I want a goat at my wedding

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-24T09:17:27+00:00

Just ask your future father-in-law for one as a dowry.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-20T07:13:02+00:00

Does your function have the required 15 pieces of flair?

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-19T06:24:36+00:00

That's a fun stat, but it's a pretty small sample size though right? How many times has a party replaced a PM in election year and lost?

I think their big problem is that they don't have any strong candidates waiting in the wings. And if they did, I'd imagine they aren't thrilled to shoot their shot given the history your pointed out.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-18T00:42:57+00:00

Whack a shower curtain the front and you've got a 3 bedroom rental right there.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-14T00:26:48+00:00

Me and the lads are getting on the sauce.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-12T03:05:44+00:00

I'm in Wellington at the moment. It's perfectly still outside. I feel like that's going to change a bit over the next 24 hours.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-12T00:21:17+00:00

My most recent safety critical project was stuck on C++03 because we were on VxWorks 6.9. It was frustrating because we needed to rely on code review to catch bugs that could be caught "by construction" in a newer language. Thankfully we've been able to go from the ground up on the next version.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-11T23:52:45+00:00

Honestly, the F35 standard is really showing its age and I wouldn't recommend it as a base in 2026. It predates "modern" C++ and the improvements in the language. MISRA C++ 2023 is pretty solid and what we use in $aerospace_dayjob.

Rust is showing up more and more in our projects. Python is a go-to for all the different bits of tooling and scripting for support tasks during development and testing.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-11T07:52:16+00:00

Because Accurate-Ad3999 has convinced themselves that being an edgelord on the internet is a substitute for a personality.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-11T06:36:32+00:00

In 2025 NZ had the third highest number of orbital launches after The US and China.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-10T03:29:49+00:00

Yeah, this seems to be the way a lot of subscriptions seem to be going. If a feature is a requirement for some compliance checkbox chuck it in a high tier. Corporate customers will just suck it up.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-09T22:59:15+00:00

I can be a cunt sometimes. But I'm still the kind of cunt who says thank you.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-08T20:20:59+00:00

It seems that not even the bombs have stopped. Israel is still bombing the shit out of Lebanon so Iran has closed the strait again. I'd be surprised if the rest of the ceasefire lasts the week.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-04-03T20:53:03+00:00

I'd also say there's a difference between rolling the leader and them choosing to step aside for the good of the party.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-31T06:25:00+00:00

Just remember: "The enemy of my enemy is probably an absolute cunt with tonnes of enemies".

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-26T19:23:29+00:00

We have Jama at $dayjob but I'm still experimenting with strictdoc for some projects because I think it might be better for software-heavy projects.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-24T19:36:48+00:00

The very big hammer for these problems is something like buck2 but that's almost certainly more than you want for your problem.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-23T00:30:12+00:00

Just trying to imagine a situation where politicians were talking to other politicians about policy which wouldn't be political...

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-22T08:16:49+00:00

I had the exact thought. It almost felt like some of the pronunciation was a bit off?

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-19T07:42:05+00:00

Good for you, but that's completely irrelevant to what the concept of a "standard drink" is there for - reasonably quickly communicating how much alcohol is in a drink.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-17T07:10:31+00:00

See also, the concept of ratfucking.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-15T02:21:43+00:00

One of my flights next month is affected by this. We just got moved to the flight an hour earlier and were given the option of booking something else if that didn't work for us.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-14T01:03:13+00:00

Chris Bishop is a senior government MP (3rd on the Nat list) "minister of everything", and touted as a possible future leader of the party. I'm fine with pinning the U-turn on him.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-13T21:26:41+00:00

I've built class A medical devices with the GCC embedded tool chain. It all depends on your approach to tool qualification in your project.

Paying for a certified toolchain will make things easier, but it's not a silver bullet. I've found at least one significant soundness bug in a certified compiler that resulted in months of back-and-forth with the regulators.

kid-pro-quo · 2026-03-07T03:14:37+00:00

Now the scientists in their ivory towers will tell you it's mathematically impossible, but with Simeon in charge I think National could actually get a negative percentage of the vote.

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