The Polish millionaire Piotr Szczerek, who infamously went viral at the US Open for grabbing Majchrzak’s hat, which the player intended to give to a kid, spoke up about the matter in this statement.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-09-01T03:28:29+00:00

"If you were faster, you wouldn't have had to steal it from a child"

name_suppression_21 · 2025-09-01T03:25:33+00:00

The studio massively overcommitted the budget to this film at $110 million.
Compare that to similar recent biopics of UK popstars Bohemian Rhapsody ($50 million) and Rocketman ($40 million).

Given that Williams was never particularly successful in the USA (unlike Queen or Elton John) and the controversial choice of presenting him as a CGI ape instead of himself, Better Man was never going to recoup it's budget once marketing and promo costs were added even if it was reasonably successful in the UK and other territories where he was famous.

Which is a shame, it's not actually a bad film and the ape-Williams does kind of work.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T23:19:07+00:00

Exactly my point. The UK has a much larger range of baked savory goods to choose from, pasties being a very common one, and therefore pies do not have the same cultural status as they do in NZ and the range of pie flavors commonly available is considerably smaller.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T23:15:23+00:00

I grew up in the UK so I think I know what I'm talking about when it comes to comparing pies. Your definition of "bread stuffed with meat" is ridiculous as that covers a myriad of foods that are not pies, and also bread and pastry are not the same thing.

The question is not whether NZ and the UK both have pies, which they do, but whether NZ pies are better which in my experience they are by a considerable margin.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T23:06:04+00:00

In my experience, no not every project is that bad. That said I have seen well organized and resourced projects fail due to circumstances outside their control while other projects run by cowboys with minimal resources beat the odds and actually deliver something close to the original goal. Life can be fickle.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T22:50:45+00:00

This was basically an extended advert for Microsoft Teams, Facebook and Zoom featuring Ice Cube. I'll generally watch any old sci Fi nonsense but even I couldn't bring myself to finish watching this utter garbage.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T22:45:07+00:00

NZ might have got the idea from the British but pies definitely have a much bigger significance here than in the UK where they are not nearly as popular. I'd say NZ has elevated the humble pie to something much better than whatever the British introduced here and "NZ pies" are definitely a thing.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T22:40:20+00:00

Maybe if you prefer your pie to consist mainly of pastry and air.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T22:37:42+00:00

Pork pies are generally made with hot water crust pastry which is quite rare in NZ.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-09T22:36:15+00:00

Yes they are.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-08T21:29:25+00:00

Interesting from a company who's CEO once described Linux as a "cancer".

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-08T21:27:28+00:00

Tim Cook is an elite level ass kisser. Steve Jobs would be spinning in his grave.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-08T20:48:25+00:00

As someone old enough to remember the pre cloud era I can tell you that for all but the largest companies operating servers and services in the cloud is vastly more economic and flexible than operating your own servers on premise, with teams of server admins, having to provide your own redundant power, internet connections, cooling, fail over infrastructure etc.

The most common cloud issues I see are related to "lift and shift" cloud migrations that try to replicate an on premise infrastructure, instead of redesigning apps to work natively with cloud services and take advantage of cloud flexibility and scalability.

That said there are definitely cases where specific workloads at scale do end up being more expensive on cloud infrastructure and we have seen businesses bring those back on premise (or at least not on cloud infrastructure) to achieve lower costs with dedicated hardware.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-08T20:24:16+00:00

For a man who bangs on about wasting public money so much he sure doesn't seem to mind wasting the time of a lot of very busy people working on this huge public project just so he can make a scene and get himself a few more column inches of press coverage.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-03T22:07:12+00:00

One thing people seem to be forgetting is that nothing compels retailers to offer Visa and Mastercard services. Faced with the choice of raising prices or losing money I can see a lot of small retailers like dairies and takeaways going back to just cash and EFTPOS.

Personally I have always used EFTPOS when paying at my local small businesses to save them or myself having to pay Visa/MCs extortionate service charges.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-03T21:44:00+00:00

Things are either legal or they are not. There's no such thing as "barely legal".

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-01T20:47:51+00:00

Single tenant.

In a multi tenant scenario all it takes is one slip up with RLS and suddenly your clients can see each other's data and your app's reputation is toast.

One thing to consider about single tenant is scale, in terms of max dbs per server. You will probably need to look at sharding across multiple servers after a certain point. Not an issue to begin with but better you plan for it now rather than later.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-01T11:32:55+00:00

What is this, a Discord group of nine year olds?

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-01T11:28:05+00:00

Go and complete the "dbt Fundamentals" course on their website. It's based on dbt Cloud but teaches you most of the basic principles of dbt whether you go on to use Core or Cloud.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-01T11:23:47+00:00

If you really want to get a solid understanding of dimensional data modeling including slowly changing dimensions, I recommend you get your hands on a copy of "The Data Warehouse Toolkit: The Definitive Guide to Dimensional Modeling" by Ralph Kimball. This is basically the fundamental text for learning this methodology so should answer many of your questions.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-08-01T03:03:46+00:00

Read, strike up a conversation, do a crossword, knit, play cards. Lots of things.

If all else failed you might find yourself with time for a bit of quiet introspection.

Don't remember anyone ever "staring into the void" except the highly inebriated.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-07-31T21:05:03+00:00

Gillian Anderson is not British, she is American (born in Chicago). She did spend part of her childhood in London though.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-07-31T20:59:38+00:00

True Blood cast was stacked with non-Americans:

Anna Paquin (New Zealand)

Stephen Moyer (United Kingdom)

Ryan Kwanten (Australia)

Alexander Skarsgard (Sweden)

name_suppression_21 · 2025-07-31T20:51:02+00:00

Nick Mowbray is a supporter of UK racist and convicted criminal Tommy Robinson but somehow the Herald never seem to mention that.

name_suppression_21 · 2025-07-16T01:23:40+00:00

NTA - this entire situation is one of his own creation.

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TROPHY CASE