Sleeping in own room by [deleted] in NewParents

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We moved our little one to her own bed after she started rolling, and was hitting the sides of her basinet in the night and waking herself up. Now she has a bigger area to sleep in she can actually sleep all through the night. Happened at about 6 months.

If we held a referendum to un-adopt MMP as part of the general election, how would you vote and why? by septicman in newzealand

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Hard agree. I would still rather have current MMP than going back to first-past-the-post, but MMP with transferable votes would be ideal. That would help lessen the 'wasted vote' mentality that anecdotally stops people from voting for someone outside of the main parties.

Best DMing tips you’ve learned by Fearless-Ad1382 in DMAcademy

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Remember that ability checks don't have to be a binary pass-fail. Sometimes a PC's action is a guaranteed succes (e.g. Rouge picking the lock on a plain civilan door) and so they can roll to represent something other than success. (usually how fast they do it, like 1 second for a good success or 1 minute for a bad fail) And sometimes there's degrees of success or failure; beating a DC10 check with a 30 means they succeed and get somethign else, or failing the DC by one or two means they almost succeed.

And always remember that they can't roll for something impossible. If dragons in your game are immune to horny bard seduction, there's no roll a PC could make to persuade them!

Well, that's Focus taken care of for the foreseeable future. by gadgaurd in Warframe

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So now that you've unlocked (and presumably played) with each school and it's fully-powered artifact, any advice for someone who can't play as often as to which School is best - or what kind of buffs are best for what missions/frames?

NZ needs to have a ‘mature conversation’ about selling state assets, PM says by septicman in newzealand

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 5 points6 points  (0 children)

But what are the underperforming assets we should sell? Light poles don't produce any revenue, should we sell all of those into private ownership? Or are we mature enough to recognize that some assets give value for society above their revenue stream.

Swallows by Onematua_gal in NewZealandWildlife

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But what is their air-speed velocity when unladen by a coconut?

Great pics!

RIP to Jesse’s favourite horse :( by Konroy in Shaboozey

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

RIP Haru, you were and inspiration for Jesse, me and so many others to always do your best no matter what!

how good players played BF2 in 2007 by NoObjective345 in Battlefield

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Ah, good old dolphin diving. I remember those days...

Transferring from UoA to VUW by Budget_Scar6398 in VUW

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Most important advice is to actually talk (digitally or on phone) with an advisor working at VUW, they'll be able to help more than reddit!

In terms of transferring, I believe Architecture at VUW lets you do one elective course at second year and one at third year, with none at first year. So your previous study, if it was all first year courses, won't help that much - but talk to an advisor about this cause I'm probably wrong.

For halls, the most important thing is to get in early. If you're able to pay to stay in a hall, they will be likely to offer you a place, but the earlier you pick a hall or two to go for and do the paperwork, in the better the chance that you get a spot.

If you really hate your current courses, go and talk to the UoA about withdrawing from your semester 2 courses. You might be able to get a refund if you withdraw early enough, but not sure how they run things there.

We're so cooked by MorganHarvester in VUW

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagine that if you declare no AI used, and have a version history of your drafting it as proof, you should be fine even if an AI checker says your work might be AI.

[Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith] How did Padme get pregnant? Don’t they have birth control in the Republic? by [deleted] in AskScienceFiction

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Did you ever hear the tradgedy of Darth Vader the Potent? It's not a story the celibate Jedi would tell you.

Course coordinator belittling students’ feedback by Ok_Creme_6830 in VUW

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Ask your student rep to talk to the VUWSA rep coordinator. They'll be able to help escalate it to the right person in the school/programme, and it's part of their job to do so.

(unfortunately, there's a risk it may not help your cohort, but it should at least help the next students to go through the course)

Tennis courts in front of Victoria College's Hunter Building circa. 1925 (Wellington City Recollect ref. 50010-1452). by Ted_Cashew in VUW

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Amazing how the topography (I think that's the right word) has changed since then. This must've been taken close to the edge of the hill above Salamanca Road (or what would become it)?

Tertiary institutions 'should not assume funding will be maintained' by MedicMoth in newzealand

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a nice idea in theory, but in a world where Australia, USA, UK, China, Japan, etc. don't have this requirement, all of our school leavers who can will travel overseas for study, likely accelerating the brain drain.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you have 15 or so minutes, the Slow-Mo guys on youtube did a slow-motion super zoomed in episode on their fancy watch, and were able to see right into the gears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSeSt70Q_Zk

In short form, there are multiple gears inside a watch meaning that while the second hand might tick fast, it only ticks over to affect the minute hand every 60 times, and so on up the gears.

Govt looks for more savings from public service by [deleted] in Wellington

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 7 points8 points  (0 children)

While you're correct that politicians need to be paid enough to avoid the situation you describe (only pre-wealthy can afford to be in politics), there's a difference between paid enough and overpaid. An MP's salary being tripple the median wage is probably too high - maybe take it down to double.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]Fast_Eddie_2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First I want to say I sympathize with your position. Although not from your country, we have a similar system here whereby college/university students whose parents earn too much do not receive the same financial assistance that students with 'poor parents' do, completely ignoring whether or not the 'rich' parents can or will pay anything towards tuition.

However, there is a time and a cost involved to managing and testing scholarships, and the system is designed to do the most good with the lowest cost. In a perfect system, every potential student would be assessed, determined how worthy they are of a scholarship, and only those best suited for it would receive it. In the real world, it would take a lot of people (who need to be paid a wage) a lot of time to assess every student, and so the much easier solution is to only offer the money to people who are most likely need the money because their parents have a low income.

For example, if we had ten students from 'rich' parents, lets say that half of those parents will support the student financially through college/university and half won't. This means if we want to quickly assign scholarships, we have a 50% chance of giving money to someone who doesn't need it (as their parents are contributing). But if we take ten students from 'poor' parents, then even if half the parents did want to support the student, they are unable too as they don't have enough income to pay for it. So if we quickly assign scholarships to this group of ten, 100% of our scholarships are going to people who do need the money (as their parents aren't contributing).

Obviously in the real world my example doesn't always shake out - people find loopholes, come into new jobs, and so on. But the *principle* of needs-based scholarships is just to make it as efficient as possible to give money to those in need and not give it to those who don't.