We stopped over at Taupo during our recent holiday trip, and it was lovely. Had a nice bike ride around part of the lakefront - much nicer than I had remembered.
Yeah - the starter pack with the Heat Alarm did make it more attractive - was thinking of getting two starter packs which I think should be enough to cover our house pretty good.
Do you by any chance have any recommendations for some 10 year larger ones? (wanted to do a quick comparison to see if they would be worthwhile)
I was initially planning to just get the normal large 9V ones, but then I started reading reviews around the many false alarms, and many of them not working, which made me lean towards the Cavius ones.
Haha that xkcd does seem pretty inline with a lot of the product reviews I've read (though alot of them are more negative than positive for the many smoke alarms out there).
One thing I've neglected/forgotten about is getting Smoke Detectors for our house.
Anyone got any recommendations on brand / Sealed 10 Year vs the regular 9V Battery ones?
I've read some good things about the Cavius 10 Year Smoke Alarms, but they are quite expensive. Was wondering if people have found them (or other 10 Year ones) worth it compared to the regular 9V ones?
Interesting... We've been struggling with our new cat not drinking water for the last couple of days (though a lot of reading seems to suggest they will get a lot of the water they need from wet food) putting water bowls everywhere, buying her a water fountain... Just noticed now that shes drinking the water on the shower floor lol.
So we put a water bowl in the bathroom, and no she won't drink from that. Put that bowl inside the shower booth, and she will!
We're going on a trip with the family soon (roadtrip around NZ), and will be driving a rental from Budget.
However, I am flying down a couple of days after my partner and her family, but I will be driving once I am down there. I have just read the Budget website, and it mentions that all additional drivers must be present at the time of picking up the vehicle.
I was wondering if anyones had experience of either:
Being added as an additional driver when not present (showing them a copy of your drivers license at time of pickup) or,
I've really been enjoying working with microcontrollers. Started with Arduino, and quickly moved onto ESP8266's. I've got a couple of ESP32's and have been meaning to start giving them a go, but have been procrastinating as usual lol.
We've actually got quite a big need for that as well - Moving Data from one system to another, and ensuring it's in the right format etc. Might be able to get some real benefit out of that :)
I've had a brief look into duckdb, and not too sure if I'm interpreting it's use case correctly, but does it basically allow you to use SQL within your Python to query your large datasets that you have locally?
Did you have some programming experience before Python? - How long do you think it took for you to start being getting some "useful" outputs using Python?
There's a few different reasons that I've though about for now:
A lot of the data that we are working with is quite large, and it's sometimes a struggle to work with it in Google Sheets / Excel (Unfortunately our workplace uses both for some reason)
I have some weekly reports that I've somehow ended up generating (Getting data via SQL, massaging the data, and presenting via a dashboard or sharing a spreadsheet.
For creating a repeatable set of calculations when someone asks for something (which I'm sort of doing via Powerquery or Google Apps Script)
I'm quite big on visualizations, so I want to give Matplotlib a go.
And I do of coding (Javascript & C++(Arduino)), and have always wanted to add Python to my list of skills, especially in recent times, as I begin to delve more into Data.
Phew! I thought Lemmy.nz was no more haha. Couldn't log in anywhere for the last few days and thought it might have something to do with 19.2
Just got the idea to search this community from Lemmy.com and saw the comment about having to re-login.