I installed fedora to replace windows on the 31/12/2023. I wasn't a complete Linux noob by any measure but haven't run it as a main OS before. Thank you proton for getting me over the edge.

The whole repo situation on fedora is honestly pretty meh, things are out of date or broken too often. Or they just don't exist. I have put arch on a number of machines since and find it significantly better. My main box will move away from fedora next time I'm enthused to mess with it and this is the primary reason.

Some interesting tidbits from one of the staff.

The actual flowers are hidden down in the base of the opening and it has both male and female flowers but cannot self pollinate.

They didn't want to pollinate this one as they were worried the plant was not strong enough. But they will keep pollen from the male flowers to give to other gardens.

They had a bunch of Australian native relatives of this plant there too. They have a similar life cycle but are much smaller.

Rather fascinating plants. I can only wonder what makes them all want to flower at a similar time after years of dormancy.

Agreed. Have smelt far worse on the farm. We were there at 2ish and one of the staff was saying it was a lot more potent in the morning and yesterday evening.

Went to see it today. Had to book free tickets but it was accessible.

"We have film footage where we can see a wave hitting the lock and the anchor drops,"

A wave, at sea? Chance in a million.

How can we reduce paracetamol poisoning? Better access to mental health services? Nah. Let's make them buy two boxes instead of one. That will do it.

What a joke.

I had heard this was happening. Probably relatively low risk for a lot of them, plenty of other private work around. Good on them for pushing back though.

The bus drivers in the ACT also took unprotected action last year. It was not as big of a news story. But it is definitely happening more often. I don't think any of them lost their jobs.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104603964

If the Sydney government (aka NSW government) wants people to work for cheap in Sydney. Perhaps they should have focused on making it a more affordable place to live.

I wonder how quickly they would change tact if the rail drivers just took 1 week of unprotected industrial action. But for them, there is not as much private industry to switch to. They would have to be willing to work in another state in the event that the government fires them.

The "Fair" Work commission just seems more and more like a government anti union tool these days. I think we might see people going back to unprotected industrial action.

Depends if you care about names or about physics. Radio, Infrared Gamma etc are just names we give to various parts of the continuous electromagnetic spectrum. The edges of these definitions are not super well defined. Changing from RF to microwave could be defined at say about 3 GHz, but there is not some clear physical difference between a 2.9 GHz photon and a 3.1 GHz photon other than the frequency change.

The lower limit to the frequency is I guess the inverse of the theoretical age of the universe/2. Something can't currently be oscillating slower than that.

There are some theories on plank length, quantisation limits, etc that might set some theoretical upper limit of photon frequency. But we don't appear to be anywhere close to observing such things. We have seen some rather crazy short wavelength particles that we haven't fully understood.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh-My-God_particle

Wikipedia is amazing, and I have donated to them a number of times. But something just rubs me the wrong way about their current donation drive and anything I read about how much their higher ups are getting paid makes no sense to me. Why are the salaries so high? Where is the clear breakdown of server cost and infrastructure?

I stopped giving SSAA any of my money. I don't agree with most of their political lobbying stances, especially for reducing requirements around accessing firearms and legalising higher rate of fire guns.

Hasn't been any great loss.

Even when in power and offering cash incentives, the LNP couldn't convince the power industry to extend coal power plant lifetimes or build new generators. Renewables have already won the free market, they will likely never be beaten in our lifetime. Good fucking luck getting any company that wants to actually make money to invest in nuclear.

The only reasonable argument left for nuclear is the baseline and storage argument, but again the writing is on the wall, industry can see the trajectory that batteries and storage tech is on and know that by the time they spend 2 decades investing in current gen nuclear, it will probably be beaten by storage in the free market anyway.