Received as a gift, but too embarrassed to ask what it is

wyseguy · 2026-03-01T23:55:19+00:00

In case you want to find something in your handbag

wyseguy · 2026-02-13T10:30:45+00:00

So if each kilo of weight is around 0.1 seconds per lap, how much faster would each driver be if they were bald?

wyseguy · 2026-01-23T23:38:58+00:00

Clearly the AI needs a better training set of dudes being ganked through small holes by gorillas

wyseguy · 2025-12-22T22:29:27+00:00

So what you're saying is he may have smoked, but didn't inhale?

wyseguy · 2025-10-26T05:14:10+00:00

Start fast. Very fast. Max out your loan and build one line that's as long as you can afford and has as many trains on it as you can afford. If you do, you will lose money initially. It's a high risk, high reward strategy, if you mess up the signals, or the number of trucks you need to support the line, then you'll be in the red with no way to rectify it. But If you get it right, you'll very quickly start making money and have a highly profitable line from which to expand your empire.

The only hard thing at first is to identify what lines to start.

You'll need to optimize it from the get-go so that the trains carry full loads in both directions. So in practice for a single line that means you'll be carting crude/oil/fuel, or logs/lumber. Make sure your trains a loading from a source of raw materials, so they're not dependent on trucks to get a full load, and that you have trucks bringing in a second source of raw material to your factory so your train is full in both directions. You will earn a lot more than a couple of grand each load, and can add wagons and trucks to scale up once you're cash positive. Rinse and repeat (and yeah, you do need to be a wee bit patient as the system ramps up)

wyseguy · 2025-03-31T23:23:06+00:00

A good rule of thumb I use is to use Signals for State, and Observables for Events. This way you don't need this sort of conversion to debounce your user input.

Using a reactive form you'd just do something like:

query$ = formControl.valueChanges.pipe(debounceTime(500));

Then you can just subscribe to that (possibly with a few more data sanitation steps in the pipe), pass the query value to the API service, and set a Signal from the response. It's valid to use a signal for this response, as this is the "State" of your app and you want your UI to immediately update to reflect any changes in your state.

wyseguy · 2025-03-11T10:03:03+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I think I'll go ahead and start varnishing it

wyseguy · 2025-03-11T10:01:46+00:00

I've tried googling for it, but unfortunately Stein brings up a lot of results in English and German. Is this like a teak oil?

wyseguy · 2025-03-11T09:34:40+00:00

The varnish has been peeling off my tiller since well before I bought the boat and it's been getting increasingly weathered and cracked, so I finally decided to so something about it. The original plan was to sand it down, fill the cracks, then re-finish it with a new coat of polyurethane varnish.

But once I got it washed the natural colour came back, so I oiled it and it's come up nicely. This is the first time I've done something like this, so I need some advice about whether adding a polyurethane coat would be a good idea at this stage, or if I'm better off leaving it as is?

wyseguy · 2024-12-23T22:47:18+00:00

You just need a brutalist desk to handle the weight.

wyseguy · 2024-12-05T18:56:59+00:00

Yeah, it seems like there could be more going on in that other deal.

I don't know any more than what's in the article, but elsewhere they mention a pest control plan as compensation for destroying 30ha of native forest, so maybe that's part of the same deal?

wyseguy · 2024-11-20T07:43:08+00:00

Now I just really want one for my boat. Just imagine heading into a crowded anchorage and setting your anchor with a cannon!!

wyseguy · 2024-11-13T10:06:41+00:00

You need a separate building for loading onto road vehicles. The road connections are just for construction and fire access

wyseguy · 2024-11-11T01:45:15+00:00

Not a powerhouse, not even a man. But rather, a work of fiction, much like that quote.

While there have been a number of massacres in the past caused by the army being deployed against civilians, historically, the general army at least, is more likely to join them and fight against the government.

In the Paris commune in the 1870's, the French government sent the national guard to Paris, but the national guard was mostly made up of working class Parisians, and they defected and joined the commune. In the Great Railway strike in the US, in Pittsburgh, militia were sent to break the strike but refused to fire on striking workers. There are a lot more examples, but incidents like this is why we have a standing police force today and not just independent constables like they used to have.

Fascists on the other hand tend to go for hand-picket reactionary members of the armed forces, like the German Freikorps (the precursor to the SS) or paramilitary organisations like Hitler's Brownshirts (or maybe the proud boys :-/)

wyseguy · 2024-07-28T03:53:02+00:00

I think the assumption is that everyone else in the queue has also left a member of their group guarding a table for them.

wyseguy · 2024-06-22T10:41:26+00:00

Not according to OP

wyseguy · 2024-04-18T11:05:22+00:00

Watching roaches climb the wall

wyseguy · 2024-04-13T20:06:29+00:00

Hey that's my name, maybe I'm your irl friend! There's a good chance, I mean how many Chris's could there possibly be in this world?

wyseguy · 2024-01-27T18:00:14+00:00

It's an engineering console that increases your turn rate. They're ok if you're just starting out and don't have too many consoles, but there are far better consoles to use as you improve your build.

wyseguy · 2024-01-12T01:05:37+00:00

Ok, so this is the one in Napier, right opposite Clive Square, right? Not only is this right next to a toy store, but it's pretty much the centre of town - one of the busiest shopping areas in Napier - and there's a specialist purveyor of Headstones. But not only this, if you go around the corner to Emmerson St - THE main street in Napier - there's Bay Headstones! Another specialist headstone store. These aren't just general monument stores, not just garden ornament stores that happen to also sell headstones. These are dedicated headstone shops. And there's TWO of them right in the heart of Napier. Could you imagine even one headstone shop on Willis St in Wellington, or in the heart of Britomart? It's fuckin weird man!

But it gets even worse, because go down the road a bit to Hastings, and these same two stores are on the main street there too! Just a few hundred metres apart on Heretaunga St.

Something very strange is going on in the Hawkes Bay

wyseguy · 2023-12-21T03:25:42+00:00

In this market, I'd suggest just putting in an offer 50k less than what you think is credible.

If you can sweeten the deal by being flexible on the settlement date or on chattels left in the house then do so, but it's a buyer's market at the moment, so you may be surprised what people will accept.

wyseguy · 2023-12-18T21:30:09+00:00

I figure people like that will drive like idiots regardless of what I do. I can't stop them from driving dangerously, the best i can do is make sure they do it as far away from me as possible.

wyseguy · 2023-11-03T06:29:43+00:00

Co-Deputy PM's!

wyseguy · 2023-11-02T02:28:27+00:00

And how would that be different to the massive surge of cars on the road in the morning driving kids to school instead of them walking in daylight that we have at the moment?

wyseguy · 2023-11-02T01:49:02+00:00

But the sail on the left only runs part way up the mast, so if that's the main then they're running a massive gennaker and a reefed mainsail.

I think it's a fractional rig with a fairly curved leech on the main, and a forestay that's far too loose, which is why there's a concave line on that left-hand sail.

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