IKR, it’s such a disrespectfully low sum!

The absolute floor that should have been awarded ought to be the equivalent of 5yrs of minimum wage for 24hrs a day, 7 days a week, including overtime, weekend and public holiday penalty rates, indexed to inflation for ever year since his incarceration.

…and even then, I would still be frustrated that it was only minimum wage!

I mean, you wouldn’t be looking your best either if you had to spend five years falsely imprisoned and then decades more fighting for vindication.

Don’t forget he was also in the movie Bullet Train with Brad Pitt!

Legitimately would commit heinous, unspeakable acts if it would give us access to a 4 bed, 3 bath apartment with an extra room for a home office in Oakleigh at an affordable price.

From my experience, a whole lot.

Think about how hard it is to join a new company and learn to maintain their codebase - at least in that situation you are likely going to have someone more familiar with it walk you through it.

Now understand that no such resource exists for vibe code - you’re on your own from the get go.

Quite the opposite; these are probably the most savvy opportunists making themselves available for headhunting by clueless recruiters chasing The Next Big Thing.

They will end up getting phat contract offers to tidy up the poorly implemented AI-generated code put in by some C-suite desk jockey after they fired their engine engineering team.

Our kid is due to enter primary school in a few years time, and the debate in our household is whether we can afford private, vs. moving to a catchment for a Top-50 ranked public school school, vs. using that money towards private tuition.

But it all feels like we’re just putting a lot more pressure on this generation to perform and succeed than what we had growing up. Surely that’s going to do more damage to them in the long term than any funding shortfall?

Good question, actually!

I was educated through Catholic institutions in inner-Melbourne, and vividly remember taking swim classes in primary school. I’m sure they handed out some form of certificate of completion, but those would have probably been just a Xerox copy and nothing accredited or formal.

Similar to you, most of my ability to swim came from summers at the local public pool or beaches.

We also had the same competitive swim carnivals in high-school; and it was just taken at face value that every student could swim (and they could).

We also had some swim-focused PE classes if I remember correctly, but I could also be confusing them with swim club as it was so long ago.

Long story short, I don’t actually know how they actually track this metric either - but it does seem a bit wishy-washy, ‘ey?

I haven’t thought about Imgur for a hot minute. Thanks for the heads-up!

Numbers can lie, or at the very least obfuscate the truth. Consider the following, as an example:

• Families are having fewer children, so the average number of people per home has dropped (eg. from 4/home to 3/home). That would mean we need 33% more homes just to account for the same population.

• New housing stock may not meet needs; a tonne of studio, 1 bedroom inner city apartments may not be suitable for the above families, so demand for existing stock just increases.

Funnily enough, that popped up on my feed today also - I am not subscribed to that channel, nor have I seen any of his videos before today.

Oh, you wish… things can still get a lot worse from here for a whole mess of us. There is still blood that the Top 0.1% have not yet squeezed from the stone.

The more I live through it, the more I am buying into belief that history doesn’t repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes…

We are currently experiencing our own twist on the “Roaring ‘20s”, an not particularly looking forward to what the next next couple of decades will bring.

I will admit that I don’t know of about half of those shows, but: Round the Twist!!! Thanks for unlocking that memory 😁

Might as well add Lift-Off, The Ferals and Feral TV, along with Blinky Bill. Clearly we were spoilt for choice in the ‘90s…

As an aside, it does feel like the local music industry has gone much the same way?

Maybe a few more conditions, mainly towards scripted content, so we don’t just end up with a glut of locally produced game shows, reality TV and panel shows.

We are more than capable of producing world-class content, even if my sleep-deprived parent brain can only think of The Wiggles and Blue right now…

I mean the guys already managed to bankrupt a casino in the past, so he’s just added the challenge of trying to bankrupt the whole consortium now!

At least it wasn’t “Large, Grande, and Venti”!

My understanding is that the author of an APK will now need to be verified through some Google service, in order to be able to sign the file and be accepted by an Android device regardless of if it came through the Play (or alt) styles, or sideloaded directly by a user.

So it’s not quite as locked down as iOS, but definitely a step in that direction (and in the wrong direction, IMO).