Jesus fucking christ. What a stupid take.
Yeah, I hear you on that. But my view is, that's how much it cost. Cancelling it won't make it cheaper in the future. Sometimes we just need to bite the bullet and pay for what we need.
It's more like an issue with initial quotes than the actual cost of the thing. The problem is, the public sees a big cost and screams "they're wasting our money!", but that's not really it at all. The government is trying to invest in needed infrastructure that benefits all of us in the future. Literally their job.
Mate, the infrastructure is reaching end of life anyway and needs replacing.
The benefit of doing it all at once is they were enlarging both terminals to allow better offloading of freight. Pay more now to spend less later.
The dumbest thing about changing teacher only days, is they are not counted in then mandatory number of days a school is open for. All this change will do is make them close earlier, so the kids will still be off school and parents will still need to make arrangements.
It's fucking stupid.
I must be confusing it with Auckland's recently cancelled project, I remember a bunch of money being spent to purchase land.
I mean, I wish they'd build shit. Total agreement here. It needs to be done, just do it!
Oh absolutely, sunk cost fallacy is a problem. No disagreement there.
However, my point is cancelling a project doesn't remove the need. We need better public transport, we need ferries, we need infrastructure upgrades. All of these things need to happen, and the longer they are put off usually the more they will cost. So it's not so simple as a sunk cost, as cancelling a project then doing it again later may very well end up costing more in the long run than the over run cost of the initial project. Case in point, the ferries.
I will admit, though, I know less about the wellington light rail project. I was under the impression that a lot of the cost being spent was paying for land that was needed for the project, but you can probably inform me more about this. I'll just say, rail is still needed (or some form of mass transit system).
Infrastructure is expensive, and often goes over budget. It is hard to deliver large projects on time and on budget. Any builder will tell you how often a simple house build goes over time and budget.
Crying about incompetency is silly when the alternative seems to be to throw away money that has been spent for no gain. We have lost all the money spent on the ferries, plus a penalty, for no fucking gain at all. All the money spent working on ALR has been flushed down the toilet. It's fucking insanity.
The answer is not throwing away projects because they cost more than anticipated, it is finishing projects and figuring out how to do it better next time. New Zealand has seriously terrible infrastructure problems and they can only be solved with money, and a lot of it.
This stuff pisses me off so much.
Educational curricula should be independent of politics. It should be solely based on educational research and achievement statistics, not fucking ideology.
Cheers mate. Neat stuff!
I wonder how much force a sail of that size is expected to produce?
The only thing I'm concerned about is the continued creep of housing developments into productive farmland.
If developers want to increase density of housing in current areas, that's a good thing! I don't particularly care about how stylish a development is at this point in time. Besides, current cookie cutter housing is all ugly anyway.
I agree with you, and I think it's interesting to look at why there is a short term uptick in youth crime.
Something something cost of living crisis something something
Congrats mate! Thank you for all your hard work on maintaining this little piece of the internet for us!
But the ambiguity comes from the crown ignoring the original, Te Reo document, in favour of the translates English version, then ignoring that as well.
There was a protest that blocked traffic in my town, a couple of months back. I was caught in it while returning to work after making a delivery.
It lasted 5 minutes and then I was on my way. They were polite the whole time, and I was polite back. I literally lost 5 minutes, who cares.
I don't get the problem.
Exactly. The fact that they went ahead with these tax cuts shows they cannot be trusted to be 'fiscally responsible'
I mean... She's not exactly wrong...
I want these to become a thing, because they're awesome. But I doubt it actually will.
Plus, there are much more efficient ways to move large numbers of people. Still, ground affect craft are neat.
It's all good mate! Thanks for the suggestion. When I first started printing I had that exact issue.
Too right mate
The amount of time these people spend thinking about other people's toilet habits is hilarious.
Big stringing problem with flsun SR and Orcaslicer
Ok guys, I'm breaking down and posting here to see if anyone has any ideas. I'm greatful for any advice.
I have an upgraded flsun SR. I recently lost my computer (psu issue, waiting for replacement) and I took this opportunity to switch from Cura to Orcaslicer.
Over-all I'm very happy, and getting some good speeds, but I just cannot remove stringing no matter what I try:
- Retraction from 0-7mm. After about 3mm, no further effect
- Retraction speed from 30mm/s-50mm/s. No noticable effect
- Travel speed and acceleration both high (up to 350mm/s and 6000 accel. No effect
- Temp from 205-215 with no effect
- Dried filament and different colours, no effect
- Wipe on retract on and off, up to 2mm wipe distance and 100% retraction. No effect
- Messed with scarf seams on and off, no effect
- No effect from layer heights
My setup:
- Printer - FLSun SR running klipper with a speede pad
- Filament - Esun PLA+
- Upgrades - Deported fans, OMG v2 extruder, volcano hotend and high flow cht nozzle
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon refuses to show public state of Premier House he claims is unlivable
Hipkins says he wouldn't have had a problem with it.
I don't get why National doesn't get this prick a good PR firm. Jeez 🙄
On National Spreading Panic About The Economy
It is a political strategy as old as time. Scare the public with tales of disaster and stampede them into supporting your ideological agenda because they believe There Is No Alternative. Yet, if the NZ economy truly is as “fragile” as PM Christopher ...
Great write-up.
> In fact, the line “Labour and National had broadly similar fiscal approaches...” is worth repeating.
> So the default position we should be applying to the current government is – where is all the evidence for the claims that Luxon is making?
National and ACT lose majority in largest ever Parliament
Special votes have given Te Pāti Māori two more electorates, and the Greens an extra list seat, with National losing two.
National has lost 2 seats, while TMP has gained 2, and the Green party has gained 1. NACT now need NZF to govern.
Rachel Boyack has won Nelson by 21 votes, and Phil Twyford has won Te Atatū by 131 votes.
122 seats because of the overhang, which will rise to 123 after the Port Waikato by-election.
Help with stringing after shifting to Klipper
Background:
I am running a mostly stock flsun Super Racer, which had been running pretty well on Marlin. I was having a few problems with print quality at high speed, and in an attempt to improve this I bought the flsun Speeder Pad, flashed it with stock klipper, and got it all up and running. So far so good.
I have been trying to get rid of an annoying stringing issue that I never really had on Marlin, and the more I try to remedy it, the worse it's getting.
The image is from my latest retraction tower test after re-calibrating pressure advance and rotation_distance. I'm really not sure where to go from here.
Settings from the above test:
- Esun PLA+
- 220C (for maximum flow)
- 1000mm/s acceleration (low for a delta)
- 0.1mm z-hop on retract
- Firmware retract control running in test tower mode, 0mm start, 0.1mm factor
- Pressure advance of 0.236
Upgrades from stock:
- Lighter hotend housing
- Deported fans
- Fan ducts
Any advice is greatly appreciate!
UPDATE: It was the filament. I grabbed a spool of grey from my drying cabinet, and only later (after much hair pulling!) realized it was the budget filament I'd bought to try. Switched it out to some good quality esun PLA+ and the stringing practically vanished! See image for final stringing test.
Final retraction settings: 3.5mm at 35mm/s.
I would like to thank everyone for their help! Lemmy is always the best place to get advice!
Inquiry into the current and future nature, impact, and risks of cryptocurrencies final report has been released.
Select Committee Reports
I didn't know the final report had been released already, but after an interview on RNZ National today I went looking for the actual report.
Some very interesting recommendations. Here are some highlights:
> Policy settings > 1. We recommend that the Government adopt policy settings to encourage > developments in digital assets and blockchain in New Zealand.
> Regulatory frameworks > 2. Because it is early in the development of digital assets and blockchain, we > recommend that the Government and regulatory agencies proceed carefully and > do not design and implement a fully integrated and consistent regulatory > framework for digital assets at this point in time.
> Primary regulator role > 8. We recommend that there should be no primary regulator for digital assets, as > digital assets cover a spectrum of use cases, well beyond investment.
> “Blockchain-sprints” > 11. We recommend that the Digital Assets Cross-Agency Working Group hold > “blockchain-sprint” equivalent or similar events to develop new ideas and > strategies for industry growth.
> Education > 14. We recommend that secondary and tertiary educational institutions consider > developing courses in relation to digital assets, blockchain, and the broader Web3 context, as part of a wider focus on technology (and its place in New Zealand’s > future).
> Central bank digital currency > 22. We recommend that the Reserve Bank continue with design work on its central > bank digital currency.
Interesting things here. Clearly the recommendation is for the government to embrace and encourage Blockchain technology, and not to regulate it too heavily.
I'm curious to see what comes of this.
A hunt for the party responsible for New Zealand's massive deficit in state housing.
Really interesting article which serves as a good background to the current problem with state housing.
Tl;dr: Did National sell off state housing? Yes, but the net loss was only a few hundred. However, if you factor in the proportion of the total housing stoke owned by the state, we are short 43,000 state homes, and that's only for the rather meagre 5.4% of total stock.
Economists analysing National's foreign buyers tax have found it would likely raise $210 million a year - falling well short of the $740m a year National expects to rake in.
When the details of this policy were released, it really didn't pass the sniff test. It seemed to rely on a huge increase in foreign buyers, above pre-ban levels, and ignored any potential reduction in sales due to the tax itself.
Labour raises doubt about National's tax plan
National needs about $5 Billion in foreign property sales a year to reach its target. Prior to the 2018 ban, China (which likely can't be taxed anyway due to FTA) made up 40% of an approximately $3.75 Billion in total sales. For Nationals numbers to work, the market would have to grown significantly, while leaving the vast majority of properties un-taxed. Further, they have not accounted for any drop in sales due to the tax, global downturn, or any other factors.
It's pure fiction and smoke and mirrors.
One of Labour's big election promises is to take the 15 percent GST off fresh and frozen fruit and vegetables from April 2024, if re-elected. Here's what it would cover.
I think this is an excellent policy, and a long time coming. This is done overseas with good effect. While I don't think it's a magic bullet, it is definitely a step in the right direction.
Case of missing Christchurch woman Yanfei Bao now homicide inquiry
The investigation into Christchurch woman Yanfei Bao's disappearance is now a homicide inquiry, Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves says.
Sounds like the worst case scenario has come to pass, unfortunately. Very sad news.
Just received a scam phone call
First time this has happened to me here in NZ. Just received a call to my cell, from an 027 number. A robotic voice then said
> This is a One NZ urgent notice. Your account is about to go out of service. Press 1 for English, and 2 for Chinese
Of course I hung up, and checking my One NZ app which naturally had no issues. These kinds of things seem to be becoming more and more common. I wonder if more people are falling for them, or if the scammers are just more desperate?
Does anyone know how to report a phone number?
Can't figure out how to add new models to docker install of Automatic1111
Hi guys,
I used the Docker install from here. It was easy to get Automatic1111's web interface up and running, but I'm trying to add new models and I can't figure out how to do it.
I've created a /data/StableDiffusion folder (which didn't exist), and added model files from /data/models, with no effect. I've added them to /data/models/stable-diffusion (which already exists), with no effect. Is there another location where the files are stored? Do I need to do something else to get them to work?
ETA: Discovered I was using the wrong file type (.pth) instead of the correct one (.ckpt). When I tried it with that file type it works perfectly. Thank you everyone for your quick responses and help! Y'all were way faster and more helpful than Reddit!
What you need to know about the Green Party's proposed rental changes
The Green Party have launched their pre-election housing policy with promises to give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in.
The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to "give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in".
Lemmy android client
What client, if any, do you guys use on your phone? I've been using Jerboa, but it has its problems so I'm wondering if there's a better option?
So that's it r/newzealand?
So, I see r/NZ is back. That's it? What an anemic protest. I guess I'm honestly surprised more people don't care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this.
Unfortunately, I think it probably means we won't see a lot of growth in Lemmy now. Shame.
Few comments coming through from subscribed communities on other instances
I am trying Lemmy for the first time, and have subscribed to a community on another instance as a test (https://sopuli.xyz/c/homebrewing).
I can see the posts come though, but few if any of the comments are there. Obviously if I visit the community directly they show up, but then I can't post/comment as my account is with this instance.