Wondering why some people are making a big deal about @AlboMP & his government approving more fossil fuel exploration?

They've committed to reducing Australia's emissions. What does it matter what other countries buy off us?

Here's the thing... 🧵

abc.net.au/news/2022-08-2… Labor won this election (along with a large Senate crossbench) with an unmistakable mandate:
Put the brakes on the Climate Emergency - ASAP

Now ask yourself: What is the consequence on climate of opening new sources of fossil fuels?

It accelerates climate change. *ACCELERATES*

The ads UAP run on pretty much every platform say almost nothing about the party. They simply say "The government & opposition sucks, so vote for us!"
A lot of people might find that enticing, which is worrying!
Let's take a look at what you're actually voting for with UAP... 🧵 UAP's website leads with "No mandatory vaccinations. No vaccine passports." These may seem like freedom-seeking policies worthy of consideration. However, they represent the tip of the iceberg of Craig Kelly's deep association with misinformation and conspiracy theories.

This week Rupert delegated PVO the job of writing a hit piece attempting to protect Liberals from independent candidates that actually want to represent the voices in their communities.
Don't bother reading it, but here's a some of the rubbish he tried to convince people of...🧵 The article starts with:
'The gaggle of “independent” candidates...'
just so that you're forewarned about how serious and unbiased an analysis piece this is going to be. 👍

If you're a programmer who uses the mouse a lot and is suddenly WFH, now seems to me like a perfect time to invest in upskilling on keyboard-first work. You'll be a little slower to start with (while no one's watching!) but long-term your productivity will increase significantly. How to start? Simply set a timer for 5 minutes and commit to not touching your mouse for that time. You'd better learn to manipulate your browser with shortcuts so you can google other shortcuts! Slowly increase the time by 5 minutes.

Had a prod incident today. CPU riding at 100% in a typically sleepy webapp. Eventually tracked down the recent changes and the "offending" code that we think is causing the issue. Had the programmer done something stupid? Unlikely, she was one of our very best. But... This code we found. It was iterating through two lists using a nested for, and that has a cartesian product computational cost: O(MN). This week, M and N had each jumped 4-6x, so the function suddenly had ~30x the cost of last week. Do I think this was bad code? No, I don't. Why?

A thread about how to have a nicely-designed monolith. 👇 It’s probably obvious, but you need to split your monolithic codebase up internally. It might already be organised into directories/namespaces/packages of some type, but you might need to go further…

Special treat at #yownight with @daveathomas sharing his experience with using legacy transformation as an innovation opportunity.
Highlights to follow… Some people’s code is legacy straight away if they write it in a way that no one understands it. #yownight