Just a heads up that while temporary separation anxiety is common, it can actually be a disorder (separation anxiety disorder) and if you’re concerned your kid is unusual in this respect you should talk to a child psychologist.
There is effective treatment available once diagnosed (fluoxetine is amazing and could make a massive difference)
I’m trying to save money on the power bill so I’ve reluctantly connected a few things to the wifi in the hopes that I can set them up to easily tun in a delayed way to use off-peak power. Turns out, neither the dishwasher nor the washing machine or dryer even support that! The dishwasher does, but you have to use the app every time - you can’t set it up to run delayed by default when you press the start button on the machine
So, back off the wifi they go. It was the first use I had for ‘smart’ devices and it didn’t even do the thing.
Is monster actually that green colour? I’ve never tried it and assumed it was a normal colour and the green was just the can design
Local school is still going ahead with their class trip to US because they booked it before the shitstain got elected. They’re crazy - half the kids are brown and some are clearly 🌈 so I wish them the best but can’t imagine it’ll be flawless. They’re not planning another one though obviously.
Thanks but things tend to have voltage or compatibility issues when made for a different market
Til. Still not in NZ but might grab one next time I’m across the ditch
Maybe if they could make the steam deck 1 actually available in aus/nz first so we can actually purchase them instead of everyone just having nintendo switches idk just a thought
Youtube. Can’t stand it, it’s riddled with ads and the actual content is mostly poorly produced and extremely clickbaity. I’d rather watch proper TV shows
I’m enjoying it, mostly. It’s definitely great at some tasks and terrible at orhers. You get a feel for what those are after a while:
Throwaway projects - proof of concepts, one-off static websites, that kind of thing: absolutely ideal. Weeks of dev becomes hours, and you barely need to bother reviewing it if it works.
Research (find a tool for doing XYZ) where you barely know the right search terms: ideal. The research mode on claude.ai is especially amazing at this.
Anything where the language is unfamiliar. AI bootstraps past most of the learning curve. Doesn’t help you learn much, but sometimes you don’t care about learning the codebase layout and you just need to fix something.
Any medium sized project with a detailed up front description.
What it’s not good for:
Yes! Grandfather-in-law just got one. Not just in UK — this is Commonwealth-wide.
Opt shift hyphen. What’s an alt code? 🍏
Estimate Me: 2025-07-20 (Vertical lines) Rank #9 of 115 🟨🟩🟩 🔗 https://estimate-me.aukspot.com/archive/2025-07-20
wait that’s supposed to rhyme with the Z? It rhymes with the ‘me’ so it seems like it doesn’t need to rhyme with the Z
Yeah I’m vaguely aware that jelly exists. Not sure if I’ve ever had it though, I think I’ve seen it on a shelf once or twice but it’s definitely pretty uncommon here. It might be mostly a US thing
Round here ‘jelly’ refers to a wobbly hydrated crystal that kids eat with icecream at parties
No one’s mentioned blackcurrant jam? The absolute best kind of jam for all purposes including PBJ
Never heard of grape jam or ‘jelly’ though. Strawberry or raspberry jam seems to be the most common round here in NZ, and it’s all okay but has nothing on blackcurrant
Wood’s also (eventually) carbon neutral as long as the forest is replanted. Gas isn’t
What game is this?
US doesn’t have graveyards? Do you just burn your dead
Yeah, my best friend lives just around the corner and we have this kind of friendship. We work together and both work from home, so we often work from each other’s houses.
We both have wives and kids but our families are close enough that we often just turn up at each other’s houses without asking or organising anything. We eat dinner together about half the time.
But we pretty much never have breakfast together - mornings are far too busy for that.
Whenever my wife complains I look homeless and is willing to spend 20 minutes cutting it for me.
Which is roughly every 2-3 months I think. It’d be less often if I didn’t have a wife and had to pay someone to do it, that shit gets expensive.