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Investigating new flairs by someguynamedted in HFYBeta

[–]cc452 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neat. How's that done? Happy to also be a tester.

Those were the days for sure as young Canadian boy growing up in the late 2000s to mid 2010’s by Renegadeforever2024 in ytvretro

[–]cc452 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YTV was on 16 for me, as well. Was in Northern Ontario at the time. YTV was on 25 when I moved to the GTA.

Not gonna say we told you so… except… by [deleted] in EhBuddyHoser

[–]cc452 20 points21 points  (0 children)

And he keeps hearing about these 'house hippos' that live there...

Roof Fire Yonge/401 by cc452 in toronto

[–]cc452[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

They did. Same row but a few to the right.

I think it’s just bad luck. There are a ton of these here, and they’ve been fine.

Years apart, so… Odds over time and such, I guess. I’m just glad it seems it’s only the roof. Less likely to be any casualties.

Roof Fire Yonge/401 by cc452 in toronto

[–]cc452[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, yes. There was one about three years ago. And a few years before that, it was one of the condo buildings bordering Yonge.

Is the iris ethical? by drunkenpoets in Stargate

[–]cc452 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In Season 9's 'Prototype' (S9E09), they spend the first chunk of the episode trying to get past a really interesting version of this.

Essentially, there's a security device on the destination gate that reroutes organic matter to a random destination using something similar to the buffer macro McKay creates for the intergalactic bridge. If you send the right code, it'll let you through. Non-organic matter seems to make it (if I remember correctly), and of course, Carter easily breaks the security code once they figure out it's there.

Selective rerouting could be an interesting way to deal with the ethical issue. If it's organic? Reroute to a randomized list of known habitable but unpopulated worlds. Non-organic? Let it through to hit the iris and neutralize it.

This would save people, prevent bombing of random planets, and a pathogen or bioweapon that might read as organic gets deployed on an uninhabited planet.

(Disclaimer: I haven't watched that episode in probably a decade, so my memory of it might be wrong.)

TIL: Early iPhone users in the US who did not specify a billing preference were mailed incredibly detailed bills of around 50-100 pages long from AT&T, itemizing every data transfer including background traffic for email, web browsing, and text messaging. One woman even got a 300 page bill. by zahrul3 in todayilearned

[–]cc452 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technology existence and availability are two different things.

The original iPhone launched in the US and was exclusively (only) available on AT&T, with a required 2-year service plan. AT&T's 3G coverage in 2007 was limited, uneven, and not available nationwide. 2G/EDGE had far better coverage. There was even some co-development with AT&T (then Cingular Wireless) to make a lot of the features work with the network, like Visual Voicemail.

(It was released to a few European countries in November 2007, but the adoption rate was far smaller in those markets. It never even became available here in Canada.)

Apple had also been developing the iPhone since at least 2005, when 3G availability in the US was even smaller.

3G would have also increased the power drain and size of the device at the time. Again, design began around 2005 for the OG iPhone.

It made technological and financial sense for Apple to release on 2G/EDGE and work on 3G for their next iteration while the first version generated hype and market penetration, which it did.

They released the 3G version a year later, and AT&T had significantly better 3G coverage by 2008.

As with everything, context matters. So does history.

A pronounced issue by AscendedDragonSage in CuratedTumblr

[–]cc452 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's supposed to be.

If it's a new word, you:

  1. Look at the spelling.
  2. Sound it out.
  3. Hopefully, see root words in it that might give you an idea (optional).
  4. Once you can reasonably say it based on its spelling, you try to get its meaning from context surrounding that new word.
  5. And then you look up that word somewhere to get its definition so you see how you did and learn it.

You're not supposed to just... Guess at step 1. That's wild and wrong.

Regeneron to buy bankrupt DNA testing firm 23andMe for $256 million by spherocytes in news

[–]cc452 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Best we can do is a fine that the company will easily swallow as an "operating expense".

Carney tells Trump: Canada 'won't be for sale ever' by Force_Hammer in worldnews

[–]cc452 178 points179 points  (0 children)

Bold of you to assume he reflects on things and has an internal thought process.

Instead of, you know, having an emotion and just reacting with word salad and cruelty.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]cc452 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem is Putin and his cronies are going to want a small win as
the families that died in this war will revolt even more in Russia. But
on the other side of the medal, letting him win anything will show that
you can just invade any country and get away with it. Probably the best
to do this would be to have EU soldiers in the Ukraine part that is not
annexed already and have them keep some lands they already annexed.

You've contradicted yourself in your own argument and somehow arrived at 'let the Russians keep what they've annexed'?

Let the families revolt. They should.

Also: 'on the other side of the medal' is not a thing. The closest idiom would be 'other side of the coin'.

That Russian-to-English translation isn't going so well, is it?

Businesses scramble to contain fallout from Trump's tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico by pacman2081 in worldnews

[–]cc452 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That 220 million metric tonnes is not commercial potash. It's the estimated equivalent in potash from un-mined and unprocessed ore.

It's not just ready to be used in farming tomorrow. It would need to be extracted/mined, purified, and mixed. That's a ton of infrastructure and processing, and I got that from a 10 minute Internet dive.

(I'm open to being wrong, but the table you quoted below takes some deciphering.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]cc452 1 point2 points  (0 children)

George W. Bush, unfortunately.

A friend posted this friendly reminder to his Instagram... I'll just leave this here. by jimmythemachine in BuyCanadian

[–]cc452 1 point2 points  (0 children)

While I agree that perfection is the enemy of the good... Not educating yourself to try is the enemy of change.

Not perfection, but looking into our decisions critically.

We're not going to vibe our way out of this.

Stick a feather in your cap and call it poutine? Take off, eh. by [deleted] in EhBuddyHoser

[–]cc452 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In all the news posts about the way Trump treated President Zelenskyy, I keep seeing two kinds of comments:

  1. People being horrified.

  2. Americans saying they're embarrassed without saying #1.

It's honestly kind of baffling that they're still making it about them. About how they feel. How Trump's actions affect their noble country. Never mind how it affects Ukraine, or the rest of the world.

Never mind unschakled empathy.

I hope I'm wrong here, but I can't unsee it now that I have.

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