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We really heard it here first!

Mentioning your suggestion to a couple of people made me look like someone "in the know" when the headline came out ha ha.

She definitely won't resign. The Greens seem to be really invested in internal democracy so it's hard to predict without talking to some of them.

What? I hadn't heard about this before now but.... surely most people learn how insulation works in Intermediate school. What a bizarre claim.

Managed to go to Pak n Save today. It was quite exciting because all the green veges were cheaper than they used to be so we got broccoli and cauliflower and leek. It's like the good old days!

Only one monarch caterpillar in the garden that I know of. But I did see a heap of Gypsy Moth caterpillars who were super cute, they sort of have a top knot effect and can walk really fast. I wish we could grow veges but unfortunately it's not an option. Still, there's tangelos and mandarins so am happy.

but for years they would also SMS a code as well

Facepalm. Kind of like someone I know who has a good lock but leaves the key under the mat!

Yeah stockfish is a neural net now. I play it when I'm off grid and surprisingly playing it for a week or two tends to temporarily improve my game. The trajectory is pretty interesting eg the Mechanical Turk (a "machine" that was really a human) and Deep Blue (that really was a machine but Kasparov suspected it of being a human).

They are more moves possible than there are atoms in the observable universe, and it’s not even close.

I didn't know that but it makes sense.

That's what I love about chess, the rules are so simple but even a terrible low level player like me can be really surprised and have interesting games - but so can the great masters. And you'll see a neat move online and they'll be like yeah so & so played this in 1850 and caused a sensation.

I kind of wish now that I never stopped playing it as a kid. I loved it when I was little but the "big boys at school" put me off it when I was about 8 and I assumed you needed to be especially brilliant at maths to do okay but you don't really. It's more about pattern recognition and all kinds of devious plots.

I'd be sad to see them decline too, but on the other hand I also really hated it when a kid got killed by one last year when the school decided to visit a flood prone cave during a heavy rain warning.

There has to be a happy medium around high risk vs low risk trips.

There has got to be a mechanism to prevent individual schools from making terrible judgment calls.

Pretty sure I first got a TOTP thing forced on me by an organization I was contracting for. It was kind of funny because it meant I could access their stuff for years afterwards.

People definitely like what they know. I'm trying to learn chess lately and have to fight myself to learn new ways of doing things.

Me reading this comment: "well I don't have a TOTP authenticator ... (googles it) ... oops yes I do".

Yeah you're right, it's easy to forget the general slowness out there.

Php's defenders say it's way different to how it used to be and has evolved though, aparently people who call it out of date are wrong. I don't code, so I don't know if that's true!

Yeah it looks really good!

I'd love to see graphs of the true cost of various bad decisions.

The housing stock, child respiratoey disease and the long time burden on the health system is another one, but it would be much harder to do.

I don't know the history of it but waka jumping as a list MP is surely very different to waka jumping as an electorate MP (where their constituents specifically want to be represented by them).

OTOH as the article notes it changes the balance of Parliament. But it does that if the person stays in and starts voting against their party too.

It just sort of feels so backward.

Which means even when we vote them out again it's still going to feel retro for ages because the headlines will all be about stopping smoking making drivers have seatbelts or giving women the vote (depending on how long we have them in for).