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#3414295 12-Sep-2025 17:27

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That the bridge will be closed tomorrow so my plans have to work around that.

But there is news for the smile thread...

Auckland Harbour Bridge? No it wont. https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/12/gaza-march-changes-route-away-from-auckland-harbour-bridge/

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#3414458 13-Sep-2025 09:35

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richms:

That the bridge will be closed tomorrow so my plans have to work around that.

But there is news for the smile thread...

Auckland Harbour Bridge? No it wont. https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/12/gaza-march-changes-route-away-from-auckland-harbour-bridge/

That was the positive thing to come out of the good news that there was going to be wind and rain.

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#3415065 15-Sep-2025 10:43

Consumer NZ's 'Powerswitch' website asks many questions about your circumstances, home insulation, which energy sources and appliances you use and so on - but fails to include any consideration of EV or hybrid car charging. Seems to be a glaring omission. WTH.

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#3415069 15-Sep-2025 10:56

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Consumer NZ's 'Powerswitch' website asks many questions about your circumstances, home insulation, which energy sources and appliances you use and so on - but fails to include any consideration of EV or hybrid car charging. Seems to be a glaring omission. WTH.

Its crap. It does nothing about checking when you use power or how much can be moved to the free periods, and it keeps recommending powershop to me as it will save me money but no information about what the actual rates are just says that it assumes that I buy all the packs.

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#3415080 15-Sep-2025 11:22

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eracode:

Consumer NZ's 'Powerswitch' website asks many questions about your circumstances, home insulation, which energy sources and appliances you use and so on - but fails to include any consideration of EV or hybrid car charging. Seems to be a glaring omission. WTH.

Its crap. It does nothing about checking when you use power or how much can be moved to the free periods, and it keeps recommending powershop to me as it will save me money but no information about what the actual rates are just says that it assumes that I buy all the packs.

Yeah it seems if you want to be serious about it, you need to collect the companies' prices then put them into a simple spreadsheet where you can dictate the assumptions and control the types of variables you're talking about.

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#3415098 15-Sep-2025 11:48

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richms:

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Consumer NZ's 'Powerswitch' website asks many questions about your circumstances, home insulation, which energy sources and appliances you use and so on - but fails to include any consideration of EV or hybrid car charging. Seems to be a glaring omission. WTH.

Its crap. It does nothing about checking when you use power or how much can be moved to the free periods, and it keeps recommending powershop to me as it will save me money but no information about what the actual rates are just says that it assumes that I buy all the packs.

Yeah it seems if you want to be serious about it, you need to collect the companies' prices then put them into a simple spreadsheet where you can dictate the assumptions and control the types of variables you're talking about. Then compare the results.

I pointed this omission out to Consumer using the feedback link on the Powerswitch website. Their response is:

"The charging of EVs / Hybrids is not something that we can add to the calculator yet as there is not enough data in the public domain for us to utilise to do this. We do have some FAQs for this in our Hints and tips section."

Sounds weak to me - what public domain data would they need to be able to include car charging in their calculator?

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#3415145 15-Sep-2025 14:10

Having to write 160 lines of code to make a system behave incorrectly. Incorrectly? Yes, because the client is demanding that it works a certain way, even though that way is backwards. Of course, the development environment makes it hard to do the wrong thing, hence the extra 160 lines of code.

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#3415245 15-Sep-2025 20:03

^ every website with multi-browser compatibility

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#3415474 16-Sep-2025 20:31

richms:

eracode:

Consumer NZ's 'Powerswitch' website asks many questions about your circumstances, home insulation, which energy sources and appliances you use and so on - but fails to include any consideration of EV or hybrid car charging. Seems to be a glaring omission. WTH.

Its crap. It does nothing about checking when you use power or how much can be moved to the free periods, and it keeps recommending powershop to me as it will save me money but no information about what the actual rates are just says that it assumes that I buy all the packs.

We wouldn't be needing tools like Powerswitch if Max Bradford hadn't meddled with the electricity sector in the way he did.

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#3415476 16-Sep-2025 20:59

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We wouldn't be needing tools like Powerswitch if Max Bradford hadn't meddled with the electricity sector in the way he did.

Why is that - what would be different?

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#3415478 16-Sep-2025 21:01

eracode:

deepred:

We wouldn't be needing tools like Powerswitch if Max Bradford hadn't meddled with the electricity sector in the way he did.

Why is that - what would be different?

If you guys really want to do this can it be in the political forum please?

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#3415506 17-Sep-2025 04:21

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eracode:

deepred:

We wouldn't be needing tools like Powerswitch if Max Bradford hadn't meddled with the electricity sector in the way he did.

Why is that - what would be different?

If you guys really want to do this can it be in the political forum please?

Nah - was interested in the comment but not that much. Was a genuine question, not a provocation. It sounds like an opinion rather than a fact.

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#3415507 17-Sep-2025 04:24

It's fairly complex with some elements of truth but also very political.

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#3415516 17-Sep-2025 08:09

Something in the way I’m typing makes me frequently type the second letter of capitalised words also as a capital. It’s like I’m not releasing the shift key quickly enough before pressing the next letter. No, it’s not sticky. Yes, I’m using the shift key on the opposite side to the key I’m capitalising.

Small. Really annoying.

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#3415517 17-Sep-2025 08:15

When you're going about your day, and something small really annoys you, and you think I must remember to put that in the Something Small That Really Annoys You thread, and when you're next on GZ, you can't remember what the really small thing was, probably because it was really small.

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