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Unfortunately, the whole Minecraft thing caused a lot of people to buy them with little understanding of proper care, so I suspect there's some "that's cool but please don't rush in unprepared" in the hard to keep message. There are also some misconceptions around water quality requirements, they really don't like chemical pollutants, but I have no issues with local municipal water, other areas could have issues and require RO water, etc. but there are plenty of tropical fish keepers in this same situation.

And then there's the water temp thing, that caught me off-guard and I was using frozen water bottles for a few weeks until my chiller arrived, if the tank had been located in a different part of the house it might have been required.

Often Axolotls have been "grandfathered" into the legal exotic pet trade, and salamanders have not and they tend to be considered separate species, even though biologically it's a very blurry line. Also, it often happens in areas where there is a local wild salamander population that is being protected from poaching.

Anyone know what the battery life is likely to be like?

I have three axolotl's in the next room, there are no subspecies to my knowledge, except maybe for some cross breeding with Salamanders in the US.

They are common in scientific research as they have amazing regenerative abilities; they will often mistakenly bite each other's legs off as juveniles (they are not the smartest creatures) and then grow them back in a few weeks, good as new. They made it into the exotic pet trade and now they are quite common in captivity, but now critically endangered in the wild. There are attempts to breed and repopulate them, with some limited success.

Another interesting thing, in many countries and states it is legal to keep an axolotl and illegal to keep a Salamander.

They are actually fairly easy to keep in my experience, with two caveats. 1) you need to be able to keep the water below 24 Deg C, this means spending some money on chillers even in sub-tropical countries. 2) If you have a pair in the same tank (regardless of sexing) you need to be prepared to cull the eggs! (freeze them) Prices here went from ~$50NZ each down to around $10-15 each due to the Minecraft craze.

Or IRD (NZ tax dept.) a few years back sending out a survey on a .co.nz domain. Gave their security team a hard time for that one!

Samsung has partnered with Safesurfer in NZ to create a "kid safe" social media free version of the Galaxy A15 and A25. Not a samsung / android fan tbh.

Apple is really dropping the ball here, there are serious issues with parental controls on iOS.

No way to revoke install permission. e.g. child got ahold of a parent's unlocked phone, turned off parent approval for their own phone, and then installed a social media app. We have uninstalled the app, but he can re-install without requesting permissions. We have resorted to a 1-minute (the minimum) screen time limit instead. (Only work around would be to create a whole new iCloud account for the child!)

You used to be able to delete the purchase from purchase history, but now you can only hide it, hiding it should just retrigger the approval process?

There are well known / well documented ways to circumvent screen time limits.

You can't add additional pass code / authentication for the settings app or the parental controls

No way to prevent deletion of messages and call logs (and 3rd party tools just do a remote sync on Wi-Fi, after the kids already likely deleted them)

Parental controls are often janky or laggy and sometimes just don't work at all. And often require multiple re-authentication (iOS 18 / Face ID does improve this to be fair)

Thanks so much, sounds like we have quite similar allergies and symptoms, I can really relate to having weepy messed up eyes and comments from strangers! Funnily enough, I think I should hopefully qualify for it with my Asthma + IgE levels, that it could help my eczema would be a big bonus.

I tried allergy immunotherapy (aka. "allergy shots") but it was very rough and it aggravated blood pressure issues and gave me joint pains, so I opted to discontinue after the second attempt.

On hydroxyzine, I've taken cetirizine (2nd gen, metabolite of hydroxyzine) in the past. 1st gen antihistamines usually knock me out. I'm now on Fexofenadine (Allegra, Telfast) which is mostly covered by my insurance and works pretty good still.

One crazy thing for eczema sufferers, if you get bad eczema on neck and arms during summer don't assume you have a heat rash, patch test your sun screen. I now use zinc based sun screen after a dermatologist patch test identified I was allergic too Oxybenzone's. Never has a clue and I live in a country with very high UV levels.

I have mild asthma, a host of other "mild" (aka. non-life threating) seasonal allergies and oral antihistamines are becoming less effective as I get older. I will be talking to my doctor about this medication. I'm interested in your experience if you don't mind sharing more? Any improvements to contact allergies?

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Dirtywave have shipped plenty of M8's in the last year. They just produce them in batches, there have also been shortages of the Teensy 4.1 microcontroller used IIRC and they are highly sought after. You can also "build your own" from supplied firmware https://github.com/Dirtywave/M8HeadlessFirmware

This is not the fly-by-night kickstarter you are implying.

Fellow hobbyist here. Actually your biggest health risk is industrial asthma from flux fumes. I know professionals who have spent a good fraction of there lives soldering with no lead poisoning issues. Lead needs to be consumed or inhaled for it to be an issue. The guy I meet who did have lead poisoning, large bore rifle shooting coach, from spending to much time at the “wrong end” of the rifle range. Lots of lead dust there.

I'd suggest you figure out how to source or render your map tiles from somewhere else before you get a nastygram from the big G.

I have not used it in many many years but I'd point you towards https://mapserver.org/ At one point I was one of many responsible for rending cache tile sets for all of NZ to 1:500. Sadly the whole system was scraped for a propriety solution mostly due to front-end issues, that funnily enough the propriety solution only multiplied.

Any opinions on re-configuring / modifying workflows "in-flight". and configuration in general. While using JIRA as a developer is generally pleasant when workflows are well configured, configuration of JIRA as a team manager is an absolute pig.

Anyone encountered issues running a docker-compose stack of 5+ containers mostly RoRails apps incl. Postgres on Mac Catalina?

Most of the issues seem to be with Postgres DB connections, but it makes starting up our backend painfully slow...

I've had audits like that, many are just for CYA and I'm often the dev patching obscure (or not so obscure) security issues.

Honestly, I'm quite happy to have an auditor nitpick a few non-issues if the alternative is risking releasing an app that has a basic sql injection attack that wiggled past code review due to code complexity.

I've also had an external audit that found an unreported security issue in a new part of a widely used framework, so there are auditors out there that do a good job of finding legitimate things.

I've had great success with Postgres FTS for some complex (i.e large, non-standard, highly specialised corpus) and basic search (very small corpus) features.

Prior to switching to Postgres FTS had to maintain a seperate FTS applications index. I would say make sure that the gain of using a seperate FTS engine outweighs the maintenance cost, given that maintaining a FTS index in Postgres can be very minimal if configured correctly.

"The thing is I really try to improve", that statement alone makes me think you are not one of these people.

Don't underestimate the value of slow and steady in the world of corporate development. Many fresh out of college might seem like super stars developers that know all the latest buzz word technologies, I know this is a massive generalisation, but they don't like to work on "boring" or "legacy" and often quick to jump ship to the next opportunity.

Also, please be aware that this feeling is a common symptom of imposter syndrome.

The last version of Docker for Mac had some big resource issues, current latest version seems to be better, but still makes my 2017 MBP into a grill when running multiple containers.

Here in New Zealand we are at 3 confirmed cases, one of which was an individual who recently return from Iran. There is a case that there are more yet undetected cases, but I suspect we are currently talking about dozens of people rather than "widespread" outbreak.

Most of the initial testing was sent to Australia and I'm not sure what capability NZ medical labs have yet and I doubt they are sequencing much. There is a chance that the Iranian was sequenced, with media referred to a "deeper" testing protocol after initial tests where negative.

Honestly, if all third party scripts are blocked, the ad networks will just start making their participant sites serve the javascript direct and/or run local applications to proxy the data back to them. And unfortunately most management will force the changes through, because they want in on that ad revenue gravy train.

Look into Field-programmable analog arrays (FPAA) It's an FPGA for opamps instead of gates.

Doesn't this suggest that the unlock code comes from the "cloud" and not your phone/app? So if you loose internet access you are not able to unlock? Or maybe it locally caches the key?

I suspect TE wanted to outright replace the OP-1 with the OP-z, but the OP-z is not a direct replacement(?) and its initial marketing seemed to me to suggest it is/was going to be a very different device.

For the music hackers out there I'd recommend checking out the Critter and Guitari Organelle M as a more budget (<$500us) and FOSS friendly alternative. The new organelle M has a Raspberry PI compute module under the hood.

I've been intrigued by the idea of compiled Go based web apps and this looks like an interesting approach.

This is clearly Experimental / Alpha and missing some basics, such as:

On Chrome: Click "get started" Click the back button in the browser URL changes, but you stay on the "Getting started" page

Maybe you used one with older firmware or an older model?

Currently using one as I type, the stray / static finger rejection is near perfect and I can easily scroll with my index finger with my middle finger and edge of my palm resting on the surface.

There's nothing that stops the most ethical companies from being completely compromised by state actors either.

Just brought the 2019 RAV 4 Hybrid a few months ago, but also test drove the Corolla. The US models differ, but I'm pretty sure the UX is pretty consistent.

The A/C on both vehicles is 100% physical controls, no touch screen required, in fact I've yet to see an A/C option on any of the touch screen menus.

Yes, the radio is mostly configured via the touch screen, but skipping stations / tracks and volume are controllable via controls on the steering wheel and a physical volume knob on the dash. We don't have carplay yet, but I think it is in the US, this might make my moot, but my main complaint is that it can be quite delayed in starting to play my itunes. I suspect this is because my phone is the secondary audio device (I usually let my wife pick/control the music), but thats a minor annoyance at most.

Edit: 6.3l/100km 37.3mpg on Hilly -> Urban commute in an SUV :)

Something I have not seen mentioned yet, it might be obvious?

Pay off your debt first! It has a guaranteed return on "investment".

The following scheme has worked well for me.

First take any employer matched retirement scheme (401(k) / IRA, etc.) and keep some money to build up a rainy day fund if you don't have one (a few weeks income is a good starting point) as theres no point defaulting on a loan because you made extra payments the week or month before.

But there is no point saving or investing money that could be going towards paying down a 22% credit card debt or 16% car loan, or even a 5% House loan. The only exceptions would be low interest loans (i.e. <1-2%) with a fixed payoff date.

On Mortgages, there are many schemes but I'd advise, 40% 1 year fixed, 40% 2 year fixed, 20% revolving credit, dump any rainy day funds, and any other spare funds, on the revolving loan == interest you don't pay. Keep the fixed term loans expiring every other year so any interest rate spikes only hit half your capital.

Disclaimer: I am not a financial adviser and this is not intended as "investment" or "financial advice".

Pretty much the same as Aus and UK, though I think some level of subsidised healthcare for visitors though surgery, etc. will be charged in full, and full coverage for permanent residents, where as Aus tends to charge full price for everything, I believe (still cheap compared to the states though).

Doctors (GP) visit typically costs me around $40-50NZD, thats likely on the high side, Children are free / fully subsidised.

A&E visit would be $50-100NZD

Most all injury related medical costs are covered or subsidised by ACC.

Specialists Appts typically cost ~$200 per visit

Private health insurance, while in no way "required", is still offered by the bigger employers and will see better outcomes for elective and non-urgent surgery and is priced in the hundreds of dollars per year for "basic" coverage if you wish to purchase as an individual.

Edit: clarified coverage for visitors