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I worked on software at one point that had at it's core a number of "modes" that it switched between. It was, at the time, in the process of migrating from enums and switch/case trees to an inheritance based system.

In practice this meant there was a single instance of "Mode" for each mode which used pointer equality to switch/case on modes like an enum.

To add a new mode (that did nothing) I think I had to change about 6 different places.

K9 and Thunderbird for Android are now the same app with different branding

Not quite, they are and will continue to be the same app and code base with distinct branding.

The rebranding in F-droid recently was a mistake that has been fixed.

Fuck me, the "rhetorical" question in the lede is answered in the article, buried in the fifteenth paragraph.

The policy proposal falls under the Greens' so-called 'Robin Hood reforms' and they have said they will pay for the plan by "taxing big corporations that are profiting off price gouging during a cost of living crisis".

This is borderline disinformation by sbs

This is even worse than when journalists normally ask this question. It's a debt not a payment.

They will pay for it by finding a $2 coin in the centre console of their government funded car to buy a biro to cross off the line item.

Cheers. It took 5 full days for the comments to federate to my instance after this post, so this post was a ghost town on my end until today.

Blinx: The time sweeper

Thanks for bringing that up, I played the shit out of Blinx 2 back when and had all but forgotten it.

Incidentally my first thought reading your comment was "Prince of Persia: Sands of Time"

Interesting to see how different that is from Australia. In your example only lane 3 is a passing lane, and "undertaking" isn't a thing, it's completely legal to overtake in any lane.

This is such an obvious conclusion of this saga that I have to assume that Labor saw it coming. If so, it implies that they made a political calculation that it was better for their reaction to be struck down months later than to let the original high court ruling stand.

And they were willing to violate the constitution and fuck with peoples lives for political expedience.

Now do the crappy mobile games

The removals also follow former Netflix gaming boss Mike Verdu — who just announced that he’s a VP of “GenAI for Games” at Netflix — telling Game File’s Stephen Totilo that the company wasn’t building interactive titles anymore.

VP of “GenAI for Games”

Oh. Oh no.

This gonna need a citation

successfully clipped a gravel as big as 5 millimeters

Okay

(2 inches)

...what?

the size of a tiny granola bit

...what??