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by asdefghyk 2mo ago
In the outback of Australia, where the roads are so empty and the distances so great, the three- or four-trailer road train starts to make a whole lot more sense. Road trains aren’t going anywhere as long as Australia maintains its low pop
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Charity cyclist Bob Montgomery,82, dies one day after last heroic ride 3300 mile(abc.net.au)
4 points by asdefghyk 2mo ago|2 comments
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by asdefghyk 2mo ago
Bob Montgomery has died just one day after completing a 5,300-kilometre ride across Australia. He raISE MORE THAN raising more than $300,000 for research and service support.
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by asdefghyk 2mo ago
RE "...... yes, absolute generation from fossil fuels is declining quickly...." The challenge is to nake renewables reliable accross several days . This is the most expensive part for needed storage and transmission lines ....
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Most Australian teens still on social media despite landmark ban(news.sky.com)
10 points by asdefghyk 3mo ago|16 comments
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
More than eight in 10 Australian teens remain on social media despite the country's world-first ban introduced last year.
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
NON paywalled LINK https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/trump-says-gaza-deal-...
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'Lasting peace': Hamas, Trump announce 'complete disarmament'(theaustralian.com.au)
3 points by asdefghyk 3mo ago|4 comments
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
Hamas has confirmed that it has reached a deal over the decommissioning of its weapons after Donald Trump announced an agreement for the militant group’s “complete disarmament,” calling it a critical step toward a new Palestinian government
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
RE "...meanwhile if i talk about them the wrong way on here, my comment gets removed, why are they allowed to freely pursue their political propaganda but we aren't allowed to talk about them freely?....." I agree that Ive se
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
I recall a articale I read "somewhere" that reported the Facebook makes big profit (Billions) from scams. So they have no ( or no strong motive) motive to shut such scams down An example is courtcase against Meta for using a Aust
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
Shows media bias and how news is manipulated. Media companies caugh just like the big tech titans are faking their co operation for Australias umder 16 ban.
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Tech titans' playbook to defy Aussie social media ban(afr.com)
4 points by asdefghyk 3mo ago|3 comments
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
From the main page …… What is the Extinct Media Museum ? The Extinct Media Museum (Tokyo,Japan) is a private museum that collects and exhibits media and media equipment that have died out or are dying out in the process of evolution based o
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
I first become aware of John C. Dvorak in Byte magazine, ( back in the 80s?) to me he was a respected insigtful interesting content wrighter. The post link above says he was 74, THe wikipedia page says 80. I gues one will be corrected.
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
RE "...my 70-year-old bowling equipment...." This equipment was probably ..state of the art ... when it was installed ... back in 1950s ?
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Identical quadruplets in 'one of the rarest births in the world'(abc.net.au)
4 points by asdefghyk 3mo ago|2 comments
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
A woman has given birth to identical quadruplet daughters in what doctors have described as one of the rarest births in the world. The four babies were delivered by caesarean at 28 weeks and four days gestation last week
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
RE "......what is currently by far the cheapest form of electricity (solar)....." this is misleading and wrong. At best it is a half true statement. My total power bill has not decreased. Solar electrity may be cheap to produce.
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
The story is even bigger than ...... In some locations overseas can even just plug the invertor into the power point to start sending electrity back to the grid. No complicated approvals to connect up inverter like currently in Australia...
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
RE "....assembling programs by hand and punching hexcodes into a board......" You translated you assembly language to machine language. ( Machine language is the only language a CPU can understand. )
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
Id check for transient suppress on the charger. I had a expensive powerbank that was charging be damaged ( as in no longer worked) by a power transient.
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
It actually alludes to a significant problem. Solar generation is realitely cheap, much more storage is needed. Storage (overnight and also for several days) is challenging - one reason being its more expensive. Then there is the new transm
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
From Australlian ABC news... The cost of the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro project is estimated to range from $\$12$ billion to as high as $\$42$ billion depending on the scope of costs included (such as direct construction, interest, and broa
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
Its because they have NO economical way to store it to sell for night time usage.
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
WE need to learn to use computing resources more efficently. Use RAM more efficently.Todays software just squanders computing resources.- like RAM
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
Could also be incorrect materials used. than specified? Fake parts? or construction , used that not obvious
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by asdefghyk 3mo ago
They would be , in their own way, competing against "each other"? , with different models to get the product to customer .
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by asdefghyk 4mo ago
Side Note - VLF ( Very Low Frequency ) signals (3-30 kHz) propagate via surface wave or skywave, offering stable communication for submarines through saltwater.
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by asdefghyk 4mo ago
This articale made me have recoolection of the EDUC 8 from about 1974 built with just TTL chips https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDUC-8 The EDUC-8 is an 8-bit bit-serial design with 32 to 256 bytes of RAM. The internal c

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