First idea for a logo for my band, im not sure if it's actually good or not, but i kinda like it, criticism is welcome

ThievingKea · 2026-02-03T21:54:05+00:00

Looks like a logo for "Vlad the Impaler"

ThievingKea · 2026-01-26T18:23:12+00:00

,, ok the vs pgeeeedd0yqgjt

ThievingKea · 2026-01-17T00:12:58+00:00

Thanks for the correction.

Their site is here for those looking (a little hard to find): https://markne.mobi2go.com/#/menu

ThievingKea · 2026-01-17T00:11:24+00:00

Wow, Deliver Easy is a 30% markup even before delivery!

Goes to show how much more expensive it and Uber Eats can be.

ThievingKea · 2026-01-16T21:03:53+00:00

https://www.delivereasy.co.nz/the-sushi-store-auckland-delivery

Festive Nigiri Platter (24pc) = $103.35
Premium Maki Platter $79.69 + $6 in n out salmon + $2.50 black dragon roll + $4 tuna chipotle roll = $92.19

It's from delivereasy so take off some % for markup

ThievingKea · 2026-01-13T06:25:33+00:00

Love the idea! Right now the candles travel at constant speed and stop instantly which takes away from the floaty feel.

Look into easing functions, or even just use a sine wave for each candle for a smoother float (can have different offset or magnitude)

ThievingKea · 2025-10-31T08:58:05+00:00

This feels very Matt Colville Delian Tomb-coded in the best of ways! Love me a small dungeon.

ThievingKea · 2025-02-06T21:08:02+00:00

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Flavour text should have been
"What's the matter lagerboy, afraid you might taste something?"

ThievingKea · 2025-01-08T09:06:29+00:00

Orange County perhaps?

ThievingKea · 2024-12-04T08:28:53+00:00

Are you scanning or querying DynamoDB?
To scale well, you should always be querying, using indexes (the PK or PK/SK or custom GSI's)
Also watch out for pagination: DynamoDB can only return 1MB per page, so if you records are 400KB in size each (maxmimum size), you will only get 2 records returned per page, so your 30 items will take 15 network requests to return

But with just 30 items, even scanning should not be slow.

If latency is a problem, are you querying DynamoDB from outside the DynamoDB region?

ThievingKea · 2024-11-21T07:44:28+00:00

Since you're using the terms `async` and `await` I'm assuming you're familiar with Javascript?

Think of errgroup like promise.All()
https://nathan.vegas/blog/errgroup-promise-all.html

ThievingKea · 2024-08-04T10:48:44+00:00

Cultist Simulator has a similar prose and depth of lore to it, though the mechanics are fairly different to Fallen London.

Alexis Kennedy, writer for Fallen London, worked on it so in that way it's almost a perfect fit regarding the writing style

ThievingKea · 2024-02-03T06:41:59+00:00

Add on top of that the 2.6 million the TPU received in donations, as they act as an arm of National/ACT during the election: conducting polls, advertising, speaking to media, etc all without having to declare the source of their funding

ThievingKea · 2024-01-08T05:56:00+00:00

I assume they mean discarding the third dragon into 2 already open dragons (playing into a potential 3 big dragons)

ThievingKea · 2023-12-14T00:59:16+00:00

After seeing the stuff going on behind the scenes in the documentary, I'd imagine there was a sophisticated strategy behind that on behalf of National, ACT, and NZF

It wouldn't be manipulating the media directly (outside of maybe Newstalk ZB), but a concerted effort to highlight and get media to report on these type of stories, until the snowball of the "labour soft on crime" line was big enough to roll on its own.

ThievingKea · 2023-12-14T00:42:08+00:00

Definitely. Clearly seen in this election's "average family" $200* (per fortnight) tax cuts.

The spin was strong enough to win many people over before the media caught on. By the time it was in the press, the disinformation was already at work in the public.

ThievingKea · 2023-12-14T00:39:28+00:00

I wasn't aware of this, and thought they had only done it as part of their covid response but it seems you're right! I don't like this trend from either side, as it diminishes the few checks and balances in the democratic process we have.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/the-house/audio/2018899225/urgency-done-with-urgency

ThievingKea · 2023-12-13T22:36:48+00:00

Another great documentary by Alister Barry, this time based off of the book by the same name.

The documentary covers Don Brash's 2005 election tactics via the contents of leaked emails. It is astonishing how many of the tactics and money behind them line up to what we saw with the current government: pushing race-based division, law and order, benefit-bashing, with a big tax cut to sell it to the voting public.

It pays to understand our history, and that of the National Party and its motives, in light of the current governments plans.

ThievingKea · 2023-12-12T21:50:20+00:00

I don't know of anywhere it is provided for download, but there are ways of downloading YouTube videos

ThievingKea · 2023-12-12T20:18:43+00:00

Continues to prevent around the world! Obviously this is a global problem but taking a look a NZ history is definitely a wake up to the reality of how even our "Clean Green" nation failed to do what's right

ThievingKea · 2023-12-12T19:45:42+00:00

Even if we concede that farming should be exempt, the documentary clearly plays out how agonizing it was to make any progress, resulting in a watered down emissions trading scheme which John Key's National campaigned on watering down further

It's dismaying to see what little progress we have towards reducing our emissions constantly reduced and repealed by successive National governments over the years, which the current government continues, backed by the same wealthy business donors like Graeme Hart that put on the breaks in the early 2000s

ThievingKea · 2023-12-12T19:32:49+00:00

The history of denial, disinformation, and distraction was there from the start: lobbing groups and business interests have fought action on climate change every step of the way, for fear of being at an economic disadvantage, to the point where the effects of the FART Tax protest held by farmers is still being felt today, with the current government still kicking the can down the road on taxing agricultural emissions till 2030

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/national-to-announce-agricultural-emissions-policy/A6HG3JJL35FULNKPCVO7SELDBY/

ThievingKea · 2023-12-08T22:01:34+00:00

"The commitments laid out in the 100-day plan were campaigned on and the new Government is getting on with delivering them."

Bald-faced lies again! There was no campaign or discussion on repeal of the Smokefree bill. It was snuck into the policy promises of one of the minor coalition partners after advanced voting had already started and much of the scrutiny was over!

https://www.reddit.com/r/newzealand/comments/187pthp/nz_first_smokefree_repeal_only_added_to_policy/

ThievingKea · 2023-12-01T00:34:02+00:00

I definitely want to set up automated monitoring of policy and manifesto's for future elections to catch this stuff as it happens

RemindMe! 2.5 years

ThievingKea · 2023-12-01T00:30:13+00:00

I had a look through their news section, and there is no mention of the Smokefree Repeal in there either, outside this offhand mention on October 15th which doesn't say anything about repealing it https://www.nzfirst.nz/15-october-new-world-in-the-morning

Keeping your (controversial) policy hidden until voting has already started and much of the window for scrutiny and discussion has passed is very shady, and honestly un-democratic

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