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#3500257 4-Jun-2026 15:14

LurkingKiwi:

ANZ is supported for Online EFTPOS, which supposedly doesn't require giving your banking details to a 3rd (4th?) party, but works through your phone banking app.

Officially banks tell you not to use Poli.

ASB now integrates with POLi and officially supports its use (per the press release on their website).

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#3500348 4-Jun-2026 20:18

gzt: That looks like a failed response with no error code - try again

No, it just sat like that for the longest time I've ever seen chatgpt thinking for. It did eventually give an answer.

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#3500351 4-Jun-2026 20:40

kingdragonfly: This article is about Wellington, and a web company that found a cash cow

I couldn’t find any publicly indexed record showing a grant awarded to “Journey Digital” by either Wellington City Council or Wellington City Libraries.

In the about page, Dane Tatana is the Chief Executive Officer (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira), meaning "the descendants of Raukawa and the descendants of Toa Rangatira.”

'Atrocious': Wellington's deputy mayor slams $600,000 bill for library website: RNZ

Wellington's deputy mayor has slammed the council's more than $600,000 spend on a website for the capital's new library, labelling it ''an atrocious amount of money''.

Figures seen by RNZ revealed the total cost of designing and building the website was $595,801.

There was also a $72,000 bill for a year of hosting the website and maintenance.
...

In case anyone missed the important part:

$600k on a website for a building! | Kiwiblog

That's not $600k on a website for a library, it's $600k on a website that's promoting the library

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#3500407 4-Jun-2026 22:46

When a device becomes an industry standard, then one of the major suppliers of that device changes the design and specification, but doesn't change the part number so you don't know unless you read the updated datasheet and even then you can't be sure if you have the new one or the "legacy" device.

In this case, the device is the Ti NE5532 Op-Amp where the maximum allowed supplied voltage has changed from +/- 22 volts to +/- 18 volts, plus there are a number of other changes such as a reduced slew rate.

Edit: fixed formatting.

#include <standard.disclaimer>

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#3500410 5-Jun-2026 05:43

MadEngineer:

kingdragonfly: This article is about Wellington, and a web company that found a cash cow

I couldn’t find any publicly indexed record showing a grant awarded to “Journey Digital” by either Wellington City Council or Wellington City Libraries.

In the about page, Dane Tatana is the Chief Executive Officer (Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira), meaning "the descendants of Raukawa and the descendants of Toa Rangatira.”

'Atrocious': Wellington's deputy mayor slams $600,000 bill for library website: RNZ

Wellington's deputy mayor has slammed the council's more than $600,000 spend on a website for the capital's new library, labelling it ''an atrocious amount of money''.

Figures seen by RNZ revealed the total cost of designing and building the website was $595,801.

There was also a $72,000 bill for a year of hosting the website and maintenance.
...
In case anyone missed the important part:

$600k on a website for a building! | Kiwiblog

That's not $600k on a website for a library, it's $600k on a website that's promoting the library

Turns out the catalogue is on a separate website: https://catalogue.wcl.govt.nz/

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#3500413 5-Jun-2026 07:03

alexx:

In this case, the device is the Ti NE5532 Op-Amp where the maximum allowed supplied voltage has changed from +/- 22 volts to +/- 18 volts, plus there are a number of other changes such as a reduced slew rate.

Well, when designing the circuit, I wouldn't exactly push Vcc to its absolute limits anyway—probably sticking to just +/-15V. But you’d certainly get a nasty surprise if things suddenly started smoking and smelling burnt. Given the slew rate requirements, I’d just go straight for the even OPA2604 or LM4562 as drop in replacement (beware of the Vcc!). 😉

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#3500630 5-Jun-2026 15:56

I was walking home when a woman stopped her car in the middle of the road to rescue a small dog that was wandering on the road. As it was right outside my house I offered to get some rope to tie it up. We tethered it to my letterbox and she posted on FB. I even gave the dog some water. I purposely tied the dog so it couldn’t get to the road but where the owner would see it if they came looking.

When I looked out about 40 minutes later, the dog was gone along with the 5m of top grade cord I had used to secure it.
Next time I’ll just leave the dog to get run over.

Edit:

My faith in human nature has somewhat been restored. The lady who stopped initially had come back and taken the dog to a local vet (not microchipped so probably off to the pound). I wish she had knocked on my door and told me she was doing that.
However She just returned my rope.

So no, I won’t let it get run over in future.

“We’ve arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. Carl Sagan 1996

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#3500665 5-Jun-2026 22:13

I'd have called the council. Ours come out 24/7 if you've got a stray roaming dog secured. You might argue that you're saving the owner a dog pound fine and loss of their good owner discount but as a dog owner myself, I'd fully accept the music if ours got out and I copped a bill for that.

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#3500667 5-Jun-2026 22:16

Tinkerisk:

alexx:

In this case, the device is the Ti NE5532 Op-Amp where the maximum allowed supplied voltage has changed from +/- 22 volts to +/- 18 volts, plus there are a number of other changes such as a reduced slew rate.

Well, when designing the circuit, I wouldn't exactly push Vcc to its absolute limits anyway—probably sticking to just +/-15V. But you’d certainly get a nasty surprise if things suddenly started smoking and smelling burnt. Given the slew rate requirements, I’d just go straight for the even OPA2604 or LM4562 as drop in replacement (beware of the Vcc!). 😉

Dave also mentioned some TI sourced OPAxxxx were also spun up on new processes, giving similar deviations that the NE5532's have.

Seems TI doesn't learn, they used some dodgy metal for IC pins back in the 70's ( I think) that corroded so badly that you could whack the back of a populated PCB, and some of the IC's would let loose from the solder pads, leaving a pin-shaped cavity in the solder pad.

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#3500674 5-Jun-2026 23:11

SepticSceptic:

Dave also mentioned some TI sourced OPAxxxx were also spun up on new processes, giving similar deviations that the NE5532's have.

Seems TI doesn't learn, they used some dodgy metal for IC pins back in the 70's ( I think) that corroded so badly that you could whack the back of a populated PCB, and some of the IC's would let loose from the solder pads, leaving a pin-shaped cavity in the solder pad.

Back in the day, I stocked up on a few tubes of low-noise MILspec ICs from Signetics, Burr-Brown, and Analog Devices (mostly free samples sent by distributors to our company lab back when we were still designing our own circuits ages ago). I think that’s enough to last me the rest of my life for the occasional analog tinkering I do now.

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet. - He who knows nothing must believe everything.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons. Really not. But your smart devices are spying on you!
I avoid Big Tech amap. They try hard to dictate technology and „culture“ across borders.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who „someone“ is.

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#3500940 7-Jun-2026 11:40

johno1234:

Does it contain the entire library book catalogue? That could be quite a bit of work creating a database and user interface to it. I would look myself but the website was so jarringly ugly it was giving me a headache.

I was looking at the original Wellington Library Website. My understanding is that the new website is this one:

https://www.tematapihi.govt.nz/

So Wellington Library has two websites. The new one is sort of a marketing website rather than being focused on books. I of see why it was quite expensive.

This new website appears to be a glittering monument to itself. Looking at it made me scratch my head and wonder what else the customer and provider thought it was for?

If I was a Wellington rate payer I would not be pleased.

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#3501073 7-Jun-2026 17:04

The word Library would have been useful in the link for those of us that don’t remember obscure words.

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#3501162 8-Jun-2026 02:11

MadEngineer:

I'd have called the council. Ours come out 24/7 if you've got a stray roaming dog secured.

I think the key word is SECURED. I reported a large/solid roaming dog in Ascot Park, Porirua, and was told that the dog man was busy and could I please capture and secure this dangerous-looking dog, and he'd get around to it later.

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#3501185 8-Jun-2026 08:33

I woke up this morning (Monday) convinced it was Saturday.

Annoying.

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Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale

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#3501275 8-Jun-2026 11:31

Our internal graphics team doesn't know what a graphic file is. They will constantly supply graphics in JPEG format unless you push back and ask for a PNG or SVG. Next time you'll get a JPEG again.

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