardware really cool. To that end, here's a 6 speed gearbox suitable for semi-trailer conversions.
Weighs 100kg, can be warranted for 2 MILLION km.