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  #3500650 5-Jun-2026 19:48
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Yes, they enjoyed the meal once they had got over the original shock.

 

 




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  #3500671 5-Jun-2026 23:01
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floydbloke:

 

Tinkerisk:

 

...—but with that massive hit of empty carbs and fats....

 

 

They don't count when you're on holiday.

 

 

That is true. However, some people are on vacation all year round (not referring to your family). 😉

 

 





     

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  #3500773 6-Jun-2026 15:57
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Looks like a far healthier version than you'd get in the states anyway.



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  #3500827 6-Jun-2026 21:39
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Whenever I’m all alone—lonely and forsaken—and can’t fall asleep at night because I’m sitting terrified in front of my firewall,

 

I always listen to this sound and drift off like a little lamb. 😁





     

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  #3500834 6-Jun-2026 22:00
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gzt: Looks like a far healthier version than you'd get in the states anyway.

 

The American one would probably come deep-fried.





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  #3502426 12-Jun-2026 15:14
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This week I called into an organisation I left about 15 years ago, to go back into fishing.

 

It turns out they still use a basic application I built in MS Access.  It performs an important but relatively simple business function.  Still working!!

 

At the time we were quoted $75k to build something to do the same thing.  IIRC it took me about a week to develop.  I was just a dabbler.   I wonder how much money the vendor that quoted would have made on that job.





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  #3502427 12-Jun-2026 15:16
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MikeAqua:

 

This week I called into an organisation I left about 15 years ago, to go back into fishing.

 

It turns out they still use a basic application I built in MS Access.  It performs an important but relatively simple business function.  Still working!!

 

At the time we were quoted $75k to build something to do the same thing.  IIRC it took me about a week to develop.  I was just a dabbler.   I wonder how much money the vendor that quoted would have made on that job.

 

 

Imagine modern devs using AI and vibe-coding that... It would be fifty times larger and 100 times buggier.





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  #3502834 14-Jun-2026 15:58
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It is really nice to have equipped all our office PCs with 10 Gb/s fiber-optic LAN this weekend. Linux Mint didn’t even need a driver update. PnP 🙂





     

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  #3502908 14-Jun-2026 18:31
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This!

 


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  #3503086 15-Jun-2026 10:54
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Air NZ's assisted onboarding and off boarding  at the airport. Makes it so much less painful not only for me but also my wife. 





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  #3503712 17-Jun-2026 10:51
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MikeB4:

 

Air NZ's assisted onboarding and off boarding  at the airport. Makes it so much less painful not only for me but also my wife. 

 


Yes - my elderly dad who has both Parkinson's and Macular Degeneration (is nearly entirely blind) has been the recipient of this service. They were excellent with him and my mum, which just made their travel so much easier. 
Glad to hear that this is not an anomaly, but the norm. 





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  #3503842 17-Jun-2026 20:29
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Kimchi. Makes plain rice and noodles a lot less plain.





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  #3503845 17-Jun-2026 20:53
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Cacio e Pepe

 

3 Ingredients 20 minutes, meal. 


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  #3504934 20-Jun-2026 20:06
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Our city was the first to ban the nighttime operation of robotic lawnmowers. Studies have shown that nocturnal animals—such as hedgehogs—are being seriously injured or killed. After all, it is hard to understand why these machines need to run at night; people don't play golf at night, either. 😁





     

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  #3504935 20-Jun-2026 20:11
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deepred:

 

Kimchi. Makes plain rice and noodles a lot less plain.

 

 

Aside from the fact that I love kimchi and make it myself—if plain rice is a struggle for you, I’d try switching rice varieties (or adding a bit of rice vinegar). 😉

 

 





     

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