One of the day trips on a Vietnam visit was swimming/wading deep into a bat cave. I wonder now what viruses we dodged and if they are still taking tourists in there?
Some secondary school mates made this and spread it in the corridor. We heard the explosions as the head science teacher stamped through to detonate it all before the classes were allowed out.
I had a holiday job at the police forensics lab library in Auckland in the early 80s. This was one of the many documents that had been confiscated by police and carefully catalogued and stored away.
That's an example of poorly written Perl code to grab the first character from $_, and bad code can be written in any language. More conventionally it would be written as "$fc=substr($_,0,1)" which seems reasonably clear and obvious.
Two states denied access. New South Wales (Liberal coalition government - conservative) and Queensland (Labor party government - conservative but very slightly more socially progressive). Both states have things to hide when it comes to their prison systems and their confinement and treatment of asylum seekers.
VSCode dev containers seem to have a lot of potential but I've found the documentation and official examples severely lacking if you want to do anything beyond simply booting a container. There are nice things like the way a devcontainer can symlink the contents of your 'dotfiles' repository into place as .bashrc, .git, etc, but I couldn't find this behaviour detailed in relation to devcontainers (it's a vscode Container extension feature) and found it by accident having spent too long trying to work out exactly how to achieve this functionality. It's also not well-described but on a windows host with linux container it seems the best setup for disk performance is to have the project with .devcontainer located in a WSL2 vm and launch the devcontainer from within WSL2. It's a bit tricky if you don't want to use Ubuntu as MS seems entirely oriented around Ubuntu as the preferred container platform and all examples and useful scripts which launch ssd, etc, assume Ubuntu.
My grandmother was a child in the UK when horses were still common in the streets, which was also where all the children played. One thing she mentioned that stuck with me was that when children cut their knees falling in the road they would end up running green with pus - presumably from infections from the horse crap.
NBN satellite (aka Sky Muster) is pretty solid and speed is generally ok but the latency is a killer and makes it useless for anything interactive. Fine for the target audience web browsing and streaming videos.
Unfortunately even a clear couple of acres won't protect against ember attack. The house can be built to be fully fire-resistant and you're still faced with stay-or-go decisions when the next fire arrives.
Storms, and just heavy rain, consistently send our satellite internet offline. This is Australian “sky muster plus” pointing at a geosynchronous satellite at a higher orbit than starlink.
My wife's cousin almost died from heat-stroke in her drive-way when her car trapped her inside the vehicle in full Australian summer sun because the battery failed while she was inside checking something. Doors and windows wouldn't open. Nobody heard her calls because the new car had good sound-proofing. She eventually managed to crawl through the panel behind the back seat to get into the boot (luckily she's quite petite) and get a tyre lever and smash a side-window so she could call out to a neighbour for help.