James

Ergo they are declining to 'take the opportunity'. Dont get me wrong, it would be great, but none of this stuff ever gets applied at the rate it should because politics

Yeah but they won't though eh

Watch: Winston Peters refused to wear high-viz in tense exchange with rail boss The Minister for Rail had a tense exchange with the CEO of Auckland’s City Rail Link over a request to wear a high-viz vest during a site visit and test train ride. He eventually put it on, but only a...

It’s incredibly depressing reading incident reports from accidents that involve highly experienced people who decide they can cut corners. It’s even worse when their decisions put other people at risk. Wear your vest when asked. It’s the law. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...

Two graphs that everyone should understand. 1. Our govt has more financial savings (assets) than debts. Govt Debt in NZ is irrelevant. In fact it's too low given state of our infra. 2. Private debt is however out of control - draining our economy and enriching wealthy folks.

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

Was a great delivery. However one minor quibble...what's with him not actually appealing? He celebrates back at the umpire...like I guess fine when it's nicked to first slip or something but...you've got to ask the umpire still mate

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper Now I let it fall back in the grasses. I hear you. I know this life is hard now. I know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be free of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. —Joseph Fasano

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

Exactly

What annoys me about this debate is no one seems to have talked to a petroleum geologist who’s looked at the surveys in the Taranaki basin for the last 50 years. If they had, the issue is more stark: there’s no easily drillable gas fields to drill. Drill baby drill doesn’t work if there’s no gas.

And, also, setting fire to our international reputation while we do it (this is already damaged, if not in tatters already). The fact that nothing will get found (or in the GSB case if found, developed) gives me some solace, but its all so pointless and counterproductive

100% to both this and your point further down about the Great Southern Basin, these efforts (if anyone actually tries again, unlikely) will only temporarily boost Taranaki energy services companies and when nothing is found were in the same position, having wasted yet more time to invest in solar

But maybe that's a problem too? It's still seen as 'recreation' not an everyday activity to get around?

As a regular visitor to NP, this really is absurd for all the reasons others have replied with. NP has a car problem, not the other way around. Ironically the coastal walkway (used by thousands of cyclists) is fucking awesome and should really have been the anchor for more cycle infrastructure

Earth Sciences NZ, our new center of excellence for environmental science in New Zealand, uses this image as their logo / hero image on their website. It's.. wrong. Wrong in a 6-fingered AI generated human way. Not an auspicious start to the agency's future. #gischat

Gross contempt for vulnerable women workers. Vote accordingly next year.

Osborne and Cameron took charge of an upper middle nation state with an unhealthy but not apocalyptic balance sheet, and immediately set as many functional elements of the State on fire while ignoring historically low interest rates, all to save like £5.

Dumpling_Renault

Public swimming pools. Used to be heated saltwater. Something something health benefits of a tepid bath to soothe a fever back in the day (maybe, probably, I dunno, it was difficult to find an exact answer)

With Resources Minister Shane Jones away, that leaves Energy Minister Simon Watts (also Climate Change Minister) the minister in charge of passing the law that will restart offshore oil and gas exploration.

Does this make him the only Climate Minister in the world to spearhead new fossil fuels?

Motherfucking wind farms…

Five survivors of Rotherham grooming gangs say they were also raped by police officers Three former South Yorkshire police officers arrested in investigation into claims by the women, as young as 12 at the time

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Truly, it’s the racism.

Hwhp are so expensive and have more that can go wrong. I reckon standard one is fine, and save money by getting solar. 10k on solar 12 panels or 10k on a hwhp..easy choice I reckon

Long story but we tool out the hwhp we put in as it broke down and the back up standard element inside it kept the water hot...with no difference in our bills, this was over 9 months so plenty of data to compare. Now have am efficient modern standard electric one which seems fine

* Blockchain enters the chat *

FYI juror fees have not been increased since 2004 (yes 21 years ago). The maximum payable is $127 for more than 3 hours and beyond 9 pm.

The usual daily rate is $62 for more than 3 hours but not beyond 6 pm.

Jury duty is obviously nowhere near as important as being on a board. 🤬

Ministers agree to raise board members' pay ranges by up to 80% The increase for Crown bodies comes as the Govt celebrates tax relief it has introduced.

1% for teachers 80% for their mates on crown boards

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

This is relevant for NZ too>>>

“[The boom in batteries] completely destroys the business case for a gas turbine and also the high evening prices that coal generators rely on.”

If only NZ's Cabinet Ministers would do a bit of reading :)

American journalists have a lot to learn from Scotland.