I have both friends and family who would have barely survived without housing trust. This is wonderful news.

HBO Max doesn’t exist in Australia. It’s on Stan, Foxtel Now and Amazon Prime here.

Watched it for the first time following Furiosa. I’ve seen fewer seeders on new releases.

I was pretty miffed when I realised “gas town”'s primary export was petrol and not, you know, gas.

Simulink has a concept called Test Harnesses which are models that isolate individual blocks for testing. The tests themselves are then driven programmatically from MATLAB

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That’s the only kind of apartment we make!

Residences in new developments are often sold before they are built

I’m Australian, and the photo clearly showing that you can park a car and get two cars past one another tells me that these “narrow streets” are substantially wider than all the normal streets in my vicinity.

I suspect this is more of a stroad (and planning) problem than an actual narrow street problem.

Have you got concurrency and parallelism swapped around?

The functions you’ve called out are higher order functions regularly associated with the functional programming paradigm. “In the first place” for a lot of people would be a functional programming course at a university.

For your specific case, rust (like a few other languages) implements these through iterator programming. There’s a section in the rust book that might help.

Apart from academia you learn from experience, including a healthy amount of reading other people’s code, just like you did to find out about these functions in the first place!

what’s stopping three, or four, or an entire suburb?

If this leads to spontaneous direct democracy I’m all for it

Australia has ABC Vote Compass, but it has some oddities based on issues with our political/media landscape:

• it only places you relative to the three top parties
• all the questions are specific election wedge issues (mostly between the top two parties) rather than broader ideological questions, and so it only updates in the run up to each federal (read: national, Australia wide) election
• it takes politicians statements at face value, and doesn’t factor in actual behaviour in power which is often at odds (if you’re curious, look up the history of high speed rail or nuclear power in Australia. Both have been used for electioneering again and again, neither exist despite the advocating party winning)

It doesn’t need a punchline because the NACC is a joke

Care to share any favourites?

Typing speed measured in flops

Context, presumably

It’s a true story

I use fWallet for my plane tickets

Oh god you reminded me of this gem

https://serverfault.com/questions/780150/how-to-cache-contents-in-haproxy#780155

Someone asks how to do http caching in HAproxy.

The one answer:

don’t use the wrong tool

haproxy is a wonderful tool. It does not provide caching. A quick scan of the fine docs can verify this. Unless you want to patch haproxy you need to use a tool that does what you’re looking to do.

don’t create impossible problems

By asking for haproxy to do something that it doesn’t and excluding the tool that seems to do what you want to do you’ve create an impossible situation. There is no technical solution for this. Don’t make choices that box you into a corner.

try varnish or anything that actually caches

If you get over that you might find this tutorial on using varnish with haproxy useful or try varnish by itself. Maybe squid or memcached would be more your speed.

In the comments to this ludicrous tirade we get this simple comment:

This was true and valid back then. Nowadays HAProxy does this.

And just in case someone found this looking for an answer, here’s the example from that link

backend bck1
  mode http

  http-request cache-use foobar
  http-response cache-store foobar
  server srv1 127.0.0.1:80

cache foobar
  total-max-size 4
  max-age 240