Rangelus

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Oh absolutely, sunk cost fallacy is a problem. No disagreement there.

However, my point is cancelling a project doesn't remove the need. We need better public transport, we need ferries, we need infrastructure upgrades. All of these things need to happen, and the longer they are put off usually the more they will cost. So it's not so simple as a sunk cost, as cancelling a project then doing it again later may very well end up costing more in the long run than the over run cost of the initial project. Case in point, the ferries.

I will admit, though, I know less about the wellington light rail project. I was under the impression that a lot of the cost being spent was paying for land that was needed for the project, but you can probably inform me more about this. I'll just say, rail is still needed (or some form of mass transit system).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Infrastructure is expensive, and often goes over budget. It is hard to deliver large projects on time and on budget. Any builder will tell you how often a simple house build goes over time and budget.

Crying about incompetency is silly when the alternative seems to be to throw away money that has been spent for no gain. We have lost all the money spent on the ferries, plus a penalty, for no fucking gain at all. All the money spent working on ALR has been flushed down the toilet. It's fucking insanity.

The answer is not throwing away projects because they cost more than anticipated, it is finishing projects and figuring out how to do it better next time. New Zealand has seriously terrible infrastructure problems and they can only be solved with money, and a lot of it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This stuff pisses me off so much.

Educational curricula should be independent of politics. It should be solely based on educational research and achievement statistics, not fucking ideology.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Cheers mate. Neat stuff!

I wonder how much force a sail of that size is expected to produce?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

The only thing I'm concerned about is the continued creep of housing developments into productive farmland.

If developers want to increase density of housing in current areas, that's a good thing! I don't particularly care about how stylish a development is at this point in time. Besides, current cookie cutter housing is all ugly anyway.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you, and I think it's interesting to look at why there is a short term uptick in youth crime.

Something something cost of living crisis something something

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Congrats mate! Thank you for all your hard work on maintaining this little piece of the internet for us!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But the ambiguity comes from the crown ignoring the original, Te Reo document, in favour of the translates English version, then ignoring that as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There was a protest that blocked traffic in my town, a couple of months back. I was caught in it while returning to work after making a delivery.

It lasted 5 minutes and then I was on my way. They were polite the whole time, and I was polite back. I literally lost 5 minutes, who cares.

I don't get the problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly. The fact that they went ahead with these tax cuts shows they cannot be trusted to be 'fiscally responsible'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I mean... She's not exactly wrong...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I want these to become a thing, because they're awesome. But I doubt it actually will.

Plus, there are much more efficient ways to move large numbers of people. Still, ground affect craft are neat.

 

Hi guys,

I used the Docker install from here. It was easy to get Automatic1111's web interface up and running, but I'm trying to add new models and I can't figure out how to do it.

I've created a /data/StableDiffusion folder (which didn't exist), and added model files from /data/models, with no effect. I've added them to /data/models/stable-diffusion (which already exists), with no effect. Is there another location where the files are stored? Do I need to do something else to get them to work?

ETA: Discovered I was using the wrong file type (.pth) instead of the correct one (.ckpt). When I tried it with that file type it works perfectly. Thank you everyone for your quick responses and help! Y'all were way faster and more helpful than Reddit!

 

The Greens are looking to introduce changes to the rental market to "give everyone in New Zealand a healthy home to live in".

 

What client, if any, do you guys use on your phone? I've been using Jerboa, but it has its problems so I'm wondering if there's a better option?

 

So, I see r/NZ is back. That's it? What an anemic protest. I guess I'm honestly surprised more people don't care. I expected the protest to go on longer, but I guess I overestimated how much the average user cared about this.

Unfortunately, I think it probably means we won't see a lot of growth in Lemmy now. Shame.

 

I am trying Lemmy for the first time, and have subscribed to a community on another instance as a test (https://sopuli.xyz/c/homebrewing).

I can see the posts come though, but few if any of the comments are there. Obviously if I visit the community directly they show up, but then I can't post/comment as my account is with this instance.

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