Zagorath

even now you can still host your own website / services at home without any specialized gear

Yes, as I said, that's the only thing I've done myself—in particular, at times I've run it off of my main desktop, and at other times on a Raspberry Pi with an external hard drive attached—but that's specifically not what I was asking about because the previous comment was specifically talking about non-developers who might have that basic HTML understanding and just want a server where they can throw up an HTML file and have it served up. A goal that's more technically involved than a wordpress.com site, but less involved than self-hosting a LAMP stack and running the Let's Encrypt certbot.

(Plus, of course, the growing prevalence of cgNAT making self-hosting impossible for many people necessitates the use of a hosting company or user-friendly web service.)

If you didn't need to see your GP to get a very it'd ease up the system immensely.

Yeah I learnt static HTML and CSS circa 2007, but even then it felt like what we were being taught was very out of date.

I've never actually used any form of hosting for my own pages. I've run the LAMP stack on my own local server, and I've used services similar to WordPress, but never dealt with static web sites hosted by someone else. Do they not make TLS really easy for you in that circumstance?

Riding in a road race or crit, or even a time trial, is very different from a commute ride.

But even on commutes it's really good, depending on how often you expect to be stopping at lights. It's great in rainy weather where my flats often slip off the pedal, or climbing up the many hills on my commute that necessitate getting out of the saddle.

Edit: also, you backslashed one of the underscores, which is great, but forgot to escape the backslash itself.

I'm not talking about WordPress.org, but WordPress.com. The basic blogging service. It's all WYSIWYG.

Tell me you've never cycled seriously without telling me you've never cycled seriously.

Fwiw these days balance bikes are considered better than training wheels for people learning to ride. Training wheels are ok if you actually need to go somewhere accompanied by an adult on a bike, but they’re terrible for learning. They don’t teach you how to steer or balance properly; a balance bike does. In fact, training wheels can teach bad habits that are difficult to unlearn.

Yeah but a basic Wordpress.com site could do exactly the same thing for free. Or for super cheap if you want your own domain.

How so?

I think it's likely he would keep it, but fail to provide it enough funding to actually do anything of value. Possibly also limit its remit so it's incapable of providing the best recommendations.

Long term, I'd love to see us build high-speed rail all the way from the Sunshine Coast to Geelong, via the east coast capitals. But starting with smaller routes from major satellite cities into their capitals, like Newcastle–Sydney, is a fantastic way to build up local expertise before tackling the longer routes like Sydney–Canberra and Canberra–Melbourne.

I just really wish we were doing a better job at preparing for it. Like the soon-to-open Cross River Rail in Brisbane should have been designed wide enough to install dual-gauge rails with standard gauge, even if those additional rails weren't themselves installed yet. But they haven't been, and so when we come to eventually do the Brisbane–Gold Coast link it's gonna be way more expensive than if we'd planned ahead.