"I'm very disappointed - I don't mean to scold New Zealanders - but disappointed that they feel that way."
"It's important that you care as much about your defence as we care about your defence, and that does mean increasing spending."
He's either stupid, naive, or malicious. Whatever the case he can fuck off.
I thought it was a satire piece but then it just keeps going on. The comments are gold: boomers complaining about the price of shitty 2 bedroom apartments and refusing to downsize because it's inconvenient.
I think QSV is the new "easiest" way if you have an Intel CPU. Here are some docker compose values that might help:
group_add:
- "110"
- "44"
devices:
- /dev/dri/renderD128:/dev/dri/renderD128
110 is render
44 is video
You can grep render /etc/group to find your values.
I found CPU accelerated transcoding to be as effective as using GPU acceleration for my small media server setup. Nvidia wasn't worth it for me.
There's some type of irony in the penalty being free housing (jail), or blood from a stone ($2k penalty).
I was just looking for the cost of keeping someone in jail fro 90 days and it looks like Bernard HIckey beat me to it:
Govt threatens to imprison homeless for 90 days at a cost of $49,680 per person Govt to empower Police to 'move on' homeless with threat of three months prison, costing taxpayer $552 per person per night; Govt adds 2,000 prison beds since election & delivers 420 new homes
From: The Kaka https://thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-threatens-to-imprison-homeless
Is that an optical cable with gold plating to improve the electrical connection?
Rice and dried beans and veggies are still pretty cheap, for now at least.
Is there a link to the actual text of the article or are we just sufficiently enraged by headlines now?
Have you tried a USB-C to HDMI cable for you phone?
Putting garbage in clean plastic bags to throw it away is an absurd practise. Why can't we just transfer it in reusable bins?
I don't see either of the dominant political parties making any meaningful changes to address these issues. The current government acknowledges the issues in their Budget Policy Statement 2025 but then acts in contradiction to their own statements, by disestablishing Callaghan Innovation and gutting CRIs. Their Strategy for AI is basically a "legal thumbs up" with no incentives for businesses to move into this sector.
Instead of investing in public schools, they are allowing charter school which will make education pay-to-play, which will grow inequality at a time when young people are already locked out of the housing market. All while teachers are walking out in protest over low wages.
My fear is that when many young people are disenfranchised and aren't offered a "good deal" to participate in society, then we will get more crime and more drugs.
Labour isn't going to fix it and National seems to be actively sabotaging it.
I just read the book "Abundance" and I can see many of the partisan issues described in the book in the New Zealand context. We're cooked.
"If there weren't unions: people would just have to individually put up with our shit"
Here's a video showing how it's made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8mqVGDQ1s