Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.
I’ve seen these around a bit. I think the idea is you walk through the side while pushing your bike through the middle. But you can ride through if you’ve had a bit of practice.
They want to keep out motorbikes, though, so they need to be pretty skinny.
Once you’ve had a bit of experience pushing prams something like this isn’t an issue. They are pretty common around the place. They are needed because there are idiot motor bike riders that drive at speed on the walking/cycling tracks.
It’s a very common design on shared walking/cycleways. A bike will fit through the middle, they are pretty skinny. And the one in the OP isn’t finished, then will fence up to the sides so you have to go through it.
Nah most bikes are much higher than those rails. If a bike isn’t (like a kids bike), they can go under the rails on the sides since there’s a sufficient height difference.
I think “they want to keep out motorbikes” is an incredibly lazy reason to have such a terrible and inaccessible design. Police enforcement is the appropriate way to deal with rare cases where someone takes their motorbike onto a clearly illegal path.
I have lived in areas where people ride motor bikes in areas supposed to be for pedestrians and bikes. They did it all the time. Some would ride recklessly, others were just riding their mopeds as a quicker path than using the road. It’s not the intent of the path and as a pedestrian it definitely puts you off using the path.
When I’m riding a bike, I haven’t had any issue with these types of bars, you can ride through them once you get some practice. So long as they are only used at entrances and not staggered along the path like your banana bar example then I would rather have them than not.
I don’t think this Woolworths is related to the American Woolworth’s. They seem to have different histories. This is an Australian company that is one of the duopoly of supermarkets in NZ.
I was thinking about this. And under the rule of “if doesn’t matter what they are saying about you as long as they’re talking about you”, perhaps the marketing power is higher to deny it and make front page? It wouldn’t have been as big of a big news story if they had just paid it.
There’s a new article here where Vector is complaining that the govt isn’t moving on EV charging to get a smart charging setup. I think the idea is that the chargers should be controllable like some water heating, where the power controllers can disable them during peak times since many people charging cars plug them in when they get home (peak time) but don’t care if it’s charged then or some time overnight so long as it’s charged by morning.
This is an opportunity to have smart chargers retrieve a spot price and change their charging schedule based on this. We should also have smart solar setups where they charge a battery, then feed into the grid at peak times.
The open data situation for electricity information in New Zealand is “pretty good”. The main problem is that people in charge see commercial value in up-to-date cost and usage information so the “free data” is delayed. This prevents people from using near real-time data to improve efficiency of their own power systems.
What’s the barrier here? Data comes from the manager of the national grid, which is the government (Transpower), so what’s the commercial barrier to releasing that info? Transpower have nothing to gain.
In this list, mild and tasty are both cheddar. In the UK tasty may be called “sharp”, though in NZ you can get a pretty wide range of sharpness between brands all labeled as “tasty”.
The graph is in available GWh, which means it goes all the way to 0 before it stops being able to provide electricity. It’s just at the low end of normal but we are coming out of summer so that’s not surprising.
None of the lakes look like they can’t produce at maximum for an hour to cover the shortfall. So I’d guess hydro isn’t the problem. Hard to say why tomorrow is an issue though. Perhaps this snuck up on them, getting a fossil fuel power station up and running takes time, so maybe they could have covered it but weren’t prepared?
I tried to find historical data on peak load but could only find live data on current load. So I’m all out of guesses!
When I first posted this article, it was about 100 words long and I quoted most of it in the body if my post. It seems they fleshed it out significantly! Nice to have an answer!
In the article they mention this cold weather is earlier than normal, they have the plants shut down ahead of the super cold weather and got caught out by the cold coming so early.
Looks like the article has been fleshed out a lot more. They have a lot of the plants offline ahead of winter for maintenance to prepare for winter, but looks like they got caught out by unseasonably cold weather.
This page (down the page a bit) shows you’re right. But the second highest is the morning peak, and that graph is averages. In this case it’s an unseasonably cold morning across NZ so for this day in particular they are worried about everyone using their heating at the same time, their forecasts are probably for the morning to have a higher peak on this day in particular.
The original article has been fleshed out and they now say it’s because a lot of generation is offline for maintenance ahead of winter, and this cold weather is earlier than expected.
If you wanna poke around with some historical data yourself, I scrape a lot of it for my own curiosity, and have opened up my dashboard
The article got updated to say that capacity is down at the moment because of pre-winter maintenance, and the unseasonably cold weather means they weren’t prepared for this.
I hadn’t heard of Lenovo Vantage but came across this reddit thread that led me to this github page that might do the job for you?
If you don’t have another windows machine then I think it’s a good idea to duel boot Windows initially. I’ve been running Linux as a daily driver the past couple of years but still occasionally do stuff in Windows. It’s pretty rare these days, though!
So much for wanting a solution that wasn’t so expensive! It does sound like a fun project, though. For you, not for me, I’d be worried about electrocuting myself 😆
I assumed it was 240v, since you have normal plugs for plugging in to, right? I guess with lights you can set it up specifically for the lights and get away with a lot lower voltage.
Macros are one reason for me as well. LibreOffice actually supports VBA! But only a subset, so YMMV.
If it’s for work then probably also best to avoid converting back and forth between Word and LibreOffice as well.
I’ve been pretty happy with Linux though. I’m currently running the Gnome version of Nobara but have been through a few distros to get here. I ended up keeping my files on a separate partition to make it easy to install a new OS so I could test out a bunch.
None were perfect but I’m pretty happy with what I have now.
That looks good! 50+ reviews and an average of 5 stars, that’s pretty impressive!
I’ll have to give it a go some day, unfortunately I almost never go down that end of town. I used to work near there about 5 years ago but now work closer to the train station end of town, or actually from home most of the time, in which both have less interesting food choices than the Manners St area.
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Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.
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