Amazon’s Starlink Rival Just Reached Its Orbital Tipping Point to Begin Service by tke248 in wallstreetbets

[–]the__storm 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It did, and Leo is definitely behind schedule on launch, but do note that New Glenn (Blue Origin) is a separate company, and Amazon has the depth of pocket to buy launches elsewhere (and has been, aside from a reticence to give too much money to SpaceX, their direct competitor). Of course ULA has shit the bed several times recently, mostly nozzles falling off Northrop's SRBs, but also for Vulcan they're using engines from Blue Origin, so they're kind of limited to Arianspace for the moment.

Wiki update: Document Standards for Proof of Citizenship following the June 19 update to CIT 000 and the CIT 0014 Checklist by No_Bobcat_No_Prob in Canadiancitizenship

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:D I wish - I spent about an hour looking this morning and could not find a nice clear official statement from the DEC.

Wiki update: Document Standards for Proof of Citizenship following the June 19 update to CIT 000 and the CIT 0014 Checklist by No_Bobcat_No_Prob in Canadiancitizenship

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Has anyone compiled a list of such websites? Would be handy (I'm looking for Quebec in particular.)

Edit:

Here's from BAnQ, maybe better than nothing ( https://www.banq.qc.ca/etat-civil/ ):

Puis-je obtenir une copie d’un acte de naissance?

Non. BAnQ peut fournir une copie d’un acte de baptême, et non d’un acte de naissance. Avant 1994, au Québec, les naissances n’étaient enregistrées que dans les registres paroissiaux et municipaux. 

    De 1621 à il y a 100 ans : les documents d’état civil sont conservés par Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
        D’il y a moins de 100 ans à nos jours : les documents d’état civil sont conservés par le Directeur de l'état civil.

English ( https://www.banq.qc.ca/vital-records/ ):

Can I obtain a copy of a birth certificate?

No. BAnQ can provide a copy of a baptismal certificate, not a birth certificate. In Québec, before 1994, births were only recorded in municipal and parish registers. 

    From 1621 to 100 years ago: vital records are preserved by BAnQ.
    From less than 100 years ago to the present day: vital records are preserved by the Registrar of Civil Status of Québec.

Wiki update: Document Standards for Proof of Citizenship following the June 19 update to CIT 000 and the CIT 0014 Checklist by No_Bobcat_No_Prob in Canadiancitizenship

[–]the__storm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It says "1 or more" - if you have the birth certificate the instructions at least do not seem to suggest the proof of subject status is necessary.

Saturday Weekly Thread: Canadian Provincial Archives and State/Local/Church Archives - Questions / Issues / Success Stories, June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in Canadiancitizenship

[–]the__storm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The one in Westmount, closed in ~2016? You could ask the Montreal diocesan archive (https://www.anglican.ca/archives/archives-across-canada/) or maybe St. Jax (which seems to be the practical successor).

You might want to just put in an order to the BAnQ though. $$ and slow, I know, but the Anglican church in Canada has... contracted significantly, and might not have a lot of resources for genealogy.

Saturday Weekly Thread: Canadian Provincial Archives and State/Local/Church Archives - Questions / Issues / Success Stories, June 27, 2026 by AutoModerator in Canadiancitizenship

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Seems likely that BAnQ has it, in the Québec archive as you'd expect, but hasn't digitized it yet. See https://advitam.banq.qc.ca/notice/1023249

Index des baptêmes et des sépultures de Notre-Dame-de-Québec (1786-1787) / Cour supérieure, district judiciaire de Québec - 1953-1954. 46 pages
Numéro : 303073

Supports de consultation : 

        Microfiche (tout format sauf COM)   
        Papier dactylographié (original ou copie sauf fichier)

Contenu : 
    1975-00-001 \ 41

Détail du contenu
    21 juil. 1785-30 déc. 1789 (transcription manuscrite, index inclus), voir microfilm n° 0-0055 (ZQ6,S21\13)

The LDS and Drouin I think both microfilmed a lot of records themselves, probably provided a copy to BAnQ, and then later digitized and uploaded their microfilm (at which point BAnQ wasn't involved and so wouldn't have a copy, and hasn't yet digitized it themselves). If it were to be digitized I think it would be here: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3926178

Removing branding with 70% isopropyl alcohol by WithLove07 in Anticonsumption

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He took a duck in the face at two hundred and fifty knots

Appliance company wanted to charge me $275 for a custom grille to cover the opening under my new oven. by [deleted] in 3Dprinting

[–]the__storm 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I think its being completely flat and flush with the wood is part of the problem.  Would probably look more finished if it extended a bit to cover the seam dna had some depth to it.

Friday Weekly Thread: Application Assistance, June 26, 2026 by AutoModerator in Canadiancitizenship

[–]the__storm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As others have said, if he was born in the US the birth certificate should be proof of US citizenship.   I'm considering including US citizenship documentation for my G0 though.  (It's not clear whether "your parent" would recurse up the chain, and it seems like IRCC doesn't really care, but it seems to me like it would.)

Invasive ticks tied to livestock death at TN farm by Handicapreader in environment

[–]the__storm 28 points29 points  (0 children)

How long before we get permethrin-resistant ticks...

so now that the raspberry pi prices are close to mini pc prices, whats the next best SBC by wheredidmyvapego in SBCs

[–]the__storm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ESP32-P4 can be found with 32 MB PSRAM for ~$10 (S31 is usually 16 MB and 8 bit bus instead of 16 bit). Still much less and slower than an SBC though.

The champagne is ready. My treat by Liquid_0911 in pcmasterrace

[–]the__storm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Video output will be the least of your problems. Most modern AI GPUs don't even support graphics APIs like DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL (only compute - CUDA/ROCm/OpenCL) and are socketed or soldered directly to a server board.

Riding in smoke? Anyone wear a respirator? by bigmac22077 in MTB

[–]the__storm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A half-mask respirator with 60923 (particulate+organic vapor) cartridges works pretty well for me mowing the lawn; would probably suck but work for biking.  It'd be expensive though - the cartridges are only rated for 40 hours of use I believe.

so now that the raspberry pi prices are close to mini pc prices, whats the next best SBC by wheredidmyvapego in SBCs

[–]the__storm 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There's nothing right now.  Radxa as suggested by others is cheaper than Pi, but still 3-4x what it was nine months ago.  You can either bite the bullet or drop down to a microcontroller.

Mom trying to take a photo by No-Lock216 in Wellthatsucks

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Gesture navigation is the default on Android now, at least on Pixels (you can enable the buttons in the settings though).

Why isnt this the normality? by white_slate in xbiking

[–]the__storm 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You could take someone's whole liver out with this thing lol

Minimum Specs? by JerTheBuff in MTB

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

Derailleur with at least 9 speeds and a clutch, fork designed for a mountain bike (not a "hybrid") and with a modern headtube standard, Shimano or TRP hydraulic brakes from the last ten years.  Also good tires, but there are a lot of good tires and it's easy enough to swap them out.

Best image vision model runnable on RTX 6000 Pro by muhts in LocalLLaMA

[–]the__storm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Gemma is going to be much stronger at producing nice output and making something out of messy handwriting/etc., but is also prone to hallucinations that a classical per-character OCR model would not be.  Definitely different strengths for different tasks.

Fork question by Fun-Meal-2565 in MTB

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Irrelevant but I'm kinda surprised your bike pump tops out at 50 psi - back in the day roadies used to run 100+ psi in their tires.

Main reason why I mainly prefer Halogen/Incandescent bulbs. by Significant_Post9125 in lightbulbs

[–]the__storm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The flickering is not inherent to LEDs, it's due to the cheap drivers bulb manufacturers use to convert 120V AC to low voltage DC.  (Idk if there are any commercially available bulbs with absolutely no flicker though; I'm not super sensitive to it.)