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leighelse

@leighelse@mastodon.nz

I've spent half my working life as a broadcaster and half as a software developer. Along the way I've been a professional musician, and an assistant to apiarists and undertakers (although not at the same time).

I live in Whanganui, where I write and record music, help out part-time at the software company I used to own, and enjoy biking, reading and travelling.

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isomeme, to aiart
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A cataract is growing in my one useful eye. Thanks to the extremely unusual physiology of that eye, it is degrading my vision very rapidly; I'm noticing the change from one month to the next. Soon I'll have a somewhat risky surgery to deal with the situation.

Obviously, none of this is fun. But, that being said, I do have to admit that this is the most beautiful disability I have ever experienced. ๐Ÿ™‚

leighelse,
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@isomeme I'm sorry to hear you're going through this, and trust the surgery is prompt, straightforward and 100% successful.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

Narrator - They were not over

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes The troika's philosophy is to move the costs of living in our society from tax, which provides services universally, to user-pays which allows commercial operators to cream off profit. This makes the same services substantially more expensive. Tax cuts don't make anyone better off; they impoverish us all.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

So

Food bill up by 50% in a year

My rates going up 24%

My insurance doubled over 4 years

What is NACT doing to address the cost of living crisis and these rises associated with climate change?

Nothing. They are firmly on the side of thoe causing these rises :/

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510447/price-of-common-foods-soars-more-than-50-percent-in-nz-report

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes

> They are firmly on the side of thoe causing these rises

... while talking all the time about how they're dedicated to bringing prices down.

Historically it's rare for prices to come down. It's far more common for incomes to go up in order to restore relativity. However, this is clearly a dynamic at odds with the current government's philosophy.

Rjdlandscapes, to TeslaMotors

#Renault's new #EV the 5 entry level model will have 40kwh but no DC fast charging

Is this acceptable for 25k euro in 2024/25 ??

#electricVehicles

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes Cute though.

Rjdlandscapes, to TeslaMotors

So the new 5

Looks funky, loved the og 5 was such a good car.

Thoughts?

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leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes Pretty.

Rjdlandscapes, to ai

We are going to create AGI with... Reddit content?

Oh my word..

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes I don't see how this can possibly go wrong.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

Wow just got my house insurance renewal though from AMI

Its 35% more than last year.

Wow. might have to shop around. Any recommendations?

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes I'm reminded that this scenario is why the Aotearoa New Zealand government set up State Insurance in the first place.

sue, to random
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Me between five and half five in the evenings rn, grabbing passers by: "IT'S STILL LIGHT"

leighelse,
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@sue Meanwhile on the other side of the globe, the nights are drawing in. It's only still light until ... nine o'clock.

iangriffin, to random
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Six years ago tonight I had one of the saddest yet most beautiful nights of my life. My favourite boatshed was sinking on an amazingly still Peninsula night. Farewell and good night. :-(

leighelse,
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@iangriffin Fantastic photo.

sue, to random
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I had Tracy Chapman's Fast Car on 7 inch single, that makes me both cooler and older than you

leighelse,
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@sue Oh yeah, but that's Old Cool. New Cool is quite different (says this 68 year old).

isomeme, to history
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"[Writing] will create forgetfulness in the learnersโ€™ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves...they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality."

-- Socrates slams TikTokbooks in the Phaedrus, ca. 370 BCE

leighelse,
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@isomeme I remember Socrates having a go at YouTube too. He was a negative bugger.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

Asked by AM host Ryan Bridge if National promised no new cuts to frontline services, Willis said: "I make that promise."

Well that was a lie

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/front-line-services-could-face-cutbacks-willis

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes ... but giving money to the already-rich is MUCH more important.

isomeme, to random
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Behold my latest long-form ramblings! ๐Ÿ™‚

https://open.substack.com/pub/isomeme/p/the-phantom-failure

leighelse,
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@isomeme Well documented. Sometimes serendipitous things do happen.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

Democracy, NOPE!
Racism? YES PLEASE

https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/01/26/government-scraps-bill-to-lower-voting-age-in-council-elections/

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes Sixteen year olds have to live with the consequences of today's government decisions a lot longer than boomers do. They have skin in the game.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

Gov plans to sell off the country to the highest bidder

Ministerial scrutiny of whether overseas investments are in New Zealandโ€™s national interest is to be significantly reduced in a move critics say risks eroding sovereignty but supporters believe will enrich New Zealand.

NACT agreement says the Government will amend the OIA to restrict ministerial decision-making to national security concerns only and make these decisions โ€œmuch more timelyโ€.

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/01/26/plans-to-scale-back-ministers-powers-over-foreign-investment/

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes Selling off the family silver ... for what? Just another rort to move public wealth into private pockets, I'll bet.

verbman, to random
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So I found some bugs in NZ legislation and figured I should write them down in a blog post before I forgot what they were.
Tell me this was worth it!!!

https://hamish.dev/no-notes

leighelse,
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@verbman Very interesting. Good work on identifying and documenting these anomalies.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

Tax freeze for cigarettes, chewing tobacco , so many ways to help NZ!

NZ First's Associate Health Minister Casey Costello laser focused on Kiwi's health!

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes Doing the tobacco companies proud.

Rjdlandscapes, to NewZealand

So #NewZealand now stuff is totally unusable what news site is anyone looking at, do we even have one worthwhile any more?

leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes The Otago Daily Times and Radio New Zealand provide me with most of the Aotearoa New Zealand news I need, supplemented by Newsroom, The Spinoff, and individual blog posts.

Rjdlandscapes, to guitar

Mostly done now, setup, fret polish, pickups now all mounted correctly, strap buttons on

Just waiting for the jack socket to arrive.

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leighelse,
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@Rjdlandscapes Gorgeous.

sue, to random
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There is a viral post / conversation going around twitter about persuading some eejit ceo to hire engineering managers because they have dozens of engineers, and there are loads of great points being made, systems theory explaining why it makes teams more effective etc, but no mention of the idea that the managers might perhaps help the engineers to be more successful in some way loool ๐Ÿ˜ญ

leighelse,
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@sue As a manager, I always saw my primary task as creating an environment where people could do their best work.

robert_p_king, to random

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    leighelse,
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    @robert_p_king Tough but good? Tough but "give this a miss"?

    leighelse, to random
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    Welcome to 2024. Here in Whanganui New Zealand we're breakfasting under sunny skies with scattered cloud, and hoping that's a metaphor for the next twelve months. Best wishes!

    robert_p_king, to blazor

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    leighelse,
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    @robert_p_king I've enjoyed messing with HTMX and look forward to using it seriously.

    I can't answer your question about Blazor because I've not used it.

    rekiwi, to TechnicalWriting
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    Everyone is looking to me for API doc best practices and process. Validating, but also a little intimidating, like the teacher learning the content the night before to stay ahead of the API doc class while teaching seven other classes at the same time.

    I'd appreciate y'all sharing any thoughts & references & resources, from theory to implementation.

    leighelse,
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    @rekiwi At govt.nz we used Swagger (https://swagger.io/) to document our APIs, and I thought it would provide a good basis for teaching how APIs work and even developing or extending an API.

    isomeme, to midjourney
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    I used to transform a photo I took recently at the in into a vision of menacing alien ruins suitable for an story. I think it came out pretty well. The bright sky is unusual for the genre, but I think the haze makes it work.

    Midjourney image of Lovecraftian ruins.

    leighelse,
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    @isomeme Wow. Some transformation!

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