<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: lmpdev</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lmpdev</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:35:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=lmpdev" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by lmpdev in "Tourists to Australia to have social media vetted under Trumpian Coalition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Their voter base is largely dying off<p>I don’t see them being one of the top two parties in a couple of decades unless younger generations start actually having resources/assets to conserve</p>
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<p>Geoff Provest (Nationals MP) recently did the same thing commenting on an Albanese social media post pretending to be a disgruntled Labor voter</p>
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<p>Not an expert but every node in an UHVDC network would need expensive equipment<p>Point to point is just two nodes, but scaling that outward would be very expensive<p>AC transmission is relatively cheap in comparison</p>
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<p>Yeah the Blue Quandongs get pretty big<p>Tweed Valley in NNSW so lots of water and volcanic soil<p>Edit: turns out the Blue Quandong and the Quandong are very different species - my mistake</p>
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<p>As someone who grew up with a Quandong in their backyard please don’t plant quandongs without <i>serious</i> planning<p>It grew 40m in ~10 years and spanned ~200-300m^2</p>
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<p>Only place I’ve ever seen it is the main stretch along Palm Beach on the Gold Coast<p>1st through 27th Avenues - they’re over 100 years old now funnily enough</p>
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<p>I was surprised to find out they still have hardware repair technicians (extremely expensive but reliable: ~$400 per computer around 2022 iirc)<p>But yes they’re mostly enterprise/services/mainframes not anything overly consumer</p>
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<p>Someone get this in front of Tom Doak immediately</p>
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<p>This seems to be largely an American phenomenon<p>In more minor markets like Europe/Australia it seems to be a lot less leetcode and a lot more (1) experience (2) degree (3) actual interview performance</p>
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<p>At this point we have several<p>They’re all largely untestable though<p>String theory, LQG, half a dozen others</p>
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<p>Likely once sufficient numbers of boomers die off - and their property inheriting children don’t take up their parent’s views</p>
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<p>I mean one would take the ad with a grain of salt<p>If it gets people to pull the trigger on engaging with the firm - it’s likely to embellish how massive the changes are of these patent lapses</p>
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<p>Your framing is correct<p>It’s company vs user not regression vs efficiency</p>
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<p>Possibly at Federal<p>State and Local little chance they’re not that optimised</p>
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<p>(Australian not an American here)<p>You’d very quickly rise to the top of the public sector<p>My brother in law is only in his mid 20s and is in charge of half a dozen engineers<p>No nepotism (we honestly know no one) just leaping from the right firm to the public sector at the right time<p>Look for government consultant jobs or even better straight engineering roles</p>
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<p>The problem with a lot of the “higher free variable” sciences like psychology, ecology and sociology etc<p>Is they are the ones who <i>need</i> to be at the bleeding edge of statistics but often aren’t<p>They absolutely need Bayesian competitive hypothesis testing but are often the least likely to use it</p>
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<p>Oh I completely agree with all your points<p>I’m just highlighting inefficiencies and inflexibilities where I see them to start a dialogue</p>
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<p>As an Australian normally subject to two upper houses (the current state I happen to live in is the only unicameral state) that seems very counter intuitive<p>The way it seems to work in practice (here at least) is most partisan/normative legislation goes through the lower house upwards<p>And bipartisan (or broadly unpopular or highly technical) legislation goes from the upper house down<p>It’s more complicated than that, but a one way flow committee sounds extremely restrictive for meaningful reform<p>A small number of pathways is a good thing, one lone process is probably not (you risk over fitting on both sides)<p>Edit: Australian legislation has a lot of flaws, but this multimodal setup from my experience is not one of them</p>
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<p>Unironically this was one of the reasons I bought an iPhone 15<p>I was exhausted with keeping up with Android, but was not buying n-number of Lightning cables until they released it on USB-C</p>
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<p>I agree 100% that mic-ing live drums is by far the hardest and most expensive element in rock recording<p>But in the 1970s-2000s it was complete black magic and without dedicating years to the craft - you were up to the whims of studios for how much you pay<p>Compare that today, for instance have a look at the Jazz-Rock Fusion band Vulfpeck’s first album. If you exclude the cost of instruments - they often only need three (rather cheap) mics. Everything else DI. Recorded in a basement for less than a couple grand - with effectively infinite recording time<p>Live drums are expensive compared to samples, but they’re not the reason an entire <i>genre</i> disappeared</p>
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