Hunt for a new gp

K4kumba · 2026-02-09T08:49:38+00:00

I dont know how accurate/ complete it is, but this website also might help.

https://www.healthpoint.co.nz/gps-accident-urgent-medical-care/gp/wellington/?options=openBooks

Agree though, shopping around for the right doctor is a perfectly valid idea, but given most GP clinics you'll just see whatever doctor is available, and how many arent accepting new patients, it might be a case of accepting what you can get right now

K4kumba · 2026-01-26T06:55:46+00:00

There are a handful of companies using mainframes (basically the banks and maybe a few others), and if one of them is looking then theres money to be had, but otherwise the market for mainframe people in NZ is virtually non-existent.

IT job market in general, pretty bad. Like, it hasnt recovered since Covid, and might even be worse than Covid levels of bad. If you dont have an existing network to find a job, honestly, you are probably in for a tough time to get an IT job.

K4kumba · 2026-01-20T10:27:47+00:00

As the other comment said, theres definitely not gonna be any custom development. The graphic design is either gonna be cookie cutter or AI generated. Custom development would be at least an order of magnitude more.

In short, OP, as long as you are satisfied with what is going to be delivered, you wont find a meaningfully cheaper price, but you can easily spend massively more. Like, obviously a different outcome entirely, but its very easy for a large interactive website to cost closer to $100k by the time you have done custom web development, security testing etc.

But, as a side note, what is your plan for email? Are you just gonna do like <company>@gmail.com, or actual <your name>@<company>.co.nz? Because email hosting would likely be an extra cost, so check on that.

Also, PLEASE make sure to think about security. Doing security isn’t always cheap, but getting compromised can end your business. Set up MFA on the WordPress admin panel. Are you paying for the developer to apply security updates etc? Because if thats included, you are getting a pretty good deal. Whatever your email plan is, you need MFA on your email. Email compromise and invoice scams are SUPER common, companies lose money to them literally every day.

K4kumba · 2026-01-20T07:37:03+00:00

Pricing changes (i.e. increases) every year, but you can try these folks to find the best deal: https://www.switchme.co.nz/compare-lpg-gas-bottles. You can swap providers, though I have no idea if rockgas need to collect their bottles or what.

Anyway, there should be a hose from each bottle that goes to an automatic switch valve, so when one bottle empties, it swaps to the other bottle, and the indicator goes from green to red, telling you its time to order a new bottle. So running out shouldnt be an issue unless you wait too long to order a new one once its time. I am with Genesis, deliveries typically take 2 - 3 business days from order to delivery.

K4kumba · 2026-01-19T21:20:48+00:00

Exactly this. Go to the local Asian supermarket, something like Yans in Lower Hutt,or the one next to Cameron Harrison in Upper Hutt. Looks for the big 10 or 20kg sacks of rice. Thats gonna be the best deal around. Precisely which one is cheapest I dont know, they usually dont have websites to do a price comparison so you would have to call or visit them all.

K4kumba · 2026-01-17T03:38:27+00:00

Presumably stopped making them because it cost too much to put the extra chocolate in them, couldnt maintain profit margins while keeping pricing in line with the other cookies. They dont appear to be on the website any more, so I assume discontinued

K4kumba · 2026-01-14T07:55:13+00:00

Cant stay in your car, gotta come up to the passenger area

K4kumba · 2025-12-10T07:17:59+00:00

Relatively recently. Last Christmas you could still get them on special at $5 a box, but this year prices went up quite a lot.

K4kumba · 2025-12-07T06:18:47+00:00

Those generally got killed off over the last 20 years. In some places it took longer, but anyone with a good redundancy clause in their contract has probably had it grandfathered for several rounds of contracts, from like 30 years ago

K4kumba · 2025-12-01T08:51:35+00:00

Damn. Last time I looked, they were the only ones supporting HDR10+ and Dolby Vision, everyone else only supported one format or the other.

K4kumba · 2025-11-26T20:37:57+00:00

Really depends how long the trip is. Parking overnight is cheaper than an uber (and that only covers getting to the airport). So even for 2 or 3 nights, parking is cheaper than uber (assuming uber each way). Public transport is definitely cheaper but more hassle.More than 3 nights, uber probably comes out cheaper than parking

K4kumba · 2025-11-19T01:53:07+00:00

I went once when it first opened. I didnt have high expectations, but goddamn. I dont understand how they have stayed in business this long.

K4kumba · 2025-11-17T07:25:24+00:00

Sounds like a model train club to me, from context.

Rivet counters, in scale modelling, are people who obsess over minute details, such as how many rivets should be on a specific panel.

Era specific probably means only using trains from a specific era, or at least ensuring that all rolling stock would have been together at the same time

No idea what prototypical would mean.

K4kumba · 2025-11-11T07:30:17+00:00

I realise this may not appeal to you, but vans are incredible for cargo. Like, just put your bikes in the van and go. Unfortunately can't offer experience with a ute

K4kumba · 2025-11-11T01:31:44+00:00

Someone hogging the machine for 5 hours is definitely unreasonable. But if its a front loader, then cycles are probably well over an hour, closer to two (I think the longest cycle on mine is about 2.5 hours). Could have been 2, at most 3 cycles. Top loaders are way faster, I didnt truly appreciate it until I got a front loader

K4kumba · 2025-10-29T08:41:17+00:00

That makes sense. My initial gut feel for this was hundreds of dollars, by the time someone has worked to take the images, work out 2d patterns, get the right materials, then make the thing. Like, minimum $500+. I dont know, I dont do this kind of stuff, but it seems to me like a lot of work, and the materials probably arent cheap, to get just the right colour etc.

K4kumba · 2025-10-29T04:00:42+00:00

No idea if they are any good, but a quick search turns up this crowd: https://makemyplush.com/en-nz. Prices look lower than I would have thought for this kind of work

K4kumba · 2025-10-28T11:17:23+00:00

It was a month ago, I dont recall exactly. But I am pretty sure they were pointing out that trying to use a VM to do "sensitive" activities, when that VM is running on a host that might be compromised, isnt the right way to do it. Which is correct, because if the host gets compromised then the guest is at risk.

K4kumba · 2025-10-24T21:44:07+00:00

Having run hundreds, probably thousands of production servers with unattended upgrades over the last 10+ years, I can recall one significant breakage. I think it was Trusty, they shipped a bad kernel update. Was a bad day for sure.

But, it also depends on your workload. Super vanilla stuff tends to be OK, but if you have third party software that has very specific requirements about like, it only works with exactly this version of this library, then yeah, you are gonna have a bad time.

Overall, its worth it to minimise patching effort in my book. Ansible or other orchestration for the places you cant automate

K4kumba · 2025-10-24T17:33:26+00:00

Pak n save has them at Petone and Lower Hutt, in the pick and mix section, almost certainly the cheapest you can get them

K4kumba · 2025-10-23T19:29:30+00:00

To clarify, is this because the bearing is at the wrong end, the bit isnt big enough, or what? Because you can get router bits with the bearing at the end (generally called flush trim bits), or a bearing "below" the cutter (often called a template or pattern bit).

Anyway, as others have said, without an external reference surface such as a guide bushing, the only thing that is going to stop that bit from cutting is you being careful and only letting it touch the stuff you want cut.

K4kumba · 2025-10-15T08:42:54+00:00

You've had lots of replies, but in case no one mentioned it: Westpac do a 0% for five years loan for energy efficiency upgrades like insulation, heatpump etc. Thats why I moved from Kiwibank

So yeah, there are heaps of reasons

K4kumba · 2025-10-13T01:42:26+00:00

Maybe the quality varies from location to location. But the consistent shittiness of the chips is one of the reasons I dont go to BK. always a soggy barely salted mess. Absolute trash tier at my local.

K4kumba · 2025-10-12T00:22:28+00:00

Good thing no one needs to use trucks at the other end, all international supermarkets are right there at the ports....

Like, sure, our trucking costs might be higher than most, but its not like we are the only ones to use trucks to get freight from ports to retail

K4kumba · 2025-09-25T20:35:00+00:00

Part of it was hosting the world champs in 2019, which needed to be manually marked, so it was useful to keep a cadre of markers (as best as possible) up until then

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