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Culturally perhaps 1970s; but in terms of economics very much back to the 80s/90s neo-liberal reforms.

Luxon's speech yesterday spinning a $200B hole in transport funding and the rough state of government's books is a setup for more UK style austerity. The proposed replacements for 3 waters sets things up for privatisation of water assets. The only thing holding that back would be Te Tiriti, oh and what's happening in that space?

This is my favourite topping for pancakes + butter, but I wonder if its just folks of a certain generation, because nowadays people are going with blueberries, maple syrups, nutella, whipped cream etc instead.

This is way out of date but its talking about cities in Europe that both have, and don't have underground systems.

https://www.skyscrapercity.com/threads/misc-largest-cities-without-metro-subway-and-smallest-cities-with-it.404033/

Back then Belgrade was guessed at being the largest without an underground, but they note small cities like Lausanne, 130k center, but including wider population 320k were getting a subway. Or Rennes which had a wider population of 550k at the time and had a subway system. Now, they're not digging on a volcanic field so perhaps it was easy to do, but in terms of Europe, 1.6m without an underground system of some kind is a slight aberration.

Of course, there's cities in Asia where there's 10+ million without an underground either so on pure population its not unusual at all :)

That's something a lot of folks both in & out of NZ don't appreciate. We are very long; that's why you can wear shorts in Paihia in June while its freezing in Gore!

So geographically, in terms of sea crossings we have it easier than Japan in only having to really consider 1 - but their's are much shorter (and shallower?) crossings so they were able to bridge where we can neither bridge nor tunnel.

But also, in terms of mass transit there is absolutely no need for NZ to consider it anyway as we just don't have anything near a comparable population. So the routes we have to consider are much, much shorter and contained within distinct metropolitan areas.¹ Where Light Rail shines is by being 3-4 times more capacity in a single unit than a bus, hopefully having much faster acceleration & deceleration and being routed ideally on an exclusive right of way.

Yeah, busways can be exclusive as well, but every bus requires a driver; and we've just been through a period of driver shortage destroying schedules around the country so its hard to see moar busses being a great long term solution.

1 Though if we could speed up regional rail² there's things in the possible category like commutes from Hawkes Bay -> Wellington, Bay of Plenty -> Auckland. And in some of those areas there are routes that could probably provide a convenient railcar now - eg Waipukurau -> Napier.

2 Queensland has narrow gauge like us and with tilt technology I think was looking at getting trainsets that could go up to 170km/h. Other than that NZ would have to adjust all of our rail network to standard gauge which would also require updating all the rolling stock so with all the short term thinking in government would never be palatable.

Yeah, its not like it was 250m of cash spend that's now gone. At least some of that would have been asset purchases, mostly land / buildings, and going through Auckland that would have cost a bunch.

Of course much easier to oppose it on the grounds of its all money completely lost, rather than assets that could be sold to recoup a bunch of that money.

I just noticed my shed matches the house 😆. A coincidence!

It looks really tidy!

i've been tempted to use that too, though overtime i've come to suspect Cloudflare as much as I do any other big provider. I then considered using Tailscale, but in the end just DIY'd my own Wireguard bc my setup for it is very small (ie just me until I can convince my partner she might want to access music/movies away from home).

Sick; i've been thinking of getting one of these because it'd go up against a timber fence & hopefully match wood for wood. They seem pretty doable in terms of assembling these flat pack style sheds eh?

https://www.pinehavensheds.co.nz/courtyard-cupboards

I have full blown Fridayitis. Probably worse bout of it due to being first week back.

Ah yeah, you're a bit stuck with fans then :)

I was trying to control some DIY heat-pump IR remotes i'm making. It worked, but was just clunky and kinda a PITA to setup. Its entirely subjective, but I also hate the colour scheme and design, so just don't like using it in general, lol.

I have pihole & same thing, it loads a big S splash screen that animates for ever & goes nowhere. But if you browse to /world first you can then view the whole site.

But, given their "upgrade" also seems to have ditched their RSS feeds, my workaround is to simply not read Stuff anymore.

I've tried some "button" type things in HA, but I find the whole HA experience so frustrating that i'm gradually moving everything out of it, and anything I need to interact with i'm just going to publish to the mqtt topic with something else instead.

I use mqtt-explorer to ship the device logs, and mqtt-exporter to expose the metrics to prometheus directly, and all the stuff I work with either has its own GUI, or is ESPHome. So all HA is now is an additional kinda ugly GUI that's a PITA to maintain (for me).

That's where the AppleTV really shines; 4K HDR capable but fanless and tiny, with good audio output too. Then you can just move the noisy load elsewhere. Which in my case is only for rare transcoding needs; all the streaming services run fine out of the box. Any iGPU can do the same its just all the other heat generation inside a desktop demands fans.

I wonder if you could jerry rig an HDMI output from a phone - a newish one would probably crank 4K just fine too, lol.

Yeah, the OG things that eventually birthed Tomato Ketchup were basically umami rich fish sauces and came from China.

Well the nVidia detector is a bit more fiddly to get going than the OpenVINO one; but not too hard, just a matter of going through the steps in the documentation.

You need to run a different image of the frigate container so it includes all the TensorRT stuff and separately you have to generate the models. The only hiccup I had there was setting the right GPU to generate on bc mine is only a 1030 disabling FP16 operations.

That's all running fine so now i'll just monitor it for a bit to see if it makes any significant difference to CPU load & case temperatures running the detections on the GPU instead of CPU.

I figured i'd have a crack at enabling the GPU detector today and noticed that i'm currently not using CPU detectors anymore, i've at some point switched to using the OpenVINO one so its using the Intel iGPU I think. That must have been working well given I forgot that's what I was using :)

I'll let you know how I get on switching to the nVidia detector.

Not enough sailboats up there, way too many over powered 250HP plus inadequacy compensation devices.

Yeah the difficulty of sourcing corals is exactly why i've not yet used one. I've used both GPU & CPU for detection and both have been fine. I switched to CPU because the GPU I had in this box originally was a Quadro and its power use and heat output was just rediculous. I've since bought a passive cooled GT1030 but I might not have even switched back to GPU over CPU since I installed - I only have 4 cameras in Frigate and the CPU is keeping up fine.

Have most of the holiday makers started to head home? We were there last week and it was a constant drone of power boats whose motors have grown in parallel with the size of the double cab utes required to tow them, and the whine of jetskis from about 7am in the morning.

I love it at Lake Taupo but around Christmas / New Years the number of power boats just ruins it for me.