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Stirling Arms in Guildford. They are being quite public about it.

I normally vote. This time, I forgot.

We get one letter in the mail, and that's it. The occasional candidate poster in the suburb.

Yes, it's on me for not putting it in my calendar. But at the same time - I feel like there needs to be more advertising or something to prompt us.

Mini metro but with roads. I prefer the original, I'd have included it in my list, except that it came out several years later than the other games. The titles in that list are all from around 2008-2010, when that sort of game was the norm.

Unfortunately, Fieldrunners is one that loses its appeal once you have figured out how to reliably beat it on the hardest difficulty.

I've just remembered there was a pocket version of Civilization. That one got played so much!! And very re-playable.

Idempotent. It's a best-practice methodology for writing code. Run this code, it determines whether the thing needs to be done and does it. Run it over and over, and it will do no harm. It can be automated to run every 5 minutes to only do the thing when it is needed.

A real world picture to explain the concept:

I'd been doing this for years before I knew the word for it.

Flight Control
Plants vs. Zombies
Peggle
Angry Birds (original one)
Fieldrunners
Asphalt 6
Jetpack Joyride
Doodle Jump

I actually have a couple of these still installed. I think they all cost something like $1-$5 to install but that was it. No in app purchases, no ads etc. So nice.

I'm sure the fact that this happened less than two weeks after China suspended all Iron Ore trade specifically with BHP is pure coincidence.

You might be a bit lost. 🙂
This is the community for Melbourne, Australia and is one of the most active communities on all of Lemmy. So it shows up in people's "All" feeds probably more than it should.

It may make more sense if you know that Myki (my key) is the name of the public transport ticket system in Melbourne.

And now you know the origin of the auspolitics community's thumbnail.

Huh. That's two things I've learned from this thread. In my defense, they've just opened/moved there. I'll have to go check them out.

Oh wow! That's what this will be. I had no idea wrestling what this popular with people over 13.

I don't want to stereotype or anything, but the mood didn't quite match with my past experiences of people lining up for a book signing. Those people with luggage look like they've just landed, taken the train to Perth and immediately joined the line instead of going to their hotel. Besides, what bookshop? White Dwarf books is in the other direction.

'We don't believe in the laws of Australia'
'Taking our guns away is unlawful'

Do they hear themselves?

It's an interesting precedent. I've used AI several times in my job. Even for a government client. My prompts tend to be 'give me a demo function that does x' so that I can see how to do a thing. It's usually quicker than Stack Overflow, but still requires human oversight - it often gets things wrong.

But yeah - just using AI to do work: If that leads to being unacceptable to some clients/government departments, workers are going to be doing their jobs without the latest and most efficient tools. I think my situation is different to Deloitte's, because I didn't give the client what the AI spat out. It looks like they did.

I had that machine so I know what I’m talking about.

Ahh - that's how you knew about the HDMI-out issue. That one isn't a problem for me as my screens are attached to my desktop these days. I disagree that this thing can't play games though - it had 4000+ hours of gaming in its past under Windows, and worked flawlessly as a Windows 10 machine until last month. It is showing its age, but its weakness has always been that GPU. I'd never have bought it as a gaming machine: I bought it for work and games was a nice bonus.

I have owned this thing since the day it came out and for a decade it was my primary 'everything' machine. I've lugged across oceans and to dozens of client sites until I changed jobs to one that didn't need a laptop any longer. I'm very familiar with it and know what it is capable of. It can get warm, yes, but it isn't like I actually play with it on my lap. I could reinstall Windows on it and have it playing those games again, but I'd much prefer Fedora. This is a driver support issue, specifically a closed-source vendor choosing both not to support it and to refuse to open up their source so others can support it. It is not a problem with the hardware.

You say that like an i7 with 16GB RAM, and a GeForce GPU can't game. The hardware is more than good enough (within reason - these are 15+ year old games). It works fine in Windows 10. Normally Linux support for older drivers is better than Windows; Nvidia is the exception.

I fired up a little test with Terraria and it worked, though that one likely would have worked under nouveau. I'll do a more solid test during the week.

If your favourite brand comes in at 20+ instead of 50+, it's fine to keep using it. I won't say this is a beat-up, but they're making out like you should throw your sunscreen out, when 20 odd years ago all sunscreens were 24+ and that was normal. Just be sure to re-apply it every two hours if you are in the sun a long time.

For most of the affected brands, this is more a potential issue with false advertising than public safety. Also noteworthy that most of the brands produced results from independent testing when approached for comment. The Cancer Council said they're going to submit their affected products for another round of tests with another lab. So the brands are taking this seriously and most of them appear to be acting in good faith.

Most of Choice's tests were performed on ten volunteers in line with Australian and international standards. Three tests were performed on five volunteers.

This is important to remember. We aren't talking big sample sizes, here. It's really important to shine a light on Sunscreens and be certain they are up to the task. But at the same time, don't overreact.

Ultra Violette's Lean Screen SPF50+ Mattifying Zinc Sunscreen, which costs $52 for 75 millilitres, and returned an SPF rating of four.

Ok, so this one is difficult to defend - I wouldn't use it. 😂

Most of my team leave today. The project was extended three months to September 30. The work isn't done, there's still a few things to roll out so three of us are going another month.

It's a bit sad. I've worked with some of these people over two years.

What? Growing flowers is loads more effort than just buying them.

If I pay $60 for a bunch of flowers, that's something like 1-2 hours work. Growing them? No idea how long that takes, but I bet it's longer than that.