Every couple months I check in on the latest Adrian Chiles articles and I’m always absolutely blown away. These are all from the last couple months. The man is operating at an incredibly high level.

This is so silly: a 2 year trial starting in two years' time. I live in a city with fully electric ferry transport for the Oslo fjord. This isn't a new technology anymore. Just implement it.

The other TBMs in NSW. Crazy to think of the scale of Snowy Hydro 2.0. They say it'll store the energy equivalent of 23 million home batteries. youtu.be/CI9B-H3zfjw

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Open source maintainers at profitable companies: stop asking permission to fix what your employer already depends on. No paperwork. No programme. No manager’s blessing. Just maintain it on the clock.

I prefer the 2022 cohost version

$1b a year for free PT is over four times the amount the PBO previously cited ($214m pa) for upgrading all #Melbourne train and tram lines to run every 10 minutes every day, with plenty left for V/Line and buses. Improved services get more people on board than free rides. www.theage.com.au/po...#Melbourne($)

it is the blessing and the curse of this city that the harbour is solidly the best natural landscape of any large city in the world, hands down. there are other cities with good harbours but my god this one is an amphitheatre of the public life of the city and the mirror of our subconscious

From @fictilli.us on X > Sydney Metro has added three new trains to boost services from Monday 13th April. > Peak service frequency increase from every 4 mins to every 3.5 mins > Weekend service frequency will increase from every 10 mins to every 7 mins. t.co/sQsa3P0NBm

fucked up that the burgers are genuinely better at hungry jacks

Transport Solutions to the Energy Crisis Energy crises invite energy theatre. Governments panic, subsidise fuel, toy with rationing, announce some restriction, and hope voters confuse motion with progress. Then prices ease, the measures are unwound, and the system that made the crisis painful […]

Politicians habitually dissemble and at best offer no good information, so simply repeating what they say has limited value and interest

F10 Blackwattle Bay ferry now on Opal! “Passengers can now tap on and off and benefit from fare caps and seamless connections with the wider public transport network.” “Seamless connections” is a stretch. F4 and F10 transfers at Barangaroo are hit and miss. www.transport.nsw.gov.au/news-and-eve...

Since people are banging on about free public transport again, here's a very accessible paper from IPART discussing the results of fare-free public transport in NSW. In short, it'd make PT worse, wouldn't get people out of their cars, but would reduce active transport (walking/cycling).

Fucken hell this is so dumb. We are running low so… drop the price? Stimulate demand?

Cutting fuel excise (which also would very likely not end up temporary) is a truly terrible idea and we shouldn't even be considering it.

In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster

Managed to check out the new pedestrian plaza and Trains entrance at BANKSTOWN today. It's really opened up the Bankstown CBD, connecting the shopping centre and uni on the north side to the shops and businesses on the south. The new Metro entrance looks ready and waiting. (1/2)

A massive victory in the war against upper-level setbacks! The Mid-Rise Code offers greater housing certainty for Melburnians. It also winds back one of the most damaging and poorly evidenced planning controls: upper-level setbacks.

What next? No idea. But here are four possibilities. as.ft.com/r/56bb7bf6-6...

Great to see. They need to make Burwood Rd pedestrians and buses only. There's way way more people than cars, and the footpaths are made too narrow to squeeze in four lanes.

As much as I like the George St entrance to Wynyard, I've always thought could do with some signs or something to give it more of a sense of arrival.

IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN

Ok so I have had time to properly read and digest Hogg's paper in detail and it will not shock you as his former postdoc that I agree with close to 100%. But the spiciest take here isn't anything about LLMs, it's the assertion that astronomy lacks a right edge. This is true but you can't say it!

Can’t stop, won’t stop www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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this thread is now complete. stay safe out there

How's the mobile CPU landscape evolving? Thanks to process node improvements, a mid-range Android from 2025 is (finally!) as fast as 2017's iPhone 8, but a low-end (~$100) smartphone isn't yet as speedy as a decade-old iPhone 6s.

In software we can release MVPs and then continue to build the plane while it's flying, because nothing is real. It's not a goal, just a milestone where the thing is no longer useless. It's not a concept that migrates well to things built from concrete and steel.

MOUNT VICTORIA, 127km from Central, is a beautiful station cut into sandstone, serving a town at the top of the Blue Mountains. It has two platforms accessed by a footbridge, but no lift. The station features a range of grand old buildings that show its former importance on the line. (1/4)

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.” security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

New post: "Async and finaliser deadlocks", based on an accidental poke from a recent episode of the excellent @oxide.computer podcast tratt.net/laurie/blog/...

imagine you were a magnetosphere just minding your own business and then you get hit by an intense coronal mass ejection out of nowhere, you’d be absolutely ropable

Denver area transit agency bans advertising covering windows. www-denverpost-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.denv...

I can't believe this didn't actually happen. Gobsmacked........

People are going on about Zohran Mamdani but in Sydney we have Clover Moore and you can never take that away from us.

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

the unfortunate truth re: data visualisation is that you really do gotta hand it to bar charts

What a shocker of a trackwork weekend, no trains thru the city except T4. How's that for planning! City Circle closed. T2,T3 end at Strathfield. T8 ends at Sydenham or Central (map's wrong!) T1,T9 closed Central-Wynyard. Metro Closed. Plus the new bridge at Sydenham is closed for some reason!

Congratulations to Penny Wong, Australia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, who was just named a Time Climate 100 climate "defender" bc she led a visa program for a small number of Tuvaluans Since May 2022 Wong's gov't has enabled 2.9 GTco2 through exports and 1.7 domestically archive.ph/wip/VEqPj

$237 million per kilometre $93,000 per inhabitant of Northland It costs literally as much as a 76km high stack of $100 notes

"systems" programmers need their language to be kiki, if it's too bouba it's unsuitable for "serious work"