I remember after many times changing headlights myself and paying about $35 per bulb at super cheap, one time I was in a hurry and found a mechanic who did it on the spot. It cost about $40 including labour (partly because their bulb cost about $15+GST). Made me wonder if it was worth my time driving to the shop and buying a bulb and installing it.
I used to have to change bulbs pretty often (one car or the other each year or so) but now I think about it I haven't had to do it for a long time, or at all for our current cars. Must have been something weird in the electronics on the previous cars (which were a lot older).
There's also Lemmy Instance Assistant. It has multiple features but my most used is that if you end up on another instance it adds a link to take you to that same post/community on your home instance.
It hasn't been updated in quite some time but the dev was active on Lemmy not too long ago and it continues to work fine for me.
I "failed" my first test, because I showed up and my car didn't have a warrant (it was warrantable, just had missed a reminder).
Is it semantics, though? I guess when they say X number of people failed their test then you need to take that into account. But I don't think there is any impact on the person, there's no penalty for a fail other than the cost - and that's now gone with free resits.
The house has to work damn near 100% of the time, so I run it on a dedicated Raspberry Pi 4 that has Home Assistant OS with the full stack on it. Works great!
I don't think it's too much to ask for people to be on time. I bet they ask people to be there 5 or 10 mins before their scheduled time too (so she was actually 10-15 mins late).
If they start the test late then the next person is late and it flows on like a doctor's office. Given the big wait times it seems reasonable for them to require you are on time.
I for sure think lessons should be required. The tricky bit is the cost. The answer should be that driving is a privilege not a right, but to be able to say that earnestly we need a true alternative which most of the country doesn't have.
I agree about driving courses. I think we should make some amount of lessons mandatory. Advanced driver courses are good but it's probably something more beneficial with a bit of experience (I think we already incentivise doing one when on your restricted to reduce the time needed to get your full licence - this is a good time I think).
It seems this journalist failed because of tougher requirements on things that are technically legal but show inexperience. Stopping at a give way when unnecessary, not using an appropriate gap to go when turning right.
We changed the tests maybe 5-10 years back so that the most thorough test is now the restricted not the full.
The long wait times are in response to removing the resit fee. People started using the tests as basically free driving lessons, just keep resitting until you pass. From memory I think they changed some rules about how often you could resit to try to alleviate that.
“Other countries such as Australia require those on restricted licences to have longer learner periods, reduced demerit thresholds or mandatory practice hours,”
Ok, are we doing those things?
Bishop said the Government’s proposal, which will go out for public consultation on Monday, included new safety measures such as demanding a “clean driving record” of restricted drivers, halving the demerit threshold and introducing a zero-alcohol limit for learner and restricted drivers of any age. Currently, any driver under 20 years of age must adhere to a zero-alcohol limit.
Best I can do is the demerit thing. Plus I'll throw in a meaningless definition and a rule that doesn't apply to most new drivers.
Here I thought the book must include non-cis or non-straight characters, but no, it just happens to be a Korean-born author who included some Korean mythology.
An author with previous US success, but now no one will host her because they are scared of looking like they are being inclusive!
I only posted it the day after voting was supposed to close, so forgive me! We should have had a week to vote but instead we only got an extra day from the goodwill of the organiser.
You couldn't vote for your own nomination so you wouldn't have been able to vote for our song anyway :)
Did they really have a meercat enclosure with just two meercats, until Adia arrived in November to make it three plus these 4 babies to make the current total of 7?
I would have expected meercats to very very social and two to not be enough.
How do we know this isn't market manipulation? When stock values are all over the place that's a good opportunity for people with money to make more money.
Next time you yawn, listen for a low rumbling sound. Some people can do that voluntarily. Apparently 55% of the general population, but many people think you could train almost anyone to do it with some practice.
I tried to find stats on what proportion of people could do it, with claims of "a small number" through to "over half the population".
This study says 55% in the general population. It's also interesting as it's exploring the ability to use this voluntary rumble as a control method for assistive technology.
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I remember after many times changing headlights myself and paying about $35 per bulb at super cheap, one time I was in a hurry and found a mechanic who did it on the spot. It cost about $40 including labour (partly because their bulb cost about $15+GST). Made me wonder if it was worth my time driving to the shop and buying a bulb and installing it.
I used to have to change bulbs pretty often (one car or the other each year or so) but now I think about it I haven't had to do it for a long time, or at all for our current cars. Must have been something weird in the electronics on the previous cars (which were a lot older).