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If you don't understand the difference between sex and gender go back to primary school

Yes, because Australia actually respects the rights of trans people instead of falling into alt-right culture war nonsense

I fail to see how the training dataset being bad is my fault lmao

Gen AI is fundamentally incapable of understanding anything and I think that fundamental limitation will always be an issue, but regardless the training set is full of bad code. Garbage in, garbage out.

...if you don't have the systemic understanding how will you know what to ask for?

In terms of the AI getting better, it's trained on random code from the internet which tends to be dubious quality, and now that training set includes its own slop.

Code that works and code that's maintainable are two very different things. You need a deeper, systematic understanding if you care about performance, future changes, or being bug-free. Getting it to work is the easy part, not screwing every person who touches it in the future is what matters

I am very confident anyone who's using an AI guide to learn to program has absolutely no idea what's actually going on in their code

A render showing a monstrously large and complex road interchange

Absolutely insane that we're still building stuff like this in the year of our lord 2026

In Australia you go to jail for 2 years for saying "from the river to the sea" in public, but get a slap on the wrist for repeatedly luring gay men into dark places and then filming yourself beating them unconscious while you shout slurs at them

I've been thinking about doing every SEQ station, but the prospect of doing the Gympie line with no car is bleak

This goes so incredibly hard

Luckily she seemed mostly okay, but she split her head open quite badly and ended up being taken to hospital by paramedics. This is a common, and entirely preventable injury for cyclists because roads aren't safe for them and the council is content to keep it that way

Had to call an ambulance yesterday for a middle-aged woman who came off her bike while moving from road to footpath here, because despite the width of the road (see image) and the constant flow of cyclists, BCC has decided not to install bike lanes and she didn't feel safe in rush hour traffic

Who up continvoucly morging they bugfixes

Not to clown on this guy in particular because he's at least aware of it, but this is the most bleak, desolate description of the future of tech I've ever seen. Like this is straight up dystopian and if this is how the industry is going I'm jumping ship

Gunzelsky spotted

A photo of a small port scene. A small blue and white fishing vessel sits in the centre of the image, anchored just offshore with a smaller dinghy behind it. In the foreground stacks of rusting containers are piled on the concrete ground surrounded by various cars and service vehicles. A cargo ferry is moored in a small dock, partially obscured by an open-sided shed filled with crates and pallets. The dock itself has concrete retaining walls, but otherwise the water's edge appears to be lined with mangroves.

Looking through some of my older photos and maybe I'm insane but this aesthetic goes so hard (Port of Darwin)

Back to Joh era we go I guess...

AFAIK there haven't been any updates on this, even though it's long overdue. Sentiment on BTQ (which I unfortunately agree with) is that the current state gov is more likely to let the long distance routes die rather than actually invest in them

Honestly this one was kinda genius

I do think it's a shame that they never ended up sinking the busway part but it's also not like we can't do it later

A photo showing the under-construction Roma St Station building from the street. The building is a large, open-air steel frame, with glass panels suspended on the sides and a flat roof. Palm trees and construction hoarding obscure part of it on the foreground

A closer photo of the same building as the previous image. The glass panels lift to allow people to enter and exit. A crowd flows in and out of a temporary corridor make up of construction fencing and work can be seen taking place behind it

The rebuilt Roma St Station entrance is getting close to completion and I've decide this is cool as fuck actually

things that are easy to tell even over the short term. I notice every few months when the price of a medium coffee goes up by like 15¢ because everyone charges almost the same price. I assume maybe doner is the same sort of market?

I think for a lot of foods it's hard to notice, especially fresh ingredients where the price varies. I bought a kilo of black plums for $4.50 because it's plum season, but I have no idea how much they were this time last year or what the harvest was like so idk if the price went up. Whereas some

Me coming home from my day job of being on the computer and then going on the computer

Tl;dr Labor has engineered the conditions to hand One Nation a quarter of the voting public on a silver platter, we live in hell, it's over and we're not going to make it

reason this hasn't happened sooner is because we've been able to play the "give the other guy a go" game with the Coalition, but since Dutton was so toxic to the broader public and the whole thing is imploding under Sussan Lee they're no longer a viable option to a lot of people. 4/

they've really screwed us over. We can't just "tinker around the edges" our way out of the state we're in and people clearly know this. There's desire for major change and if Labor is unwilling to do it then people are going to start thinking about the alternatives. Hell, I'd argue the only 3/

People joke about nothing ever happening but Labor have clearly cemented themselves as the party of no change to the status quo, and the status quo right now is "life gets worse and money gets tighter". They've failed to do even basic things like meaningful tax reform etc and in doing so 2/

Looking at the polls with One Nation gaining ground, I can't help but feel like a large part of this is Labor's fault. They've had the past ~half a decade in power and all they've done is repeatedly shoot themselves in the foot while the average person's quality of life plummets. 1/