[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Ignorance is not an excuse.

If no one has ever told them that some bats carry rabies how would they know to Google anything when they find a bat in the house? It's not something that is taught in school and I've never seen or heard a PSA talking about it in Ontario.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

Find the guys who signed the paperwork to build the well, chain them to it. Make them spend a year cleaning up by hand before we have to start paying for it.

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

There are streaming services that already are not available in Canada because we are too small of a market to be worth the hassle. Increasing that hassle will not make the situation better.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 53 points 3 weeks ago

Remember how aerospace corporations were allowed to self regulate and then Boeing killed 300 people, had a flight drop 300 feet in a second and had a non-door fly off?

relying on research by chemical industry researchers

🤡

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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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submitted 2 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/3dprinting@lemmy.world

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/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 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.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 102 points 5 months ago

Rant in a totally different direction. Carbon Capture Is Not Sustainable!

Unless you can capture 1 ton of carbon using less energy than is extracted by burning 1 ton of carbon, you can not capture carbon. Carbon capture will ONLY work if the energy you use to capture the carbon does not add more carbon to the atmosphere (nuclear, wind, solar) but having to run a supplementary power generation tech just to negate the effects of your primary tech is just stupid, fossil fuels no longer a viable option.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 60 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No we don't we think retiring at 65 is unattainable.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 98 points 5 months ago

Why would anyone NOT parse a tab as whitespace? Like, python really wants you to use spaces but will still let you use tabs if you are consistent.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 58 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Do not do this. "Run as Administrator" is a Windows answer to a Windows problem. The only time you should regularly need root privileges is installing software and editing system wide configuration files.

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submitted 6 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/photography@lemmy.ml

In the ten years since I took this photo the trail has been abandoned and the tree has rotted away.

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submitted 7 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

$40M that came of a Conservative motion which was backed by the NDP.

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submitted 7 months ago by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

London, Ont., police officers participating in a competition in Dubai alongside a Chechen group accused of committing atrocities in the conflict with Ukraine

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 72 points 9 months ago

Because they cost an arm and a dick. I can't afford a $40k car even if it's cheaper per km to operate.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 50 points 10 months ago

Huh, I wonder if it works on oil companies too, or does the threat of voilence only work on green projects?

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by nik282000@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

"Not every item within [the plastic manufactured items category] has the potential to create a reasonable apprehension of harm"

As long as we agree not to be apprehensive about the harms resulting from the use and manufacture of all plastics, they are ok. Got it, bring back the straws and stir sticks!

The challenge to the federal government’s proposed ban was brought last year by the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition (RPUC) and several chemical companies. They argued that the federal government had failed to demonstrate that it had enough scientific evidence to justify the regulations. RPUC was formed in 2021 in response to the “toxic” designation, and currently includes more than 30 processors and resin makers, including Berry Global Group Inc., CCC Plastics, Dow Inc., Ingenia Polymers, IPL, LyondellBasell Industries, and Nova Chemicals Corp.

https://www.canplastics.com/canplastics/judge-quashes-cabinet-order-underlying-canadas-single-use-plastic-ban/1003462513/

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 55 points 11 months ago

For normies it's easy:

  1. Password Manager
  2. Firefox
  3. Adblocker

Those three will make up for 90% of peoples bad habits.

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 74 points 11 months ago

but plans to list it for $150,000 less than he bought it for a year ago – its value walloped because in a matter of months, it will no longer be useable in most cases as an Airbnb, “The revenue stream dictates the value,”

The system works!

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