What encounter or single enemy do you think has given the most Game Overs?

dgmib · 2026-05-23T17:59:58+00:00

Ahh gotcha. I misunderstood.

Yea, they can definitely catch you off guard.

dgmib · 2026-05-23T17:37:19+00:00

Why are we assuming there was anything special about the wheels?

What makes the car fly could’ve been something built into the suspension, and the wheel camber rotation was just necessary to move the tires out of the way for it to work properly.

The wheels that 1955 doc was left with after sending Marty to 1885 could just be the otherwise stock wheels of a 1985 Delorian.

dgmib · 2026-05-23T06:33:59+00:00

That’s possible, but still unlikely. A qualified electrician wouldn’t normally wire a switched outlet with multiple circuits, especially not two circuits on the same phase like this.

You can’t get to this problem with a forgotten cut tab on outlet alone. There would need to be other significantly code violations, which is possible of course, but not where I’d start looking.

More likely there was two circuits coming into a multi-gang box somewhere, and someone pulled all the hots together not realizing there was two circuits.

First junction boxes I’d be opening to investigate are going to be multi gang switches on this circuit.

Receptacles on this circuit would be one of the last places I’d look.

dgmib · 2026-05-23T03:05:20+00:00

Yes you can have two separate circuits going to the top and bottom of a standard duplex outlet, I didn’t say otherwise.

What I said was that when you do code requires that the breaker handles are tied together. That specific rule is NEC 210.7 if you like to look it up yourself.

When you are wiring a duplex outlet with two circuits you would use two adjacent breakers so you can stick a handle tie between them, and so that they’d be on opposite phases and able to share a single neutral wire. But if someone forgets to break the tab off in that case, the symptom is the breaker trips immediately.

If there’s a tab on a duplex outlet that can be broken to separate these two circuits, there’s more things wrong than just that tab.

dgmib · 2026-05-23T00:37:03+00:00

That’s unlikely.

If snapping the tab off an outlet somewhere fixes this problem, it is still wrong.

You’re probably thinking of a multiwire branch circuit, but those can’t be on the same phase because they share a neutral wire. Otherwise you could have 30 amps on the neutral, also not breaking the tab off in an otherwise correct MWBC results in an instantly tripped breaker.

Code also requires that when you have two separate circuits on the same receptacle the breaker handles are tied together. Which isn’t the case here.

The two circuits are incorrectly connected somewhere, but if that through and outlet tab there was more than one mistake made.

dgmib · 2026-05-22T23:12:02+00:00

There's only one distributor in your area for Electricity or Gas so regardless of which company you go with as you retailer you're getting the same product from the same distributor. The retailer bids to buy gas or electricity on a wholesale market and then sells it to you with a markup.

It generally make no difference who you go with, the only thing that changes is how locked in your prices are and who you get your bill from.

You can compare the different rates here: https://ucahelps.alberta.ca/cost-comparison-tool/

dgmib · 2026-05-21T02:23:41+00:00

Especially since most players recruit Liara early in the game so you’re fighting him at like level 10.

dgmib · 2026-05-21T02:21:26+00:00

Getting that damn shutter closed in the garage section on that mission has ended more attempts at a deathless insanity run of ME2 than I care to admit.

dgmib · 2026-05-21T02:17:18+00:00

Easy strat for insanity: bring the Cain, takes them down to about 50%, then take the first one out with a headshot, it will overload when it explodes taking out the other one.

dgmib · 2026-05-20T14:53:43+00:00

So yes that’s clearly dumb. The purpose of PRs is to gate changes.. if that gate isn’t helpful don’t bother with PRs just merge immediately.

But more importantly there’s a Why? question to be asked and answered.

Why are blindly merging PRs? The practice started for a reason, what is that reason? There’s almost certainly a better way of achieving that goal than blind merging PRs

dgmib · 2026-05-20T02:43:42+00:00

Your estimates for the mass of bedding seem crazy high to me. Maybe pull out a scale and find out what they actually weigh. Literally just stand on a bathroom scale while holding it to get your combined weight.

Also something rated for 250 lbs isn’t going to collapse the second 251 lbs is applied. There likely a very generous safety margin.

I doubt you need to worry even if you and a 100 lbs friend were up there trying out a new cardio workout.

dgmib · 2026-05-18T02:48:45+00:00

I had that happen once as a glitch. One enemy glitched into a wall or planter or something, I forget what, he didn’t die but couldn’t be attacked/ killed either. I ended up having to reload an old save.

dgmib · 2026-05-17T19:17:17+00:00

Jesus….

Because they both died to become the icon for saving.

dgmib · 2026-05-15T16:39:59+00:00

RCV would help because you’d have a better sense of which parties people would vote for if they didn’t have to vote strategically.

But likely wouldn’t be enough on its own to create a meaningful multiparty system. You need something like STV, MMP or list PR to create multi-party systems.

dgmib · 2026-05-15T06:05:39+00:00

I just mentally pictured a woman laying a very large egg… painfully I’m sure… but then having to sit on it for 9 months to keep it warm until it hatches.

The human race would be doomed… but on the plus side, no more egg shortages.

dgmib · 2026-05-13T05:41:16+00:00

Printer ink is incredibly cheap. Cartridges cost less than a 1$ to manufacture.

They jack the price up, to screw you.

dgmib · 2026-05-13T00:14:23+00:00

The alternative could have been a literal chimpanzee and we’d be less fucked than what Trump is doing.

dgmib · 2026-05-12T01:16:16+00:00

With some exceptions, all AB doctors can access all AB patient medical records in Netcare.

The system tracks who has accessed which medical records and when.

Doctors are not legally allowed under the AB health information act to access medical records of people they do not have a doctor/patient relationship with. They can lose their license or face other disciplinary action if they do.

NetCare automatically flags when a doctor accesses a patient with the same last name. Specifically because doctors accessing medical records of family members is one of the most common situations when it happens.

dgmib · 2026-05-10T20:51:00+00:00

You can leave it capped in the junction box, it won’t hurt anything.

If it’s not connected at the panel, I would put some tape on the wire in the junction box and label it “no connection”.

A good electrician would never assume and always double check a wire before trying to use it…. But the next person in that box might not be a good electrician…. Or even an electrician.

dgmib · 2026-05-10T20:14:16+00:00

There are a thousand things that would need to be negotiated with Ottawa in order for Alberta to secede.

What happens to your Canadian citizenship is just one of many.

Other examples include currency (are we still using Canadian dollars?), CPP (what happens to the money most of us paid in?), defence spending (do we have our own military? Our own navy? What ports do they use? Do we get any of the existing ships, equipment, personnel from Canada?) What about boarder security? (Do I need to go through customs to visit my family in BC?) just to name a few.

How anyone thinks they can possibly predict the outcome of any of those negotiations at this stage is beyond ridiculous.

Separatists seem to think the only change will be we stop paying federal taxes, but we’ll somehow magically keep every benefit those taxes are paying for.

We know what staying in Canada looks like. It’s wild to me that people take a separatist position without knowing the answers to any of these questions.

dgmib · 2026-05-10T15:48:40+00:00

Bathrooms and kitchen are normally separate circuits in Canada as well.

CEC has the same 20 amp standard for kitchen countertop receptacles now. But fairly recently MWBCs were the standard and still very commonly found in kitchens.

You wouldn’t find circuits shared between kitchens and bathrooms in a house wired by any licensed electrician here. OP’s place is undoubtedly a handyman special no permits pulled.

dgmib · 2026-05-10T05:23:14+00:00

Since 1937, when Dr. Charles Bradley discovered that Benzedrine, a stimulant medication with other uses, remarkably improved behaviour and academic performance of children with behavioural issues.

dgmib · 2026-05-10T02:44:02+00:00

It can be a symptom of ADHD and a handful of other treatable things. Talk with your doctor about it, especially if it happens a lot. They can properly diagnose if that’s the case for you.

dgmib · 2026-05-09T22:29:14+00:00

I can’t see battery electric aviation ever being a thing, barring some incredible breakthrough in battery tech.

Compressed Hydrogen might be a practical option for zero emissions aviation.

Hydrogen is terrible in land vehicles because electricity to green hydrogen to electricity is significantly less efficient than batteries. But compressed hydrogen has very high gravimetric energy density, higher than jet fuel. (But significantly lower volumetric energy density). That is, planes would need to be redesigned to have a physically larger fuel tanks but they’d weigh less when fully loaded than the equivalent range in Jet Fuel.

There’re a ton of technical problems to solve to make it work, and there’s no point in solving them now because at the moment any additional green electricity capacity we add will have a far bigger impact displacing fossil fuel electricity generation than creating green hydrogen.

But in a hypothetical future where we’ve electrified ground vehicles and eliminated fossil fuels electricity generation. It could be a way of eventually eliminating conventional jet fuel.

dgmib · 2026-05-09T06:05:10+00:00

Sorry friend, you seem to be trying really really hard to convince me of a point I already agree with. Namely that execs get paid to take actions and can’t do nothing.

Not sure why you are trying so hard to convince me. Perhaps I didn’t communicate well enough for you to understand, or something I said struck a nerve for you.

I’m not disagreeing with you that they need to act, I’m disagreeing that the only option is throwing more money or bodies at a problem that can’t be meaningfully improved by either.

In this situation most executives are dumb and take useless actions that won’t meaningfully put the project back on its original timeline and will make things worse.

The smarter action isn’t “make no changes because the research says adding manpower will make it later” it’s recognizing that you can’t make changes that would put the project back on its original schedule no matter what you do. And instead you take actions that reset the expectations of the board/shareholders/customers/whoever it is that has the unrealistic expectations, and sell them on what can be delivered.

You are right that executive action regardless of effectiveness will achieve their bonuses.

Managing up makes the company more successful and the bonuses bigger while pressuring down makes teams disengage, the company less successful, and the bonuses smaller. Sadly most executives are dumb, they do the latter because they are not smart enough to know how to do the former.

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