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Maybe New Zealand could revisit his eligibility for citizenship.

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 p…

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 t…

New Hampshire just ended inspections.

Most HOAs don't allow clotheslines because it makes it look as if poor people live there.

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 wh…

> 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

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 a…

I remember that in the New Zealand code too.

These guys warned us about this sort of thing. http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf Appendix A. Page 18.

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 li…

>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 …

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 s…

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'…

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 devic…

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 n…

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 ..."

Sean Carroll's cat is awake or asleep.

Floppy disks DO NOT BEND! Oh yes they do.

I've been learning Elixir just for fun. I wish I was using it in my day job.

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.

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 o…

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.…

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 …