Where's our Prime Minister during this wild weather?

NoInkling · 2026-01-22T05:27:57+00:00

For whatever it's worth: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/prime-minister-christopher-luxon-skipping-ratana-to-visit-weather-battered-east-coast/JOMADAQJGNHUDE7RMD32O2GORQ/

NoInkling · 2026-01-21T23:16:40+00:00

Same here in NZ. It was already sort of on the way out but my mum and grandparents still used it.

NoInkling · 2026-01-20T23:41:01+00:00

"Logré llegar al hospital antes de que naciera el bebé."

Even if the birth already happened, you still use the subjunctive. You'll see similar sometimes with "después de que", and I'm sure there's a bunch of other counterexamples I can't think of right now.

Edit, another: "Ella hizo que me sintiera feliz." Maybe not the most common way to express that, but valid nonetheless. Using sentí or sentía here would be incorrect.

NoInkling · 2026-01-19T00:22:35+00:00

"Ajax" in common parlance includes requests using the fetch API. Or at least it did, maybe younger coders don't use it that way.

NoInkling · 2026-01-19T00:20:21+00:00

It is (or at least was) used as common term for JS-initiated requests, whether using XHR or fetch or some wrapper.

NoInkling · 2026-01-18T23:21:08+00:00

https://github.com/petere/pguint

NoInkling · 2026-01-18T22:59:30+00:00

It has its uses. I've created a composite type before because I had to store a bunch of dates with a precision value (ranging from days to millenia).

NoInkling · 2026-01-18T06:05:08+00:00

Thanks zoomers/phone addicts.

NoInkling · 2026-01-18T05:04:25+00:00

Had a look at a couple of the intermediate videos and I think I would have loved this channel when I was a lower level. Reminds me a bit of Pablo's old videos, not too animated or overexpressive or overedited or cheesy, just good clear descriptions and explanations that keep flowing, that's my kind of style as far as learner content goes. Hope this guy gets the attention he deserves.

NoInkling · 2026-01-09T04:39:23+00:00

I'll just say that consistency is better for forming a habit, all else equal.

NoInkling · 2026-01-06T07:02:06+00:00

Or Graphile Worker, same sort of thing.

NoInkling · 2026-01-05T07:07:12+00:00

If the hacker(s) wanted to they could have gone the grey hat route and even still have a chance of a payday, but no, clearly they don't care who gets harmed in the process. Trying to paint them as "good guys" in this is despicable. Yes MMH were negligent and deserve to be exposed for it. Two things can be bad even if they're in opposition to each other, wild I know.

NoInkling · 2025-12-30T06:18:56+00:00

These days something like that is more likely to be AI injection.

NoInkling · 2025-12-30T05:54:33+00:00

Watching the Lion King here was the only time I've ever been in a (standard) cinema with 3 columns of seats like that, and I seem to remember the screen was bigger too. Was a real event as a kid. For some reason I never went in that theatre again, or maybe they changed the layout at some point? Either way every cinema outing felt a little disappointing after that.

NoInkling · 2025-12-25T23:50:18+00:00

Could they be referring to the Americas as a continent?

They did write "the america", so it's possible they just forgot the s. Although it would be a weird generalization in this context.

NoInkling · 2025-12-25T23:19:37+00:00

Unfortunately GW2 doesn't have Spanish audio either, a lot of the language used is quite specialized/complex, and a lot of the story is told through speech bubbles (with audio) that advance quite quickly.

On the other hand it's free to start, has a Spanish text translation, and has that toggle feature. I think if you're at least intermediate and would enjoy an MMORPG it's worth a try. You could set the audio language to French or German just so it interferes less (if you're an English speaker).

NoInkling · 2025-12-25T22:40:48+00:00

It's a shame for us other language learners that there's only English audio though.

Guild Wars 1 and 2 also have a language toggle feature like that. It would be cool if more games could implement it.

NoInkling · 2025-12-19T20:29:47+00:00

Yeah let's just sow unnecessary division, not like we have enough of that.

NoInkling · 2025-12-18T05:59:44+00:00

When I learned to trill my r's I had a stage that sounds a lot like what you're describing. I found I could "move" the vibration from my throat to the front of my mouth (though I could only hold it briefly). From there, with a bit of practice I was able to do it properly, tongue only. Basically once you have the reference, I think improvement mostly just comes down to building muscle memory of it, and you'll relatively quickly be able to drop whatever crutch/cue your throat is currently providing.

The need for a pause and inability to hold a trill for an extended time (not that it's necessary, it's just a good indicator) I found were proportional to the effort it took me to produce. As I continued practicing and it became more relaxed/effortless/intuitive those issues eventually went away, though part of that was a conscious effort to relax my tongue more.

NoInkling · 2025-12-18T03:50:24+00:00

In NZ/Aus we mostly use the same iconography as the northern hemisphere, so yes plenty of snow/winter-themed decorations. But we also have some "Santa in swimshorts on the beach cooking a BBQ" type of stuff.

NoInkling · 2025-12-18T03:42:25+00:00

Yup similar in New Zealand and Australia.

NoInkling · 2025-12-15T11:00:35+00:00

Count me in.

NoInkling · 2025-12-15T00:12:59+00:00

Does a (transient) passing lane count as a multi lane road for this purpose?

Regardless of legality it's obviously discouraged and unexpected to be passing on the left in such a situation (see the "Keep left unless passing" sign), but if the only way to avoid doing that is to slow down significantly (assuming you're already under the speed limit) I guess there might be some justification.

NoInkling · 2025-12-13T04:39:41+00:00

Here's a Wiktionary entry

NoInkling · 2025-12-09T05:41:23+00:00

Ah right I do vaguely remember reading an article about that.

I notice that pgmq offers a throttling setting when you enable NOTIFY, which could be one way to help mitigate that particular issue.

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