Bus is always going to be limited to whatever the road network can support, and face problems like traffic.

Rail can be improved way above what it is in NZ currently. It could be much faster than taking a car, as it is in many parts of the world. e.g. see: https://www.greaterauckland.org.nz/regional-rapid-rail/

I have heard anecdotally that when these sorts of protests are going on, the “mainstream” environmental organisations get a lot more interest. So it could be that it is actually working, even though most people don’t like the tactics.

A lot of people don’t, no. And that’s the problem… which is why I was saying it’s a shame. We are in for far more grief than almost anyone realises… the scale of the effects is well outside what most people can really imagine. And it can be avoided if we take concerted action… even at this late stage. But we’re not.

Is it abstract to people who have lost their relatives or their houses to weather events this year?

Someone sent me an annoying work-related email yesterday evening… so now I’m going to ignore them for at least the next 2 days… 😂

I totally understand people getting angry at this sort of thing… I’m 100% behind their cause, not so sure on their tactics.

But it’s just a shame that people are not as angry about the inaction on climate change. The inconvenience caused by the protesters is a micro-fraction of the pain that climate change is already causing and will continue to cause.

This is also ignoring the fact that diesel rail isn’t that much better than road transport, and can even be worse.

Huh? I mean sure, we should electrify all our rail. But moving hundreds of people in one diesel train produces way less emissions than hundreds of cars.

whoops 🤣

Yes. Big doners to the National party.

Yeah, I used the simple version originally. I switched to the harder one because it’s available via the R package.

But I’m pretty sure there’s very little difference in practice.

I don’t use HA sorry! I just have a custom built app in R that collects the data from some temperature/humidity sensors I have (and uses an R package to do the dew point calculation).

I just calculate Dew point, which is a somewhat more intuitive number.

Last day of winter! We made it! I’m extremely confident there’ll only be good weather from here on in (especially in Wellington).

Yes it’s different, but not sure what name is used for to be honest.

If you open GParted, you can add a label to a partition by right clicking it. Otherwise you can use e2label from the command line assuming it’s an ext2-4 partition.

Yeah it’s shit… old boys networks and brown nosers end up succeeding… competent people get stuck cleaning up their messes

Thanks for the info… I wouldn’t mind trying one of them out. AoE2 DE is on offer right now, but it apparently doesn’t work well on Proton. I’ll just wishlist the HD version I guess.

It was also a colossal waste of money. The estimates in the article are way under the real figures. The community was largely opposed. It was just due to the arrogance and ego of the former VC that it was even a possibility. He couldn’t take no for an answer, and the new VC is having to slowly undo the damage.

My day today.

That doesn’t mean it’s part of law

At any rate the fact that the te reo version of the treaty is recognised as primary doesn’t mean all nz law is written in te reo as you initially claimed