[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 3 points 47 minutes ago

Enforce shipping regulations.

Train firefighters and give them the tools they need to put out self oxidizing metal fires.

Stop making battery fires into a boogyman so oil and gas can say "look, we're safer!"

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

Does the CRTC do anything to help Canada at this point? They've allowed all telecoms/media to be merged down to 2 and a half entities. They've allowed cell and internet service prices to be the highest in the western world. They've forced CanCon rules that subsidize media monopolies while driving viewers to non-Canadian platforms. And now they are going to drive other services out of Canada at the request of those same media monopolies.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

He can be cruel AND stupid.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

It only takes one ICBM reaching it's target to fuck up a lot of people in Europe or America.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Go ahead, draft me. Thanks to the lack of availability of family doctors I have a number of chronic health issues! At best you pile 300 other guys like me up to block a road.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

allow a family member, police officer or medical professional to petition to force treatment when a person is deemed an imminent danger to themselves or others because of addiction or drug use

As long as there are some seriously strict requirements that need to be met then it's better than what we have at the moment.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

Not pictured: the billions of flying insects missing from the GTA.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

He really is speed running the Trump story arc from 'Hero of the Right' to raving lunatic.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

Fuck everyone involved, the dickheads involved should be held personally responsible for this. Fine the project manager, inspector, foreman, even the tradesmen who actually did the work.

But they were just doing what they were told

Bullshit, when your foreman tells you to build a subpar house, a house that you know someone is going to have to live in, you tell him to put it in writing. Your foreman would literally sell you by the pound if the opportunity ever came up. If enough guys wave down inspectors and get this shit caught before the house is sold it will no longer be profitable to build shitty houses.

Bias: I am an electrician, I worked for 7 years in commercial/industrial construction and 12 years in industrial maintenance/service. If I do sub standard work people can get hurt or killed. Sometimes I have to remind the bean-counters that a dead employee is a lot more expensive than the vital part I need to make a machine safe.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago

Past 30 years: VIDEO GAMES ARE THE DEVIL!

Now: DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY!

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 days ago

What a shocking thing to hear from the guy who plugged a coffee chain's new sandwich while thousands of people died thanks to his criminal mishandling of COVID.

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Using a vinyl cutter and mini-sand blaster I made some alternate universe corporate schwag! I like the idea that someone might have swiped these during an interview before both companies had their 'accidents.'

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I got my hands on some really weird EL panels and did a little dive into how they work. I still have no idea where to get more but I think they may be DIY-able.

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First Functional Print (www.thingiverse.com)

I was gifted an unused Ender 3 Pro two weeks ago and managed to model and print an adapter to connect Sony E-Mount cameras onto a 42mm dovetail used by microscopes.

Bed adhesion, leveling, stringing, clearance issues, blobs and permanently welded supports, I got to battle it all but thanks to the massive volume of community support I worked my way though.

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I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!

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submitted 3 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/physics@mander.xyz

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.

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Rain (lemmy.ca)
submitted 3 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/digitalart@lemmy.world

// 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

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submitted 3 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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?

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submitted 3 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/toronto@lemmy.ca

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

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submitted 3 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/steamdeck@lemmy.ml
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submitted 4 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/digitalart@lemmy.world

Made with Processing.org

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submitted 4 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world

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.

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submitted 4 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/crtgaming@lemmy.world

I tried to go for an 80's NES theme. Not perfect but not bad.

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