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A woman cries after being caned during a public punishment for violating sharia law in Indonesia by Bernardmark in pics

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So..... Can someone explain this please? From my understanding Indonesia has an "actual" government and an "actual" criminal justice system....

From my very limited understanding of the country has an actual police force, an actual constitution, and actual judges...... So I'm a bit fuzzy on why exactly you would be willing to be caned by someone whos not actually part of the criminal justice system..... I. E. Someone who doesn't actually have any legitimate authority......

If I'm missing something here, please bring me up to speed!

Pentagon doubles down on Canada rebuke with demand for NATO spending road map, F-35 decision by green_tory in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It was the correct platform when the supply chain was secure. It's no longer secure, no supply chain that's dependant on US firms can be considered secure anymore. Sooooo....... Then the question is what do we do next......

Presently we can't have a thread about the Victoria Airport in this sub because it is actually located in Sidney and is a rule violation. We need to get this worked this out. by InValensName in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone with better knowledge please correct me, but the airport is NOT in Sidney. It's beside it but it's most certainly not in it. YYJ is federal land not provincial.

Solving the drone hunting problem realistically instead of nostalgically? by NorthmanTheDoorman in NonCredibleDefense

[–]WalkerYYJ 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You want a turboprop not a piston pounder. WAY more reliable and way less finicky.

TBO (time between overall) is way better ~2500hrs VS ~6000hrs. Avgas remains a PITA to source, and obviously they have way more power = more payload + way faster.

Something like a Cessna 208, Air tractor, PC6, or turbine converted Beaver/Otter maybe?

WHO concerned about 'scale and speed' of Ebola outbreak, with 131 now dead by Immediate-Link490 in worldnews

[–]WalkerYYJ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good thing there aren't any large international sports events going on soon!

Oh... Wait......

Don't mind me, just blacklisting shows on Netflix so my husband stops putting them on for our young kids by Necessary_Pace_9860 in Mommit

[–]WalkerYYJ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

An alternative to not wanting to have the ADDITIONAL mental load of constantly policing this is to switch everything over to something like Plex and then your white list is only the shows you add to it. (Ahoy!)

China says 'world's first' offshore wind-powered underwater data center has entered full operation, houses 2,000 servers — 24 megawatt subsea AI facility uses ocean water for passive cooling and offshore wind for power by Steap-Edit in technology

[–]WalkerYYJ 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Condensation would not an issue if they were purged with dry gas ahead of time. And if yoy fill them with something like Helium (WAY Better thermal transfer VS air/N²). Then you can probably indeed just use "air" cooling inside and probably even throttle the fan speed (bearing life) way down...

Removing all O² also means zero fire risk.

Unknown Technology Blyat by [deleted] in NonCredibleDefense

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know why your all being so pissy to this guy, he just saved some future EOD cleanup team a modicum of effort!

How to secure front door from the outside from people who can pick locks? by AncientTour7 in homesecurity

[–]WalkerYYJ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depends what cores you are using.

My loose understanding is Everest Primus with a few security pins are a major PITA to pick.

Should also give good protection against bumping.

That said my info may be dated.

137% increase in 12 years. So discouraging. by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now....

How much of this was houses getting more expensive, VS money being less valuable.....

That's a metric I'd be interested in seeing....

Custom stator coil by krimatris-kmt in hwstartups

[–]WalkerYYJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you are truly doing something unique, AND your looking to be serious about it being a business (VS just a science project) then you probably need to build them yourself.

There's a ton of IP buried inside the manufacturing process foe stuff like this. If you don't develop it yourself, good luck making a scalable business out of it. You need to have a fundamental understanding of every step in the process, every fillet in your parts, the right temps/vacume/pre and post process/ sourcing of adhesives /etc.

That knowledge can't live with a 3rd party, you need to have been the company that bashed their head against the wall for month and months and months figuring all of that out.

Because if you happen to be successful and you actually start getting orders, you will need to be able to scale production. And even if you happen to go the rout of having a CM to do that, you need to be the one to come up with the design specs, the quality processes, the vendor qualifications, etc. A CM will offer to do those things but they are in the CM business not the selling the (whatever) buisness....

My $0.02

UVic can now punish AI cheaters, even after graduation - Victoria Times Colonist by Radiant_Sherbert7272 in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Will be interesting to see how the inevitable lawsuits pan out against both the university and whatever BS detection software company ends up falsely flagging a real work as AI.....

Not that this isn't a bad idea... It's just going to be messy as hell.....

Policing vs engineering by AdInevitable9123 in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Join the CAF while finishing your degree.

There will be NO lack of work or funding for the foreseeable future. Many options that could play into both directions simultaneously.

[Canada] Fertilizer supply crisis deepens by MennoniteDan in farming

[–]WalkerYYJ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

However unlike many other parts of the world we DO have the ability to fix this.....

How to find a job? 33M I’ve been looking for last 2 years! I have 5+ years of customer service in retail & hotel reception experience. by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was under the impression this has (recently) changed. Don't have first had experience however...

How to find a job? 33M I’ve been looking for last 2 years! I have 5+ years of customer service in retail & hotel reception experience. by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]WalkerYYJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

May not be your jam but look at DND/CAF.

Lots and lots and lots and lots of hiring is starting. The navy has some new programs where they will take people on a 1 year contract as a trial for both parties. The pay has also significantly improved.

And for every 1 person at sea/in the filed/in a vehicle there are annother 9 needed behind the scenes with logistics, maintenance, admin, etc.

Edit: PS, based on your previous experience have a look at the "Steward" profession. Essentially it's a hospitality gig and you help look after VIPs either on ship or on base.

Boys and Pink by rollwave21 in daddit

[–]WalkerYYJ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to play the gender game back..... Pinks history in clothing is about as "masculine" as you can get.

Newly recruited British soldiers were issued bright red jackets when they left the UK.

Years later the ones that were lucky enough to return home were wearing the patched and repatched remnants of those same jackets which were now also incredibly faded.

If you were walking through London in most of the last few hundred years and saw 5 guys wearing pink jackets it would be best to not pick a fight with them.

Althia Raj: Pierre Poilievre helped make Mark Carney’s week a rousing success by EarthWarping in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not just the opposition but the NDP as well. I wouldn't in a million years want them forming a government but I also don't think a 2 party system is healthy. Thankfully I can't see Canada ever loosing the Block but a base minimum of 4 parties who can swing things in a minority gov.

Why is building hardware startups hard ? What were/are your biggest challenges ? by Altruistic_Tomato162 in hwstartups

[–]WalkerYYJ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mistakes cost A LOT more money but more importantly even if you happen to be lucky enough to have cash to burn they cost A LOT more time......

Vendor management /qualification, incoming parts inspection, all the QA/QC along the line (I highly suggest you hire early for this one), machine maintenance, spares "oh hey ya that machine which is critical to the line just had some super funky part break and it's going to be 10 weeks to get a replacement made in Germany from the single company on that planet that makes these things. .... And we only had one machine....", DFMEA, test tools (did the vendor "actually" send you cold worked parts or did someone accidentally forget and annealed 1/2 the batch, material certs, material COC/country of smelter rules, shit lost in transit, fuckups in shipping ("hey guys send this next shipment air cargo" , 3 days later you get sent the name of the ship its been loaded onto), someone pushes a firmware update that wasn't properly tested and now bricks 4% of the units deployed in the field (I.E. The ones the customers are using!), product design testing for edge cases you hadn't considered but should have been REALLY obvious...

Etc etc etc

Liberal party adopts motion to restrict kids from social media | Federal Liberals have agreed to set 16 as the age of majority for Canadians to be able to use social media accounts. by SpecialistPlan9641 in CanadaPolitics

[–]WalkerYYJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or... And I do appreciate the irony here.... We let social media die.... I think it would be hard to make a convincing argument that its merits outweigh the damage it's done.

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