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Umm, so we do we need a new thread for Barilaro's sudden resignation?

Yes, if anyone is interested, this is technically a side effect that's been around forever lol. Originally it was necessary for moderators to be premium members so they could access premium features (very few, if any, of which still exist) if necessary for testing and support, so moderators...

Nice! Looks like LaTeX, did you use Overleaf? If you need to use it for an assignment of some sort, i'd recommend trying to write the whole thing in LaTeX rather than just copying in your diagram too. Good practice for uni, most students won't touch LaTeX at all until their capstone/thesis or...

LaTeX is really just for typesetting, you'd use TikZ or something like pgfplots to make a graph, but it would be pretty awful to actually experiment with unless you already knew exactly what you needed to graph. While you can download it, it can be annoying to setup, so check out Overleaf if you...

LaTeX can be a bit of a pain for graphing and graphics, but definitely many maths textbooks are typeset using it. In uni, depending on the course you take, you might get exposure to some mathematical software package with graphing ability. For example, Matlab or its open source equivalent...

I know a few colleagues that retired like 6 months into the pandemic, both fairly wealthy - one at retirement age, but the other in their 40s. I reckon if it was business as usual, they would have stuck around longer. But the changes in working patterns made them re-evaluate if they actually...

Also worth considering that these vaccines were approved on the basis of reducing the chance of hospitalisation or death from a severe case. AZ, Pfizer and Moderna are all very good at that.

Nah, almost every decently sized workplace in Australia does on site flu vaccines and encourages them because it makes sense economically for businesses. It will be similar with the covid vaccine and boosters. A single anecdotal example of your cousin doesn't carry any more weight than the...

We won't really have good data like that for a long time. If you're open to getting one of these vaccines, I don't think it's a good idea to wait for more data about which one to pick if your concerns are mostly around efficacy. Before that data is available, we will likely be open to some...

Basically this. Pre-2019 the forum and website weren't very good on mobile devices, but everything now works well on phones. On Android devices you can also get push notifications from the BOS website. What would you expect to be different in an app than is on the current website?

Both are good universities. I assume your family must be USYD alumni which is why you have this dilemma. It looks like you've already made your decision to be honest (UNSW), the only real pros you've got listed for USYD are related to transport and location -- and as you've alluded to, there...

Yeah, for example: Joining student societies, particularly getting an exec position. Ideally a technical one, but you could even join one related to a hobby and do technical things like building/maintaining their website, building discord bots etc. Hackathons, competitive programming (ICPC and...

I think it depends on what you want to get out of uni, I've worked with students and graduates across basically all of the software courses at UNSW and UTS (including the co-op programs) and they all have their pros and cons. UNSW CompSci will give you a better theoretical grounding while UTS...

As specificagent1 said, it significantly reduces the risk of a serious case that might require hospitalisation, as well as reducing the rate of either symptomatic or asymptomatic mild cases. But you aren't entirely correct, the current data suggests that viral load is basically the same for...

I assume if it ever got to that, completing the HSC isn't necessarily the same as sitting the HSC external exams. For the majority of students, the external exams are either a formality or for determining the marks/ATAR. You're generally well on track for "completing the HSC" if you are sitting...

If they couldn't find a way to proctor a standardised HSC exam remotely, they'd have to find another method for aligning the internal results. That's why one of the proposals thrown around was just to have the English exam. But there could be other approaches like using some combination of a...

For what it's worth, this specific decision is being made by the NSW government and it is the federal election that is upcoming. But definitely, earlier in this outbreak the federal Liberal government supported Gladys in not locking down early and were critical of other state governments that...

No idea what's going to happen. I assume they are going to do whatever they can to get the HSC to go ahead as close to normal as possible. IMO it's well meaning but out of touch, given most universities and workplaces are online at the moment and it's unlikely to completely revert after the...

The minister for education will be at the 11am press conference today, so I would expect news on the HSC and/or schools today.

Look under "What are the symptoms of thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome?" here: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/thrombosis-with-thrombocytopenia-syndrome-tts Apparently they are quite severe (e.g. very bad and persistent headache), and start 4-42 days after vaccination. If you mean, if...