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by femto 3mo ago
Thanks for that informative link. I looked to see if there was any data beyond the ABC article and didn't find it. Some of the truthful brands listed in the BBC article are available where I live. Kudos to the US that their labels m
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by femto 3mo ago
Check their tomato paste. It turns out that nearly every tomato paste in Australia comes from Xinjiang in China, including those marked as Australian or Italian. Simplot (Leggos), the big US company, was the worst offender, so it's p
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by femto 3mo ago
Best I heard was someone who taught their "friend's" young child to screech like a cockatoo [1]. You can take a drum kit away, but you can't take a cockatoo screech away. The recording doesn't give true justice to
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by femto 3mo ago
Okay. I should have interpreted it to mean "So clearly that isn't the full answer". I interpreted it to mean "So clearly that isn't part of the answer". I think reducing the "saturation" of guns
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by femto 3mo ago
> So clearly that isn't the answer. Quite an assertion. What Australia is doing works by one measure that matters: number of people killed by a gun. In 2024 the gun murder rates were: US: 4.5 per 100,000 AU: 0.09 per 100,000 Ratio:
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by femto 3mo ago
Probably no compensation. Under "English" law (Canada is a Commonwealth country), the wrongful conviction will probably to taken to be without malice and reasonable given the information the US provided, so tough luck. He might b
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by femto 3mo ago
A complete USB voltmeter/ammeter costs $1. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/MX17-Current-and-Volt... Ignore the case and connector, on the basis that the circuit will be integrated into a larger scanner, and
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by femto 3mo ago
If I was building a black box to detect hidden data on a USB stick, I'd include a feature whereby it measures power consumption and flags USB drives that don't consume the expected power for that type of drive.
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The device detecting the deadliest creature(smh.com.au)
5 points by femto 3mo ago|1 comments
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by femto 3mo ago
Conventional wisdom is to use a bound notebook, as a court will discount reliability if pages can be removed without leaving a trace.
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Trump firm plans to sell priority access to Truth Social posts, possibly his own(apnews.com)
12 points by femto 3mo ago|3 comments
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Batteries 'cheaper' than gas plants as data centres fuel turbine costs(abc.net.au)
7 points by femto 3mo ago|0 comments
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by femto 3mo ago
Where I live, it was front page news four weeks ago. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-16/nsw-bureau-of-meterol... Not that it lead to any particular action or recognition.
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by femto 3mo ago
Online retailers are also responsible under the law, as the laws apply to all retailers. In practical terms, if it's an online business with no Australian presence it makes it hard to apply the law. Overseas online companies with an Au
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by femto 3mo ago
I'd encourage Australians not to muck around in this regard. Fair Trading gives explicit instructions: 1) Contact the organisation 2) Suggest a resolution 3) give them a reasonable time to respond (ie. not forever) 4) Be polite 5) Lod
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NSW Police infiltrate 'VIP Network' underworld phones, send warning message(abc.net.au)
3 points by femto 3mo ago|1 comments
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by femto 3mo ago
If an LLM was a person, it would be known as a "bullshit artist". I've worked with bullshit artists (people) before, and its exhausting trying to separate fact from fiction. It's a reason to avoid working with such peo
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by femto 3mo ago
I did something like that for my local area (in about 2012). It turned into a hobby, whereby I spent a couple of years on foot exploring the local bush in minute detail and used OSM to document what I found. There are features on OSM that
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by femto 3mo ago
I used to use OrganicMaps. When coMaps forked, I changed to it. From my perspective there were no negatives. If anything, coMaps looked to be under more active development.
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by femto 3mo ago
Yep. That topology is called a gyrator. Often used in IC's where it is hard to make an inductor.
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by femto 3mo ago
A problem with metric-imperial conversion in the article? Based on having seen them in the bush, wombat poo is a 4 centimetre cube not a 4 inch cube. That would be a Diprotodon sized wombat. Lucky we're only talking about wombat poo
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by femto 4mo ago
An Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing fax machine!
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by femto 4mo ago
Source code: https://github.com/populationgenomics/talos Paper: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.19.25327921v...
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Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis by automated, iterative genomic reanalysis(microsoft.com)
4 points by femto 4mo ago|1 comments
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by femto 4mo ago
My prediction is that in the not to distant future solar/wind + storage will be able to replace nuclear in most areas on Earth. The growth of solar has historically been underestimated [1], and it will continue to be underestimated.
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by femto 4mo ago
I got 97/100 (80.5k) by picking the answer that has no relation to the word. Most of the incorrect answers bore some relation to the word, whether that be phonetic or a similarity to a root word.
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by femto 4mo ago
Something like that exists with the RECCO system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RECCO Not quite an arbitrary Personal Locator Beacon, but it can help rescuers home in from a distance. It's cheap because the tag i
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by femto 4mo ago
I'm thinking passive, as in using only acoustic energy that is already present. Partly it's about minimising irradiation, which you are saying is not a concern. The more interesting aspect to me is whether the ambient emissions c
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by femto 4mo ago
As someone in the medical imaging field, are you aware of anyone working on passive sonar for medical imaging? I'm curious, as it's something that I've always thought would be fun to work on.
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by femto 4mo ago
Likely the continued existence of taxis are keeping Uber's prices in check in the Australian market. Uber will be running an optimisation model and be charging the maximum market can sustain, with additional goals such as eliminating c

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