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> Population growth from international students has ruined Australian housing.

If that is so, why is Australia's housing problem Australia wide and not isolated to high student population locations?

Australia's problem with housing is Australia hasn't/doesn't treat housing as housing, they have treated it as a tax efficient investment vehicle with negative gearing.

They are an ad and media distribution company.

The hardware looses them $80m+ while the add and media distribution brings them in $1b+.

The hardware is a side hustle run at a loss to acquire users for the main business.

Because the big chains effectively force you to, or at minimum actively encourage you to. Because a lot of the Hackernews demographic participate in building these systems, so are complicit, under the guise of "data driven" and "big data".

I'm an infrequent big fast food customer. Last week I'd been out all day, not eaten, it was late afternoon, cafes where shut and I was walking past a food court in a shopping mall. There was a McDonalds, I thought I hadn't had McDonalds in a longtime, I'll get a BigMac as that's my guilty pleasure for the once, twice a year most I eat McDonalds.

Gone were the servers on the counter, not one to be seen, instead a wall of screens. I walk up to one, two buttons displayed, "Sign in" or something similar to get rewards, "Continue as guest", with the UX promoting the sign in option as the active call to action (CTA), "continue as guest" being more discreet.

I press "continue as guest" and the screen freezes. Me being me, i walk off, if they make it hard for me to buy, well i'm not going to buy. I wasn't invested in buying McDonalds I just thought I'd not had one in a while so while there and not eaten all day i'd give it a shot.

I digress, the actual regular customers don't even use the screens. They already signed up for rewards and installed the app on their phone they've been coerced in to installing and registering for, so they get discounts. Maybe that's why the screens are so bad as most of their customers don't use the screen, they use the app.

> Are we pretending now it's less complicated to distribute an app a cross a variety of lambda functions?

I treat Lambda purely as compute and ignore everything else related to "serverless". My Lambda's are monolith webapps using Axum Rust framework. Using cargo lambda I generate a static binary, upload to s3 and point the lambda at it. Sometimes I'll package as a docker image so can run in Lambda or locally by passing a `--aws-lambda` flag.

If serving HTML i'll use Function URLS with IAM auth and put a Cloudflare worker in front acting as the gateway. I also serve the static assets from cloudfront bucket i.e. static.example.com. Advantage is I use Cloudflare free tier so get denial-of-wallet prevention when my free credits run out. Using IAM auth also means the lambda doesn't execute if for what ever reason someone discovers the url and tries to DoS it so only get charged for the requests not run time.

Like the outside look of it, and a fan of the retro look of electric cars ie the Renault 5e.

On the inside of the Citroen 2CV from photos I’ve seen elsewhere, do the designers even drive?!

Speedometer display, tiny, then a large display to the right of the steering wheel with all the other controls.

As a driver, having to deal with speed limits and speed cameras I want the speedometer to be highly visible infront of my line of sight, not an afterthought.

Then the steering wheel. Why does every new electric car have to have a non round steering wheel just because it looks good in a photo. There’s a reason steering wheels have been round, basically forever.

This is my biggest gripe with electric cars. I want to like this as like the retro style but they go and ruin it adding tech and design for the sake of tech and looking good in photos, not as an improvement to the driving experience. Cars primary purpose are for driving, not tech masterbation.

> they’re not available in food deserts

This highly depends on location

If you buy fresh vegetables, I don't necessarily think they're pricier but they do require more planning. You need to buy what is in season, which means planning meals around what is in season and cheap to buy, which changes on the season.

For certain staples, buying frozen is extremely cheap, can be cheaper than fresh, can be better than buying fresh as frozen as soon as picked, and extremely easy to cook. I've always got frozen broccoli, carrots, peas, green beans, spinach in the freezer. Three minutes in a microwave steamer and it's an easy side, or add in to meals near the end of cooking.

I also always have a bag of potatoes in the house, cheap, keep well, easy to steam in microwave, can mash, can bake, pop in the airfryer etc.

> There's no clean mechanism to control a fan's speed in-band on a normal AC wall switch.

There is.

I specifically purchased a Fanco Horizon DC fan as it has an optional physical wall switch which connected to the existing wiring for the fan it was replacing.

The caveat being if you use the wall remote, it's not compatible with the model with built in LED light fixture. This was a non issue for me as wanted to avoid any fan with built in LED light due to when the led panel fails, it'll be extremely difficult to replace vs having independent lights in the room.

I think most DC fans don't support wall remotes because it's cheaper and simpler not to, and provide a remote control instead. It's not a technical issue as you can absolutely find DC fans with wall controllers they are just harder to find.

From the benchmarks I’ve seen there’s a significant throughput degradation with encryption enabled on the UNAS’s due to limited cpu.

Previously it felt like there was a lot more nerds who were in it for the interest instead of today for the career path and fast track higher salaries.

2010’s was when more traditional CS courses also started moving from traditional languages and content to JS etc…following industry demand.

A lot of tech conferences were pure tech. Now a lot of them are agile, soft skills based, introverted nerds pushed out.

It’s certainly a different place from the 2010’s.

I've used InteliJ on and off for 20 plus years. It's progressively got bloated and slower, not faster.

20 years ago it was the fast lean option when there was Netbeans and Eclipse. Today it's ok, still good feature wise but fast and lean it is not anymore when I've used it for Scala oand Kotlin.