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The new theme seems deadset on replacing content with whitespace, driving my father in particular mad (he's having more luck finding Australian news on DW than the ABC right now; and he is sore that he has to hunt for the "Science" news category now in menus).

Not sure how long they'll keep the ?future=x flag available, but for now it gives you about double the number of articles per page.

Recommend engineer's bikinis (shorts).

I can't find a official message from the RTBU (their website is out of date, nothing seems public on facebook and twitter refuses me access unless I create an account).

8PM (right now) +/- 10 hours

Better call the tiberium harvester back in.

Encountered this fellow during bushcare today. He was sitting right on top of the bridal veil roots we were pulling, looking suspiciously like a rock.

We probably shouldn't have handled him (I hope turtles don't get dizzy from being turned upside down). We put him back down and hid him under some other groundcover as a local Kookaburra was loitering.

Anyone else?

My feed reader was not happy this morning, all youtube feed URLS are 404ing. Both the old-style and new ID style:

• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=perochialjoe
• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=mrdodobird
• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCGLGhwIJfz4Nl2uhTqdNikw
• https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCi8UNRmZpgCAYXUtyWQnhag

Imagine you're in the blue car, wanting to turn left:

Green is turning right. There is only one lane.

Two options I see:

(1) Stay behind the green car, to the left (and behind the crossing) until they leave.

(2) Pull up to the left of the green car (as if there were two lanes).

I assume (1) is correct given there is technically only one lane, but I can't find any materials on the NSW site or driving handbook about it and (2) is something I see other people do.

(I have my license test next week)

EDIT: Solved, option (2) is the right one. see https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/sharing-road-overtaking-and-merging/overtaking-safely

The only time you can overtake on the left is when the vehicle you’re overtaking is:

• waiting to turn right or make a U-turn from the centre of the road

I could not find any mentions of these problems online. The article itself has no technical detail.

Looking forward to seeing what the actual problems are. It seems this is the first product to market.

Guesses based off the general subject matter:

• Silica concentrations probably vary depending on the exact position of your head, especially since it's heavy material. If you mount this sensor even a few meters away from a worker then it's readings could possibly become invalid, eg because an angle grinder is firing dust a different direction to the sensor.
• Silica is a slang term for a very big category of materials. Some might look completely different to others under certain laser observations, leading to some getting missed (bad) and others materials triggering false positives (leading to the sensor's screams being ignored by workers).
• Self-cleaning routines might be needed to stop it clogging up, otherwise the sensor starts reporting a higher baseline. They could either choose to report this ("pls clean me" light comes on) or ignore it (bury head in sand mode).
• Alternatively it's performance might actually be fine, but perhaps it's still being spruked inappropriately. Government involvement in funding the project might (?) magnify this problem.

Interesting title. Compare it with the ABC's version:

ABC: Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci announces retirement as company announces $781m loss