Going back to the 90's the Original Fallout games (the Turn based ones) would give you different endings depending on the choices you made through out the game. Most recently Baldur's Gate 3.
I think the Mass Effect games were very flashy but the gameplay elements were pretty shallow. It felt like all the dialog led to the same outcomes, you could be a paragon and give all the "good" replies to conversation…
From what I can tell this particular incident wasn't about retrieving data on personal medical records it was accessing (non public) data about Australian government spending on healthcare.
It is hard to find exact information on what happened the best source I've found is this ABC article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/openai-agents-plotted... It mentions swarm of ai agents coordinated to break…
This was my experience as well, from the same time period 2003ish. My University's computer lab was all Sun. I thought CDE was shocking, I was immediately repelled by it when I started using it and had a similar…
Australia's alignment with the US was a major consequence of World War 2 and the aftermath of that. Pre WW2 we were basically in lockstep with the UK. However after Singapore fell to the Japanese it became increasingly…
The Australian parliament is weird but it kind of works. Members of the House of Representatives ("lower house") are elected via preferential voting and each member represents a single electorate (there are 150…
I think it is very difficult to secure internet voting, someone can stand behind you and twist your arm or otherwise coerce you to vote for their candidate. Much harder to do when there are observers and witnesses at…
I've lived with deg C my whole life it is what I'm used to, the way I experience weather is in 5 degree increments - I live on East Coast of Australia. My Internal rule of thumb is: Below 10 deg C - it is cold, Heavy…
Physics has "Strangeness" and "Charm Quarks" My own field Materials Engineering has: "Hardness", "Toughness", Resilience", etc. which all describe different properties. "Ferromagnetic" or "Ferrimagnetic best believe…
The issue is people trying to use these AI tools to investigate complex data not the throwaway UI part. I work as the non-software kind of engineer at an industrial plant there is starting to emerge a trend of people…
One big feature at the time was Firefox had a built in popup blocker, IE did not. Popup ads were rife towards the backend of the 90's and the internet felt borderline unusable without a blocker.
I'm an engineer I think there is definitely some pain points translating math to code. I've written some nasty numerical integration code (in C using for loops) for example I'm not proud of it but it solved my issue. I…
I work at an industrial plant, we use "edge" to refer to something inside the production network. As an example the control system network is air-gapped so to use ML for instrument control or similar the model needs to…
Yes I am sick of constantly getting Copilot and One Drive shoved down my throat.
>There are no "higher level details" in software development, those are in the domain of different jobs like project managers or analysts. Once AI can reliably translate fuzzy natural language into precise and accurate…
I suspect it is to do with the amount of pedestrian traffic passing through an area. When you have a high population density there is an increased amount of foot traffic in the area you can charge less per individual…
I'm an Australian in my 40's almost everyone in my immediate circle (family, friends, work-peers) has an Android, at least in my world iPhone is a minority. I grew up with Nokia phones all I want out of my phone is…
For Splines I found Christian Reinsch's classic paper to be a really good resource. You can find it various places on the web i.e here: https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu/AppliedUGMath/auxpaper_Reinsch_19... The algorithm at…
I work at an industrial plant we use boolean datatypes for stateful things like this. For example is Conveyor belt running (1) or stopped (0). Sure we could store the data by logging the start timestamp and a stop…
A lot of the Unix/Linux Syscall api has a version 2+ For example dup(), dup2(), dup3() and pipe(), pipe2() etc LWN has an article: https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/ It talks about avoiding this by designing future APIs…
The AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) website has some good data can see price of electricity in realish time. This is for the NEM (which is east coast states + South Australia), the west coast is on a separately…
Yes I have observed this as well. It happens if I watch one off sports highlights on Youtube. Most recently I watched a highlight video of Australia vs West Indies test cricket series my home page was endless cricket…
My intro course at university was also done in Eiffel, this was at the ANU in early 2000's
I think Snow Crash is an interesting book but I can see how people could be turned off by it. It kind of straddles a weird line where parts of it almost read like parody or an attempt to troll the audience but at the…
Going back to the 90's the Original Fallout games (the Turn based ones) would give you different endings depending on the choices you made through out the game. Most recently Baldur's Gate 3.
I think the Mass Effect games were very flashy but the gameplay elements were pretty shallow. It felt like all the dialog led to the same outcomes, you could be a paragon and give all the "good" replies to conversation…
From what I can tell this particular incident wasn't about retrieving data on personal medical records it was accessing (non public) data about Australian government spending on healthcare.
It is hard to find exact information on what happened the best source I've found is this ABC article: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-24/openai-agents-plotted... It mentions swarm of ai agents coordinated to break…
This was my experience as well, from the same time period 2003ish. My University's computer lab was all Sun. I thought CDE was shocking, I was immediately repelled by it when I started using it and had a similar…
Australia's alignment with the US was a major consequence of World War 2 and the aftermath of that. Pre WW2 we were basically in lockstep with the UK. However after Singapore fell to the Japanese it became increasingly…
The Australian parliament is weird but it kind of works. Members of the House of Representatives ("lower house") are elected via preferential voting and each member represents a single electorate (there are 150…
I think it is very difficult to secure internet voting, someone can stand behind you and twist your arm or otherwise coerce you to vote for their candidate. Much harder to do when there are observers and witnesses at…
I've lived with deg C my whole life it is what I'm used to, the way I experience weather is in 5 degree increments - I live on East Coast of Australia. My Internal rule of thumb is: Below 10 deg C - it is cold, Heavy…
Physics has "Strangeness" and "Charm Quarks" My own field Materials Engineering has: "Hardness", "Toughness", Resilience", etc. which all describe different properties. "Ferromagnetic" or "Ferrimagnetic best believe…
The issue is people trying to use these AI tools to investigate complex data not the throwaway UI part. I work as the non-software kind of engineer at an industrial plant there is starting to emerge a trend of people…
One big feature at the time was Firefox had a built in popup blocker, IE did not. Popup ads were rife towards the backend of the 90's and the internet felt borderline unusable without a blocker.
I'm an engineer I think there is definitely some pain points translating math to code. I've written some nasty numerical integration code (in C using for loops) for example I'm not proud of it but it solved my issue. I…
I work at an industrial plant, we use "edge" to refer to something inside the production network. As an example the control system network is air-gapped so to use ML for instrument control or similar the model needs to…
Yes I am sick of constantly getting Copilot and One Drive shoved down my throat.
>There are no "higher level details" in software development, those are in the domain of different jobs like project managers or analysts. Once AI can reliably translate fuzzy natural language into precise and accurate…
I suspect it is to do with the amount of pedestrian traffic passing through an area. When you have a high population density there is an increased amount of foot traffic in the area you can charge less per individual…
I'm an Australian in my 40's almost everyone in my immediate circle (family, friends, work-peers) has an Android, at least in my world iPhone is a minority. I grew up with Nokia phones all I want out of my phone is…
For Splines I found Christian Reinsch's classic paper to be a really good resource. You can find it various places on the web i.e here: https://tlakoba.w3.uvm.edu/AppliedUGMath/auxpaper_Reinsch_19... The algorithm at…
I work at an industrial plant we use boolean datatypes for stateful things like this. For example is Conveyor belt running (1) or stopped (0). Sure we could store the data by logging the start timestamp and a stop…
A lot of the Unix/Linux Syscall api has a version 2+ For example dup(), dup2(), dup3() and pipe(), pipe2() etc LWN has an article: https://lwn.net/Articles/585415/ It talks about avoiding this by designing future APIs…
The AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) website has some good data can see price of electricity in realish time. This is for the NEM (which is east coast states + South Australia), the west coast is on a separately…
Yes I have observed this as well. It happens if I watch one off sports highlights on Youtube. Most recently I watched a highlight video of Australia vs West Indies test cricket series my home page was endless cricket…
My intro course at university was also done in Eiffel, this was at the ANU in early 2000's
I think Snow Crash is an interesting book but I can see how people could be turned off by it. It kind of straddles a weird line where parts of it almost read like parody or an attempt to troll the audience but at the…