Eranziel

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on Fingies · c/science_memes · 11 pts · 64d

I would also argue against their reasoning for poor health outcomes after breaking a leg. The poster stated it was because the legs are evolved digits, but that really has nothing to do with it. I would argue they never needed to evolve anatomy that can handle a broken limb because wild horses who broke a limb very quickly became a meal.

With several NA jurisdictions now on permanent DST, or having already passed legislation to use permanent DST pending some condition or other, I'd say the chance of AB switching to permanent standard time is vanishingly small. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. The failure of that referendum gives a ton of ammo to those in favour of the status quo.

Yes, that's how things work when you live close to a time zone border. Doesn't really have anything to do with DST.

Most people living close to the BC<->AB or AB<->SK borders, for example, deal with this frequently, and stopping DST won't change that. You get used to it.

on 50ohm goes brrrrrr · c/science_memes · 1 pts · 212d

That's my understanding as well. I've seen dummy loads used when testing transmitters at power so that nothing gets too hot. They usually have a big aluminum heat sink.

I'm not really familiar with the proposed scale of fusion plants, but how do you get to 120t/day? The paper says the theoretical gold output is 2t/GWth/year.

on technical debt · c/programmer_humor · 1 pts · 251d

I've always been uncomfortable, honestly, with calling software developers "engineers". Partly that's because it's actually illegal to call a non-PEng role an "engineer" in some jurisdictions (most of Canada), but I think this comment is an excellent point of distinction to make between PEng and other roles.

Legal responsibility along with regulatory requirements. There's a reason everyone* trusts elevators and airplanes but shouldn't trust most software.

Her story with her in-laws gets a little sympathy, right up until she's complaining that the tenant is doing all these things to her and she "didn't do anything".

You served him illegal rent increase notices and you tried to evict him! That's not nothing! All the tenant has done is get the regulator in the loop, and the regulator has repeatedly said, "yeah, you can't do that." Flawed as they sometimes are, we have laws like these for a reason.

A lot of LLM hype is wrapped up in how well it can write code. This hype is being used by corporations to justify pouring mind boggling amounts of money into the tech in the hopes that they can lay off all their staff.

I reserve the right to hate this state of affairs and enjoy seeing every headline that shows just how much of a pipe dream it is.