Garrie Irons

@davepl1968 @mark_slapinski In my country, "party" isn't in any constitution. Is it in yours?

@davepl1968 @mark_slapinski You elect the member, not the party. (In my country at least) If you're not sufficiently politically literate to grasp that, there are plenty of great political educators in almost every political jurisdiction and affiliation to help with that.

Up to 10 more Conservative MPs are going to cross the aisle. Poilievre is DONE!

@davepl1968 @JesterJum "You're too old for me to know you're that 18 year old" == "I don't need to card you for age"

@JesterJum Because you're aging like a mofo and no one can tell its even you from that ancient photo.

Why aren't expired ID's accepted as proof of age? I was 33 before it expired....Im not magically 17 because that piece of plastic is expired.

@davepl1968 @Machi1Nne For a lot of religious people with cancer, their religious answer is either: - pray harder - donate more or - it is the price of being a sinner All those things make the cancer (to live with) worse not better

@Machi1Nne Ask someone who has both, asshole.

Religion is more dangerous than cancer.

@davepl1968 @Prominent_Bryan Go look at the US income tax rates for 1980

@Prominent_Bryan Of course you won't, because you're not one of them. But it should be about the principle whether you're in that bracket or not.

For your AVERAGE tax rate to be 50%, your income needs to be really high (like 600-800k total) You'll excuse me if I don't shed a tear for the 1%

@davepl1968 Why did you not code one that worked on "a similar device" to the one you were testing? (Seems like an underlying utility for testing if not for the actual operating system being shipped)

I wrote the new SmartDrv for MS-DOS 6.2 (the new CD-ROM caching stuff, write-back, etc). This was all in pure x86 assembly, and while I was past counting cycles in the margins by then, I still cared about perf. I asked for a stopwatch, because I'm wired that way and wanted to time things, track my progress, and so on. Would Encarta load 8x faster or 10x faster? Could I make it even faster? I was told no. Too expensive. At Microsoft in 1993. Which kind of blew my mind, as we were printing money so fast they literally had to weigh it instead of counting it. Or that might have been a Breaking Bad episode; the details are hazy. But I'm certain we were very profitable. In a way, it set the tone. This was before "shrimp and weenies", but at least in MS-DOS, we were too busy making the bacon to partake of many shrimp anyway. While I clearly resent it enough to bring it up 30+ years later, it went a long way toward setting the fiscal accountability I brought to the career. I was taught early not to waste, and never did.

@leeroyjones73 I can walk 1km (.6 mile I guess) to get to a supermarket, fast food, "drug store" (chemist), Cafe, Bar, bottle shop. Without crossing a single road. 🇦🇺

Do people not realise that the reason they need a car to get their shopping at a supermarket is because supermarkets have killed off the local shops that you used to be able to walk to because people now drive to supermarkets to get their shopping?

@StandupAussie @iinka @EVCurveFuturist A more consistent speed regardless of up or down hill is a win for everyone.

@iinka @EVCurveFuturist We don’t need semi trailers overtaking slower traffic , do we? What is the price tag for one ?

Diesel just got humiliated on its own turf by Chinese #EV Truck 🚚. Sydney → Canberra freight run Electric truck: 25 minutes faster + ~85% cheaper energy Not greener. Not nicer. Just better. Freight was supposed to be the last stand… #Bettrification thedriven.io/2026/03/30/fas…

@purplepingers Surly acknowledging the retouching is the most basic form of professionalism. I guess that is too high a bar?

“We keep getting away with it, therefore every real estate agent is doing the right thing” - nah it’s just because Labor can’t be arsed to prosecute their best mates (real estate agents and property developers)

@WZA_Razor @purplepingers If you're not playing by the rules of test cricket as first played in 1877 you're probably not really playing cricket. That's how it works for socialism and communism, right?

@GarrieIrons @purplepingers It’s a bit like how cricket rules can change because cricket is a sport people partake in so they can play cricket.

When you were the communications manager for a billionaire’s company that she inherited from her racist father I guess it’s technically your job to step in and bat for those poor billionaires and the system of capitalism they benefit from.

@davepl1968 @CanadianCoffey If Australia can have a private space sector, I'm pretty sure Canada can.

@CanadianCoffey Who's rockets you gonna use?

If you’re in comments melting down because Canada is developing a launch pad made in Canada, by Canadians, for Canada, to reduce reliance on Elon Musk.. You’re a cunt. Have a nice day.

@ryxcommar @ONAN_OUS Store it all as memo fields then use regex to enforce format conformance.

@ONAN_OUS the "don't store money as floats" people and especially the "don't use floats at all" people don't entirely know what they are talking about. the real answer is that it depends.

Should I use float or decimal in sql? I have used float and the LLM suggested I use decimal because money needs to be exact, and Reddit chuds are saying “only an idiot would use float in a database” Who is wrong here Is this a ‘hot liquids in plastic containers’ situation?

@davepl1968 Surely the zealot is the one who has opinions about what other people own? It isn't enough to be pleased with their V8, they have to suggest other people's lives would be better with one?

If you have an EV as your only vehicle, you're some kind of zealot. If you have two vehicles and one is not an EV, you're a different kind of zealot.

@theprojecttv We have zero right to privacy in public. Why does anyone expect privacy on somebody else's property?

Bunnings has been approved to use facial recognition to keep its team members safe, but not everyone is sold. With the tech being criticised over privacy fears, are we really ready to let stores scan our faces?

@waggacrow (Average Australian dairy herd has gone from under 100 in the 1980s to over 300 now)

@waggacrow And for the dairy industry, for the "lead cows" this is absolutely normal. They have cows they treat like sheep dogs: "Jessie, go back get those girls down there" - and she will. "Mary, push through" because 3 cows are stopped at the same miking stall. Harder at 300 cows tho

We know so little about the animals on the farm. This owner has taught his cows to respond to a name that is being called out! Any of the Aussie farmers done that for their cattle?

@waggacrow For certain sized herd this is normal. 70 breeding cows? Your stud bull? Normal. The steers that will be steak in less than 24 months? Only in single digits.

@davepl1968 For 4-6 trips per year Hire the car you need for that trip.

At those distances, an EV should not be your only car, but an EV should still be your second car. For people that take infrequent 8-hour roadtrips, and who have access to charging, it's a no brainer. But you do you. I drive a twin-turbo V8, so I don't have the religion. But the "second car" part is key.

@larissawaters Where is your actual policy on this please? What's in? What's out? Very specifically.

The CGT discount is the most unfair tax handout there is. It is exacerbating inequality and locking a generation out of home ownership. Enough is enough. No more tinkering around the edges of the housing crisis. Labor must scrap the CGT discount in the next budget.