pmkiwi

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by pmkiwi 4y ago
Some of the central beaches are sometimes crowded, but many beaches are just empty. Went for a swim today and water was fresh (16 degrees) but refreshing ! Where are you based ?
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by pmkiwi 4y ago
NZ is not cheap indeed and Auckland is insanely expensive (managed to buy despite the crazy housing market), but nice beaches and awesome for sailing !
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by pmkiwi 4y ago
creativenolo: former child :)
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by pmkiwi 4y ago
So Auckland dropped 33 places just because of few Covid cases ? It is true that we had a peak of Covid cases this year, but it was never really massive by international standards. At the same time, Auckland is pretty dead for a while now, e
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
To be totally fair, the capital should be Nelson which is the true geographic center of NZ!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Not only you do not have much time for yourself but it is often not really "quality" time. It rarely comes in uninterrupted blocks of say 90' or 2h. It is going to be 20 minutes there, 40 minutes there, and maybe 30 minutes o
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Recently applied to a DevOps Engineer position and after multiple interviews (took ages to plan them...), I finally reached the take-home challenge stage. I have been tasked to work on something absolutely not related to the job, with a fra
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
This reminds me a colleague creating a Python class like this import os class Bla(): def __init__(self): self.var1 = os.env["VARIABLE1"] self.var2 = os.env["VARIABLE2"] # ... self
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Yeap agreed! I discovered a lot of tools just reading them. Thanks everyone !!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
It is possible indeed that the Pfizer vaccine is not particularly efficient against Delta but, at the same time, Israel is only one country among a growing list of countries facing a new wave of Covid and what we can see over there does not
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
My understanding is that the vaccines are mainly here to avoid you to die or to require severe ventilation and, based on the available studies, they are doing the job. The hospitalisation rates are way lower than any previous wave but the l
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
SF is located on fault, with mega wildfires and mega drought for decades to come... At least the photo of the empty reservoir will be taken with a cheap Chinese-made smartphone, good stuff! Some peoples value other things than money so it i
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
If they go through MIQ first, all good!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Fiji overtook Australia at the top of rankings for Oceania so it is not particularly a great period for them either :/. French Polynesia is on the rise as well but NZ is holding so far!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Recruiters are like realtor/real estate agents, they work for themselves (to close deals) and that's it. They never give you the appropriate level of information about the opportunity before you commit to a phone/Zoom call (y
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Many drivers of SUV are not aware of the body of their vehicle because these are so large and high. How many a large car is turning, say right (via a dedicated lane), but 10-20% of the vehicle is still in the other lane? Hundred times every
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
In the US, you bring your own car for your driving exam... And this is barely a joke !!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Sounds awesome! Time to move to Sweden haha :)
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Respect man!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Yeah same story in NZ. You can take a decent parental but the payout is limited ($500 NZD/pw). Of course, you need a cap but you might end up leaving quite a lot on the table. And on top of that, your value of your annual also deprecia
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
In NZ, my wife took 6 months of parental leave (with a huge drop of salary...) and I took 2 weeks* (one unpaid and one paid by my company). So yeah, I did not take anything else because our mortgage is not going to repay itself and the prag
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Nice from them to provide the rain precipitation! Have been to the Death Valley twice in November and January. Truly amazing place!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
It is never the right time to buy and few years later, after the market took 25%, you are like "We did a good move back in the day!". Bought my house 2 years ago (Auckland) and it is pretty good conditions (for NZ) with (almost) n
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
I am in group 4 (out of 4) and vaccination was supposed to start in July and it has been pushed to end of July. Some people in group 3 have still not been contacted and there are plenty of frontline workers not vaccinated yet. The governmen
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
> on track to vaccinate 100% in 51 days I can guarantee you that this is not going to happen... I would be lucky if I am vaccinated this year... Vaccines are super scarce so we are real snails atm!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
conda makes sense in some circumstances but you need to invest a lot of times to undersand this tool (remind me my Maven times sometimes...). With all scientist packages, conda is pretty good but it is sooooo slow, it is just insane!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Yeap I am using pip-compile too because I always managed to mess up my environment when using poetry!
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Was reading this article recently -> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/how-the-pentag... and as always with The New Yorker, it is very interesting and informative.
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
Post here -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27699702 ;)
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by pmkiwi 5y ago
To be correct, both existed. A camp like Ravensbrück was a concentration camp (for women) while Auschwitz-Birkenau was both a concentration and extermination camp. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b&#

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