Thanks! They were done in python using a script that someone else gave me, so I can’t take credit for them 🙂

Possibly related to the whole mental load thing: https://english.emmaclit.com/2017/05/20/you-shouldve-asked/

When you have two jobs you don’t really want a third.

My assumption is that they get milled at one place, shipped in big bags to another factory to package it into smaller bags, then shipped to supermarkets (probably after being shipped to a distribution centre).

It’s hard to know overall for Lemmy, but I know that both Lemmy.ca and Lemmy.nz have surveyed their members.

https://lemmy.ca/post/15125231 https://lemmy.nz/post/12001861

Both were around 87% men, where as this selfhosting one is like 96% men.

I would guess it’s explained by society. Women are less likely to be in STEM which seems to almost be a prerequisite for Lemmy and possibly self-hosting, and of those women in STEM, and ( despite what you might think about your own house) there is still a societal expectation of them running the household and doing most of the household chores, even when they work full time. A third job, selfhosting, may be too much.

Damn, and I thought the gender ratio on Lemmy was bad.

We started to go to Bin Inn for this, but then COVID happened and we never went back. I should try to make a special effort to get back to using them, because you’re right, a lot of the time the packaging is not necessary at all.

Companies are buying 25kg bags of flour and repackaging it into smaller bags, when we should just be taking a container to a store and scooping in what we want.

Ideally, yes, if we are talking about communicating critical information to patients.

However, the first issue is that the translator needs to be medically trained. If they aren’t, they risk translating critical technical information wrong. We can’t even get enough medical staff, let alone extras to be dedicated translators.

There are also other circumstances where I don’t think a certified translator should be needed. For example, day to day interactions with a patient that aren’t about communicating critical medical information (e.g. asking how they are doing). I think most nurse interactions with patients would not justify a translator if the nurse spoke their language. Many doctor interactions would, but those are generally more structured and could have a translator organised in advance, unlike most nurse interactions.

But also, as I mentioned there is likely a valid problem the memo is trying to address. The issue I see here is that the memo just decides the solution is that everyone has to speak English. This is just bad problem solving. They need to address the specific issues not have blanket rules that make the environment worse for patients.

I suspect speaking to patients isn’t the problem (it’s not specifically mentioned in the memo), and so translators may not actually be relevant.

Oooh, I’m going to have to try that one! Though they might actually want to clean the house since I often use “we can’t do <fun thing> until the house is clean”, so there might be an expectation of doing fun things!

Who can be quiet the longest works briefly on my kids, the only problem is their capability is pretty low.

I have a parenting hack for a 5 minute break. Last night one of my kids was saying “Dad, dad, can you give me a challenge?”. Expecting things like hop around the house on one foot, or that sort of thing.

I said “I bet you can’t sit still on a chair for 5 minutes”, this being a child who regularly falls off their chair at dinner time. They thought that was a great challenge, so I set a timer and the challenge was on. The look on their face made it look like they were concentrating harder than they had ever concentrated in their life, but they were really determined and managed to do it! And I got to sit down for a 5 min break 😮

After that, the other kids wanted to have a turn too, but one of them decided that they could just pause the timer and do some thing they wanted to do. Of course that defeats the purpose, but they didn’t think so, so I think the hack won’t work again.

Do you think she will finally resign, or will she go kicking and screaming?

Given the events to date, my money is on kicking and screaming.

Ah nice, will see how the kids like the animals, though they get to see plenty of real life animals.

Ah nice, that seems much more reasonable 😆

Nice shot! I haven’t done the walkway, did you do the full thing? You link says it takes 6 hours, it was a pretty sunny day today!

I couldn’t figure out how to upload multiple photos so picked that one that shows the most of Wellington.

I think most people upload one for the post, then upload extras to the body. Unlike reddit, you can have both a link and a body in your post.

Awesome, thanks! I’ve been through this list and added a bunch to my list.

I’m hoping by the time we get another car it won’t be a concern anymore 😆. We also had to get an extra anchor put in the car because cars mostly seem to only come with one on each side, none for the middle.

The car industry says you’re only allowed 2 kids.

I’m not aware of an NZ example of a private company doing the full thing, but in the wider text I took my quote from they talk about trying to follow a Singapore model.

The government has to be involved somewhere, firstly because they are the only ones that can take the land (and most projects would be unfeasible if they couldn’t do that), and secondly because the roads need to connect up to the state owned roads. Plus I guess resource consent and approval type stuff.

Other than that, I don’t see why a private company couldn’t do it, if it was worth it economically. Which brings me to your point: is it worth it?

I would guess that it’s very difficult to find a route that is valuable enough to users that they can charge a decent toll and people will pay it instead of going around, but also that has a high volume of traffic. Ultimately, we probably don’t have many (or any) such routes because these would be the first place that the government owned roads are built.

What was that toll road north of Auckland with the big tunnel, one of the first ones? I wonder if there is data to show the cost of building it vs the revenue gained over the first 10 years or so.

Exactly. Not the over a million that it looks like at a glance.

The user count isn’t helpful anyway, active users is a much better measure.

That graph is so misleading. Makes it look like almost all the users disappeared but the Y axis only covers a small range at the top.

adjustable distance between lenses and the display

Does this help focus? For the headsets that have this, I thought it was so you could fit your glasses.

I used to have an Index, and moving the lenses didn’t seem to change the focus in the way that glasses do.

Edit: Oh, in your picture, it’s specifically a focus wheel, so must be something different about it.