Back to back Christmas functions and work has entered the CBF phase. Finally.

Half my feed is AI generated engagement bait or marketing disguised as content. It’s a bit of a wasteland compared to what it was

If there was an economic indicator that measured can ladies per capita, it would say that things are pretty messed up. Had two raid my bin in a single day.

A local economics podcast gave me an interesting point, which was that post covid Australia had one of the better unemployment rates, and it 100% came down to government funding jobs in the care sector. Now I do understand some of those aged/disability care programs got ripped off (like NDIS), but the guests claimed that countries relying on private sector jobs to bounce back basically have worse numbers. Food for thought in the role of government intervention in markets

I set a goal to lose about 75lbs but only lost 50. That’s about 15 months ago. I’d say it’s a good try.

Next goal is strength. So I’m starting at the very bottom which feels embarrassing. Have only moved up in reps very slowly.

The one thing I learned about setbacks from dieting is that if you have a very emotional reaction to failure, you will have to train yourself out of self destructive behaviour to get anywhere. It has to be nothing but a speed bump from a mental resilience point of view.

Iirc council was forced to approve stuff in Windsor/richmond in a flood zone so yeah. Can’t assume that developers won’t cover it up.

It’s not all rainbows and unicorns though. A certain amount of power is provided through burning of natural gas, which used to be quite cheap. As I understand it, this was because we had our own cheap supply and then sold on the rest for international export. A few years ago we shifted that priority to exports, which meant that local prices for our own gas shot up. This translated into higher energy prices. As for the percentages now with solar, I’m not so sure. The gas increase was enough to impact CPI in a meaningful way and it doesn’t seem like prices are really down?? Though yeah my anecdote is not a study.

Oh right haha dedication. I wouldn’t mind trying to set up a fedi bot but probably have to run my own server to avoid spamming people with test junk.

Never even heard of Spencer, sounds interesting

I kind of admire that you set up a bot to drive some conversation from random Sydney places. Have only driven past wiseman’s, but thanks for the inspiration for a weekend jaunt.

I’m sorry I haven’t had much luck with finding vscodium equivalents. Currently using yaak (until the author rug pulls the open source version)

All of the subs I previously visited are being taken over by marketing campaigns and I find it is getting increasingly worse over time. They are slowly pushing out all the real users that generated the value of the site. The end game has to be just bots posting to bots.

Just wanted to post because I couldn’t stand Melbourne being more active. That is all

In my experience I tried to come into a vibe project as a reviewer, and it felt completely unreadable with no underlying principles to hold on to. Like every function was written by a different guy almost.

Now you totally can stuff the context with instructions about how to do everything. And then add 50x mcps to retrieve documentation and policy about how to write the thing, but this is like cheating on an exam by remembering the answers. You already supplied enough context to write the thing yourself.

Not many incumbents have survived the post covid landscape, so this doesn’t come as a huge surprise. Given this knowledge I expected labour to go out swinging, and take a chance on a more radical policy platform. Unfortunately, they seem to water down everything to appease everyone and it begins to feel like a status quo platform. Exactly the opposite kind of message for an electorate with an ever diminishing standard of living, desperate to try everything (even siding with far right populist policy) to dig themselves out.