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#3280656 10-Sep-2024 13:01

You're actually going at the speed limit? I can tell you're not from Tauranga!

(Seriously, there's a two-lane, 50 km/h stretch of road that I drive 2-3 times a month, and I'm always overtaken).

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#3280661 10-Sep-2024 13:57

Behodar: (Seriously, there's a two-lane, 50 km/h stretch of road that I drive 2-3 times a month, and I'm always overtaken).

That's because, assuming it's a flat, straight road, then setting a snail-like speed limit on it is pretty much asking people to exceed it.

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#3280675 10-Sep-2024 14:33

Handsomedan:

The driver's licence booking system - so broken and an utter debacle.

*snip*

That's simply not good enough. They either need to hire a lot more staff, or there needs to be additional agencies given the ability to test drivers. It's just ridiculous.

It's a 3 month wait to book a restricted test near us.

I know a couple of driving instructors and talked with them about this last week. They were invited to a training course in Auckland to become testers. IIRC they said it was a two/three week course, travel and accommodation was paid for but not the loss of income. They signed up and put off their clients. But the course was cancelled a couple of weeks later because they didn't have anyone to teach it !

It was rescheduled but whilst they would be paid this time, travel and accommodation was on them. Again they put off their clients but this one was also cancelled when there wasn't enough up take !

Needless to say none of them are interested in doing it again.

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#3280680 10-Sep-2024 14:42

They have greatly expanded the glenfield one, so many more testers running it now out of the rugby club carpark than they had at the testing station site. The reason it's a 3 month wait is that is all that it will allow you to book up to. But plenty become available on Monday when the cancelations seem to get re-released to keep looking at it if you need a sooner one.

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#3280689 10-Sep-2024 15:24

The apparent inability of my iPhone to put spaces in between the letter a and the following word as in 'a train' being rendered as 'atrain' and then corrected to 'train'!

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#3280733 10-Sep-2024 17:24

tehgerbil:

People tailgating. It's epidemic.

Generally drivers cannot react in fewer than 1.5 ~ 2 seconds.

If you're that close and they brake suddenly you. will. hit. them. That's not my opinion, that's just science.

There's zero, zilch, negatory, nil, just no reason to be that close, perhaps except screaming to everyone else on the road how you're an unwitting psychopath? I mean not something I'd personally scream from the rooftops, but you do you.

I mean I'll go faster if that's what you want? Only if you're going to pay my speeding fine and wear any demerits! Then go hard! But... I'll need that in writing, signed by a lawyer thanks.

And yes - I know my speed based by multiple GPS's so none of this "akchully all cars speedo reads highya speed donchya know. Wahhhh.. You're only going 48.."

And it's really hard to ignore it when 95% of your rear vision is someone else's face, windshield and bonnet.

/rant.

Are you keeping left unless passing? You may very well be going the speed limit, but it still doesn't give you the right to impede traffic (thats not saying you are, just generally speaking)

also doesnt excuse the tailgating

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#3280849 11-Sep-2024 00:01

The consistently appalling state of documentation for open-source software. Just ran into yet another project which won't even install because the developer has a pile of additional nonstandard stuff set up on his system that you have to use the Force to find out about and install, including hair-raising steps like 'wget ... | sh'. And then when it's installed and running the docs are more like a set of notes to self about usage than any kind of actual documentation, which means it's a case of trial and error to try and figure out what works, and the result will no doubt be the sort of thing that ends up on the DailyW/T/F at some point if anyone else ever looks at it.

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#3280891 11-Sep-2024 10:07

neb:

The consistently appalling state of documentation for open-source software. Just ran into yet another project which won't even install because the developer has a pile of additional nonstandard stuff set up on his system that you have to use the Force to find out about and install, including hair-raising steps like 'wget ... | sh'. And then when it's installed and running the docs are more like a set of notes to self about usage than any kind of actual documentation, which means it's a case of trial and error to try and figure out what works, and the result will no doubt be the sort of thing that ends up on the DailyW/T/F at some point if anyone else ever looks at it.

Its amazing the number of developers that think that the person that wrote something is capable of documenting it for other people.

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#3280964 11-Sep-2024 15:16

When your computer decides to misbehave for no obvious reason. I tried to launch an app and it just sat there, "loading". Tried a different one, same. Tried to log off, and it did nothing. Tried to reboot and it did nothing (no errors, just didn't reboot). I ended up having to cut the power!

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#3280990 11-Sep-2024 16:20

neb: And then when it's installed and running the docs are more like a set of notes to self about usage than any kind of actual documentation, which means it's a case of trial and error to try and figure out what works,

And in other cases it's documented in three places (that I've found so far), each one is different, and none of them work. In case there's anyone familiar with use of Typescript arrow functions reading this, two functions with the signature:

ssh( host: string,
     cmds: () => string[] )
     => string[]
 
step( name: string,
      cmds: () => string[],
      options?: Omit<Step, "commands" | "name"> )
      => StepClass

are documented in different locations to be used as:

    step(
        "reconfig",
        () => ssh(sshArgs, ["systemctl restart nginx"])
        ),
    step(
        "reconfig",
        ssh(sshArgs, () => ["systemctl restart nginx"])
        ),
    step(
        "reconfig", () => [
            ssh(sshArgs, () => ["systemctl restart nginx"])
        ])

all of which produce errors like "Argument of type 'string[]' is not assignable to parameter of type '() => string[]'" (the first two) or string[] vs. string for the last one. I haven't used this particular aspect of TS much, does anyone know the correct form?

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#3280991 11-Sep-2024 16:21

The Breast Cancer Foundation are demanding the email address of my children or they cannot be named participants in the family walk. And no - You cannot enter a parents email instead.

I've reached out to them to ask what is behind the demand for my childrens' data.

I am presuming you get a bib with your name on it, it blows my mind they'd rather refuse kids a nice memento if their parents couldn't or didn't want to supply their email.

Will update when/if they respond with their reasoning behind this.

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#3281103 11-Sep-2024 16:50

tehgerbil:

The Breast Cancer Foundation are demanding the email address of my children or they cannot be named participants in the family walk.

Unfortunately such over reach is very common these days , and we know many organisations are poor custodians of private information.

Or even worse, organisations cynically gather it. After all, in a few short years, those young participants can be pressed to become donors.

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

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#3281119 11-Sep-2024 17:00

tehgerbil:

The Breast Cancer Foundation are demanding the email address of my children or they cannot be named participants in the family walk. And no - You cannot enter a parents email instead.

I've reached out to them to ask what is behind the demand for my childrens' data.

I am presuming you get a bib with your name on it, it blows my mind they'd rather refuse kids a nice memento if their parents couldn't or didn't want to supply their email.

Will update when/if they respond with their reasoning behind this.

This is probably so they can pad their marketing database with more marks.

You could just use your email address again with a +kidsname on it to make you get the spams they will send soliciting donations after the event.

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#3281121 11-Sep-2024 17:06

Or give them disposable emails. Unreasonable demands deserve unreasonable responses.

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#3281122 11-Sep-2024 17:09

Or the ever-popular no@thankyou.com, used to "register" Windows when it won't install without getting an email address from you.

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