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Dec 18, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Zoe Rose
I’m a big fan of Dunning-Kruger syndrome. Most of us are loosely aware of it — it’s a kind of cognitive bias, which says that the less someone knows about something the more confident they are, and vice versa. People who aren’t particularly competent or knowledgeable in a given domain tend to overestimate their skills, but they also tend to underestimate the complexity of the domain itself. Think of it as the ‘how hard could it be?’ effect.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
techish.com | Zoe Rose
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Zoe Rose
It can’t be done. That is the first thing you need to know about the under-16s social media ban. It is impossible. It cannot be implemented. It can’t be done. The ban has the same level of feasibility as switching off Australia’s internet from midnight to 6am daily to ensure everyone gets a good night’s sleep. That’s also a plan that could generate hundreds of hours of talkback radio and thousands of column inches.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Zoe Rose
For a lot of people, Agile means two things: standups and sprints. Standups are short meetings that take place every morning, where members of the team report on what they did yesterday, what they’re going to do today, and any ‘blockers’ they are facing. Sprints, on the other hand, are time blocks (usually of two weeks) defined by goals that contribute to the larger project.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski |John Glenn |Zoe Rose |Donald Rothwell
The Albanese government has openly declared that the state of recruitment and retention in the Australian Defence Force and Department of Defence will remain in persistent crisis. It will take years to fix, assuming economic conditions remain buoyant and unemployment stays low. That’s the rub for the military’s latest budgetary tome on how many people it will need in the future, what they will do, but not necessarily where they will come from. The figures are as tectonic as always.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski |Zoe Rose |Tom Ravlic |Andrew Leigh
If you’ve been watching footage of the war in Ukraine and the Middle East and wondering if combatants will ever run out of the ordnance that wreaks utter havoc, you are not alone. Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy has delivered the Albanese government’s most strident defence yet of its pivot to local munitions manufacturing, citing a rise in so-called ‘hot wars’ as a key reason to roll your own ammo and missiles as conflicts overseas burn through stocks.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Zoe Rose |Dan Holmes |Tegan Jones
Like many mortgage holders who bought a Canberra house with ‘character’, I am currently planning an extension. The rules that specify what I can and can’t build are complex. For a start, there are setbacks. These apply to the house but not the garage, apart from the front setback, which must be 6m from the boundary unless the neighbour’s setback is already less than 6m from the boundary, in which case the setbacks can match. So far, so byzantine.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Julian Bajkowski |John Glenn |Zoe Rose |Donald Rothwell
Australia’s conspicuous firing of a US-issue Standard Missile-6 from HMAS Sydney in August has prompted a big order for the longer-range weapons, with the Albanese government coming good on a $7 billion purchase of off-the-shelf cruise missiles.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
themandarin.com.au | Zoe Rose
article-body Imagine a young woman — maybe someone like you in years gone by — heading into a bar. She’s twenty years old but looks younger. The bouncer asks to see her ID, and she hands over her driver’s licence. He checks it, maybe scans it, and hands it back. The bouncer now knows her name — Sabrina Kelleher. He also knows where she lives. The current systems we use for managing identity, in both government and commercial contexts, are simultaneously inefficient and risky.
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May 28, 2024 | 
hercampus.com | Zoe Rose
Deep within music lies the roots of so many of our favorite songs we listen to on repeat today. The classics, the songs we grew up with and that ultimately shaped the person we are today. It’s the music we never knew we needed when we first heard it as an adolescent, but find so much comfort in the lyrics as we evolve into our adulthood. R&B reveals the soul, rhythm, and blues behind the melody and lyrics.
