Readit NewsTo be clear, the reason for this is because the width of the beam requires aiming it like a sniper rifle, not because we can't compensate for operator motion.
For example an officer following or pursuing an offender can apply a 'negligent' or 'wreckless' driving charge based in context of the officer's observations and evidence gathered, such as following or pursuing an offender well above the speed limit, observing the calibrated speedometer in the patrol car, without the use of a speed measuring device.
It's been a while since I've looked at it though some Australian police forces have a calibrated speedometer installed on the dash that reads out the vehicle's speed based from the rear differential[1], separately to the vehicle's 'stock' speedometer. The reasoning, I understand, is that this is more precise, as legally the stock speedometer can display a speed up to 10 km/h lower than actual (but not above).
[1] https://www.drive.com.au/news/inside-a-highway-patrol-car-th...
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
There's also an open specification called x402:
https://www.x402.org/x402-whitepaper.pdf
I would definitely use this to charge US$100,000 per request from any AI company to crawl my site. I would exempt 'public good' crawlers like The Internet Archive though.
If AI companies valued at billions of dollars want to slurp up my contribution to the human condition, that's my price - subject to price rises only.
Huh, that's something new; admittedly I missed the 'private' bit. I can certainly understand why though.
Failures by the government in forestry management and firefighting shouldn't be used to restrict people's ability to enjoy nature and use public land.
They still need to solve the root problems... Lighting starts fires too and they can't outlaw that.
Wildfires start often without warning, and can spread very quickly, especially in hot, dry, windy conditions. We can never predict where a fire will start, as it could be one of many causes. Firefighting is always reactive in this regard.
This move is purely to protect people from being seriously injured, or (horrifically) burnt alive, by unexpectedly ignited fast-moving wildfires. Fire trucks and firefighters are not an unlimited resource, they can be overstretched in long campaign events with further unexpected ignitions.
As others have alluded to Australia is often accused of government overreach, but I can say that these decisions are not taken lightly as we don't want to be alarmist or restrict people's freedoms, but we also need to balance the very real threat to public safety that wildfire poses, and causes, and the available resources we have to manage new ignitions should they break out.
The language the news article uses is, in my view, misleading. "Ban" implies non-negotiable permanence and is often associated with a permanent restriction of personal freedoms, though the article, which lets face it most people don't read beyond headlines these days, is more akin to the temporary 'closure' to parts of public areas in forests and national parks, the same orders often issued by Australian fire authorities, to protect people from areas and conditions that are potentially (or are actually) dangerous to be in during elevated fire danger periods.
"Ban" sounds a lot worse than "Closure", though I also recognise this may be a legislative quirk, or confusion of terms: we have "Total Fire Ban" (government area wide, or statewide), "Park Fire Ban" and "Solid Fuel Fire Bans" (specific to individual parks, and forests respectively) that are both temporary but must be called 'bans', as those are the specific legislative tools given to us to manage ignitions.
Source: am a firefighter who has had to deal with these issues, during some very significant and internationally notable fire emergencies.
If it an electrical contact in the door handle, it would be very difficult for anyone to monitor or inject other signals.
If the signals were audible sound, you'd know when someone was jamming it.
In practice, my number one use of a fob from a remote distance is locking, rather than unlocking, and those two operations don't have the equivalent security risk.
Wouldn't the risk be the same if the same rolling code keys was used for both locking and unlocking?
I would be surprised if automotive manufacturers used separate rolling code keys for locking and unlocking.
Even with that background I'm having a hard time understand _what_ this really is? Is it a git wrapper with some geospatial features? Why git for geospatial at all?
If it integrated with QGIS/ArcGIS to show visual differences, and allow a user to easily reconcile differences between conflicting features (based on topological rules), I'd definitely be interested though it doesn't seem like it at a glance.
@fyrn_ Re: the work you did with 'multiplayer map editing', is there anything public you could show? I'm interested in how you solved this challenge.
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The self taught developer will eventually figure it out, if they are intelligent enough to approach the given problem.
The computer science graduate will generally not even try to figure out a problem in completely unfamiliar territory. Of course this varies by personality, so this is probably only true for about 85% of the computer science graduates. They cannot proceed in the face of high uncertainty.
What that ultimately means is that the computer science graduate is way more compatible in the big corporate world where they are an interchangeable cog that can be replaced at any moment. They operate in a world on known patterns just like their peers. The self taught developer, however, is constantly innovating and doing things in somewhat original ways because they have learned to not waste their personal time on unnecessary repetition, and that cavalier lone gunman attitude scares the shit out of people. Yet, those self-taught people tend to deliver vastly superior results.
Most developers don’t seem to care about superior code. They care about retaining employment and lowering anxiety in the manner that emphasizes least disruption.
I scare the living shit out of consultants, because a lot of them made the mistake of assuming I'm just a dumb firie - the uniform means I don't look like my corporate IT peers at all - but quickly recoil and backtrack when I ask direct technical questions they don't expect and should know the answer to, or call them out on their misleading (if not outright false) statements.
My supervisor loves me, even though he doesn't love the disruption as much, because it leads to better outcomes for the organisation.
https://www.australianwarningsystem.com.au/
Below are the three alert levels for all hazards in Australia, including tsunami:
- Advice: An incident has started. There is no immediate danger. Stay up to date in case the situation changes.
- Watch and Act: There is a heightened level of threat. Conditions are changing and you need to start taking action now to protect you and your family.
- Emergency Warning: You may be in danger and need to take action immediately. Any delay now puts your life at risk.
The scale slides up and down, but can immediately be set to Emergency Warning if the situation demands it.
They can also be further defined with 'Calls to Action': - 'Monitor conditions' - 'Prepare now' - 'Seek shelter immediately' - 'Move to higher ground immediately'
Siren systems aren't widespread across the country, though systems are popping up in some flood-prone parts of Queensland. Sirens are typically activated when the 'Emergency Warning' alert level is reached.