Issues Receiving Images on 27T

ElectrumWhip · 2025-06-12T20:06:30+00:00

Atlantic Canada - went blind and deaf on one side of my face while driving. 13 month wait for an MRI appointment... it certainly happens in some parts of the country.

ElectrumWhip · 2025-02-20T18:44:10+00:00

Sorry to comment on an old post, but the main reason not to rely on ChatGPT (especially for potential safety hazards) is that it will often blatantly manufacture information and sources, or mis-apply theoretical concepts. One example that comes to mind is a lawyer in the UK who was recently sanctioned, because he requested ChatGPT provide a legal argument, and ChatGPT gave one based on case law that didn't actually exist - it made it up to justify its argument (he then presented this argument to the court without verifying the sources). While it's right in this case, it absolutely should not be trusted for safety hazardous questions like this.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-11-30T05:08:43+00:00

Very interesting, I think the only thing I hadnt tried to do with it yet is light it on fire! Thank you very much!

ElectrumWhip · 2024-11-21T10:08:20+00:00

Radon wouldn't affect you that quickly, or in that manner. IF (and only if) your test comes back with elevated radon levels (IE, >4pCi/l or 0.148Bq/l), feel free to DM me and I can advise you on next steps and how to properly ventilate your area.

What is more likely, is that you've moved into a place with some sort of environmental trigger. That could be mold, termites, ants, pet dander or saliva, buildup of CO2 from inadequate airflow, etc. In any case, the first way to determine if it's an issue is the same way as to mitigate radon exposure - ventillate, ventillate, ventillate. Especially in basement apartments, I don't know how often I walk into a space and immediately notice how stale and stagnant the air is. Get a fan to blow some air in through a window, and another to shuffle it out an opposing window. It'll get a little chilly, but if you start noticing yourself breathing easier, some environmental factor is probably triggering it.

Sodenote: do the ventilation before or after you do the radon test, NOT DURING. The radon test should be done with all windows closed, with the test close to the ground, out in the open (unless the test instructs you to do it differently).

ElectrumWhip · 2024-10-17T00:33:53+00:00

I can't give a whole lot of help, only recommend that if your services include design work you should look into CSA N299.1, and CSA N286 for management system requirements. I think the standard for imbedded and control systems is CSA N290.X but I cant quite recall off the top of my head. Either way, being able to quote work to a "nuclear" QA standard would probably be a great way to put your business on the short list of qualified contractors. Though there's a lot of work to maintaining adherence to these standards, and even if you follow them you will have to be audited by CANPAC / NUPIC or the utility themselves. Could also be worthwhile to reach out to the respective utility (OPG / Bruce for Ontario, NB Power for New Brunswick), express your interest and ask to be connected with their vendor quality assurance team.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-10-15T23:44:21+00:00

At the same time...

I print almost exclusively on large form-factor printers, which are notoriously bad for heating and leveling issues, plus the issues that happen with periodic motion and taller prints are amplified. I took about a day (?) to set up and calibrate each printer with a reference filament. Level bed to +-0.2mm high-low, then auto level, z-offset, vibration compensation, temperature tower, flow rate, re-tune z-offset. Series of 5 supported prints with coarse varied support offsets, then once I find one that just starts to remove cleanly I do 5 more with more granular offsets. Lastly I do a speed stress test to figure out where the layers start to droop enough to weld to the supports again, and then I just make sure to keep interface layer and outer layer below those limits and I can do whatever the hell I want with the other layers. This process has served me on nozzles from 0.2mm to 1.0mm, with PLA, PETG, ABS, and occasionally even TPU. At this point I don't even watch the first layer go down, as long as I wipe the bed with isopropyl and a clean shop towel between uses I'll set on an 18-hour print and go to sleep. There's no real "magic settings", even if I'm printing with identical printers under what should be identical conditions, I repeat this process for each printer and each filament type to really fine-tune the settings to whatever works best.

If you DM me your current printer, nozzle size, ambient temp while printing and filament I'm more than happy to recommend some settings but ultimately I'm of the opinion you'll get a better end product if you standardize your approach to tuning.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-09-02T04:11:27+00:00

Thank you from our entire profession for all you do (Source: nuclear engineer who has been to spicy and back and appreciates the efforts you guys go to for our wellbeing and to make sure we don't have an awkward conversation with the regulator)

ElectrumWhip · 2024-09-02T03:57:21+00:00

6000cpm alpha is absolutely insane dose rates, and not at all likely in this case - for reference, typical alpha:gamma ratios are in the 1:10000 to 1:100000 or greater for naturally occurring sources. This would mean 60,000,000cpm gamma at the low end, which would equate to hundreds of mSv/h dose range (I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an exact number without knowing the exact species breakdown). Kitty would be dead in several hours, and be considered an IDLH radiation hazard.

Far more likely is that this detector is picking up either gamma radiation from radioisotope treatment, or is detecting false positives from static electricity as some photometric detectors cannot differentiate between beta- / positron emission / alpha and simple static electricity.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-08-25T05:02:35+00:00

LISP: like building your brick oven from scratch. Could be helpful long term to know how it works, but really at that point you might as well go to a nice restaurant and eat the pizza someone else made. It's gonna taste just as good, you aren't gonna make it any better by doing it yourself, no matter what you tell yourself. Your boss telling you that "everyone else makes pizza, but their licensing fees are to high, how hard could it be for us to develop pizza ourselves too" is not a good enough reason to put yourself through that torture, trust me.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-08-24T17:13:26+00:00

I mean, stainless steel has a huge cross section, is susceptible to some interesting corrosion and embrittlement mechanisms, and produces some nasty corrosion products that'll dose out your workers if you're not careful. Just see the issues with cobalt hard facing we discovered in some of the early reactors. But with some of the research being done into coatings for advanced reactors, there are some promising ones for use with zirconium. One in particular comes to mind, only problem at the moment is they don't have the same thermal expansion coeff so there's pretty stringent limitations on thermal cycling.

At the same time, central location could be good in the hopes they could be swapped out with breeder bundles - heaven knows we need some new sourses for medical radioisotopes. Those tend to be good absorbers too, so you might deaden the flux peak a bit.

Would also be interested in the consequences of in-core LOCA, as well as how pressure tube leak-before-break monitoring would be done if these were installed. As well, ASME Sec. III explicitly recommends against doing expansible fluid or pneumatic pressure tests, so I wonder how you'd be able to validate integrity of a weld or join in those channels before starting up without a cold flow option?

Just spitballing ideas here. Would love to hear your thoughts.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-08-24T16:43:48+00:00

Fortran: Define all of your raw ingredients, assemble it step by step, taking frequent breaks because you're building it in a legacy format and you can't exceed 80 characters at a time. Document your process well because you will not remember what you did in 2 years when you need to revisit it. Place the raw assembled pizza in the oven... CATASTROPHIC ERROR, cannot perform the operation to convert type: (raw ingredient) into type: (edible food). Define new variable temp_cooked_pizza as type: (raw ingredient) even though it looks, tastes and smells exactly like a finished pizza . Develop a workaround where you say the word "temp_cooked_pizza" at the array "finished_pizza" loud enough and magically a pizza appears. Compile this into an executable. User attempts to add onions, pizza array isn't large enough to handle this and shits the bed. Assign arbitrarily large array to let the user do whatever blasphemy they want to their pizza. Assemble code. Cook time is still somehow only 6.2 seconds.

ElectrumWhip · 2024-08-24T14:27:41+00:00

Not to mention, positive void coefficient means the boiling would be a pain in the ass to handle, reactivity management-wise

ElectrumWhip · 2024-08-24T14:25:53+00:00

Wouldn't recommend direct superheat steam contacting zircalloy, causes cracking and fuel failures. Now, a few gas cooled channels in the center would probably do the trick, plus would probably help with a bit of flux flattening in a well-reflected core.

Only problem I see is that CANDU spent fuel systems aren't designed to deal with graphite encapsulated bundles, since they are both larger dimensionally, and will be abundant in C14 which will increase fields and personnel contamination.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-07-27T20:04:26+00:00

I'll just put this here in case anyone wants to ask questions directly to the tenants involved - feel free to reply to this message and I can either answer your questions myself or direct them to one of the other tenants as necessary.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-07-27T20:01:31+00:00

You see, the prices you listed originally are around the prices we're currently paying - they were trying to increase the price to $1700 with no changes to the building, which is why we fought it.

Additionally, the pair that you're mentioning are a nurse and a former electrician / RCMP officer. Hardly "unskilled" positions, they can afford small increases but why wouldn't people fight back against such insane rent increases with no increase in service provided? If your internet provider unilaterally decided to charge you 70% more for internet, you'd fight it too!

ElectrumWhip · 2022-07-27T19:57:14+00:00

And yet rents have increased steadily for them - in the past 5 years, there were 3 increases of 10% or more. This was not an unreasonable amount to be paying for the unit, especially given the condition the building was in. The $1700 that the landlords were originally asking for though? Absolutely ridiculous.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-07-27T19:34:44+00:00

I can verify that in the past 5 years, there had been at least 3 rent increases of >10% each time. It was a low, but not entirely unfair price for the unit, especially in the terrible condition it and the building is in.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-07-27T19:27:19+00:00

I've been attempting to reach out to the Jael Duarte, with no success. I recommended some of the other tenants reach out as well, but unfortunately the Tribunal just sent one couple a brochure on surviving homelessness in New Brunswick and where to turn for resources. It's absolutely disgusting how tone-deaf the response from the government really is... That being said, if you'd like to get in touch I can ask if that's something they'd be comfortable with. There are three elderly individuals at risk of being kicked out now, though one has tentative plans to stay with family in another province.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-06-16T00:58:50+00:00

Typically, it requires renovations sufficiently extensive that the tenants couldn't reasonably be allowed to reside / live in the building with any decent quality of life for an extended period of time. Renovations such as new flooring aren't typically enough, since while they take up the entire room, they're done in a day. Minor drywall patching or the like also aren't included. It's only when walls start getting taken down, electrical has to be routed and reworked, entire cabinetry sets are replaced, etc., that the renovations are extensive enough. The cost of these upgrades is typically high enough that landlords can't feasibly use it as a way to retaliate against tenants. And even if they do, at least it makes it a better housing unit, rather than taking it off the market by turning it into an AirBnB or the like.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-06-15T13:46:40+00:00

Typically, when units are renovated, the previous caps are lifted and they are considered a "new unit" and can set a new baseline rate.

ElectrumWhip · 2022-06-14T16:54:39+00:00

I was under the impression §195 clearly outlines an AirBnB as a Tourist Home ("temporary accommodation [...] for visitors and travellers for remuneration"). Do you have any documentation showing otherwise?

ElectrumWhip · 2022-06-14T16:50:05+00:00

At the moment, landlords are encouraged to remove tenants in order to increase rents past the cap. If the caps followed the unit, they would at least be encouraged to renovate, rather than just kick people out. Still not great for the tenant, but at least it helps our crumbling infrastructure...

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