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My work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad, its got 16GB RAM, but idles at over 8GB used just launching the normal apps I use plus all the corporate & security guff that's on it. Eventually it starts swapping like mad and i've kinda just got used to the tiny fan screaming away for half the day.

I haven't double checked; but I think it was just that you couldn't dual-boot x86 Windows; which makes sense given the chip change. I guess the same underlying chip difference means you can't virtualise it either. But I'd imagine you can virtualise & run ARM Windows though; and as Intel/AMD fall further & further behind the efficiency curve Windows on ARM should continue to get better over time.

I use Windows, Linux (CLI only) & MacOS. My gaming PC & work laptop are both Windows. Most of my work day is spent with an active terminal session to a linux cli somewhere; and any personal work I do is on my M1 Macbook Air.

The latter is by the far the best laptop i've ever used, with its unix underpinnings and homebrew its also got pretty much every linuxy thing I need and apart from gaming (which is apparently getting better all the time) app wise its also got all that I need too.

But then, mostly on that i'm in a web browser or a terminal as well so your mileage may vary.

Hardware wise because i'm not doing any heavy rendering or compiling etc the M1 chip has all the power i've needed in it; and it just sips battery. I don't use it heaps, but charge it maybe every couple of weeks; and it just doesn't really get hot either which is nice as I tend to use it in times where I won't have a desk etc; ie as an actual laptop.

Yup, and Barnes rushed to the decision from one angle on a giant TV screen at the other end of the stadium. The subsequent angle played after he had decided it was Yellow was much less bad looking for Frizell; but he'd already decided.

Its been a whole World Cup cycle plus a couple of years now of World Rugby attempting to stamp out head high contacts by dishing out red cards; it has not worked.

That's when I stopped watching & went to the shed, lol.

I think Frizell's foul play yellow was worse; it wasn't a neck roll (certainly not like the one that was done to Cody Taylor minutes later) and it was a pure accident that he fell onto the SA player's leg.

I think a lot of folks might overlook how different schooling is now than say when I was a kid in the 80s. Back then, classroom sizes were on average quite a lot smaller than they are now; and perhaps more importantly it was still common to have one parent not working, or only in part-time work.

There are lots of kids growing up nowadays where both parents are working 8+ hour days, and combined with commuting times etc a lot of the daytime opportunity for interactions with parents, discussing what they're learning, exploring books, nature, whatever just isn't as available as it was 40-50 years ago.

I'd expect at a high school level for any programming course to focus on the fundamentals rather than being particularly worried about any given language.

These days Python would probably be a better choice than Visual Basic; but given how many languages someone working professionally will be exposed to, it doesn't matter that much. They're all just different tools and which one you use really comes down to what problem you're solving.

For late primary / early high school I still think BASIC is a great introductory language; there's a new 80s style PC - Commander X16 that has a really cool looking BASIC coming with it that also has the advantage of being completely offline so very safe to just give to kids to wail on.

Yeah, and is the basis of a lot of the more complicated scripting in Excel; which rightly or wrongly is a very heavily used tool in business. It is also a bit more involved than interpreting screen clicks etc. Its not fun to use, but its also not useless especially if it helps you learn the basics of things.

So going on how things changed as voters were counted, it would appear that the early voting broke more for Nat / Act, and then the day of voting broke for Lab / G. NZF & TPM stayed relatively consistent throughout the night. This makes sense, blue-collar working people are somewhat more likely to vote Labour than National, and are less likely to have time to get to one of the fewer advance voting posts, than the typically white-collar / retired voters who are somewhat more likely to vote for the right.

The vote totals have now tightened up considerably on whether National can form a government with just Act; such that I am interested to know how many overseas / special votes there might be, and if any of them have been counted yet. If there's enough of them, and they tipped more Labour/Green than National then it might be enough to pull another vote from the right to the left, and given Parliament has an overhang this term Luxon would need to pick up the phone to someone to get an outright majority, at least on confidence & supply.

Another big talking point for me is that one in every twenty voters this election has no representation in Parliament at all due to the threshold requirements for minor parties.

Oh I agree 100%, it should just be something that's not allowed so there's no question of impropriety.

MP accommodation should be easy enough, a pool of housing some apartments, some townhouses and some 3-4 bed etc. Ideally built to social housing standards by Kainga Ora, because if its good enough for an average family it should be good enough for an MP.

Oh and potentially Kainga Ora should research the standard operating practises of private landlords and apply that to MPs as well ;)

Some would argue that voting Green is better than voting Labour as it forces Labour / gives Labour cover to do left-wing things while campaigning as centre-right.

There are more than two parties in New Zealand. And Politicians are not civil servants; at least not in the way that term is traditionally used.

Just want to point out something that regularly gets overlooked whenever this is brought up.

1. I think its a bad look and ideally shouldn't happen, but...
2. The government would be paying rent to someone for these MPs so as long as its market rent, its not costing the taxpayer any more than it otherwise would.
3. Local constituency offices are regularly worked out a similar way and again its the same deal, if they're funded by the govt, then the govt would be paying someone, its just who its going to that's a bit off.
4. I'd be all in favour of Kainga Ora building a housing precinct of affordable, simple homes - ie the type we desperately need, and any MP that doesn't want to pay for their own accomodation from their own salary can have one of those to occupy.

Yes, he took the lesson's learnt from creating Ireland's housing crisis and implemented much "improved" policies upon the German's too. And that was while he was very busy tanking the British economy by forcing them out of the European Union.

I am a Magpies supporter, and I apologise.

Although, if the original shield could talk i'm sure it too would have some pretty debauched stories to tell.

In case you were wondering why National & Act were so keen to dump on poor people in order to give tax breaks to landlords, and are so keen to sell off more of our housing to overseas buyers, further doubling down on making NZ a basket case economy of selling houses to each other with a few tourism and farming bits tacked on.

There's a bunch of people living in cities that they'd rather be towns than cities :) Heretaunga Hastings is working through stuff like that but has made a lot of progress. Lots of new infill developments are walking distance to the centre, there's reasonable public transport and will be 2 story with small or no section. Sounds puny, but compared to most houses round here 2 stories is up, not out :)

They're also trying to work on getting more apartment style stuff right in the centre as well, it'll take a while and a fair bit of effort for folks to embrace it but proper cities are vibrant and exciting because people live and work in the middle of them.

Its really hard to make direct comparisons, because there's so many other things all different as well. For instance some things households purchase now either didn't exist back then, or are significantly cheaper now.

Say a computer, we bought our first C64 in the 80s for around $1000 at the time (it came with 2 drives, a monitor, joysticks and software). I think that'd probably be like buying a $3000 + computer these days.

But, one big thing a lot of people overlook is that for many more boomers than today's 20-30 year olds the norm was still that you could more than get by with only one person working in the family. Yes interest rates were often really high, but they were still affordable on one income. The farm hand in the /r/newzealand anecdote¹ if they are in a relationship still can't afford to buy a house even if their partner is also in full time work.

I honestly don't think a lot of boomers even realise it. And to be honest that's potentially part of the whole cultural disconnect, because what comes along with both people working is massively less free time in a family, and often significant childcare costs that boomer families didn't pay. If you were a kid in the 80s like me there just wasn't the whole childcare industry there is today because back then, it wasn't needed like it is now.

¹ probably either missing half the story or just not even true.

Lol, are Sotheby's not part of the real estate industry that has been donating quite heavily to National this cycle?

Meanwhile news from China is that their middle class are desperately trying to sell off foreign houses due to the state of their economy. They're mostly in SEA, but if the middle class are struggling their rich folk might not be doing great either.