RowanH

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by RowanH 7y ago
My 2012 Retina was solid, lasted for 7 years till the battery just started going. Had they not glued it in I would have replaced battery and kept going.. hunted for a replacement and really not happy with anything. A compromise was switchin
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by RowanH 7y ago
Same when I moved back to New Zealand after years in Canada. The first trip to the fruit and vege store I went overboard...
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by RowanH 7y ago
All a moot point when you're over the ocean :)
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by RowanH 7y ago
Since New Zealand started cracking down on single use plastic bags - your habits change massively. Go to the beer store and pick up a couple of cans of craft brew? 1 year ago I would get them in a bag. Now? Just hold onto them you lazy bugg
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by RowanH 8y ago
I think YT is great for 'hobby rabbit holes' as I call them... Starting at a certain topic and exploring all the weird and wonderful content about it. My knowledge has certainly expanded all the more from YT than without... Much b
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by RowanH 8y ago
Would be interesting to know how many people who've managed footprints for a reasonable period of time (say 5-10years) who haven't had a cert expire on them. Wouldn't be surprised if it's single digit %ages. So many hu
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by RowanH 8y ago
Same amount of ram, different speeds (2133 vs 3000). I attribute the performance largely to the additional cores... the machine has that processor power sitting ready and waiting.
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by RowanH 8y ago
My Overlocked 6600k vs Ryzen/1800x at stock speeds is night and day difference in "real world" performance. Even though general clock speeds are not that much different - the Ryzen machine is the one I want to use. Desktop pr
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by RowanH 8y ago
Getting to bare metal would require so much of the vehicles interior to be removed, the chances of doing it without damaging said interior would be next to none, then doing the spot welds depending how close they are to the exterior could a
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by RowanH 8y ago
Maybe visa sponsorship ? Sometimes with niche enough roles NZ employers can sponsor Visas if no one is upto standard locally.
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by RowanH 8y ago
Moving countries has a huge impact on people especially families. Not something you really want to leave people in limbo for - the first year or two can be quite rocky for some (it's usually tougher than people imagine). Realistically
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by RowanH 8y ago
Never heard coil whine for years and years decades infact of PC building. Until last year I got my shiny new fancy pants blast furnace, (aka GTX 1080 TI), which has near dead silent fans at idle/light loads. The minute that bad boy sta
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by RowanH 9y ago
That's a very graphic visualisation. You've got to wonder if every one saw and understood this whether there would be greater tolerance and understanding to avoid war...
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by RowanH 9y ago
I spent 3 weeks there in October with friends and thoroughly loved it, in the same breath also loved coming home. [yes...I can drink water out the tap and it won't try to kill me!]. I think the dogs have improved in the last few years
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by RowanH 9y ago
Actually this hasn't been the first approach, there's been a gradual tightening of access to mortgages via what's called the LVR, by upping the deposit amount required for mortgages to buy a house and differentiating between
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by RowanH 9y ago
... converse opinion, running a dev shop you want off the shelf "plug it in and go" options for developer machines. If we see significant advantages in general workflow (compiling, VM's, unit testing etc) with Ryzen at a comp
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by RowanH 9y ago
Gave up waiting for a Mac Pro option April last year, built a monster Win 10 machine - run all my dev work in VMs and get to play the odd game in Ultra settings at astonishing frame rates on an Ultrawide. Can't see ever going back to
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by RowanH 9y ago
Not trolling you. It's a thing here. I did when I was a kid, and still happens today.
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by RowanH 9y ago
People are immigrating faster than houses can be built which is a major factor...
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by RowanH 10y ago
So semi related, been in software for 20 years and contemplated getting a Motec w e-throttle for my (road legal) race car "no f-king way" is my thought process, I've got a race engine management system but no way I'm hav
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by RowanH 10y ago
Wouldn't be sad if that was implemented in NZ - same problems here of ridiculous price rises = land banking. Seeing empty (million dollar +) houses around you is surreal and totally against community spirit we're so widely known f
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by RowanH 10y ago
LVR restrictions were upped in October to 40% meaning you now need as an investor 40% deposit for a mortgage in Auckland from the NZ banks (previously was upped to 30%). Things might be slowing down - open homes in my area seem to have less
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by RowanH 10y ago
I can't account for Germany but from Canada it is more expensive but quality of fresh fruit and Veges is way better. Our standard of eating increased markedly moving back.
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by RowanH 10y ago
Yes. Fact of life. More or less every day or so there's an article on the house prices. Lots of parts to the problem - trust me we worry. Not dissimilar to Vancouver or Sydney ...
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by RowanH 10y ago
I pay around 80nzd/mo for unlimited . Latency is not awesome. That was literally the only thing I was worried about moving back to NZ "how well will Netflix work and will managing servers drive me nuts". Netflix is still awes
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by RowanH 10y ago
Great find. Okay so if 5 other people who feel this aptly visually depicts their daily lives and could click reserve on the hoodie version I would be stoked ! :)
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by RowanH 10y ago
Yes - when you get motion sickness badly it's amazing how bad it is and how long the effects last. I experienced incredibly bad motion sickness at a racetrack once; the ole "vestibular disconnect". I had been gradually improv
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by RowanH 11y ago
I visited Uganda once, wood stoves + limited electricity + population growth = pretty severe deforestation. The pollution in Kampala, jeepers...... unbelievably sad given how beautiful the natural environment is.
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by RowanH 11y ago
Following up - here's our requirements for getting a Visa http://skillshortages.immigration.govt.nz/developer-programm...
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by RowanH 11y ago
With tech skills like his in NZ he could get a real job and get paid real compensation. No need for Wwoofing.

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