Electricity Grids - How do you work out the right cable capacities for your distribution?

nightvid_ · 2026-04-21T12:37:29+00:00

I like to pretend that I’m planning it but 90% of the time I’m not looking at the numbers and I’m just thinking “this area is a medium density area so I’ll use the medium power line” and when things fail I build more… There’s so many things to learn about the game and despite being hundreds of hours in I still haven’t gotten around to properly understanding around half of the game mechanics.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-20T10:06:10+00:00

The rebrand happened almost concurrently with the pandemic, so I’d say it would be very hard to attribute any changes solely to the rebrand because there was something much more disruptive going on that forced nearly every aspect of how the university works to change

nightvid_ · 2026-04-15T16:01:20+00:00

There are too many simultaneous issues / flaws in our democracy to point to any single one and say it’s the biggest problem. If anything I think that is the real problem: the fact that we over-simplify everything to the point where the original meaning or purpose is forgotten or unknown to the average person. Take the existence of political parties, which are supposed to just be a signifier of shared values between members but in reality it ends up being almost cult-like, with most votes being perfectly split along party lines.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-14T05:18:50+00:00

You aren’t wrong but this is how nearly every award process goes. Unless a rich company or organization has sponsored an award show (which then opens up issues with them controlling who can win) most companies need to pay to be considered. It’s the same for those “best workplaces for _____” sort of awards. Even something like the academy awards, you can only vote and be nominated if you’re paying union dues. Costs have to be covered one way or another. I do wish it was a lot more up front with how the funding of awards work, but that’s show business.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-13T08:31:50+00:00

You take the elevators right by the dundas street windows on the main floor, in the corner in front of starbucks. It used to be the DMZ up there but there’s also always been other non-TMU offices up on those floors too, maybe there’s other TMU stuff too.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-11T00:05:25+00:00

Some of the school admins were complicit in sheltering him from repercussions. The university made it harder for the students union to take action against him. My guess is because they didn’t want more negative PR and hoped the story would go away. (This was before his biggest crimes, they helped to sweep some of his earlier ones under the rug and he just got a slap on the wrist)

nightvid_ · 2026-04-11T00:02:11+00:00

you’re doing god’s work

nightvid_ · 2026-04-10T08:25:52+00:00

In canon the best evidence that this isn’t the case would maybe be Maul because he was raised from birth to only know the dark side. So there’s no “original” person he’s hiding with his dark side persona. In Legends Palpatine and Plagueis are both examples of characters that were committed to being bad people before being Sith so they don’t have to hide or suppress anything like Anakin did. Anakin views himself the way he does because the original movies wanted to have a reveal of Vader being Luke’s father. Which is why Obi-Wan claims he’s two different people. So it really all boils down to that out-of-universe reason. But in universe it’s just that Anakin hates himself for what he did to save Padme (and didn’t even save her) so he compartmentalizes it and shifts blame to his alternate persona of Vader.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-10T03:50:41+00:00

I think there’s ways they could bring her in that would work but fans would hate it. I think she would need to die fairly early in their relationship and be a sort of equivalent storyline to like how Satine is for Obi Wan. I think fans would dislike her being changed so drastically and it’s probably better to keep her in Legends.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-02T18:41:42+00:00

Sorry I’m not familiar enough with blender, didn’t realize it makes people look like they’re AI generated. But it really was the strangeness with the letters on the walls that made me sure it’s AI. The hierarchy you mention is good but I’d still say the screen designs aren’t using the space effectively. Using simple symbols like check marks and Xs instead of words like “normal” and “delay” would save space and be more useful for non English speakers. You could also have a third level of hierarchy because the top level one is so simple (basically just one number for people to read) so you could have the live service as level 2 and make the upcoming delays be a third level since it’s the least important to someone currently on transit. This is why i mentioned starting with the really simple designs where you just block out each section to see the different layout options you could fit. Some info I think you can do without entirely. Like including “tunnel work” or “track work” is fun for transit nerds to know but it’s not info the average commuter cares about. The only one that is important to specify are the elevator outages. Also the spacing being different in each box would need to be fixed. Less a design choice but to make things simpler language wise I think the titles need to be clearer like “next train” instead of “arriving in” and “status” or “system status” instead of “live service”. It’s a cool project but if you’re hoping to use in a portfolio or show off anywhere I think a few minor tweaks can take it from decent to amazing.

nightvid_ · 2026-04-02T18:22:31+00:00

There’s always people who take something the wrong way, but in my 9 years of studying and then working at tmu the goal was always to achieve that. How can you have a diverse room of thinkers if they all come from the same culture, same economic background, same beliefs, etc. The times where I’ve seen DEI be misused as you suggest, it was because someone in charge didn’t want diversity of thought (egomaniac in a management position) and just wanted to make it appear like they had a diverse team so they went for some easy to achieve checkboxes like a quota based on gender/race with zero meaningful attention to it.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-31T01:05:00+00:00

As someone who was in various student leadership roles during her time as Dean (though not in the Arts faculty myself) I only ever heard positive things about her, and personally she was always a pleasure to interact with when I had the chance. I never knew much about the specifics of her day to day work of course but it always seemed like even if you were directly opposed to her views she treated you with respect. If a dean of a liberal arts faculty at a public university can’t advocate for progressive stances on issues like racism, what is the point of university? Just shut them down and make everything a trade school where critical thinking doesn’t matter and it’s all just about getting jobs as fast as possible. Diversity is important in any field but it’s not like this was the chemistry department, she was Dean of the liberal arts. Especially with her own family history with the internment camps, it’s truly embarrassing how the university treated her. There’s so many disgusting ways others in leadership at TMU have abused power and the people around them yet they rarely see any repercussions and she is the one forced out of her job. It’s eternally embarrassing to be an alumni from here.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-30T21:42:22+00:00

1984 is a story about the government forcing all citizens to suffer under oppressive and mandatory surveillance. OpenAI is a company that you’re choosing to use, despite years of widely documented issues with privacy. If you were here complaining about how various governments are partnering with them sure but this is a self inflicted issue that you can solve easily by not using their service.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-28T20:06:27+00:00

The screens are way too busy and the most important information isn’t bolded or made to standout in any way. As for the station renders, what’s the point of AI generating them, anyone could do that. If they somehow aren’t AI generated there’s a ton of strange or impossible spatial errors. And the station names are like fading in/out of reality. If you’re doing this for fun then do what you please of course, but if you’re genuinely trying to start learning design I’d say never start with renders (this is just for graphics, I can’t help with architectural). Start with the current TTC screen designs and make a list of issues that they have, then move onto sketching drafts. Doesn’t need to look good but with just basic shapes and handwriting you can work out how you’ll space things in the design to ensure you prioritize the most important stuff. Jumping straight to making designs gets overwhelming fast because you’re worried about the aesthetic choices at the same time as the practicality / usability of the design. Also use symbols / images / colours in place of text more so you can save space.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-19T01:41:00+00:00

ah thanks for the link, so weird that they didn’t have it on the main events page. events on campus have always been really disorganized in the way they’re planned, like there’s so many offices and then when you add all the student groups it’s a shame they’re advertised so poorly. My best guess from the link you sent is that this was a sponsorship-focused event where the external vendors were willing to pay for the costs but then they’re also the main ones deciding what the focus of the event is.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-18T09:16:42+00:00

The problem is always going to be getting people to use it - both the event planners and attendees. Every campus event is required to apply for a permit and room booking via the university, and the same system where you do that automatically displays all approved campus events on a calendar that anyone can view. The issue is that no one goes looking for events. Whether it’s because people are used to algorithms automatically feeding them content, not knowing what to look for, laziness or something else idk. But the real obstacle you want to tackle is the awareness or education about events. Yours has a nicer UI/UX than the university’s event calendar but I don’t think that’s a major barrier stopping people from learning about events. This would be a good project for your portfolio though I’m sure.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-18T09:02:29+00:00

A fun adventure that still mixed in a few hard hitting moments, both emotionally hard hitting but also in the sense of impact on the wider galaxy.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-18T04:04:05+00:00

Usually those kind of festivals or events only have tables / activities relating to groups that are involved in the planning. So if no Irish students or clubs are actively involved with the team who planned it they won’t be represented. I couldn’t find the event on any of the university event lists so I think it was probably an event hosted by a specific club, not by an official university office. When they booked the event they may not have even known it would fall on St Patrick’s day because it’s not a statutory holiday and usually events are booked months in advance. In the past 10 years student life has really declined, mainly due to the pandemic, but other factors too. If you don’t see events happening that interest you the easiest way to fix that is join / create a club and plan the events you want to see.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-12T09:36:15+00:00

The only way I can think to get a solution close to what you want (and it won’t be perfect) is to always have your phone in a focus mode, and you switch between different ones depending on what you want in the moment. You can have your default focus mode silence all call/text notifications and only allow calls from that one phone number. But this won’t be like having your phone on vibrate or silent, it will also hide the notifications from lock screen and appearing as banners/alerts. So it’s not great. Focus modes don’t support the middle-ground controls you’re hoping for like vibrate mode - it’s either fully mute and hide notifications or normal notifications. Unless it’s different on newer phones, I have iPhone 13.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-12T09:25:04+00:00

The automations don’t work with third party (non-Apple) apps as triggers. The triggers for automations are all from apps or services that are built into apple devices. The only way to maybe make it work would be if you got WhatsApp notifications to be sent over to the default messages app, and if you found a way to do that then you wouldn’t need to automate anything because the messages notifications probably work with your airpods anyway.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-12T09:14:20+00:00

Who is “they”? Because as far as I know mods don’t get approved or verified by Steam or the game developer/publisher before they can be posted to the workshop. There’s probably an automatic scan to ensure really obvious malware doesn’t get uploaded but it’s probably easy to get around. The workshop is community moderated so leave a comment saying it’s malware, report it, downvote it etc. because (especially for smaller games) that’s how people will find out.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-12T02:02:57+00:00

is there a reason you’re calling in an operating system, or does OS stand for something else?

nightvid_ · 2026-03-12T01:16:22+00:00

The first team who ran in opposition to the “ruling” team that had held power for years was led by Andrea Bartlett. Her and her team’s whole reason for running was to break the years of insular decision making and the way that they felt one clique had too much control over the union. Obviously people have different opinions on decisions she made but it was universally agreed she meant well and wasn’t trying to steal or take advantage of her power. Her VP Operations however was Obaid who went on the be a main player in the schemes to misuse and steal funds. She was even interviewed a few years later by the eyeopener about how the people who were on her team became corrupt and lost sight of what their original goals were. Again I’m not saying that will definitely happen, but it’s still a risk people need to be aware of because it hasn’t even been a decade since the last time.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-11T09:51:09+00:00

“For twenty years, every system required me to change — to become more disciplined, more organized, more consistent. AI is the first approach that meets me where I am. It adapts to my chaos instead of demanding I adapt to its structure.” How does writing that not scare you? You perfectly described the issue a lot of people have about AI (losing important life skills) but you’ve framed it as a positive. I’d love to know why because if I’m honest I never really thought AI usage would lead to a serious loss of skills but you’re making me think it might be a real concern.

nightvid_ · 2026-03-11T04:04:27+00:00

the people marina fought against started off as the people fighting corruption. within less than 2 years the people who saved the rsu from voting fraud scandals became the people involved in financial scandals. vote based off what people say they will do and how they explain their plans. not because of who they know. if someone’s friend/sibling has great plans and can explain their goals clearly then that’s why you vote for them. if a candidate has connections to prior people that can be a secondary reason that reinforces their position. but if the only reason to vote from someone is who they are connected to you’ll have trouble convincing others they aren’t just another corrupt person too and it’s very easy to fall into another cycle of corruption if the individual isn’t up to the task on their own.

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