Just a random guy chiming in to say my favourite 1:1 was when Fallout 4 released and we spent the entire time talking about the game. We then made a pact that we'd save up our leave so we could take a week off when the next Elder Scrolls game was released....... I have so much leave saved up.
Just wasted half an hour at work playing the Get Rich Quick game. I remember the old days of point and click games, not knowing what the next step was, and just aimlessly clicking every item on every screen trying to make something happen
Pretty interesting stuff. Although in New Zealand we had our first cyclone properly hit land this year and it absolutely obliterated whole communities and disrupted our biggest agricultural region - so I'm not sure if we'll be as unaffected in 80 years as this makes out.
I've noticed this. I've had a paid subscription since GPT4 dropped but I'll probably cancel this month. Anyone got suggestions for a replacement? Preferably something that is like ChatGPT4 was on release day.
There currently isn't much that's exactly comparable. I'm personally giving the more open competitors more time to improve. I refuse to get excited unless it's something I can conceivable run myself once whatever company fucks it up.
I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team.
I was offered 6 figures as a counter offer for the first time in my career, which I turned down.
That was last week. New Zealand (where I'm from) hasn't shut down yet, but everything is so bleak, and I'm regretting turning down the offer. I start working from home tomorrow for my final 2 weeks here, and I can't help but feel regret. Being in the office was the one thing I hated, and now we don't have to do that.
Whats worse is I emailed the new job asking if we're still going ahead with me starting, and there was no reply.
If they offered you a good counter offer, ask them if there is a similar offer still on the table. Their IT challenges are probably only just ramping up and they will need you as people shift remote.
I'm also in NZ. SO happy that our GOVT takes this so seriously.
For some time now, all incoming visitors have been required to self-isolate for 14 days. This means that any incubating virus runs its course without further incident.
Ask them if it's still on the table. I know you're going to feel terrible asking that, but you have to realize that you are probably a very valuable employee to them, who knows their systems well. Considering you might be leaving in 2 weeks, there is nothing to lose in asking (other than maybe pride).
> Whats worse is I emailed the new job asking if we're still going ahead with me starting, and there was no reply.
This is extremely messed, and a huge red flag. It's extremely unprofessional and rude to offer someone a job, and then not even have the courtesy to communicate if the offer is being rescinded.
As a kiwi it blows my mind how bad your broadband is over there. My cousin recently moved to some rural Aussie town and will be getting 25 megabit, tops. Here in NZ we're rolling out 4 gigabit connections nationwide over the next 6 months.
EDIT: props for getting rid of limits and disconnects though. NZ providers are just saying we'll be able to cope with everyone working from home because we have a fancy network.
25mbs is bad?! Lol I would KILL for that -- here in small-town Canada I'm still on DSL that tops out at 12mbs. My dad who's on a farm gets six through a point to point connection that he pays an arm and a leg for -- although he's shortly getting an LTE connection at 25.
Last week they started laying cable down my street, so it seems pretty soon I'll be able to join the modern world.
It's very regional. A while back someone here on HN was trying to tell everyone how easy and affordable it was to get 10Gb fiber these days and didn't seem to be aware of how ridiculous that statement was. Sure enough, when challenged they produced a link to a company that assured me they could not service my company's area, which not only isn't rural but is also a stone's throw away from a rather large IT company who's name you'd definitely recognize.
Hell, my company has several branch locations which are relegated to point-to-point wireless links in the sub-Mb range.
My parents live 75 km away from Montreal. It's a small, somewhat isolated town, but still: it's not remote in any sense of the word.
Their only broadband option is LTE (and data prices in Canada are through the roof) or satellite (also expensive).
From what they're telling me, people from the area formed a co-op and got government funding to lay fiber. Except now that it's happening, incumbent telecomms also want a piece of the pie, doing everything in their power to lobby, slow things down through the CRTC and give them time to put their own systems in place before the co-op.
Also in Canada here, albeit the big-city part - our telecommunications sector is uniquely bad in terms of bandwidth / service for value and consumer choice.
We have organizations like Internet Society Canada (https://internetsociety.ca/) that are aiming to help change that, but it's an uphill battle.
Yeah it sucks, and what's worse is that there's no near-future course correction by the policy makers. This is going to come back and bite us in some very uncomfortable places.
Kudos for the multi-gigabit fibre, when we can only imagine of a gigabit lottery.
"Here in Australia Labor’s plan was for a nationwide network with 93 per cent FTTP coverage. Under the Coalition’s model, only around 20 per cent of NBN Co customers will enjoy FTTP. Around a third of fixed-line premises will be lumbered with FTTN."
how much international bandwidth are you getting now though? when i lived in auckland more than a decade ago, the local bandwidth was rather irrelevant to me, as most of the websites that i needed to access were overseas and i paid about a dollar per GB for that.
a fast local internet is useful mostly for local streaming services. (does youtube count as local in NZ now?)
Not at all. NZ is even less urbanised than Australia. The long-distance transit cables between cities in Australia all mostly already existed before the NBN even started.
You could cover more than 80% of our population just cabling up (literally) about half a dozen reasonably dense cities.
The actual reason is political. One side of politics privatised the state owned monopoly telco, creating a single huge, anti-competitive behemoth. That made progress with the internet stagnate for a decade. Then the other side got in, tried to work with the telco but they wouldn’t budge, and then surprised everybody by deciding to just build a provider-neutral network that was FTTP to 90-93% of the population. This was going fine - a few months behind schedule but on budget (projected at AU$44.1bn) after a few years.
But the opposition managed to convince a bunch of people in the media that it was hugely over-budget (despite the fact it wasn’t, and that all their financials were on the public record) and that a sensible solution was to stop that, and instead buy the old copper networks off the incumbent provider and spend a few billion to do a bit of an upgrade. They were “absolutely confident 25 megs is enough for anyone” and said this would cost max $29bn. They won Government, turned the network on its head and it’s just been one problem after another with huge widespread service quality issues, massive cost overruns, delays etc.
So now the cost of their “more sensible, cheaper, and quicker to build” network is nearing $60bn and finishing two years later than the original FTTP schedule (before they won Government, the party that wrecked the project promised to have it done by the end of 2016!)
So it’s just a big mess. Nobody really knows why they chose to do what they did when pretty much all the experts said to just continue with FTTP (they paid some consultants with links to their party to say their idea was great to get around that). Some say it was business links between party members and the incumbent telco, or the cable TV network they own half of. Others say it was because they had a deal with Murdoch (the leader of the opposition actually happened to have lunch with him the day before they announced their policy) because he owns the other half of the cable TV network. Perhaps it was just because they couldn’t accept that it was a good idea the way it was...
Australia is pretty densely settled though. I mean I have cousins on the Eyre Peninsula so I know what "thinly settled" means, but most people live in (comparatively) densely settled suburbs.
One of my favourite series, Bojack Horseman, had an episode where you hear his internal monologue. It was scarily eye opening, because I've often found my inner monologue saying the exact same things, and I can't even remember how long this has been going on for.
The keto generator needs a bit of work. It was suggesting waaaaay too many carbs. Throwing in things like oranges where bacon would be the better keto option
Can I ask how many calories you entered? We've made a lot of improvements to hitting low carb targets recently, but maybe not for certain calorie ranges.
