What was the state of the capacitors on the circuit board, since those are generally the first to go.

Bushfire season in Australia depends on where on the continent you are and falls between July and May.

December bushfires are extremely common and there’s a monster roaring in the state of Victoria right now.

One of my mates was fighting a different fire about 90km from where I’m typing this. He came off shift at 3am yesterday morning after dealing with gruelling 40°C temperatures during the day.

Right now there’s a total fire ban in my state of Western Australia. There’s 10 current “bushfire advice” warnings and 30 bushfires in the last three days.

https://www.emergency.wa.gov.au/textonly.html?view=map

I wonder how long it will take before the majority of them ends up in landfill.

I think it’s about the few minutes when you do actually sleep, to determine if you have sleep apnea.

I had that, six sensors on my skull, a nasal air sensor, two leg sensors, a stomach and heart sensor, jaw, chin and eye sensors as well as two chest expansion sensors, all wired to a data logger that was hung around my neck and took as much space as a cat sitting on my chest.

Talk to the specialist, my sleep study last week was done at home in my own bed. Went into hospital for an hour to get wired up, drove home and went to bed at my normal time.

My first study was in a sleep lab. It is as you describe. My second study last week was at home in my own bed. The experience was much the same.

As it happens, Lemmy is a person and if everything is as expected, they’re still where they were after their funeral service, at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemmy

Meanwhile the agent is telling the current owner that this property is “going off” online with hits from all around the planet.

If you’re wondering, it’s a cute idea but they clearly haven’t actually done a sleep study. Being wired up to 19 sensors leaves little room for movement, let alone extracurricular activities.

Source: I had my second sleep study last week.

Cute, but I’d be surprised if that was a real sign at any point in time.

The McDonald’s at Yass is actually open 24 hours, and I’m pretty sure that has been the case for at least 20 years or so when I last visited.

Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/j51aCS9rhHTvpVce9

Or old enough…

But it would be wrong to let him know…

That website isn’t loading for me.

Where is the 97% going?

A client of mine had a server rack that needed a 15 Amp circuit to power their UPS because the server kept going down. An electrician was hired to run a new circuit.

After the work was completed, I commissioned the UPS and all was well … until someone boiled the kettle at which point the UPS would start screaming and the kettle would stop working.

After crawling into the basement I discovered that the extra 15 Amp circuit was nothing more than a twin flex connected to the kitchen circuit.

The client was unimpressed and if I recall correctly, 20 years or so ago, the electrician lost their licence.

That looks very cool.

As a developer I can confirm that we see all kinds of “stuff”.

My most memorable was an elected official who entered their credit card information into a name field when they made a purchase online. It showed up in a banking report and stood out.

The purchase went through because they also put the credit card information into the correct fields.

How did I know it was an elected official?

Their email address had their full name and government department.

Job advertisements are so bad that this delivery job would show up as a “remote job” with some agencies characterising it as “work from home” because it’s not in an office.

Source: I’ve been looking for work from home roles for several years now.

TIL that there’s a .cat top level domain.

In the city where I live different groups are responsible for different roads. If it were me, I’d start with a phone call to the Main Roads Department and ask them who is responsible for the particular spot and then put your concerns in writing to that department.

Make sure that you ask in your letter who is responsible for the issue if they’re not, otherwise you’ll get a curt “not my problem” response.

Talking to the local council is an alternative approach.

Whatever you do, include what you witnessed and ask what they’re going to do about it.

In case it’s not obvious, you’re creating a paper trail. Keep it, so if it all goes to shit, you can contact your local representative and subsequently the media if that doesn’t work.

If you’re feeling frisky, you could paint that curb in dayglow orange, but some jurisdictions might consider that illegal.