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wayne

@wayne@mastodon.nz

56 year old New Zealand Christian male living in Auckland. Married to a wonderful gal with 3 children - 2 boys and a beautiful girl. I am getting worse at chess

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18+ wayne, to IT
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Automated fuel pumps not working today because....they can't handle 29 February

Completely understandable. No one could have foreseen that February would ever have 29 days

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/510469/glitch-takes-down-petrol-stations-around-country

wayne,
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@idanoo

One of those things...

18+ wayne, to random
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Aotearoa New Zealand Deaths Attributable to Covid as at 4 Feb 2024

wayne,
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@dave

https://youtu.be/y3KEhWTnWvE?si=IONf1epIBVi96asw

18+ wayne, to random
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I wonder why Baycorp's systems are so bad that they send me THREE copies of the same letter demanding I pay a fine from 13 September for not registering a car when it was written off over a year earlier and unregistered by the insurer

wayne,
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@robert_p_king They wanted my date of birth and other personal information to "confirm my identity". Dude. I know who I am. You don't need to collect PII from me to correct your own mistake. Don't go after the third-to-last owner of a vehicle just because that's easier for you.

Baycorp is an evil organisation.

18+ wayne, to chess
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Went to school to do volunteer chess coaching.

No students there.

Teacher-only Day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EH7QMVnSRI

wayne,
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@Kenno Je n'comprend pas.

Obscure joke?

Or you think I'm a paid volunteer?

I'm not paid.

wayne,
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@Kenno a little...

billbennett, to random

It's one year give or take a couple of days since I was last active on Twitter.

At some point Twitter stopped relaying from Mastodon and killed the API that saw links to my blog posts published there. This has seen the traffic to my site drop by more than 40 per cent. Sadly it has not picked up since.

I haven’t closed my account because there are times when a Twitter DM is the only way some people use to get hold of me. Yes, I know it’s frustrating, but it’s still unavoidable.

wayne,
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@billbennett After a couple of months I figured out how to keep using the free Twitter API options.

If you would like (free) help in getting links to your blog automatically posted on Twitter again, please feel free to ask me.

I think you're right to abandon it, but it's still an important driver of traffic so it makes sense to keep feeding the beast imo.

wayne,
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@billbennett Well I don't know what you were using. And I'm not sure this is the best forum. But in short you have to use the V2 of the Twitter API. And at one point choose the free tier explicitly in the API key generator.

For headlines - well I only read the body if tweets anyway, so I'd just include it in your tweet.

I'm still seeing headlines on the official Android app. That may change.

No headlines on the web app.

wayne, to twitter
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The Stuff news web site https://www.stuff.co.nz/ has stopped adding Twitter share buttons to news stories since about 8pm Thursday.

That coincides with a reboot of The Press and The Post websites.

wayne, to random
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These are the places where it's most difficult to insure a house https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/133047976/these-are-the-places-where-its-most-difficult-to-insure-a-house

superbetsy, to random
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wayne,
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@superbetsy

Now all my children want Balrogs.

wayne, to random
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Ventilation and COVID-19

Fresh or filtered air reduce your risk of catching or spreading COVID-19. Opening doors and windows is the simplest way

https://covid19.govt.nz/prepare-and-stay-safe/protect-yourself-and-others-from-covid-19/ventilation-and-covid-19/

wayne, to food
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#Broccoli Head: Current price of $2.00 each is 35% lower than average
#inSeasonNZ

#Food

wayne,
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@libroraptor good questions and thanks for your interest. And you're right, there's lots of useful ways that average could be done. I only have limited data so it's just a simple daily mean since I started so now 14 months. And yes seasonality will distort that but doesn't detract from my simple goal of telling me what is good value at the moment. Because my brain is too small to remember what eggplant usually costs.

wayne,
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@libroraptor I'm looking at prices on one supermarket, online. My theory is that while prices and specials will vary, the overall seasonality and cheapness will dominate.

And I feel bad that I'm so out of touch with the seasons and growing things on the land that I can't tell what is in season and local or imported and from storage and greenhouse grown.

So my solution is technological. Oh well.

It is nice to be sure I'm buying things when they are cheap and I hope that's a net benefit.

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A bunch of people are going to get at their booster appointments and then assume their symptoms are vaccine side effects

wayne,
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@currentbias

A bunch of people don't get around to vaccinating or boosting or are antivaxx, and then catch covid, panic at the first sign of symptoms, race for a vaccine or booster, and then blame the vaccine for the results of their covid infection.

That's why nearly all "vaccine injuries" occur long after vaccines are first available. Antivaxxers who panic when they've caught covid and it's already too late. The dates always give them away.

wayne, to Futurology
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I was wrong about the rain . Bring in your from off the line if you can

Pandamoanimum, to random

I don't like to show off about how mature and brave I am but, in this hot weather, I have been sleeping with one foot dangling outside of the bed where monsters could grab it.

wayne,
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@Pandamoanimum

Nibble nibble nibble

Nom nom nom

wayne, to random
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At the school library

CO2 is 997ppm

The HEPA filter is turned off.

Last week classes had 73% absences due to sickness

What is @EducationGovtNZ doing?

wayne,
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@Komko

I just want the students to stop coughing all that immunity straight into my face.

Please turn your head away little 8 year old cutie. Cover your mouth please.

wayne, to random
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Every 1 person infected with in / Taupō is infecting 1 person on average.

This means that reported daily infected covid cases in Rotorua / Taupō are expected to stay about the same (which is not good)

wayne, to random
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Every 9 people infected with in are infecting 10 people on average.

This means that reported daily infected covid cases in Auckland are expected to keep rising (exponential growth, which is very bad)

wayne, to aotearoa
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Every 9 people infected with in / New Zealand are infecting 10 people on average.

This means that reported daily infected covid cases in Aotearoa / New Zealand are expected to keep rising (exponential growth, which is very bad)

wayne, to aotearoa
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Every 1 person infected with in / New Zealand is infecting 1 person on average.

This means that reported daily infected covid cases in Aotearoa / New Zealand are expected to stay about the same (which is not good)

wayne, to food
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: Current price of $7.99 for 600g is 26% lower than average

wayne,
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@Geoffberner @trendless

I'm going to disagree here.

I understand what you're trying to say.

But it's not realistic. I'm a 4th generation farmer. Prices for carrots and tomatoes really do depend on supply (demand is fairly constant u til prices get too high).

The worst problem for me is that when I have a good growing year so does everyone else so the income goes down.

I don't get to dictate the price.

wayne,
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@Geoffberner @trendless

Extrapolating from particular interventions, which I've already mentioned, to conclude that all prices are artificial constructs is a logical non sequitur.

To think that supermarkets have an unfettered ability to set prices is delusional.

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