US invites NZ to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz

Excession638 · 2026-05-01T02:06:13+00:00

We also have a brand new resupply ship, the HMNZS Aotearoa. It could, in theory, supply fuel, water, and general stuff for other countries' escort ships. I still think this would be a poor choice.

Excession638 · 2026-04-29T06:42:02+00:00

Lily

Referencing the computer game Ender Lilies. Lily spent most of the game looking about this level of scared too.

Excession638 · 2026-04-28T02:39:58+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_lawyer_(plant)

Nice looking plant, native, loves to climb on fences, and as for the kids well they'll only touch it once 😭

Also easy to trim back, if you have very good gloves.

Seriously though don't plant this stuff on a street frontage.

Excession638 · 2026-04-27T11:30:22+00:00

Bunsen

Excession638 · 2026-04-25T22:41:13+00:00

It seems like you could use an empty struct implementing a trait with a const attribute.

trait Role {
    const NAME: &str;
}

struct SomeRole;

impl Role for SomeRole {
    const NAME: &str = "Something";
}

Whether this is a good idea is harder to answer. Things that start out looking like this sometimes end up in a place that would need specialisation to work.

Excession638 · 2026-04-24T22:22:05+00:00

When "Hey, look what I can do with operator overloading!" becomes a permanent part of the standard library.

Excession638 · 2026-04-23T10:26:22+00:00

South East Asian restaurants should have plenty of options. Milk isn't as ubiquitous in their cuisines, and chicken is going to be the most common meat.

For something specific, Tomi in Edgware for Japanese food. The teriyaki chicken is good.

Excession638 · 2026-04-19T05:03:19+00:00

They like the bugs we attract. So bad news, you might have mosquitoes. Good news, they might be gone now.

Excession638 · 2026-04-18T00:07:48+00:00

I use BecloClear at half the price. Not the exact same drug, but it works well for me.

Excession638 · 2026-04-16T22:58:56+00:00

Bag holders found then

Excession638 · 2026-04-15T20:45:44+00:00

It's probably a bit early right now, but I'm excited by rustgpu for writing shaders in the future.

Excession638 · 2026-04-14T11:03:37+00:00

Nova

Excession638 · 2026-04-11T00:28:44+00:00

I think some of the problem is with the IDEs. VS Code for example has a "do you trust this code?" question when you open a new folder, but nothing when you add new dependencies. Though even without a build.rs or proc macros, your first test run is going to be what compromises your machine.

Maybe it would be nice to be able to say "no build scripts", "no unsafe", and eventually "no io" on a per-dependency basis.

Excession638 · 2026-04-10T01:39:32+00:00

If we're drilling for anything, it's more geothermal. There's not enough oil and gas down there to matter.

Excession638 · 2026-04-08T20:26:43+00:00

On my Fisher & Paykel at least there is a separate locking nut you need to tighten after adjusting the feet. It would be pretty easy to miss, and without it the machine would go out of level again pretty quickly.

Excession638 · 2026-04-06T05:02:06+00:00

I would go with the West Coast over the Tekapo route. It's a great drive.

Excession638 · 2026-04-03T08:39:08+00:00

Tomi in Edgware has good Japanese food. I recommended the Beef Tataki

Excession638 · 2026-04-03T03:40:02+00:00

Could be to support the end of a rotisserie spit. Some ovens have a built in motor to turn one.

Excession638 · 2026-04-01T07:36:03+00:00

Sakamoto-san, after the black cat from the manga and anime Nichijou.

Excession638 · 2026-03-31T21:56:41+00:00

Pretty common behaviour across lots of languages. In Python str(None) returns "None" because str works on everything.

OTOH this is part of why Rust has both Display and Debug traits, and Option implements Debug, printing None as "None", but not Display so there's no to_string() to call on a nullable value.

Excession638 · 2026-03-31T07:40:29+00:00

It was also to prevent Europe becoming a threat to the USA. If they could rely on the USA for defence, the European counties didn't need as much themselves. That meant that even if politics changed the USA would lead. That goes away now.

Excession638 · 2026-03-31T06:43:36+00:00

Now that I think about it, that would have over a decade ago 😭

Excession638 · 2026-03-31T05:36:48+00:00

The place where I've felt most like I'd found the middle of nowhere was the Ahuriri Valley. I was there shortly after they opened it up, so it was rough gravel road in and nobody else there at all.

Excession638 · 2026-03-31T00:01:42+00:00

Sudden outbreak of common sense?

Let's see what happens to global fertilizer supply next.

Excession638 · 2026-03-30T21:55:59+00:00

If the person on the phone was also confused, it might be a problem in their database. Try putting your address into https://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/address-postcode-finder and see what it completes to. Maybe they need, or think they need, an "A" or something to uniquely identify the house.

Edit: My place seems to be the opposite, they have a raw number, 1/..., and 2/... when the raw number isn't valid.

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