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Some of the central beaches are sometimes crowded, but many beaches are just empty. Went for a swim today and water was fresh (16 degrees) but refreshing ! Where are you based ?

NZ is not cheap indeed and Auckland is insanely expensive (managed to buy despite the crazy housing market), but nice beaches and awesome for sailing !

creativenolo: former child :)

So Auckland dropped 33 places just because of few Covid cases ? It is true that we had a peak of Covid cases this year, but it was never really massive by international standards. …

To be totally fair, the capital should be Nelson which is the true geographic center of NZ!

Not only you do not have much time for yourself but it is often not really "quality" time. It rarely comes in uninterrupted blocks of say 90' or 2h. It is going to be 20 minutes th…

Recently applied to a DevOps Engineer position and after multiple interviews (took ages to plan them...), I finally reached the take-home challenge stage. I have been tasked to wor…

This reminds me a colleague creating a Python class like this import os class Bla(): def __init__(self): self.var1 = os.env["VARIABLE1"] self.var2 = os.env["VARIABLE2"] # ... self.…

Yeap agreed! I discovered a lot of tools just reading them. Thanks everyone !!

It is possible indeed that the Pfizer vaccine is not particularly efficient against Delta but, at the same time, Israel is only one country among a growing list of countries facing…

My understanding is that the vaccines are mainly here to avoid you to die or to require severe ventilation and, based on the available studies, they are doing the job. The hospital…

SF is located on fault, with mega wildfires and mega drought for decades to come... At least the photo of the empty reservoir will be taken with a cheap Chinese-made smartphone, go…

If they go through MIQ first, all good!

Fiji overtook Australia at the top of rankings for Oceania so it is not particularly a great period for them either :/. French Polynesia is on the rise as well but NZ is holding so…

Recruiters are like realtor/real estate agents, they work for themselves (to close deals) and that's it. They never give you the appropriate level of information about the opportun…

Many drivers of SUV are not aware of the body of their vehicle because these are so large and high. How many a large car is turning, say right (via a dedicated lane), but 10-20% of…

In the US, you bring your own car for your driving exam... And this is barely a joke !!

Sounds awesome! Time to move to Sweden haha :)

Respect man!

Yeah same story in NZ. You can take a decent parental but the payout is limited ($500 NZD/pw). Of course, you need a cap but you might end up leaving quite a lot on the table. And …

In NZ, my wife took 6 months of parental leave (with a huge drop of salary...) and I took 2 weeks* (one unpaid and one paid by my company). So yeah, I did not take anything else be…

Nice from them to provide the rain precipitation! Have been to the Death Valley twice in November and January. Truly amazing place!

It is never the right time to buy and few years later, after the market took 25%, you are like "We did a good move back in the day!". Bought my house 2 years ago (Auckland) and it …

I am in group 4 (out of 4) and vaccination was supposed to start in July and it has been pushed to end of July. Some people in group 3 have still not been contacted and there are p…

> on track to vaccinate 100% in 51 days I can guarantee you that this is not going to happen... I would be lucky if I am vaccinated this year... Vaccines are super scarce so we are…