Start snapping up politician's info and dumping it to every public forum. They enabled it, they can deal with the results.
The Trick: do the crime the cops were going to do anyway.
Nothing will ever be as accurate as a 1:1 pointing device. Using a thumbstick sucks ass for general mouse-work why would it be suddenly good for FPS games? Thumbsticks are best at racing, platforming, flight sims, maybe RPGs and scrollers.
Right tool for the job.
Actually, lack of capacity is pro-petro propaganda. In Ontario demand and generation can literally double in a week and still be within the normal range. Using smart charging (not SmartTM) it would be easy to recharge commuter vehicles overnight in such a way that the baseload is increased making the grid MORE stable, not less.
Conservatives don't want rights, rights apply to everyone.
Meanwhile, Windows requires you to buy a new license if you change your mouse.
It's not a big truck!
I trust my mobile device much less than my desktop.
I'm with you. Phones are toys, a PC with disk encryption and well chosen software it way more trustworthy.
That says more about the disgusting state of Canadian infrastructure than in does about electronic payment. A lot of places could't operate their POS at all without an internet connection.
PC gaming has been a thing since PCs began. Good devs will make good games, shit devs will make a 14th version of CoD. There is no vendor lock-in, no platform restrictions, compile your game and ship it. If it's good people will buy it.
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I kinda hoped that High Schools had improved in the past 20 years. Guess not.
Canadians are too ignorant to ever get behind that. Everyone I've talked with (trades, management, factory labour) thinks that UBI would take money out of their pocket and give it to the lazy and undeserving, despite the fact that many of them would benefit from it.
But these are the same people that think all teachers are lazy, overpaid, babysitters and public transit is a waste of money.
I fucking love it. I would totally put in 5 bucks a month to have stuff like this become a permanent fixture of Canada.
I found it really unintuitive at first because I kept thinking of the CD-ROM spindle as rigid. Once I realized that the whole system wobbled I had an awesome brain-candy moment and it all made sense.
I would have thought Toroidal Void would be a band name, they could open for The Spherical Cows.
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I learned this week that many high speed CD-ROM drives used balancing balls on the spindle to stop discs from vibrating at 10Krpm.
Between the platter that supports the CD and the motor there is a puck with a toroidal void containing a few ball bearings. When an out of balance CD is spun up the spindle and disc together rotate around their common center of mass, some point between the spindle and the edge of the disk. This means that the void containing the balls no longer rotates around it's center, it spins like a hula-hoop around the spindle/DC center of mass. With the "lighter" side of the system being farther from the center of rotation the balls roll 'down hill' towards the side of the void that is experiencing more centrifugal force. Eventually enough balls will collect on the light side to perfectly cancel out the heavy side. If there are too many balls they will distribute themselves inside the void until they cancel out each other's weight!
The link leads to a scaled up demo of this using an empty water bottle and steel BBs.
13 year old small pickup with a 2L and 5-speed: best car I ever bought. No computers, can haul a half ton of stuff and only uses 7-8L/100KM when commuting.
If the energy source is coal
Comparing one fossil fuel to a worse one is not a valid argument. Electricity generation is being pushed towards nuclear and renewables for the foreseeable future.
You don’t have to know what the need is today. But knowing how ridiculously expensive it is to install later should be all the warning people need.
Humans don't need any additional gasses to survive. The only reason we use methane is that it was once very cheap and we didn't know how bad it was in the longterm. All of our other needs are met by electricity (energy), water, or a trip to a store, if for some reason the xXxBox9080 needs a compressed gas cylinder in 2030 you can go pick it up. Throwing resources in a literal hole in the ground today because we might find a use for it tomorrow is not good planning.
Also because we’re already stressing electric infrastructure with what we use now
This is propaganda.
On the hottest day last week Ontario hyrdo demand was ~24000MW, last night it went as low as 12000MW. There is room to almost double the baseload in Ontario, with actually smart appliances and controls (not SmartTM shit) a ton of fossil fuel heating loads could be replaced with electric without needing any grid level upgrades.
Methane has to be compressed for both transportation in pipes and storage in tanks, a very energy expensive process. Or it can be chilled down and condensed to a liquid for bulk transportation in ships, also a very energy expensive process. Every single joint and valve in the distribution network has the potential to leak, and many of them do, the same goes for storage tanks. Also pressure regulators (like the one on the side of your house) have to vent to bring down the pressure when the network house pressure is too high.
Natural gas distribution networks are extremely leaky.
// Randomly spawn drops
// Take a random fraction of each cell move it down, or down and to the left or right
// The remainder of the fraction stays where it is
// Subtract a constant small value from all cells to prevent rain from accumulating
// Randomly spawn drops
// Take a random fraction of each cell move it down, or down and to the left or right
// The remainder of the fraction stays where it is
// Subtract a constant small value from all cells to prevent rain from accumulating
I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum's basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it's never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.
Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn't want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.
Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn't have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).
So what were your favorite games from the 90's and early 2000s?
> In the ruling, the judges argued the application could not be successful because of a new law, Rebuilding Ontario Place Act, 2023, that the government passed days after the court application was filed last November.
wow
Repaired some broken solder joints, sanded out the biggest scuffs and polished most of the scratches out of the screen. Oh yeah, and the paint job.
The two hemispheres are electrically connected to each other and to an AC power supply, the ring is connected to the same AC supply but 180 degrees out of phase. Particles are charged and then injected into the trap, they are then alternately attracted to the ring and hemispheres causing them to oscillate and become trapped! As the voltage is increased lighter particles pick up more speed until they are finally thrown free from the trap. In ideal conditions ions are all charged the same amount allowing the trap to sort the ions from lightest to heaviest, allowing you to determine the atoms that make up a particular substance.
In this model I can not control the charge on the particles but it is possible to roughly sort them from smallest to largest.
Notes: This trap is scaled WAY up, the ring had a diameter of about 24mm. I'm trapping non-dairy creamer not individual ions. The frequency this trap runs at is WAY lower frequency than that of a real ion trap. This trap runs at a much higher voltage than a real trap. Otherwise them mechanism of operation is identical to the real thing.
So I bought 2 sets because it looked like one set was briefly lost in the mail and this past week I got an email from Amazon that said one set I bought were “fakes.”
- Both sets have printing that matches legitimate manufactures.
- The “legitimate” set have all black filters (not the metalized filters I am used to like Thousand Oaks Optical) the “fakes” have the metalized filters.
- Both sets of glasses have the same transmittance as the Thousand Oaks filter material I use on my telescope and cameras.
- The build quality of the “legitimate” glasses is quite a bit worse than the “fakes” with the two layers of paper being misaligned
So, what I suspect is that I actually received a crappy set of “real” glasses and a well made set of counterfeits, this seems in line with the press release made by the American Astronomical Scociety.[0]
> Some of these newly identified counterfeits are indistinguishable from genuine Qiwei products and appear to be safe. Others look like Qiwei’s eclipse glasses, but when you put them on, you realize they are no darker than ordinary sunglasses. So, these products are not just counterfeit, but also fake –– they’re sold as eclipse glasses, but they are not safe for solar viewing.
So, did anyone get unlucky enough to get some ‘real-fake’ glasses? An did anyone get a set of legitimate glasses with the non-metalized filter?
[0] https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
So I bought 2 sets because it looked like one set was briefly lost in the mail and this past week I got an email from Amazon that said one set I bought were "fakes."
- Both sets have printing that matches legitimate manufactures.
- The "legitimate" set have all black filters (not the metalized filters I am used to like Thousand Oaks Optical) the "fakes" have the metalized filters.
- Both sets of glasses have the same transmittance as the Thousand Oaks filter material I use on my telescope and cameras.
- The build quality of the "legitimate" glasses is quite a bit worse than the "fakes" with the two layers of paper being misaligned
So, what I suspect is that I actually received a crappy set of "real" glasses and a well made set of counterfeits, this seems in line with the press release made by the American Astronomical Scociety.[0]
> Some of these newly identified counterfeits are indistinguishable from genuine Qiwei products and appear to be safe. Others look like Qiwei’s eclipse glasses, but when you put them on, you realize they are no darker than ordinary sunglasses. So, these products are not just counterfeit, but also fake –– they’re sold as eclipse glasses, but they are not safe for solar viewing.
So, did anyone get unlucky enough to get some 'real-fake' glasses? An did anyone get a set of legitimate glasses with the non-metalized filter?
[0] https://aas.org/press/american-astronomical-society-warns-counterfeit-fake-eclipse-glasses
In the ten years since I took this photo the trail has been abandoned and the tree has rotted away.
This will be the only chance I will have to see a total eclipse so I slapped together all the gear I own and made a dry run today. There were some wispy clouds that made things a little soft but it's better than the 400mm I used in 2017.
Toronto Police have once again left residents in the city wondering whose side they're on after issuing some confusing advice to vehicle owners at ...
> To prevent the possibility of being attacked in your home, leave your fobs at your front door, because they're breaking into your home to steal your car. They don't want anything else.
Prior to his death, whistleblower John Barnett was testifying against Boeing over concerns about standards.
Totally unrelated to the Boeing that lost a wheel last week or the Boeing that had "a strong movement" today, injuring 50.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is rejecting the idea that his party played a role in granting $40 million in regulatory relief to Bell Media.
$40M that came of a Conservative motion which was backed by the NDP.
