ztetranz

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by ztetranz 7mo ago
Maybe New Zealand could revisit his eligibility for citizenship.
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by ztetranz 9mo ago
Here's a good podcast (with written transcript) about what's happening in Australia. https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-real-story-with-australian The difference in the permitting process between Australia and
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by ztetranz 10mo ago
In early versions of DOS, the format command would go ahead and format the default drive with no prompt. It was a bad day if you were on C: and wanted to format A: but you forgot the A:
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by ztetranz 11mo ago
New Hampshire just ended inspections.
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by ztetranz 11mo ago
Most HOAs don't allow clotheslines because it makes it look as if poor people live there.
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by ztetranz 11mo ago
I find myself doing that. I'm not sure if it's just a silly habit I have because I don't like to run out of anything even if it is not important or if I picked it up from my dad who lived through the "great" depress
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by ztetranz 1y ago
> I am not even American but I remember McCain more and more when I hear about this. he was so much better than this. Very true. https://youtu.be/JIjenjANqAk?si=S65WGSBEGy8XEt27
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by ztetranz 1y ago
I wish you good luck. This might be a naive question which you've probably been asked plenty of times before so I'm sorry of I'm being tedious here. Is it really worth the effort and expense to have a real radio station these
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by ztetranz 1y ago
I remember that in the New Zealand code too.
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by ztetranz 1y ago
These guys warned us about this sort of thing. http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf Appendix A. Page 18.
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by ztetranz 1y ago
I don't think the Queen instructed the Governor General to do that. He made the decision. I'm old enough to remember it and remember a statement from the palace saying something like "The Queen is watching events in Australia
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by ztetranz 1y ago
>I saw a post on twitter about how game devs were using ChatGPT for localization and when you translated the text to English it said something like “as a chat assistant I’m unable to translate this concept” http://news.bbc.co.
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by ztetranz 1y ago
This is not a criticism but just an observation. I wonder how many of their members have any clue about what Calyx is about. Calyx is quite well known in the RV community where I suspect most members simply see themselves as "customers
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by ztetranz 1y ago
Yes roundabouts generally work well despite the fact that many American drivers seem to have problems with them. There are some traffic patterns where roundabouts don't do well. I've seen the following. Imagine a four way roundabo
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by ztetranz 1y ago
As an aside, we just spent a couple of weeks camping in our RV with a cellular router connected to a VPN at home. Now that we're back home, Google maps (on a non-GPS equipped device) and Roku still think we're at the campground se
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by ztetranz 1y ago
Thanks for this. I'm a kiwi and wondered why we were different. When friends started bringing pushbutton / cordless phones across from Australia, I was able to convert them to NZ numbering by reversing a few wires on the keyboard
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by ztetranz 1y ago
It's sounds silly when the Android auto in my car reads a text message. "Message from twenty four thousand, five hundred and thirty nine ..."
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by ztetranz 1y ago
Sean Carroll's cat is awake or asleep.
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by ztetranz 2y ago
Floppy disks DO NOT BEND! Oh yes they do.
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by ztetranz 2y ago
I've been learning Elixir just for fun. I wish I was using it in my day job.
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by ztetranz 2y ago
I use Skype for cheap international phone calls so I'm looking for a replacement. I have't tried it yet but Viber looks promising.
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by ztetranz 2y ago
Approval voting might be good but just at a human level, I think it can leave the voter feeling unsatisfied. If there is one candidate that I really like and another that I could only accept reluctantly as an alternative to someone worse th
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by ztetranz 2y ago
One of New Zealand's problems is that, yes it's a rich country compared to many others but it's conveniently close to a bigger richer country with easy immigration for NZ citizens. Record numbers of kiwis are moving to Austra
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by ztetranz 2y ago
I don't know if it's true but someone told me this is the main reason why the likes of Home Shopping Network and QVC keep their over the air transmitters going in many places even though most of their viewers are on cable. It seem
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by ztetranz 2y ago
Word had that too.
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by ztetranz 2y ago
How much do they have to be "neutral" when there are multiple candidates with significantly different popularity? If there are three candidates polling about equal then okay, it's easy to be neutral. But what if they're
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by ztetranz 2y ago
John Oliver on timeshares: https://youtu.be/Bd2bbHoVQSM?si=Gci5R5xrHs_ff-kw
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by ztetranz 2y ago
You beat me to it. :)
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by ztetranz 2y ago
I think that's a phasing device. You attach an auxiliary antenna specially to pick up the noise. The signal from that is phase shifted and mixed into the signal from the main antenna. The phase shift circuitry has knobs to vary the pha
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by ztetranz 2y ago
Way back in the days of video recorders, analog TV etc, I remember hearing talk of trying to detect ads on broadcast TV to either pause recording or maybe provide some sort of skip functionality on playback. I think they did something looki

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