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#2953167 10-Aug-2022 19:05

johno1234: Ordered contact lenses from clearly.co.nz yesterday, delivered today, from Sydney!

How is that even possible?

Someone from the famous „Pony Express“ must have ridden off immediately and overnight! ;-)

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#2953170 10-Aug-2022 19:08

johno1234: Ordered contact lenses from clearly.co.nz yesterday, delivered today, from Sydney!

How is that even possible?

Because Aramex and NZ Post weren't involved.

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#2953494 11-Aug-2022 13:13

neb:
johno1234: Ordered contact lenses from clearly.co.nz yesterday, delivered today, from Sydney!

How is that even possible?
Because Aramex and NZ Post weren't involved.

Correct - they use DHL. The overnight trans-Tasman shipping charge was $8.95 and they claim to deliver in 4 working days. Under-promise and over-deliver is a good operating model!

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#2953513 11-Aug-2022 14:27

johno1234:

...they claim to deliver in 4 working days. Under-promise and over-deliver is a good operating model!

Much like ordering from Wiggle UK - No matter what you order, it comes from the UK and arrives in under a week.

We've ordered tyres, dropper posts, grips, clothing, wheels, etc. All arrive in next to no time. Well...a week, tops.

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#2954074 12-Aug-2022 23:20

Summer (here), sunshine, 31 DegC, no clouds, a frozen margarita on the balcony and far and wide no customer with internet or data security problems. :-)

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#2954075 12-Aug-2022 23:25

Tinkerisk:
Summer (here), sunshine, 31 DegC, no clouds, a frozen margarita on the balcony and far and wide no customer with internet or data security problems. :-)

Does it get that warm on Mars?

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#2954077 13-Aug-2022 00:15

neb:
Tinkerisk:

Summer (here), sunshine, 31 DegC, no clouds, a frozen margarita on the balcony and far and wide no customer with internet or data security problems. :-)

Does it get that warm on Mars?

"The highest temperature ever recorded on Mars, in the shade, was 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) by NASA's Spirit rover." - Answers.com

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#2954083 13-Aug-2022 06:22

Rikkitic:

"The highest temperature ever recorded on Mars, in the shade, was 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) by NASA's Spirit rover." - Answers.com

That‘s ok for me, but I don‘t ask for the coldest temp (afaik mean temp is -33 DegC)

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#2954314 13-Aug-2022 15:35

Had a Hole in One this morning. For the golfers on the forum it was the 14th hole at Titirangi. 157m to the back left pin position.

The 2nd hole in one in my life, the first was 23yrs ago!

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#2954677 15-Aug-2022 01:11

A geek growing basil. For everyone else: Buy seeds, throw in pot, water. For geeks:

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For the salts, I computed a matrix that allows me to solve for the amount of nutrient I want in solution, by taking the mass fraction of each nutrient available, writing it in matrix form, and then inverting it.

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#2955705 17-Aug-2022 20:24

Haha yeah I saw that through my email subscription. I’ve got his hardware hacker book somewhere as seen on eevblog.

I used to love maths until I had algebraic matrices at Polytech.

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#2956319 18-Aug-2022 19:09

School starts after the big holidays! So the helicopter parents are finally busy with themselves again.

However, the mummy tanks now stop right in front of the school entrance again, clogging up the drop-off areas and endangering all the children below the bonnet height of their bolide-like SUVs (which are actually not off-road vehicles at all and cannot pull a herring off the plate off-road).