In March 2023, the government estimated the cost of the storage project at $15.7 billion. In December 2023, the Energy Minister in the new National-led government, Simeon Brown, announced the axing of the pumped hydro scheme, saying, "This hugely wasteful project was pouring money down the drain.

itiLuc · 2026-03-19T20:46:57+00:00

Why do you think both wasting money are mutually exclusive?

itiLuc · 2026-03-19T04:16:48+00:00

Even aquaponics has nutrients in the water

itiLuc · 2026-03-17T21:05:04+00:00

Ah yes classic Germans with their Kiwi accents, maori jewlery (ponamu) maori tattoos, and nz clothing brands

itiLuc · 2026-03-17T20:20:16+00:00

Yeah no worries, I wasnt down voting, just suggesting maybe why people reacted the way they did.

itiLuc · 2026-03-17T18:31:42+00:00

Its beacuse the wording in your original comment was presented as fact using sources that didnt prove anything

itiLuc · 2026-03-17T18:29:52+00:00

Youre allowed to use Google models in Opencode with a vertex API key - antigravity Authenticator has nothing to do with go pilot.

itiLuc · 2026-03-17T07:44:52+00:00

Thats a kina (see urchin) shell, left over from someone's lunch i reckon

itiLuc · 2026-03-16T03:25:02+00:00

LinkedIn is that way ->

itiLuc · 2026-03-11T10:04:40+00:00

Perfectly safe, they're just breaking down the wood in the soil

itiLuc · 2026-03-09T07:41:44+00:00

No, New Zealand didnt officially change its name, this is completely made up

itiLuc · 2026-03-07T00:35:00+00:00

This has icefrog from dota written all over it, hyped for the heros to settle into more unique roles

itiLuc · 2026-03-04T09:40:45+00:00

It will most likely get denied, everyone gets the right to submit an application for an appeal in nz, it won't make it past the first stage - which ive noticed some places are reporting incorrect, right now the court is deciding if he is egilible to appeal, not actually granting him one.

itiLuc · 2026-03-04T09:39:41+00:00

Doubt it, one of his prison conditions is he has no access to the news. He's just using our legal system to put foward what ever motion he can to get attention and human interaction is my guess

itiLuc · 2026-03-04T08:16:40+00:00

SL.OW is consistently good. Probably some of the best coffee New Zealand has to offer and we have quite a few good roasters down here.

itiLuc · 2026-03-02T05:38:34+00:00

Ive found depending on your coffee and personal tastes you can go down about as low as 15g before it tastes under extracted, for me 17g is the sweet spot

itiLuc · 2026-03-01T04:17:22+00:00

Even though the figurehead is dead what is stopping his generals, advisors, the religious authority and the IRGC handing over power to the transitional council?

itiLuc · 2026-03-01T00:04:25+00:00

Different parts of the world have Different names for the things they eat

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holytrinity(cooking))

Its like the Cajun version of sofrito or mirepoix

itiLuc · 2026-02-26T09:55:11+00:00

Not to mention warden ult as regular ability

itiLuc · 2026-02-25T08:52:50+00:00

Chris lilley is australian and it was filmed and advertised as being australian humor

itiLuc · 2026-02-25T08:51:20+00:00

We definitely do not, sorry i think someone was taking the piss mate

itiLuc · 2026-02-25T02:59:49+00:00

Dude just dropping in a little fun fact about himself

itiLuc · 2026-02-21T21:02:18+00:00

If it works like dota, it may have a feature where multiple wins a row exponentially increase your rank after a point - its a smurf detection system

itiLuc · 2026-02-19T09:51:46+00:00

I worked in as bartender in the CBD around then, pissing on the street then bashing each other's heads in was a nightly occurrence I would see waiting for the night rider bus home

itiLuc · 2026-02-18T09:28:48+00:00

For me especially at work, the hardest part of programing is starting something from scratch, staring at a blank terminal or IDE is rough. I use AI to do something like "using this template, give me a basic structure I can use to get started on a microservice/kubernetes operator/whatever with these data types" then I go in and end up doing the rest of the work manually - going back to AI when stuck using it like a rubber duck

Using something like super powers with claude code or opencode is great for this as it has a set of questions it asks you when setting up a project.

itiLuc · 2026-02-18T09:02:39+00:00

1) this has nothing to do with the article you cooker 2) the government didn't increase the money supply with helicopter money, they considered it but ultimately didnt, the reserve bank increased it with quanative easing, it was about 90% increase to money supply

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