Zagorath

Explanation: Ea-nāṣir is a copper trader mentioned in the "complaint tablet to Ea-nāṣir" (UET V 81), written around 1750 BCE. It is sometimes said to be "the oldest known customer complaint".

Cheers for the addition of the text link. Story's disappointingly lacking in the details of what led up to it, which is a shame. Surely that's the juicy bit‽ This is linked with a little more background, but still not an explanation for why it has been so dysfunctional.

Also no details about how or when the election of a new council will happen

Local Government Minister Hannah Beazley

Was going to ask, "any relation?" But realised it's easier to look it up myself. The answer is yes. She's Kim's daughter.

I'm a globalised girl with almost three university degrees that can speak two languages

Ok, fantastic for you, Mayor Argyle. I'm a globalised guy with one honours degree that lived in three countries. Wtf does that have to do with anyone's competency as mayor?

So yeah, wtf is going on in Nedlands?

Oh, I have a "wtf, driver" story of my own that I was gonna post on here last week but got too lazy to.

I'm driving on a three-lane (in our direction of travel) road. The left-most lane allows parking at night, and there's this one spot that basically always has a couple of cars parked in it, effectively narrowing it to two lanes. That spot is not long after a set of lights, just around a bend (so if you're not familiar with the road, perhaps you don't know to plan ahead for it and won't see a huge way in advance). I'm in the middle lane because I know not to get into the left lane until after this spot. Two cars in the left lane. I overtake one of them in the normal flow of traffic, but can see it's a bit sketchy with the second car as to whether I will finish overtaking it before it needs to merge in. If I knew they were a good driver it would be no issue, they'll slow down and slot in behind me, but if they're aggressive this could be really bad for me. So I slow down proactively and let a big gap grow between me and the car in front of me, as well as let the left lane car get clearly in front of me.

But left lane car doesn't change lanes. And the parked cars are getting very close now. We get closer and closer, and eventually left lane car puts on their blinkers, but...clearly isn't going to change lanes. So instead I gun it, hoping that the reason they didn't already change is because they're exceptionally cautious, and aren't about to change right into me. They don't. They slow down quite a lot.

I guess if you're going to fail to read the road properly, it's much better to do so in an overly-cautious way than the opposite. But jesus christ mate; you had such a long time where you could see the cars parked ahead of you (assuming you were looking ahead of you), could have accelerated ever so slightly into the gap and changed lanes to avoid them. Instead, you waited to the last second and had to almost come to a dead stop. Why‽

Again though, it was, at the very least, not unsafe driving in any way. For that I am thankful.

Dvorak. It's a person's name, so only the first letter is capitalised.

Anyway, that article uses a lot of words to come to...basically no conclusion whatsoever. I don't know why anyone would link it when trying to make any sort of a point.

I'm imagining something like this:

def add_member(group, user):
    if (len(group.members) <= GROUP_CHAT_LIMIT):
        ...

If GROUP_CHAT_LIMIT is 8 bits, this does not work.

I think the issue is that Bob is severely understating the extent of the problems with the licence as it currently is. He's putting a lot of faith in DP to act in good faith and suggesting that having this good faith is a reason to be against making the licence put in black-and-white the terms of that good faith.

Bob also goes to a lot of effort to personally attack the people who are trying to encourage DP to do better. Claiming that they're just stirring up drama, all while he is himself stirring up drama in comparison to their attempts to discuss the actual issues. Play the ball, not the man, as they say.

In much simpler terms:

Think of an IP address like a street address. 192 My Street.

There might be multiple businesses at one street address. In real life we address them with things like 1/192 My Street and 2/192 My Street, but there's no direct parallel to that in computer networks. Instead, what we do is more like directing your letter to say "Business A c/o 192 My Street". That's what SNI does.

Because we have to write all of that on the outside of the envelope, everyone gets to see that we're communicating with Business A. But what if one of the businesses at 192 My Street is highly sensitive and we'd rather people didn't know we were communicating with them? @bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de's proposal is basically like if you put the "Business A" part inside the envelope, so the mailman (and anyone who sees the letter on the way) only see that it's going to 192 My Street. Then the front room at that address could open the envelope and see that the ultimate destination is Business A, and pass it along to them.

Yeah every 10 years would be good even if you assume they did learn everything correctly the first time and don't forget anything, just to make sure people are keeping up with changes in the law. I regularly still see people loudly sharing interpretations of the law on social media that haven't been true for a decade. And then speed it up to every 5 years after 65 to additionally account for senescence.

Life expectancy is a useless metric for this purpose. Maybe it would be more useful if you used "life expectancy at age 10" (so after any childhood illnesses), but even then it doesn't really say anything about what the process senescence looks like.

obligatory NJB

Real-zero is definitely a real thing. It's not a particularly complicated or sophisticated thing, but it is real. All it means is zero carbon emissions. Not some emissions that you then offset by purchasing shady "carbon offsets".

Climate Integrity, whose reporting this article is based on, seems fairly legit, going through their history. Here's an release of theirs fact checking gas industry lies about gas cooking vs electric.

Not 100% sure I remember correctly, but I think the "BCC" part might be waist height, with the whole thing being taller than me.

It's quite close to a creek, there are a few big manholes around the area clearly above some sort of water, and I think all those padlocks are doing is blocking off access to the hollow inside of the pole, so you could be onto something .