That's the sort of thing, but those ones have a huge gap, bigger than I've ever seen. The ones at the end of alleyways I've seen, the gap is much smaller. I don't think you'd get a mobility scooter through, and a wheelchair would be a tight fit.
That's a very good question. How do they normally get through the two hooped bar type ones?
According this Aussie website it was neither of us!
Though the article steals a lot of other stuff from us so I wouldn't trust it.
I bet a significant number of those people came from and and now heading to Aussie!
Yeah, everyone came back to NZ to weather the storm, then left again. People are leaving pretty much as fast as their passports can be issued, which is pretty slow at the moment. Prepandemic passports for most people were issued within a few days. Now it's taking 10 weeks.
I don't think this was unexpected, there was always the expectation that people would leave once the pandemic had settled down.
Not only is there a bunch of people who came back and are now leaving, all the people who would have left during the pandemic but couldn't will now be making their move.
What happens if they build coastal wind turbines that become offshore when sea levels rise?
If you go on the web ui and look where the sort option is, there's a little ?. Click it and it will explain the sorting options.
Many instances use Active as the default, which is based on latest comment. However, it's also based on the score, so if you are spamming or people don't like your post you'll get down voted (or no one will upvote) and then it won't hit the front page even when sorted by Active.
I can't imagine it being worth it for one game. The occulus quest headsets are probably the cheapest entry point, especially second hand, but you also get Facebook lock in, and they sell them at a loss so they can better show you ads and make more money. So I'd only go for the quest if you are desperate 😆. Objectively the Quest 3 may be a better headset than the Valve Index, but that's because the Index is like 4 years old at this point. Many people still think the Index is better, but it depends what your priorities are.
A new Index is still like $999 all these years later. You might be able to get a used one cheaper, but probably not super cheap if it still works well.
VR arcades exist, so it might make sense to find one and play the game there if they have it! However, part of the appeal of Alyx is the use of the Index controllers (Knuckles) that have finger tracking fancy stuff. Arcades might be using the Vive Pro, so you'd have to check if they have Alyx and if they have an Index you can play it on.
I guess this also applies to getting a Quest. It will be fun but not the full experience, Alyx was designed for the Index.
I like the whole series. Others are talking about 1 and 2, so I'll add Half-Life Alyx. It's a VR game, and at the time the PC VR scene was almost all indie games. I remember working out that if I wanted to carry more stuff I didn't need to worry about only being allowed to hold two grenades, I could just pick up a bucket, fill it with grenades, and carry that around.
I also remember being able to pick up pens and draw on a whiteboard.
I'm not sure how it holds up these days, but at the time it was quite the experience.
Does the solar power the speaker and the turbine is the power generation? Does this turbine produce more power than the solar powering the speaker?
Not only that, but it had nothing to do with the content, and everything to do with how she was sending the link to loads of people (google said she was spamming, she apparently said she wasn't, the top HN comment says sending it to alpha/beta readers though I didn't see this mentioned in the article).
Over here in NZ we had the biggest influx of expats back to NZ in memory. Perhaps you had the same?
Another possibility is perhaps a drop in the number of rental properties overall. Money got cheap, house prices went up, perhaps lots of landlords sold up, and lots of renters suddenly could afford to buy?
This estimate was for your own blood, not your enemy's, so probably best not to thoroughly dispatch yourself.
And then you can apparently donate like 470 millileters every 8 weeks.
Safely. You could probably speed it up a bit if you have a higher risk tolerance.
Hmm, I just checked my fingers and they do look a bit strange. If I was AI, how would I know?
If we look at a country level then things like attitude towards education, the specific implementation differing between countries, or the general social structure outside of school differing may make comparisons meaningless.
Another factor is that "charter school" doesn't necessarily mean run by a company, just that they have an agreement with the government (a charter) that says they don't have to follow the normal curriculum. But from my understanding charter schools in NZ are privately run?
Regardless, there are some studies. Here's an article about one:
The figure below shows some notable results from the CREDO studies. The key takeaway is that charter school students, in general, perform about the same as their matched peers in the traditional public schools, but there is variation across different types of schools and groups of students. For example, students in urban charter schools generally perform better than their matched pairs—likely for an assortment of reasons—while students in online charter schools perform much worse.
This study shows that charter schools are slow to get started (i.e. perform poorly at the start) and slowly catch up to public schools over time:
This study investigates whether student achievement varies during the institutional life span of charter schools by comparing them to new public schools. The results show that there is little evidence that new public schools struggle with initial start-up issues to the same extent as new charter schools. Even after controlling for school characteristics, new public schools generally perform about as well as one would predict given their demographic and socioeconomic profile. New public schools hit the ground running and maintain steady performance, while new charter schools begin to improve after their first year and slowly close the gap.
This article talks about how charter schools and public schools are as good as the people running them:
The effectiveness of charter schools is a hotly contested and often debated issue among educators, parents, researchers and politicians. And studies have been published supporting both sides of the argument: that charters underperform public schools and that they outperform public schools. However, the key difference appears to be the state in which the charter is located and the organizing body by which the charter is run.
It's probably pretty difficult to measure the performance of charter schools vs public schools.
A charter school might specifically cater to underachieving kids, kids for whom the public system didn't work well. Then by selection the public schools will outperform the charter school.
Or alternatively, a charter school might outperform public school because the class sizes can be smaller and they don't have to stick to the government set rules for schools. If you set dumb rules (like three hours a day on the three Rs) then you can then point to the charter schools and say "look, they are doing better than the public schools so we should convert more schools to charter schools" when in reality it's just a sign the way you run public schools is wrong.
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Residents on Moturoa, in Ipipiri, have been forced to relocate the reclusive birds after their population swelled into the hundreds.
> The residents of an island in Northland are grappling with an unusual problem - they have too many kiwi. > > Seven kiwi captured near Waitangi, when their bush habitat was about to be cleared for pine forest, were released onto Moturoa island in the 1980s. > > Since then, kiwi numbers on the island, near Kerikeri Inlet in the Bay of Islands, have grown into the hundreds - and that has put pressure on the limited habitat and food available for the protected birds. > > As a result, 21 kiwi caught on the island were released in Opua State Forest on Friday, easing the island's population boom and boosting kiwi numbers on the mainland at the same time. > > The operation would not have been possible even a few years ago but a massive pest control effort in Opua forest, which cloaks the hills behind Paihia, has made the area safe for the flightless birds.
Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition.
> Woolworths has apologised to thousands of customers after mistakenly telling about 79,000 people they had won a competition. > > The email for the Big Night In prize was meant to be sent to about 1000 winning customers. > > Instead, 79,000 extra so-called winners were sent the same email - awarding them 4000 points towards the supermarket's Everyday Rewards card system, which would equal $30 worth of groceries.
Transpower has issued a notice saying there was a risk power generation would not meet demand in the morning.
> The national electricity grid operator is warning of possible insufficient power generation to meet households' demand on Friday. > > Transpower has issued a notice saying there was a risk that power generation and reserves would not meet demand between 7.30am-8.30am. > > It said if power generators could not provide enough electricity, Transpower would manage demand to avoid a grid emergency. > > "The system operator may instruct the grid owner to disconnect feeders without further notice to connected parties," it said.
A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Auckland after an elderly woman was viciously knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight on Sunday.
> A 43-year-old man has been arrested in Auckland after an elderly woman was viciously knocked to the ground in an unprovoked attack in broad daylight on Sunday. > > In a video sent to RNZ, a person walking briskly away from the security camera can be seen hitting an elderly woman in the face with their elbow as they walk by, knocking her to the ground before walking off, while onlookers attempt to help the victim.
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The New Zealand nut butter has been launched into space on a recent six-month mission after NASA asked the company to create a space rocket-approved product last year.
> One Wellington peanut butter company has gone where no Kiwi food company has gone before. > > Last year, nut butter brand Fix & Fogg was approached by NASA with a request to create a space rocket-approved product. > > After months of working with the space agency to find the perfect delivery and storage pouch, Fix and Fogg's nut butter was launched into space on a recent six-month mission.
A New Zealand team has taken home gold at the Cheerleading World Championships in the US.
> A New Zealand team has taken home gold at the Cheerleading World Championships in the US. > > The 23-member All Star Cheerleaders Academy All Girl team is the first Kiwi team to win at the competition, which saw more than 550 teams from 21 countries compete.
Hawke's Bay man Arthur Eagle claims he was unfairly evicted after spending all night the gym.
> How long is too long to spend in a 24-hour gym? Can you do too much squatting? > > That is the question on the mind of Hawke's Bay man Arthur Eagle after what he claims was his unfair eviction from FlexFitness in Hastings after spending all night there. > > Eagle, whose membership has now been cancelled after the 4 March incident, claims a clause stating that 'all memberships include unrestricted access' was not followed and he was deliberately discriminated against. > > But the gym manager has a different story. He claims Eagle broke several gym rules and was loitering, leaving no choice but to terminate his membership.
> Gym manager Meryn Hemmingsen said staff members had spoken to Eagle several times about what he described as "highly unusual" behaviour within his gym, asking him to stop violating rules.
>Hemmingsen claimed Eagle spent "numerous occasions" all night at the gym in the very early hours of the day, "for instance, arriving just after midnight and leaving around 7am".
> "When he did exercise in the gym, it was nowhere near the entire time of his stay, and some early mornings when he spent time in the gym, he did not exercise at all for many hours at a time. > > "Our gyms are not a place for loitering; they are a place for exercising."
> Hemmingsen also said Eagle was following people into the gym without using a security tag. > > "Our manager discovered on several occasions that he was not using the security key tag to swipe into the gym, but rather following others who swiped ahead of him.
> Eagle denied this was the case, saying he asked a few people nicely, and only on two occasions, to use their swipe card to enter the gym.
The instrument usually performs a scene by Shakespeare's most famous star-crossed lovers.
> The Stratford-revered glockenspiel has stood proud in the main street, Broadway, since it officially opened in 1996, but it had stopped working over the weekend.
> Stratford District deputy mayor Min McKay said it was a large tourist attraction.
> She did not know the reason why it had stopped but hoped an engineer would check it on Tuesday.
Edit: If you're reading from All, this is Stratford in New Zealand, it's named after Stratford upon Avon but it's not the same place 🙂
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An entire community has been told it'll be evicted - but some are feeling stressed and cannot afford to buy anywhere else.
> Residents of a small Selwyn community say they will keep fighting to save their homes after being told they must vacate them by 2039. > > The district council last month voted to confirm the eviction of the entire Upper Selwyn Huts settlement on the shores of Lake Ellesmere because of the impact of climate change.
It was shot after confronting police who arrived at the scene in West Auckland, and also injured another person.
> A man and woman were found dead at the Anzac Valley Road address in Waitākere before 7.30am. > > Earlier, a family spokesperson for the pair, Dean Burrell, said the deaths involved an animal kept on their property. The pair are believed to have been killed by the ram.
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A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed "thief" at a supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt "racially discriminated" against.
> A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed "thief" at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt "racially discriminated" against and embarrassed during the "horrible" birthday incident.
> The store is part of a six-month trial of facial recognition technology in 25 of Foodstuffs' North Island supermarkets, which is being monitored by the Privacy Commissioner. > > The technology scans customers' faces and compares these images to those on the store's databases of known offenders or suspects.
> She said on the evening of 2 April, her 47th birthday, she stopped in with her teenage son to buy chops to go with fried rice from a Chinese takeaway. > > She said two male staff approached her in the meat section and one got "literally in [her] face" and loudly told her: "You have been trespassed and you need to go".
> She said they insisted she leave, even when she offered photo identification.
> Solomon said the "horrible" ordeal went on for about 10 minutes before she and her son left the store without the chops, and she broke down in tears in the carpark. > > She said she felt helpless and the incident "ruined what was until then a wonderful birthday".
> Consumer New Zealand's chief executive Jon Duffy said the use of this technology was "highly invasive" from a privacy perspective, "like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut". > > "Many New Zealanders don't have a choice where they shop which means they may be forced to give up their data, whether they like it or not."
Napier's former prison is closing due to safety concerns, leaving the man who runs tours through the site unhappy he will be locked out.
> Napier's former prison is closing due to safety concerns, leaving the man who runs tours through the site unhappy he will be locked out. > > The 162-year-old prison, New Zealand's oldest jail, has become a popular attraction since Toro Waaka began leasing the Bluff Hill property more than two decades ago. > > He first opened a backpackers' lodge, which has since closed, before beginning the popular tours. They attract more than 30,000 people a year. > > Toitū Te Whenua Land Information NZ, which manages the Crown landbanked site, told Waaka last month his lease was up. > > Land Information said the site was an earthquake risk and retaining walls needed an upgrade.
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Beeper has been acquired! The team has joined Automattic and will continue to build Beeper.
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> Automattic is best known for supporting WordPress and WooCommerce – two open source software projects that underpin huge portions of the internet’s publishing and ecommerce infrastructure. Together, we’ll develop software for a third fundamental pillar of the internet: chat.
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