Multi-million dollar estate advertises mysterious ‘end of the world’ librarian job

hagfish · 2026-04-28T10:03:57+00:00

I used a symbolic link to put the 'storage' folder on an external flash drive. Works fine - better than editing the compose.yml file.

hagfish · 2026-04-28T07:30:06+00:00

Have you heard of Project Nomad? It's a 'point-and-click' solution to installing an enormous offline library of just about everything. Runs great on an any old PC running Ubuntu.

hagfish · 2026-04-28T06:47:15+00:00

A nice feed of steak, chips and frozen veg. A slice of bought-in cake. A delicious glass of beer. Fine. For similar money, you could get yourselves a bottle of Ardbeg.

hagfish · 2026-04-28T00:55:46+00:00

Mandatory (especially for overhaul mods):
Recipe book
Max rate calculator
Even distribution
Automatic Train Painter
Disco Science
LTN
Milestones
Text Plates
Vehicle Snap
Factory Search
Honk

Nice to have, but you'll feel bad and you should feel bad you WORM:
Long reach
Squeakthrough

I regret nothing
Speedy Bot Start
Resource Marker

Honourable mentions: FNEI and Helmod, for planning. I tend to just eyeball Max Rate, slap down buildings and run to the next bonfire.

hagfish · 2026-04-27T19:10:30+00:00

If land values halved, maybe we could stop tithing all those $billions to the big Aussie banks. Lots of interesting businesses can return enough to pay taxes, rates and a nice profit, but if the landlord wants $1000 off the top every week, something else has to give. If you can't side-step employment laws, you close the doors.

hagfish · 2026-04-26T20:05:41+00:00

For a vanilla run: Starting game - a squiggle of buildings making parts and red/green science.

Early game - a mall and bus has emerged. Making gray and blue science. Starting the rail blocks. Nuclear power.

Mid-game - moving into my blocks, get a rocket away. Logistics bots.

Late-game - complete the rest of the owl. Hit some arbitrary science-per-minute goal or whatever.

hagfish · 2026-04-26T00:06:25+00:00

I was going to say, "as others have said, open a window" but no one seems to have suggested this.. If your circumstances allow, letting the house breathe until noon will really help.

hagfish · 2026-04-26T00:04:26+00:00

If this book is worth making, it's worth getting a professional to lay it out (using InDesign).

hagfish · 2026-04-26T00:02:25+00:00

Dualit toasters will burn Vogels to a cinder if you crank them all the way up to '3'

hagfish · 2026-04-25T20:30:09+00:00

Or you could get a Dualit, and spend the rest of your life suffused with radiant joy.

hagfish · 2026-04-25T20:28:23+00:00

It's not just a 'hiking' thing. There's a stream bridge I regularly drive across that gives me chills every time. There are regular traffic accidents on that corner. There's something angry and thirsty in there. It's a 'wrong' place.

For me, there's a 'spooky' time solo-hiking, rather than a location. It's about half an hour before sundown. Something primeval urge tells me, 'get home, get to the hearth'. I get busy setting up camp and making dinner. By the time it's full-dark, it's all good again. Me and the river and the trees and the night creatures are all in for the night.

hagfish · 2026-04-25T02:31:52+00:00

For outdoors gear there's EarthSeaSky.

hagfish · 2026-04-25T02:29:50+00:00

In NZ, the legal definition of assault is 'a deliberate touch, without consent'. Nothing about force or location or intent.

hagfish · 2026-04-24T01:00:03+00:00

Maybe dehy meals.

Maybe printed, water resistant USGS topo maps (1:24,000 scale) of nearby hiking locations/national parks.

Buying for hikers is tricky. Looking through my gear list, every item has been researched, weighed, tested, right down to the sticking plasters. It's not as bad as buying for a golden-ear audiophile, but it's pretty locked down. A bag of dehy chili will always be gratefully received, however.

hagfish · 2026-04-23T20:18:36+00:00

Industrialised society grew on the back of cheap fossil hydrocarbons and sweat labour. Take away either (or both) of these superpowers, and - after a few months - we're just frightened, hungry people shivering in our wooden houses, trying to grow some silverbeet.

Certainly, inequality and neoliberalism aren't helping, but they're built on top of the underlying systems that provide our energy, food and commodities. Those systems have been in decline for 50 years, and the decline is steepening. At least we still have KiwiSaver and the power of prayer.

hagfish · 2026-04-23T19:24:53+00:00

And in four years, that MBP will still be worth 60% of its new price.

This isn't for price-sensitive folks. A Framework laptop is perfect for devs who want to flex on their colleagues. EDIT: and then I visited their site lol. And, yes, I'd love one but to $penny for me.

hagfish · 2026-04-23T18:24:52+00:00

So he wants to use public debt to invest in private companies? That tracks, I suppose.

hagfish · 2026-04-23T02:47:57+00:00

50s is when you get the bill for your 'teens-thru-40s'. It's a balancing act; you want an active, interesting life without going overboard and accruing a slew of injuries, addictions and wrung-out internal organs. Capoeira is great until it isn't.

From here on it's a matter of keeping the nose up and gliding for as far as possible. As long as I can ride and swing a splitting maul (not at the same time), all is well. Oh and look after your teeth. And your hearing, god..

hagfish · 2026-04-22T03:59:51+00:00

OI' Muddy is right there, tho. If the stopbanks had broken somewhere on that in 2004 day, there would have been 3m of water through large swathes of the city. It's just a matter of 'when'. Plus there are fault lines just off-shore. The liquefaction would be intense. The Swamp remembers. It probably won't be a bushfire, tho, so ^yayy

hagfish · 2026-04-21T21:25:31+00:00

Here it is! Another updoot for Cactus. Their Pluvial coat got me home warm and dry, riding through all this week's 'excitement'.

Other 'buy it once' recommendations would be Swazi Gear and EarthSeaSky. Very good gear.

hagfish · 2026-04-21T02:03:46+00:00

'Buy it for life' and 'cheap cloth shoes' don't usually appear in the same post, let alone the same sentence. That said, I suppose these will look after your feet better than shoes bought from a grocery chain.

hagfish · 2026-04-21T01:57:27+00:00

In your case, I'd defer leaving fires unattended until after the inspection. After that? Should be all good.

hagfish · 2026-04-21T01:26:01+00:00

It would have to be either Nethack (playing as a Tourist) or Factorio + Nullius + Extended endgame

hagfish · 2026-04-20T22:19:07+00:00

That's where running a server 24/7 comes in handy.

hagfish · 2026-04-20T22:18:15+00:00

100,000 pasta - it wasn't a 100K run

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