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I live in New Zealand - until 2019 things used to work this way for us too. A law was introduced to require overseas sellers selling more than $60,000 NZD/year into New Zealand to …

Before it was a settlement it was a military base. It did have walls protecting until 1940, where under WW2 Japanese occupation they were demolished. The name stuck even after. The…

https://earthtoveg.com/chinese-hawthorn-candy-haw-leather/ The Chinese Hawthorn is used in a few snacks. I really like the fruit leather you can buy in Asian supermarkets. My math …

I was curious whether handling them directly is a good idea. There's some guidance here: https://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/meteorite-falls/how-to-handle-mete... Try not to handle any fresh…

You're not wrong - they do that. Have a look at https://thekitepower.com/products/ There's a diagram of the flight path and power generation over the cycles. The flight path on the…

I have fond memories of Dick Smith. My dad bought my first soldering iron, along with some soldering projects (I remember the FM Wireless Microphone from here https://ia801002.us.a…

HIAKAI in New Zealand has done really well taking indigenous (traditionally foraged) Māori ingredients and turning them into a fine dining experience. I'd love to see what a simila…

Can confirm. Went on a trip NZ->UK and was fascinated. They're so twitchy, fast and inquisitive, and so furry. They are legitimately as interesting to watch to me as almost any zoo…

You can add the CSS rule "filter: grayscale(100)" to the body if it helps. I have no idea how black and white monitors worked though, I would guess they'd have less than 8 bits of …

Oh absolutely. So many dead links scattered around the net. It's gotten so bad an independent group Archive Team are brute forcing URL shortners so these links aren't lost to time.…

How huge is the latency? It's using Elk Audio OS, claiming 1ms roundtrip. I doubt this usage gets that low but I wouldn't be surprised if it was doing alright

If you're curious what categories they fit into here's Wikipedia's list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Model_List_of_Essential_Me...

Xiaomi has hit 480hz touch sampling with the Mi 11. It looks possible in hardware and in software, someone just has to manage to perfect both in the same phone

One nice thing is that in brewing it can be used to generate heat for boiling during brewing rather than converting to electricity first. They mention a furnace but not a generator…

Hm right. I am fairly sure it was on the homepage. It's still inside the app and I managed to do a transfer out no worries. I would guess they are in the process of removing it? ht…

Another playlist migration service is https://soundiiz.com/ I've been really happy with it. They haven't implemented any restrictions around exporting from Spotify yet. Might be he…

Some rainbow diffraction I guess. It has been a long time since I've used a CD https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=cd

Didn't mean to come across as a troll, this is how I remember CDs, with rainbow diffraction. https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=cd

Maybe I'm missing something but how is the image so clear? CDs don't have a mirror like surface, they reflect light in unusual ways

Nintendo back in 2001 came out with the e-Reader that would plug into a Gameboy Advance and read cards with data printed on them. You'd have to scan a few "stripes" of data, but it…

Reminds me of Chef Watson, the recipes and directions that generated were supposed to be plausible https://www.welcome.ai/tech/food/ibm-chef-watson

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/chickens-depopulated-d... It's not really doable from what I've been seeing. The animals grow to big and living conditions worsen

It's a little bit of an ordeal - you have to request a bootloader unlock and then wait two weeks. But doable.

It does minify when using the --optomize flag https://www.snowpack.dev/#optimizing-for-production I am curious about SASS and other loaders too.