There's an 'related stories' link down the bottom of the page with a bit more info. The ferry has a runtime of 90 minutes, and the regular trip takes "just over an hour", and a full recharge takes 60-90 minutes, with chargers at both terminals. So a return trip would take 2 hours + 2 charges, so somewhere around 4 hours. So I'd estimate it could do ~6 return trips per day.

Don't know about the flu, but there has been discussion about the ethics of vaccinating old people against pneumonia. Sir William Osler famously called pneumonia the “old man's friend”, because it kills the elderly without too much suffering.

e.g.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02644...

Google Maps doesn't use Mercator — it uses a 3D globe. If you zoom out you can see the whole globe and there doesn't seem to be any jump where the projection changes, or any distortion of country sizes.

Edit: I just noticed that Google Maps on Firefox and Chrome is indeed 3D, but on Safari it is 2D Mercator.

Why? There's other projections that do that already. And now we do most stuff on screens we can just use 3D models.

> "Check fuel. Next gas, xxx miles"

You don't see that in Australia either: we don't use miles, and we don't call it 'gas'. Typically it would be "No fuel next X km"

One of the rules I came up with while driving the coast of Aus a good while ago was just "always fill up". Oh and also "carry a jerry can of spare fuel"

The first bit came after one day when I skipped a servo and then it was over half my remaining fuel further along the road, I hadn't seen another and I realised "well I can't go back. Shit."

The second bit got expanded to two jerry cans after I had to use one because even though I made it to the servo in rural FNQ, it was 5.15pm and they were already closed. Thankfully that day the extra 20l got me to Port Douglas.

We do still have a few remnants of the imperial system - "90 mile straight" on the Nullabor comes to mind. The longest straight road in Aus, or maybe the world I don't know. When you're already suffering brainrot on your multi-day Nullabor drive, the announcement that you're not even going to have to turn the steering wheel for over an hour is... well it didn't fill me with joy!

There's an awful lot of "X Mile Beach"-es in Aus.

See: https://thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/beaches/

> Nevermind that the HTML is now a mess where you've got more CSS classes than content!

It shocks me how bad most HTML is. I just had a look at Twitter, and a single post in my timeline (a paragraph of text, an image, and ~10 linked icons) was 254 lines and 21.8 kB for just the HTML, and had 104 nested divs and 860+ classes!

That's more classes than characters of text content. About 9 kB of class names alone. And that is then repeated for every post in the timeline.

It should be a few divs max, a couple of classes (+ one for each icon), and a few lines of CSS. Seriously. You could style every post in the timeline with fewer characters than in the class names on one single post.

I don't understand how professional developers can make something so obscenely bloated.

Same. Those designs just remind me how boring web design has become.

You don't need the classes on the alert sub-elements:

  <div class="alert">
    <img src="/img/logo.svg" alt="ChitChat Logo" />
    <div>
      <h2>ChitChat</h2>
      <p>You have a new message!</p>
    </div>
  </div>

Then the CSS is just:

  .alert {...}
  .alert img {...}
  .alert h2  {...}
  .alert p   {...}

You can probably also get rid of the nested div by using flex, floats, or margins.

> It’s a truly elegant solution for authoring web pages.

It's an ugly hack that undoes a lot of the benefits of CSS.

Tailwind code is ugly as fuck. I hate it. I was working on some big sites when it came out, and the idea of adding hundred of style attributes each to thousands of pages (instead of just a single class name and few lines in a CSS file) seemed a huge backwards step that undid half the advantages of CSS.