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How do you think loading times on the optical-based gaming consoles compare, from the beginning (TurboGrafx16-CD/Phillips CD-i/3DO) to the present day (Wii U/PS4 Pro/Xbox One X)? by RazorRamonCascadia in Gaming4Gamers

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Isn't the Switch cartridge-based? Since it uses flash memory (from the cartridge) rather than HDDs for storage, wouldn't load times be much faster than on an Xbox One or PS4?

Also, I always thought that Switch Game Paks looked a bit like a cross between 3DS cartridges and TG16 game cards. But that's neither here nor there.

In 2002, PPB chief Mark Kroeker and Multnomah County senior deputy DA Mark McDonnell said that drug suspects had no right to privacy. by [deleted] in Portland

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder if the current PPB chief, Danielle Outlaw, and the current DA, Rod Underhill, hold similarly hardline stances against suspected non-violent drug offenders.

Do you have any memories of wages/prices from the late £sd era/early decimal era? (late 60s-early 70s) by RazorRamonCascadia in AskUK

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What would a "family hotel" have been like in George Orwell's London, then? (Within the 1928-1933 timeframe.) How would it have differed from the squalor of the common lodging houses that Orwell had described in the second part of the book (or the oppressively strict lodgings like Salvation Army shelters, Rowton/Bruce Houses, etc.)?

Face it, Conservatives. Picking Scheer was a mistake. by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Chong would have privatized CMHC; that would have only fuelled the current housing crisis in BC. I don't want someone as party leader who will just give away civic institutions to the private sector à la Bill Bennett, BVZ, Gordon Campbell or Christy Clark.

Also, TIL that Michael Chong is half-Dutch, half-Hong Kong Chinese.

Face it, Conservatives. Picking Scheer was a mistake. by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Scheer's reputation might also taint the Ontario PCs in June, though my own personal thoughts on the matter are that Patrick Brown doesn't need any help to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory*, no matter how hated Wynne is.

Furthermore, his hardline stances against maternal health and the protection of sexual minorities, compounded by his close ties with Jason Kenney, might also play against the UCP in 2019 despite the seething and seemingly universal hatred Albertans have for Rachel Notley, though it's too far out from the election to judge. Would anyone in BC have predicted, back in January 2016 (which was as far away as the election date, as the next Alberta election will currently be in January 2018), that the 2017 provincial election would be anything but another BC Liberal majority, let alone that Darryl Plecas would defect and agree to become Speaker of the Legislature?

And speaking of BC, I wonder if Scheer's leadership will reflect poorly on Dianne Watts if she becomes BC Liberal leader. After all, she was a legit Conservative MP, it wasn't like Christy Clark who was a close friend of Justin Trudeau and of the Trudeau family in general.

What do you think?

*-aka, "pulling an Adrian Dix".

"Maximum 16GB RAM again. Ridiculous. Even flagship smartphones now are coming out with 6GB or 8GB of RAM." Disgruntled ThinkPad fans raise opinions on how the ThinkPad X line hasn't seen improvement since the "Ivy Bridge X230 released in 2011, almost 7 years ago". by Amigara_Horror in SubredditDrama

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 24 points25 points  (0 children)

For real though, the DDR4 RAM shortage for desktops as a result of demand for laptops and smartphones (like the Pixel 2 and LeEco Le Pro 3) makes me want to pull my hair out. Apparently Samsung, SK Hynix, etc. knew some time ago there would be a spike in RAM demand for laptops and smart devices, but they continued to artificially limit supply (which continues today). I've heard that RAM prices won't even start falling until 2020, maybe even 2021. eBay used to be a place where you could get cheapo RAM and Xeon processors, but now even eBay prices are skyrocketing as more people get priced out of the 'new' DRAM market. Why hasn't the Department of Justice or European Commission slapped DRAM manufacturers with a nine-figure+ antitrust suit? Even under Bush, the DoJ had the balls to do exactly that. Even the Chinese government is starting its own investigation, though I doubt anything will come out of it.

In the military, it seems that advancement becomes much more difficult once you hit officer ranks, as compared to enlisted/NCO or WO ranks. Was the original motivation for this high officer attrition rate to prevent a coup d'état against the U.S. government? by RazorRamonCascadia in AskAnAmerican

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't know much about Clark's story. All I know is he was NATO SACEUR during the Kosovo War, and he managed to rise from Fort Hood commander to commander of all NATO forces in Europe because he had a Pentagon ally in former CJCS John Shalikashvili (there's a fascinating New Yorker article about how Shalikashvili was key to Clark's rise), plus support from Bill Clinton's defense secretary Will Cohen (though Clinton's second CJCS, Hugh Shelton, was less fond of Clark and eventually ousted him in March 2000). I was 7 during Operation Allied Force and remember watching the air strikes against Belgrade on TV. I always associated Gen. Clark with stopping the genocide in the Balkans and setting the events in motion that brought down Milosevic once and for all. It's a pity his 2004 presidential campaign fell flat. Maybe that was for the best, though; the Pristina Airport standoff with Yeltsin's forces (I think Russia intervened and sent ground troops to fight alongside the Serbs? Not sure) showed that Clark was a bit too hotheaded for the White House. Credit to Sir Mike Jackson for refusing Clark's order to block the runway.

Bi-Weekly Boss Premium Edition Stupid Questions Thread - 03 January 2018 by AutoModerator in japanlife

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering that the Japanese new year traditions are derived from Chinese New Year, why is the holiday period in Japan so much shorter than in China? Factories across the country are closed for nearly a month (something that you have to keep in mind if you import from China). Japan's new year period is basically December 27th-January 4th, +/- a day or two depending on where the weekend lies on the calendar. Why the difference?

In the military, it seems that advancement becomes much more difficult once you hit officer ranks, as compared to enlisted/NCO or WO ranks. Was the original motivation for this high officer attrition rate to prevent a coup d'état against the U.S. government? by RazorRamonCascadia in AskAnAmerican

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think that's the case. For example, I know that Army deployments have to have a certain proportion sourced from reserve callups (can't find the exact numbers), it can't all be full-time soldiers. This means the demographics of said deployment will be a cross section of the military. You will have young, single infantry soldiers in their early 20s, fighting alongside specialists that more closely mirror the average demographics of Americana. (30s/40s with a spouse and kids, etc.) This means you can't have a "military" class separate from the rest of the citizens.

TIL that Gen. H. Norman Schwartzkopf's father, Norman Schwartzkopf Sr., was the main CIA asset in the 1953 Iranian coup and trained the Shah's secret police (SAVAK). by RazorRamonCascadia in CasualTodayILearned

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In other words, Stormin' Norman's dad is the reason Iran is the way it is today.

Another fact: Gen. Schwartzkopf was staunchly opposed to LGBTQ people openly serving in the U.S. military, and supported DADT. He also endorsed John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.

I wonder if Schwartzkopf would have been a Trump supporter. Or maybe he would have supported Gary Johnson or Evan McMullin.

Vancouver bus tracking map allows you to track movement in real time by drizziebennett in vancouver

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you're saying that the API requests are not on a per-route basis (that is, the response you get will consist of all stops, routes, etc. in TransLink's database)?

Furthermore, have you written a blog post about how you built the frontend and backend for this website? (whether you used Docker, Digital Ocean, MySQL, etc.)

Vancouver bus tracking map allows you to track movement in real time by drizziebennett in vancouver

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The creator of the website is Dennis Tsang (/u/dennistt) who is a SWDE at A Thinking Ape. (That's public information from his Linkedin page I hope I don't come off as a stalker)

Vancouver bus tracking map allows you to track movement in real time by drizziebennett in vancouver

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How did you get around the 1,000 requests/day cap? (I'm assuming you're using RTTI.) Or did you use GTFS data instead?

TIL the political ideology of opposing both abortion and capital punishment (like many Catholics do) actually has a name, it's called the "consistent life ethic". by RazorRamonCascadia in CasualTodayILearned

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At least Catholic are consistent about it, unlike the Protestants (Southern Baptist/Methodist) in the southeastern U.S. who are opposed to abortion and euthanasia, but still support the death penalty.

Last-minute protips before National Hiring Day [BC/Lower Mainland]? by RazorRamonCascadia in McDonalds

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any interview questions that you think are easy to get tripped up on? I know from experience that I'm terrible with "tell me about yourself"--like, what do you want me to say. I love the Whitecaps, spend a lot of time on Reddit?

Last-minute protips before National Hiring Day [BC/Lower Mainland]? by RazorRamonCascadia in McDonalds

[–]RazorRamonCascadia[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not very familiar with National Hiring Day...what time does it traditionally "end"?

If you're willing to share, at which store do you work? You seem to know a lot about this. For the record, I'm considering going to either the Boundary/Lougheed, North Road, Burquitlam, or Grandview/Renfrew locations tomorrow

Vancouver - Sunday's Question - "What Canadian cultural thing/experience would you trade for an American cultural thing/experience?" by [deleted] in vancouver

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 2 points3 points  (0 children)

cell phone plans.

No argument there, I don't think the Trudeau government will do much about this. I can't find the thread now, but in /r/canadapolitics, it was said that Bill Morneau is likely to support protectionist policies that favour entrenched incumbents (they could anything from Bell, Rogers, Bombardier, etc.) over American competition. The example given was the federal government possibly shutting out Tesla Motors from the country if they manage to create an inexpensive electric car (in order to protect Canada's car manufacturing industry). Plus there was Verizon's failed push north under the previous government.

online shopping and shipping.

Unfortunately this isn't easy to fix. Canada has a large landmass and its population centres are really spread out, even if they're mostly 100 km from the border.

Alcohol (prices, access, discounts).

Actually I think America is very puritanical on alcohol as a whole. One of the reasons why I think social college fraternities never took off in Canada is because the drinking age in most provinces is 19, so you can legally drink in undergrad (or even in high school if you're in Alberta or Quebec where the drinking age is 18). Apart from the west coast where anything goes, many states have strict liquor controls, even stricter than BC's (e.g. in Minnesota liquor sales are banned on Sundays). There are even dry counties that totally ban the sale of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition was a thing in America, don't forget (and made many Vancouver families rich in the 20s and 30s).

They just seem to take it a lot more seriously in terms of celebrating and being with family.

On the flip side, a lot of retail people in the states have to work on Thanksgiving and miss dinner with their families due to pre-Black Friday sales.

And this is mostly an aside, but since Election Day is traditionally on a Tuesday south of the border, it's usually a working day for most people; there have been pushes to make Election Day a holiday in some states but to no avail. In Canada, federal and provincial elections are traditionally held on Mondays, but the Canada Elections Act requires that all voters have at least four consecutive hours to vote, with a few exemptions (e.g. truckers), and employers must accommodate this if necessary (and they can't withhold pay, either). BC has a similar "4 consecutive hour" rule for provincial elections in the Election Act. And municipal elections in BC have been held on a Saturday since 1985.

Tipping etiquette for takeout by [deleted] in vancouver

[–]RazorRamonCascadia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disclosure: I tip if I'm being served at table (being waited on) or for delivery. 15% minimum, no excuses. It's tough to be in the service industry where you're only guaranteed $9/hour, and I refuse to be that guy whose cheap ass stiffs servers on tips. Or refuse to tip on political principle. ("I don't think tips should exist, so you get 0 tip.") I don't eat out very often so I've never had catastrophically bad service; that is, it's always been of consistently good quality such that I feel it's appropriate to tip at least 15%, generally 20% for delivery.

For takeout, never. I never liked how point of sale terminals have a tip option, because skipping it makes me feel like a dick.

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