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#2730888 18-Jun-2021 22:36

Fred99:
women are still judged far more harshly than men based on their appearance, and they know it.

"When a man gets up to speak, people listen then look. When a woman gets up, people look, then if they like what they see they listen".

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#2730908 19-Jun-2021 09:06

neb:
Fred99:

There's an app (android) that includes a way to get a visualisation of magnetic field over an image:

Phone magnetometers are extremely noisy for environment sensing, they're useful for phone orientation purposes (which is what they're intended for) but little else. To get a reliable reading you'd need to use multiple phones and cancel out the random noise between them, which would give you the actual field fluctuations.

True - that app is a "toy", but they're plenty sensitive enough to be used for the compass function in phones, so show moderate fields like the one from that speaker reasonably clearly.

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#2730915 19-Jun-2021 09:58

When a recipe website, you know, those things you want to print so you can refer to them in the kitchen, doesn't provide a print stylesheet and instead prints the phone version with its huge fonts and wastes 1.5 printed pages with navigation links. Fortunately I did a preview first and chose to not print the two completely useless pages.

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#2730917 19-Jun-2021 10:15

Behodar:
When a recipe website, you know, those things you want to print so you can refer to them in the kitchen, doesn't provide a print stylesheet and instead prints the phone version with its huge fonts and wastes 1.5 printed pages with navigation links. Fortunately I did a preview first and chose to not print the two completely useless pages.

Can you use reader mode in the browser to get just the body text?

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#2730919 19-Jun-2021 10:16

Oh joy; reader mode strips the list of ingredients.

Edit: Just to make it clear, I successfully printed it before making my post, but was just grizzling about the effort required for what should be a simple task.

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#2730996 19-Jun-2021 11:52

Behodar:

Oh joy; reader mode strips the list of ingredients.

Edit: Just to make it clear, I successfully printed it before making my post, but was just grizzling about the effort required for what should be a simple task.

So what are we having for lunch?

Thanks for explaining "plethora".

It means a lot.

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#2731003 19-Jun-2021 12:05

Well, certainly not the healthy biscuits, because they ended up tasting like sawdust. Maybe I should've taken the printing failure as an omen...

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#2731011 19-Jun-2021 12:24

neb:
Behodar:

When a recipe website, you know, those things you want to print so you can refer to them in the kitchen, doesn't provide a print stylesheet and instead prints the phone version with its huge fonts and wastes 1.5 printed pages with navigation links. Fortunately I did a preview first and chose to not print the two completely useless pages.

Can you use reader mode in the browser to get just the body text?

https://www.justtherecipe.app/ might help?

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#2731090 19-Jun-2021 14:39

Behodar:
Well, certainly not the healthy biscuits, because they ended up tasting like sawdust.

Well you know they were definitely healthy then.

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#2731434 20-Jun-2021 12:51

Aramex have cleaned up their act, a lot of my Amazon packages get delivered by them and most of the time if it arrives in Auckland on a Monday it gets to Dunedin on a Tuesday, a lot of the time the courier comes before 9am.

Used to be awful, but NZ post are the bad ones taking the whole bloody week from Auckland to Dunedin - I could drive / get a ferry there faster

networkn:

Courier Companies again.

Aramex. 5 Days to deliver an item in within Auckland.

The Rub: Would have taken me 45 minutes to walk there and deliver it by hand. Literally.

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#2732212 21-Jun-2021 18:23

That @chorus have quietly gone and changed the "Ask for better" site info for my old man's place from "Coming Jun 21" to "Coming Jul 2021**"

After the country-wide lock down ended, it was pushed out to Dec 2020 - and towards the middle / end of each month since then, has been amended to the following month. The microduct is sitting at the boundary - in fact, when that work was done, the worker said "be within the next two weeks that you'll get something in the mail box and you'll be all good to go" - That was over a month ago!

And still, a little boy waits...

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#2732228 21-Jun-2021 18:54

Blocked drain. We've found our drains don't seem to quite handle the volume of water from a load of washing and someone having a shower at the same time. The water levels in the gully(?) outside rise up and the loo takes longer to flush.

Have had it unblocked twice now. Last time the guy said everything was normal up until he hit 40 meters of hose which would have to be out on the street somewhere. Called the council today after it started going slow again who sent a team out to check it out. I wasn't at home when they arrived and didn't say much to my wife and just left afterwards. Based on what I saw on my security camera and the smell when I got home they've possibly unblocked it again. Not sure where the problem is exactly yet.

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#2732249 21-Jun-2021 19:13

MadEngineer:
Blocked drain.

Stormwater drain up on the street that can't handle the volume of stormwater coming down the street which is about 120-150m2 of catchment, whereupon it overflows into the backup drain across the top of the driveway, but that can't handle it either whereupon it heads for the house (cat inserted for scale):

Council is sending an engineer out to advise, at a minimum I'll put one of the H4 beams from the now-demolished deck parallel to the house roughly where the concrete block is to keep the water masses away from the basement wall. Long-term probably a stone-lined concrete drain to carry the flow while cutting down on flow velocity.

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#2732305 21-Jun-2021 21:05

This morning at 9:00 am I was at our son’s place in Parnell, Auckland, building a DIY deck for them at the front of their home. I could hear the loud noise of, and see, a large vacuum street-sweeper truck one street away. It was being followed by a ute with yellow flashing lights all over it - presumably some sort of safety vehicle. There were two guys in the ute, one guy in the sweeper.

The sweeper and ute came up to an intersection near me, did a u-turn and went back down the road it had just come up. Forty-five minutes later it came back up to the intersection, u-turned again and went back down the same road. Another 45 mins later, it did the same again. And again another 45 minutes later.

By lunchtime, they had swept the same street four or five times. The vehicles were traveling very slowly - about 2 or 3 kph. I went over to the ute and said to the guys: “Do you mind me asking why you’re sweeping the same 200 metre street over and over again.” They said they were just doing their job, as instructed. There’s a lot of leaves on the road, they are wet and stick to the road and are difficult to pick up with the sweeper truck. In fact the sweeper can’t get them up.

Hopefully good-naturedly, I said that as a ratepayer I think this is ridiculous and a waste of money. One of the ute guys smiled and said “Yep, I’m a ratepayer too and I agree with you”.

Three guys in two vehicles spent at least four hours in a street-sweeping crew and swept only one street - and even then it wasn’t done properly. This is totally crazy and no wonder our rates are out of control and increasing. FFS. Grrr.

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#2732522 22-Jun-2021 09:20

eracode:

This morning at 9:00 am I was at our son’s place in Parnell, Auckland, building a DIY deck for them at the front of their home. I could hear the loud noise of, and see, a large vacuum street-sweeper truck one street away. It was being followed by a ute with yellow flashing lights all over it - presumably some sort of safety vehicle. There were two guys in the ute, one guy in the sweeper.

The sweeper and ute came up to an intersection near me, did a u-turn and went back down the road it had just come up. Forty-five minutes later it came back up to the intersection, u-turned again and went back down the same road. Another 45 mins later, it did the same again. And again another 45 minutes later.

By lunchtime, they had swept the same street four or five times. The vehicles were traveling very slowly - about 2 or 3 kph. I went over to the ute and said to the guys: “Do you mind me asking why you’re sweeping the same 200 metre street over and over again.” They said they were just doing their job, as instructed. There’s a lot of leaves on the road, they are wet and stick to the road and are difficult to pick up with the sweeper truck. In fact the sweeper can’t get them up.

Hopefully good-naturedly, I said that as a ratepayer I think this is ridiculous and a waste of money. One of the ute guys smiled and said “Yep, I’m a ratepayer too and I agree with you”.

Three guys in two vehicles spent at least four hours in a street-sweeping crew and swept only one street - and even then it wasn’t done properly. This is totally crazy and no wonder our rates are out of control and increasing. FFS. Grrr.

I hate to say it, but I wonder if this would happen in a less salubrious part of town...we never see street sweepers in the suburb that I live in.

Used to have have them regularly, a long time ago pre-supercity.

It is amazing though, how many people working as either contractors or employees of the council agree that money is being wasted, but are powerless to intervene.

Council bureaucracy is mental though.

Our house is adjacent to council-owned reserve land which has regenerating bush on it. We reported some very large noxious plants to the council. They said they'll get their contractors to come out and cut them down (they were large trees of the noxious kind).

Long story short: contractor arrived, said "Sorry mate, we only do the other side of the street - you'll need to contact council and get the other contractors out". 3 months (and many emails/phone calls) later a new contractor finally turned up and the offending trees were removed. 3 MONTHS!

Both sets of contractors also agreed it was ridiculous.

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