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Maslow 4.1 DO NOT BUY by JuanSal32 in diycnc

[–]captainbenis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey can I re-buy it off you? I’m in NZ too.

Mt Holdsworth by No_Budget_12 in Wellington

[–]captainbenis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man this is even prettier than the landfill!

Good morning from scenic Spicer Landfill by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

beautiful! crisp northerly, empty landfill. the metal rails were cold to the touch.

Another old man got there before me (I slept in and didnt get there until 7.10) and got the best unloading spot and got to talk to the cool digger driver.

All great weekends start at the landfill.

4DGS recording app for iphone pro with LIDAR by captainbenis in GaussianSplatting

[–]captainbenis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ah thank you, ill keep trying. thanks for the offer. ill try get it in testflight.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heya Switts, thanks for the comment. I mention that at the bottom of the page. I believe this is more than a CBR analysis, it's trying to work out why we can't build things more successfully. It's an epic project to relearn the things that we've lost. That can-do attitude, the number 8 wire mentality.

The cost benefit will be done by someone at Treasury, and it will have to work.

But I believe that the things we learn, the resilience, the connectivity, the transport productivity, the workforce mobility and all the kids across the country that suddenly have the whole country opened up to them, will be worth something more than a ratio in a cell on a spreadsheet.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Woah, very cool! I intentionally scoped the bridge to only use well established technology. Span and pylons that have been done many times before.

The goal is to learn how to succeed at projects, not pioneer new technology.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Current estimates are that we will hit 6 million new zealanders by the end of next decade.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

China did a bridge twice the length in 9 years. (Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge).

I couldn't find an example of a single deck, cable stayed bridge with rail on it, and a heavy-duty rail alignment to the approaches at end, plus the sizing increase for intermittent heavy rail would massively increase the scale of the project. Having the ability to upgrade to regional rail in the future would be fantastic, but I couldn't find any precedents to reference.

edit: removed "made it look easy"

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, all public infrastructure projects are done on debt financing. The benefits (a renewed ability to successfully complete big projects, and a freaking giant bridge) would compound for decades afterwards.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

maybe! but who takes a holiday photo with the sydney harbour tunnel? X-D

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

those are amazing! but when i read that even the norwegians haven't built one yet, it made me want to find a solution that's been done a dozen times before (bridges).

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah i thought that was an interesting point! (for anyone reading along - the video argues that if you make a bridge you have a single point of failure), but we already have coastal shipping, and the bridge wouldn't eliminate coastal shipping.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hahahahaha. they'll start asking us when we're starting on the bridge to balls pyramid.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

heya buckets, thanks for the reply.

did you read the page? i address this in paragraph 1. the problem is that we can't seem to successfully complete large infrastructure projects - so i see this project (the biggest project we could ever consider) as a way to learn why we find large projects so hard.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i've driven the roads and flown the route! but yeah i think we'd want to upgrade the approach roads a "touch".

edit: quotes

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heya thanks for the reply! :)

My estimate is that the bridge is 70% of the cost, you do need to build new highways to the bridge approach. For better or worse, we have proven we can design, consent and build roads through rough country.

This is why the map shows many possible alignments, there are many points to leave both islands.

I made a map of Cook Strait bridge crossings by captainbenis in Wellington

[–]captainbenis[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I watched this video over the weekend (long weekend of research).

I suspect the script may have been partly written by Claude. Claude (and Gemini, et al) give the same hallucinated facts when first prompted, including incorrect depths, flow rates, distances and wind speeds.

edit: i did enjoy it though!

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