Took an hour last night to submit to the NZ parliamentary inquiry on the future of inter-regional rail. Here's my submission: patricklam.ca/post/20220917-… The Future Is Rail NZ Rail Coalition

Does it seem right to y'all that San Francisco has a reported 5/100k/day new COVID case rate, estimated to a true 25/day due to underreporting, while NZ is at 25/100k/day reported and a true rate of 50/100k/day? That doesn't quite seem to be what I'd expect.

I enjoyed contributing to this work, which allows developers to see how different parts of codebases interact (or, more importantly, don't interact directly). Jens Dietrich

Covid has fundamentally changed all of that. Indoor air quality (IAQ) is no longer a nice to have — it is a must have because it is our only remaining control for Covid.

Mr Goose says hi.

It's democracy season! Also have to contact Waterloo Regional Council candidates and talk to them about rock climbing on GRCA land (ontarioallianceofclimbers.ca/2022/09/27/a-c…)

الناز رکابی طرح از بدایوسائو، کارتونیست سرشناس چینی #الناز_ركابى #مهسا_امینی

The real important election this year! #Kakī4BOTY #VoteToroa #AotearoasSweetheart

I wonder if someone has compared NZ Council voting rates with STV vs FPP.

Seen yesterday in the Queen Charlotte Sound.

Sounds similar to what I've read about the Treaty of Waitangi, which shouldn't be surprising, since it was the same colonizers. Treaty 11 was 1921-1922, Wikipedia tells me.

King Shag seen on the way to Motutapu Island with e-ko adventures.

A month ago we had a great time on the Banks Peninsula Track. Super scenic, more elevation gain than I might have guessed, mercurial weather. Tiny sheep & yellow gorse. patricklam.ca/post/20221102-…

Hi Andre Courchesne (VisiblAir) 🇨🇦🏴󠁣! My dad and I are talking about ndir sensors and how the reading at his place goes from 800 to 1200 when cooking. Even with kitchen door closed. Electric stove. He thinks the sensor is detecting other things in the air. I don't think it should be doing that. ???

Sitting on campus earlier today in the Software Engineering undergrad lounge. (Waterloo just brought back mandatory masks in class, though probably not in this space.)

And today, stopped by at McMaster to talk about grad school in engineering.

Good masking at SPLASH 2022 in Auckland. First conference in three years.

Not going to tweet much anymore, but I will promote my discussion of André Brett's excellent book _Can't Get There From Here_ about the history of NZ passenger rail: patricklam.ca/post/20230107-…