I left NZ a few years ago and one of my main reasons were the lower incomes and high cost of housing. It all came down to the fact that I couldn’t even afford to rent a flat by my self, whereas right across the Tasman I could earn twice the salary and have a comparable if not lower cost of living.

Eventually I’ve ended up in Europe and I’m earning almost 4 times of what I was earning back home. I’ve considered coming back, bit the prospect of maybe never being able to own a home keeps me away.

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A friend works for a large-ish company that makes a product on Unity (not a game tho) and he just told me they were moving to Godot ASAP

they do, my sister just bought one

I’m saving this phrase.

I had a PM postpone a critical part of a project since June, the hard deadline is on September 15th… I’ve insisted to start with it months ago and now he’s scrambling everyone to get this done yesterday.

We’re not gonna make it and I don’t care anymore.

There’s a museum of the incident with a reconstruction of the plane crash in Italy. Absolutely worth a visit. https://www.inbologna.it/the-museum-for-memory-of-ustica-in-bologna.html

It was known for a long time that the plane was downed by a missile, with the French being suspects.

Also, the last mile issue is very real and needs to be solved.

Bicycle

afaik, tyres and brakes are proprietary too

edit: nonstandard would be a better term

Wholeheartedly agree. My previous employer was very big into pride and DEI since at least 10 years ago, when it wasn’t as normaliaed as it is today.

However, the office wasn’t wheelchair accessible and I complained about it, took me more than 4 years to get them to do something about it because I’m not a wheelchair user, so my requests got denied every time, absolutely zero empathy despite what they used to promote.

As you said, Pride is free marketing, building a ramp costs money

because of car centric infrastructure in the US they need to drive to school /s

I dug a bit into it and there’s obvious astroturfing going on by the creator. There’s some crypto bullshit attached to it.

VHS won over Betamax. This one was over porn despite Beta being technically superior.

DVD won over VCD. This one was over copy protection since VCD were trivial to decrypt and copy at the time.

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swampies down under mate

Anker is a great brand for anything power related (chargers, cables, batteries, etc). Everything else, not so much