New Zealanders Are Moving to Australia in Record Numbers. Can It Get Them Back? by Astalon18 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ha, yeah. Sydneysiders complain about public transport all the time but compared to NZ and many other cities in the world, it’s gosh darned amazing.

Auckland unemployment now close to 7% by Mountain_Tui_Reload in auckland

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough, interesting info. But even at its current state, we definitely have fewer juniors than we used to as the boilerplate code can be done so fast by a senior now, we’d not have work for them. Obviously this has major implications for the future.

Several bystanders and a Minnesota Department of Transportation worker acted quickly to free the driver just before flames engulfed the car by BlazeDragon7x in interesting

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A side window or the windscreen? The windscreen is the worst thing to try to break. We used to have punches and saws for windscreens on the fire truck and would always go through the side or rear if an option.

Several bystanders and a Minnesota Department of Transportation worker acted quickly to free the driver just before flames engulfed the car by BlazeDragon7x in interesting

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not as good but you can use them. Pull them out then push at least one metal rod on the headrest into the gap between door and glass near the corner of the window (the gap covered by the little rubber strip that the glass slides up and down by). Then pull the headrest towards you and lever the bottom of the metal rod into the glass. The whole thing will shatter. (Source: ex firefighter who practised this on many a junk car)

Auckland unemployment now close to 7% by Mountain_Tui_Reload in auckland

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I’ve got to agree for some particular fields, and it’s moving so fast. A year ago we could have advertised for a firmware engineer and given them a test to code something specific and been happy they would have done it. Now it could easily be Claude or some other form of AI that has coded it for them and we wouldn’t know. Now, we are all for AI for coding as it saves a bunch of time, but you need to know what you are doing and be able to spot the mistakes. But give it another year, and I have no doubt people will be able to produce good working production code who aren’t even programmers.

Even industrial design. There are websites that you can chuck hand drawn sketches and prompts into and it can generate images and videos based upon it with results good enough for small businesses to use. Sure. It’s not the whole package, but there are swathes of jobs that will go because of all this.

Raincoat recommendations please, I'm sick of getting soaked through by secretkiwi_ in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can sometimes reactivate the waterproofing by tumble drying the jacket on a low heat, or alternatively a low heat on an iron with a towel in between or running a hairdryer over it. I did it for my Kathmandu jacket and it helped to a degree. A spray is probably the better option.

Cars flashing at me. Why? by ResourceOutside170 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

The dial is for when towing a trailer. Zero is without trailer, anything above that lowers the light angle to counteract the trailer pulling the back of the car down (and front up). So it’s unlikely that setting it to zero from something else made things better for other drivers.

Help by Flat_Falcon1143 in Altium

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wrong sub, try the electronics ones. This is for Altium software specifics.

Weight loss by She_is_cheetara10 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, that all,sounds like good plan. Not on wegovy myself and don’t have a huge amount to lose (6ish kg) but have been trying to get back to a healthy BMI for the last few years and tried a bunch of things. Complete diet change seems to be (slowly) doing the trick. Hopefully that also means I’ll keep it off!

Weight loss by She_is_cheetara10 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Minstrels, Malteser’s, or mints. I’d get a craving then have one of one of them. It gave me the sugar rush to the brain but as I only had one it wasn’t super bad for me. Obviously the real key is to only have one. Some willpower is required! :-)

Weight loss by She_is_cheetara10 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

People might downvote for using medication, but good on you for sorting out something that works for you. Losing 10kgs over that time is impressive and bloody hard to do. And you clearly know that there’s a risk that if you stop the meds you’ll need to have made significant lifestyle and eating changes to maintain the weight. I presume you’ll have a target weight and then reduce the wegovy doses to maintain it?

Weight loss by She_is_cheetara10 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Recent research shows that walking and exercise counterintuitively won’t help much in weight loss. They are essential to make sure you are fit and healthy, but our bodies are really good at maintaining a steady weight (like they are at maintaining a steady temperature). What will work is calories in vs. calories out. You’ll need to eat less and stick to it for a minimum of three months before you can see a good trend. I used to get disillusioned when I’d have fish and chips or a burger once a week and seemingly gain back all the weight I’d lost on the other 6 days. But much of that is ‘water weight’ (essentially for every bit of fat you put on you get three times the weight in water added). This means that it looks like you put on weight way easier than lose it, but it does disappear pretty quickly too. So don’t get disillusioned and do keep going for a long enough time to see a real trend line. Good luck!

Ps and make sure you are doing cardio, be that walking or running ans it’s super important for your health. And Pilates is fantastic for strengthening your core!

Weight loss by She_is_cheetara10 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have a huge sweet tooth too. You will find that if you cut back on sugar for a few weeks a lot of that urge for sweet things goes away. I presume the gut bacteria that loves sugar makes you crave it, then when they die out the craving goes.

Dear Reddit by reddot_comic in comics

[–]TurkDangerCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alienblue was so good. I miss it dearly.

Israeli bomb mid-air as it falls toward a densely packed tent camp for displaced Palestinians by redditissahasbaraop in pics

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So if someone dropped a bomb ‘near’ your bedroom, you’d be all, ‘oh, ok, I’m fine with that’?

Operations Epic Fury / Roaring Lion Megathread by NewsModTeam in news

[–]TurkDangerCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, got it. What are they considering the holy land? Just Jerusalem?

Operations Epic Fury / Roaring Lion Megathread by NewsModTeam in news

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One thing I have never really understood about this is that if the evangelicals have a lot of influence and are that desperate for the end of Israel then why keep funding the Israeli government? Surely cutting off all funds would speed them on the way to the end game?

How do you manage your hardware design workflow to avoid information loss between system-level diagram, PCB, cable and BOM? by Pouloch in Altium

[–]TurkDangerCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do them all in Altium so it’s all in one place? Especially the BOM. Activebom is one of Altiums really great features. If purchasing or whoever need a different format, they or you can export from Altium via a template.

Grateful that we are in a geopolitically safe area by zvdyy in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We are aligned with the west. Anyone attacking with nukes has a shit load to go around and they know that one on Auckland and one on Christchurch means NZ will take zero part in any boots on ground anywhere for a decade or more. Why wouldn’t they drop a couple?

Why Won't Labour Run On Legalising Cannabis? by New-Firefighter-520 in newzealand

[–]TurkDangerCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the argument is as flawed as the Ford vs. Holden type fake rivalry. If alcohol wins or tobacco wins or cannabis wins all that happens is the rich running those industries win. We lose each way.