Steve Batarian

The article mentions it in passing, but I want to point out that the accusations came to light in 2021 and he was kicked out of the Liberal party (they’re the mainstream conservative party in Australia FYI), then suspended from the NSW Parliament when he was charged in 2022, but he was still re-elected in 2023 despite criminal charges hanging over his head. Even after he was convicted he took legal action to fight against expulsion from the Parliament rather than resigning like any MP with a shred of integrity would do, and only finally resigned literally hours before the expulsion vote was to be held (which was definitely going to pass).

So you’re saying they need gender-affirming care?

I don’t want no database full of commie left joins!

days is a method on the Numeric class in Rails, and it creates an instance of ActiveSupport::Duration with self passed to the constructor (this is a bit of a simplification, because it actually calls the class method days on Duration which converts the number of days into seconds before creating the Duration instance).

I’m concerned that he has maintained his health for this long.

With the base $10 sub you get an allowance of “premium requests” per month and I think you can pay for more over that limit, but I haven’t looked too closely at the pricing because I don’t use the agent myself because I can’t use it with my work repos.

Copilot has Copilot coding agent too (as distinct from Agent mode in Copilot Chat. Yes, they’re different things and yes, I had to look up what the difference was)

It’s something that literally exists as a first-party plugin for VSCode. The Copilot Chat extension has an Agent mode for vibe coding for half the price of Cursor.

Why are you even using jQuery anyway? Just use the eggBoil package.

9News is right leaning and has always sanewashed everything to do with Trump, along with the rest of the Australian mainstream media (which is all right wing, even the supposedly lefty ABC).

I had a colonoscopy years ago when I was engaged to my now-wife, and when I woke up from the anaesthesia I just babbled about how much I loved her. At no point did I come remotely close to doing a Nazi salute.

It also says “must not be the same as any of the last seven passwords used” so I can only take “no repeats” to mean no repeated characters.

Requiring passwords to be exactly 8 characters is especially ridiculous because even if they’re cheaping out on bytes of storage, that’s completely cancelled out by the fact that they’re storing the last seven passwords used.

At 8.24pm, less than half an hour after the final polls closed in Western Australia, 9News projected Labor had won the election.

This makes it sound like the result arrived extraordinarily quickly (which, in fairness, it was a very fast call) but elections here are decided entirely in the eastern states. It was obvious that the swing was on and Labor were clear favourites to win before polls in WA even closed.

By far the best news of the night though was that Temu Trump (Peter Dutton) lost his own seat just like Pierre Polievre in Canada several days ago. That makes him the first opposition leader to lose their own seat at a federal election.

God damn it, that headline got my hopes up for a second.

I’d say Eric is more like Buster because if they had a Michael they might not be in so much trouble.

Just announce that you’re running for office, then the charges become election interference.

The true American patriots are the ones who take the case on the side of the prosecution.

That’s the Spirit!

Because the reports go unheeded by management until it costs them money, at which point the quality department get their arses kicked for not fixing the problem that management ignored.