stephennz.bsky.social
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Genuinely curious how this checks out from a business model standpoint compared to just buying path diversity on a competitor.
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Assume he's familiar with it - made by @jpgnz on the bird site. I think a few WISPs make use of it too.
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It's pretty incredible and taken for granted these days. Pretty interesting to check in on gis.geek.nz every now and then to see how its expanded.
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I guess software to better work with the variable signal. Will have to have a better test of it when I head back into an area not covered by RCG - which is so many places these days that I was surprised with the lack of coverage around Rotorua even on the main state highways.
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Oh first I've heard of that. And I even briefly read up on it too. Good to know
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iPhone 16, it would flick over to Apple's Satellite SOS after being out of service for a bit. Was just surprised it would fall back to that fairly reliably but hardly pick up the OneNZ satellite service.
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Tried this around Rotorua and there were a lot of spots with no signal - far more than I thought there would be - but noticed it connected to satellite only twice. Couldn't manage to get a test message through, suspect hills/foliage nearby making a fairly narrow view of the sky was the issue.
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I believe @nathanmcnulty.com or @merill.net possibly had a post about the CA scenarios making this setting entirely pointless
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The other bizarre part is seeing how North America treats 'heat pumps' as some new technology despite their plentiful aircon that's simply missing the ability to operate in reverse. Such a waste for future flexibility installing that many aircon systems as cooling only with no reverse cycle for heat
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Yeah that's good. Just need some consumer awareness campaigns around it.
It's unfortunate though that there's not a good way for users to self test emergency calling on an imported device. Regular calling sure but they claimed emergency calling fell back to 3G on some devices.
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Do we have any hard line approach expected like Australia where they allowlist/blocklist devices by manufacturer or model based on VoLTE compatibilities ? I'm talking 4G/5G ones for calling, not old 3G ones
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There's a John The Ripper joke in there somewhere
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On the flip side though, there are random people in random countries like New Zealand who have used your contributions to make meaningful changes in organisations and their careers, and discuss you positively when coming up in discussion at industry conferences. That's pretty neat.
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I have no questions but the timeline thought it'd be funny @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social
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This. Take the opportunity while it's in preview to rename it to a better acronym that customers will want to use.
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Relevant Tom Scott video on a side effect of this, of course subbing 50hz for 60hz in North America.
youtu.be/e0elNU0iOMY
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Maybe - guess they will see if colour and taste is enough!
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If I had to guess, it's new and novelty like the Gold ones were years ago. I understand Gold is substantially more profitable per hectare/tonne, but assume eventually will lower in value over time. This brings up a new higher value option so they aren't depending on gold.
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Note my knowledge is a few years out of date so there's a chance even cheap ones have minimal lag now. Worth a test anyway!
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Note if you're wanting to use it as a primary display, capture card latency may be a challenge. I think the streaming community tests and shares which capture cards have the least latency (eg sub 50ms). Cheap ones I've used have half a second - only good for recording.
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One thing we have to watch for is that we don't get the low amp cables rolled out widely here. Aussie has this with some providers, and as a result the "150kw" chargers can only reach that on 800v vehicles due to being fitted with a cheap 200A cable. 400v only gets 75kw which is confusing to drivers
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Solid quote from @kiwiev.bsky.social 🥔
Interesting watching this German based trucker - the 350kw CCS2 chargers sufficient enough to do most trucking because at that level the limit is not the charging speed but the legal minimum break times - they have to stop anyway.
youtube.com/@electrictru...
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A long time ago I had a very silly circular conversation with some Canadians saying I wasn't hungry so I'll just have an entrée, and it took far too long for us to figure out that we were not using the same definition
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need someone to photograph a Kiwi holding a kiwi holding a kiwi fruit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_(n...
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Is there an overview nationwide of all of the solar export limits of single phase and 3 phase? Seems to be 5kw and 10kw in many locations. Maybe @frenchsta.gg knows?
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youtu.be/h90rEkbx95w
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Just spotted this, great investigation and helpful comment from @brislen.nz
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Is Richard on bsky?
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For all your captain datetime needs:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4308...
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Obligatory tintin.dlazaro.ca/week
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A request when on the show floor - see how many charging equipment exhibitors in are getting ready for the new Aussie V2G/V2H standards. Presume most will have to be DC based chargers at least initially. Bonus points if they have example on display or can provide an actual ETA of enabling it
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This is interesting www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
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No idea tbh. It does kinda fit in line with your article topic if it's worth doing a part2 on what the future of copper vs fibre access. Rare to run a private telephone exchange for an apartment block. Easily possible to run a wifi/wired network for an apartment block the same way as a hotel does.
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Yeah. From what I can tell is they supply broadband but through a locked in single ISP setup? There has to be a good reason - costs/development profit? Wonder how common it is.
Favourable situation to the 5G Telcos but Chorus would be very unhappy if this became the trend for new developments.
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Something I find interesting is the ability for new developments to effectively block out fibre connections. As far as I can tell this is buyer/renter beware from the comments? Example I read just now but I've heard this anecdotally
www.reddit.com/r/newzealand...
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But I'm sure further funding toward this effort is always welcomed
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But in the event of a disaster, is the glass large enough to keep the wine service going, giving time for wine technicians to deploy more wine where needed?
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On an EV charging rant related note, UK Actor and head of fully charged show / everything electric expo has done a rant about how you still can't just tap and pay for EV chargers in NZ as a tourist. Via:
www.reddit.com/r/nzev/comme...
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Great to see, thanks for putting in the work to find out. I'm hoping we fast-follow and aim to copy Australias homework. The numbers about only needing 10% of the EV base in aus is really striking too.
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Was this prompted by last week's thread or did they happen to put out their own release?
Great to see attention to it !
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I'm wondering who's someone who might know whether this is a work area being looked into, as we can ideally just endorse the AU/NZ standards. Perhaps it would sit with EECA for this sort of strategy? And the standards approval probably sit somewhere in MBIE?
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Ever since watching your video the algorithm has been delivering me Shark 6 content. Recently got suggested this one in Aus and the angles of those tracks are nuts for a stock vehicle to handle with no effort. eg jump to 6:30 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_q8c...
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Well city given as examples but I imagine the wider statr/territory approximately follows the city.
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Slightly different enough within each state/territory to justify a table on Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_in...