Oh wow; Mlmym is quite the retro nostalgic Reddit clone huh :)

Photon & Tesseract are both quite nice though - a bit more professional modern web looking than the default one though that could just be the colour scheme that makes lemmy-ui look a bit odd.

Exactly; the statement will have been reviewed by lawyers who would have suggested rewording it.

I just want to jump in here as the whole thing about the tonnes of factual errors stuff…

A lot of the allegations about the accuracy of their data basically came down to arguments about the validity of statistics garnered from testing methodology; and how Labs guy claimed their methods were super good, vs other content creators claiming their methods were better.

My opinion is that all of these benchmarking content creators who base their content on rigorous “testing” are full of their own hot air.

None of them are doing sampling and testing in volume enough to be able to point to any given number and say that it is the metric for a given model of hardware. So the value reduces to this particular device performed better or worse than these other devices at this point in time doing a comparable test on our specific hardware, with our specific software installation, using the electricity supply we have at the ambient temperatures we tested at.

Its marginally useful for a product buying general comparison - in my opinion to only a limited degree; because they just aren’t testing in enough volume to get past the lottery of tolerances this gear is released under. Anyone claiming that its the performance number to expect is just full of it. Benchmarking presents like it has scientific objectivity but there are way too many variables between any given test run that none of these folks isolate before putting their videos up.

Should LTT have been better at not putting up numbers they could have known were wrong? Sure! Should they have corrected sooner & clearer when they knew they were wrong? Absolutely! Does anybody have a perfect testing methodology that produces reliable metrics - ahhhh, im not so sure. Was it a really bitchy beat up at the time from someone with an axe to grind? In my opinion, hell yes.

You don’t put out a statement saying “This company looked at us & found this:” without running the statement by the company in question first.

Well, you can, but you’ll usually find yourself in hot water if the things you’re claiming the company found run contrary to what they actually found.

This! Would you hire a mechanic who you know does what you say but 1/3 cars they “repair” ends up breaking again 6 months later?

As noted above, I think the statement is that allegations were made and they were not ignored, and/or were addressed.

This is silly.

If it was reported, it was reported. The whole point of Roper Greyell being involved is to identify if there were events that weren’t reported, or were reported and not acted upon.

That’s not the only way to read that at all. Your interpretation is that sexual harrassment was not ignored & was addressed; but the sentence is actually that allegations were not ignored and were addressed.

Nobody trying to make money on YouTube is going to stop click bait; its a necessary evil to get your videos fed by the algorithm. It sucks, but its here to stay until the algorithm starts punishing it.

Only thought is if you wanted some other path for people to message if there are ongoing issues to let you know - but I don’t have an expectation that you’d want to know about it after hours so time to resolution seems fine to me.

Its probably too much kiwifruit so not balanced, but for fans of ham, cheese & pineapple it will do basically the same thing. I could see it being pretty tasty.

I think you’re expecting something that is unlikely to happen - there’s a bunch of privacy related issues, employment law restrictions etc that potentially mean they will never comment further on it.

Hi point about Seymour’s punitive approach being deemed necessary to prevent inequality etc being stupid when that’s exactly what they’re already battling is a good one.

A successful mass transit system almost necessitates being mostly separated from private vehicles; there are plenty of cities around the world that are 500k or smaller which have metro systems so there really isn’t much of an excuse for Auckland to not have one.

I think the smallest I can find on a quick google today is Lausanne which is only 150k people but has a separated rubber tired metro of some kind. Ghent is another small one with a mostly separated tram system, Rennes has a mostly underground system and is for an urban area of around 360k.

But we don’t even need to look overseas, Wellington Region has 4 1/2 lines for only 550k or so people. 2 of those are fully dedicated to passengers, and one of the others is almost entirely passenger as well. Mixed Freight & Passenger works in NZ, we’ve been doing it for decades.

I always have a jar of doubanjiang now - it gives such a deep savory spicy kick when cooking. I think some new world / pak’n’saves carry the Lee Kum Kee jar which i’ve used before and is ok but not quite as good as some of the other jars i’ve tried (I usually just pick one at random from my local grocer). At a pinch you could probably sub gochujang, its not the same but does a similar job. One thing I really like about this youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ChineseCookingDemystified) is they try to show as authentic a recipe as possible but almost always include substitutions for things they guess aren’t readily available in the west.

The other thing i’ve started having on stock are these packs of sichuan ma la hot-pot base. They’re like a lump of chilli and spices and oil mixed together, i’ve used them as instant flavour for an otherwise fairly plain stir fry as well as a flavour hit to stews and braises. They have that spicy & numbing thing going on obviously so not everyone’s cup of tea.

The rail is already there, and already maintained, so its not really a consideration. Both of those routes i’ve mentioned are already in use for a small number of daily freight runs and due to their weight in comparison require far more maintenance than some relatively lighter passenger carriages would. Road also costs a lot of money to build, and increasingly more money to maintain - both of those calculations increase the more lanes a road has too. I wouldn’t expect the Hawkes Bay Regional Council to have to fund all of that themselves, especially as the idea is to mode shift vehicles off State Highway 2, which is central government funded.

More cycleways is always great; but a railcar set that can do >100km/h on a route like Waipukurau to Napier with capacity for say 100-120 commuters or shoppers is 100 vehicles worth of congestion and pollution off the road. Its also a distance that almost nobody is going to commute on a bicycle, particularly when the weather is wet and/or cold. If it proved popular enough you can expand the set to carry more people or add additional service times as well and the beauty of that stretch of rail is that originally there were a lot of small stations built which were closed in the 80s when the areas they served became less than villages. Some of those areas have subsequently become quite popular for lifestylers so over time considering opening the stations back up would be a possibility.

Its easy to make passenger rail look impossible if you try to make it so the passenger services have to fund the entirety of the rail infrastructure - but NZ has always run freight and passenger on the same rail and in the past used to run far more services than we do now. I’ll concede building passenger rail is an overly expensive proposition for the population outside of Auckland, but my point is that in many places we don’t need to the rail is already there and once its there you don’t need 5 million people to make it thrive - see Wellington’s commuter rail network.

I’ll take the bait (slightly).

We probably don’t need to build rail in a lot of places; just use what is there which would limit it the cost to an investment in some railcars and staff.

Eg a feeder service from Waipukurau -> Napier airport (or even up to Esk Valley before heading back) could get passengers off the expressway which can get very congested at peak times and is probably cheaper than 4 laning it.

I’m not as familiar with where the rail goes down in Christchurch but a similar service running from Burnham through Chch to Rangiora could be worth investigating.

Yeah they definitely saw through that BS very quickly and started writing articles pointing it out. I’m not sure how much it was WCC’s vs that panel that they were calling out though.

Well we didn’t learn from SARS, Birdflu, Swineflu etc either really.

The trouble is Labour don’t have much of a leg to stand any criticism on given they tend to do similar when they’ve got the choice.

Roger Sowry, after leaving Parliament ended up working for lobbyists Saunders Unsworth (http://sul.co.nz/the-team/). They work with / represent all sorts of businesses. On the face of it this one is probably less questionable other than why they need some lobbyist to come in & investigate the ferries when there’s enough expertise already in the public sector. Is it because they can better predict the recommendations he’ll make?