wth

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[–] wth 2 points 1 year ago

That’s the sucker. Just stick an “H” on his forehead…

[–] wth 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

One other (slightly funny) aspect, for some of us older people. The leader of the Act party - David Seymour - is a dead ringer for Arnold Rimmer from Red Dwarf. As Lister would say - they are both complete knobheads.

[–] wth 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Act is waaaaaay to the right of any other party in NZ.

NZ First have partnered with Labour (left) and with National (right) over the years. Their strength is mainly around the leader (Winston Peters) who is a real firebrand and somehow they pull 5-7% or so every year (although they disappeared below the threshold in the 2020 election). IIRC their support is more in the older generation.

I would say their economics are centrist, but they tend to be conservative on other issues.

In the 2017 govt when they partnered with Labour (left), Winston became deputy prime minister and foreign minister and the rumours were that he was pretty effective and hardworking in the foreign minister position.

[–] wth -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always plug in. I don’t know if it works with calibre server.

[–] wth 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My unmodified kobo syncs with calibre.

[–] wth 1 points 1 year ago

I wish you both the best.

[–] wth 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is not true. I think a more accurate term would be we swung for change. Green vote held up, it was mainly labour that dived. Having said that, the extreme right, Act, did do well with about 9%. And it’s also worth noting that both national (right) and labour (left) would be considered quite middle of the road elsewhere.

[–] wth 11 points 1 year ago

I learned the hard way about the beauty of backups and the 3, 2, 1 rule. And snapshots are the GOAT.

Even large and (supposedly) sophisticated teams can make this mistake, so dont feel bad. It’s all part of learning and growth. You have learned the lesson in a very real and visceral way - it will stick with you forever.

Example - a very large customer running our product across multiple servers, talking back to a large central (and shared) DB server. DB server shat itself. They called us up to see if we had any logs that could be used to reconstruct our part of their database server, because it turned out they had no backups. Had to say no.

[–] wth 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn… I feel for you. It sounds like you are in a tough spot. There’s lots of good advice on this page, and the one thing I will add is to protect and keep working on your relationship. Money is the core component of many (or was it most?) relationship problems.

You can get through it, but (IMHO) you need your wife right there with you (or at least, I did). We were doing ok until I tried to start a business and dropped my 9-5 job. Revenue was slim, and then at one point I earned nothing for 6 months. We were on the bones of our arse - living off a meagre kindergarten teacher’s wage paying rent and food. Without my wife, we would have drowned. She did amazing things in budgeting down to the last penny, no luxuries, riding everywhere, spending time together. It was hard and there was no end in sight for a long time. We were very lucky and things turned around. But I would have not managed it without her (and her incredible budgets).

It sound like you have been deep in it for longer than we were, and I wish you all the best in working your way out.

[–] wth 1 points 1 year ago

When I look closer at the source, I can see they are using data-icon-name for the image, so it’s likely using fluent-ui, and loading these icon resources from a font.

I can see a whole lot of fonts loading, although they do show some warnings:

The resource https://res-h3.public.cdn.office.net/assets/mail/fonts/v1/fonts/segoeui-semilight.woff was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window's load event. Please make sure it wasn't preloaded for nothing.

This is repeated for a number of versions of that font. I cannot see any font resources actually failing to load.

[–] wth 12 points 1 year ago

My smaller battery MX Tesla, after 7 years, has gone from 330km to 308km. The degradation is a lot slower than you indicate.

[–] wth 17 points 1 year ago

He’s talking about the USA, so the guard could shoot your neighbour and be suspended with pay. If he wants to be extra cautious, he could yell stop resisting after shooting him.

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