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What year is it?!
"We did it, we time travelled!"
"But to what year?"
"Let me ask that guy over there."
"What's up with the president?"
"Republican idiot's starting a war over oil."
"I have no idea."
The Bureau of Meteorology's new site is doing great
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The feedback window decided to annoy me by popping up by itself.
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I figured I might as well complain about the weather radar taking more clicks to access the information I want.
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The feedback window broke because the BOM site now relies on scripts from Google's reCAPTCHA service which my browser blocks by default. Yes, I know this is mostly on me, but it was just the icing on the cake.
Battery tech really does move fast
Just two years ago my car's 50 kWh battery weighed around 350 kg, now you can get a 45 kWh battery that fits in the palm of your hand!
93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs | Colin McMillen
In this paper, we aim to answer a long-standing open problem in the programming languages community: is it possible to smear paint on the wall without creating valid Perl?
We answer this question in the affirmative: it is possible to smear paint on the wall without creating a valid Perl program. We employ an empirical approach, using optical character recognition (OCR) software, which finds that merely 93% of paint splatters parse as valid Perl. We analyze the properties of paint-splatter Perl programs, and present seven examples of paint splatters which are not valid Perl programs.
In honor of the mostly FTTN NBN, I've made this copper coloured poop emoji.
Something about fibre to the node inspired me.