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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • As with anything it’s even more “it depends”. Melbourne busses are slow an unreliable, the vast majority of tram routes share roads with cars and get stuck behind them making them painful in busy periods, and the train network is primary built around the idea of getting white collar workers from the suburbs to the city in the morning and back out again in the evening.

    For example, without a car the 10-15 minute trip to drop the kiddo off with their grandparents would be over 90 minutes. It’s less than 10km but because we’re on different train lines it’s require either going all the way to the city and out again, or a train and a bus that runs 3 times a hour with no timing connection to the train.


  • A university elective, Games programming. Had an open ended “make a game and write report on how it shows the learning outcomes of the unit”.

    I made a tiny game, just basic triangles shooting squares at each other on the ps1. I developed and tested with an emulator, but to demo for grading I burnt it to a CD and brought in my ps1







  • Reading Moore’s paper (which is the reference of the marketing person who coined the term), Moore’s law isn’t just miniaturisation, it was also an observation that’s the economics would improve. ie that building N transistors is cheaper on the next smaller node than the previous.

    And without the economics working, the shrinking would never have occurred at the rate it did for so long.

    So yes, it getting bigger would be against the spirit of the law.


  • Nah screw needing adb, that absolutely kills free and open source software stores like fdroid, and fdroid have said as much that Google’s then planned signing requirements would lead fdroid to stop.

    The only way I’d even be remotely OK with another adb requirement is if

    1. it’s a requirement to unlock the ability to install unsigned apps, ie it’s not to an install an app but set a flag
    2. #1 becomes a requirement for Google certification so all manufacturers have to allow it
    3. It doesn’t cause other types of attestation to fail that we see with unlocked, rooted and third party roms failing certain checks preventing some apps, most commonly banking ones from working