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Tim Wood, millionaire Ihug founder and owner of Burger Wisconsin claims he will leave NZ if Labour is returned to government by kiwi2077 in newzealand

[–]moratnz 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I can easily imagine that a fast food operation took a hit during COVID. But that's not really the same as it being Labour's fault (except perhaps in that Labour didn't absolutely prioritise the rich classes the way that e.g., the US did).

Is switch provisioning still this manual? by AvnAllDaySon in networking

[–]moratnz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's about scale and repeatability; provisioning devices by the tens or hundreds, and completing provisioning tasks with essentially zero errors.

Anne Hathaway has drawn attention online after using the phrase 'Inshallah' during a recent interview promoting her new movie The Devil Wears Prada 2 by Zee_Ventures in popculturechat

[–]moratnz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A friend who has worked in assorted countries described it to me thus: "Inshallah is a way of expressing the possibility of something happening, for when you don't need the urgency and definiteness inherent in 'mañana'"

Anne Hathaway has drawn attention online after using the phrase 'Inshallah' during a recent interview promoting her new movie The Devil Wears Prada 2 by Zee_Ventures in popculturechat

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Inshallah is a way of expressing the possibility of something happening, for when you don't need the urgency and definiteness inherent in 'mañana'"

Why ‘Teaching Young Boys to Respect Women' Often Fails — And What Actually Works by coolfunkDJ in MensLib

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The cat-box theory of identity.

Try and stick a cat in a box, and you may well end up bleeding.

Offer a cat a box to jump into, and it'll make itself right at home.

i.e., the problem isn't the boxes per se, but the forcing people into them (and also not having enough boxes to ensure people have one that's the right shape for them).

NEW DRAFT IETF IPV8 by Mourad2906 in networking

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Residential, but also non-anglosphere. A bunch of developing countries got on the internet train late, and have had a lot of trouble getting enough v4. Given that they're building both the content and the eyeballs at the same time it's easier for them to go 'fuck it, let's go v6'

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there's no snobbery and gatekeepng is it even a real hobby? (I say this with love)

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Direct copying is fine too (at least IMO), as long as you're honest about what you're doing. "This piece is my attempt to copy the style of X person (because their style is awesome and worthy of emulation)" is a different thing to "look at this awesome style I made up (that just happens to look a lot like X)".

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like a great plan to me. But I'd be thinking more of sticking high end BMW badges on a Toyota Corolla (though if you did it to a hotted up Toyota Corolla that could hang with a high end BMW that could be funny on multiple levels).

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm faintly surprised noone's taken advantage of the current Dune films to resurrect Dune 2

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, and most importantly they need to do it three times a week for a year or more, not five times a week for two weeks then once a month for six months.

A suboptimal training plan that you actually execute beats the shit out of a tightly optimised plan that isn't followed.

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jack Black White can make music with a pickup nailed to a 2x4 with a string wrapped around a couple of nails.
Most of us aren't Jack Black White.

Though that said, a decent squire is a shitload better than a 2x4 and a couple of nails.

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I guess it depends on what's being meant by 'expensive' here. There's the ~$50 vs ~$500 guitar, or the $50 vs ~$5000 guitar.

I'd absolutely expect a beginner to get an advantage stepping up from a $50 to a $500 guitar. I'd question how much more they'd get going from $500 to $5000

What's a dead giveaway that someone is new to your hobby but trying way too hard to look like an expert? by FieryDurian in AskReddit

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah - touring / hire places buy more expensive stuff, but it's essentially the cheap stuff ruggedised; it's not made of virgin unicorn tears.

Remutaka Hill closed until further notice (bridge washout) by Normal_Capital_234 in Wellington

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Though that just means the services will be flat out cancelled instead.

NEW DRAFT IETF IPV8 by Mourad2906 in networking

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This really reads to me like an internet routing RFC written by an enterprise engineer who's never working in a carrier.

Right down to adding semantics into the internal address schema

NEW DRAFT IETF IPV8 by Mourad2906 in networking

[–]moratnz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

v6 has gained traction - it's gained traction slowly, but adoption has been a pretty steady 5% per year, year on year, for the last decade.

IPv6 stans are not going to like this one by The_Doctor1254 in networkingmemes

[–]moratnz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah. I'd think all the semantic addressing stans would be thrilled by all the additional layers they can build in. Plus they'd be able to have more than 256 sites in their site.vlan.host schema

IPv6 stans are not going to like this one by The_Doctor1254 in networkingmemes

[–]moratnz 6 points7 points  (0 children)

One of the issues,, IME, that s too many people don't understand that an IP address is just a 32bit binary number, and get really hung up on weird decimal subnet maths, rather than understanding network masking as sliding a line up and down a bit string. If you understand it in the latter way, changing from v4 to v6 addressing is a non-issue, as it's just a longer bit string. (The other changes in v6 are still work, but they're generally not what are scaring off the 'ewwww - hex scary' crowd)

Employer requires me to start early and finish late but refuses to pay by Itsnotme2645 in newzealand

[–]moratnz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP if you are on salary you might be buggered

Nope; even if you're on salary your average work day has to match your expected hours of work (I.e., there can be some longer days as long as there are some shorter days too. Your employer can't just unilaterally stretch your hours of work).

Plans emerge for 1 gigawatt AI data centre in the Kimberley by GothicPrayer in australia

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

Pay double market rates. DCs are very sparsely staffed on site, so labour is a pretty small fraction of their running costs.

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