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Buckshot spread is another common mistake in fiction, e.g. when it's close you still need to aim

Guns are still not hearing-safe outside. And if you're indoors, you probably should double up on the hearing protection (foam plugs with over the ear protection on top)

This one is not that surprising in mass media - there's no way the good guys and bad guys are going to take a pause and actually put on PPE before the shoot out.

Announcing "on your left" is a great way for someone to move left, because more often than not, they're oblivious on the shared paths, and the spotlight effect messes with their head.

https://www.ontario.ca/page/bicycle-safety

We are required to have a bell in Ontario. Ontario, at the minimum, asks us to ring a bell, or verbally communicate, when we are passing people.

I've lost count of the amount of people walking abreast taking both sides of a shared path.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've rang a bell in vain to inform them of intent to pass.

I've lost count of the amount of times I've tried verbally communicate in vain, to inform of intent to pass.

And then these path users, completely oblivious of what's going on, act like I'm the villain when I do pass them despite doing what is required of me. Some even had holler back saying that I should have ran a bell, or tell them.

If one's using a shared path, don't use headphones that completely block outside sound. If one wants to meditate, then get off the shared path.

It is absolutely a people problem just as much as it's an infrastructure problem.

We call them multi-use path (MUP) here. It has a yellow line painted straight down the middle, and people, whether they're walking, running, riding a bike, rollerblading, are expected to stick to their side of the path.

I've lost count on the amount of people on the MUPs wearing something that removes their situational awareness, be it ANC earbuds, or over the ear headphones, etc...

So why did I bring up the lane division? Because on top of people choosing to completely occlude themselves from their surroundings, a subset of them also like to walk/run/etc... abreast, completely taking up the path on both sides. So if you come up behind them, and they're taking up the whole path, you can't get around them without ringing a bell, or asking them. And if they're very engrossed in their conversation, or they're wearing headphones, it's even harder...

The point of a MUP is to share the path. It doesn't give a right for any kind of users to practically occupy the path, and then act very offended when you finally got their attention to get around them.

It has got to the point that I rather bike down the MUPs in the rain, because these users with no etiquette aren't dedicated enough to be out there in the rain.

Conde Nasty corrupts eveything.

Electrek's take on the rusty brake is lousy.

Rusty rotors has reduced effectiveness. EV with regen uses the actual brakes because the driver hits the brakes hard enough, presumably emergency braking.

The fact that they rust and it's not programmed to regularly enable physical brakes to scrape the rotors could be the difference between the driver can emergency stop in time or hitting something.

There's a reason why TUV flags rusty rotors as a problem.

Even if we take the argument at face value, we should allow LLMs to train their models for free, on the backs of real people's work, just so that there's a chance that they actually improved well enough to replace humans, all that just to have a temporary boost on search discovery of our content.

Not to mention LLMs still spew a lot of badly wrong results (no I will not anthropomorphize the models, they're not ready yet).

This is one heck of a poison chalice. 王先生，你願意喝這杯鶴酒嗎？

Not that professional. Looks like a suppressor on a pistol, but not configured and tested so that it doesn't malfunction. Shooter is skilled enough to deal with the malfunctions.

This suggests that shooter's at the minimum enthusiast, possibly trained for a different profession as a rank and file guy, but not enough to actually put somewhat specialty gear together reliably.

I don't think the guy's a hired assassin per se, but more likely a very disgruntled person who felt wronged by UnitedHealth.

"CSIS had never made any mistakes" - Maher Arar

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

Cause maybe the third time, someone's going to be a railroad statistic.

Library for my city has passes for patrons.

If one doesn't want to use archive links, might be good to check their local library.

Literally closing paragraph of the article:

The virus can also destroy immune responses to previous infections—a phenomenon known as "immune amnesia"—which can leave children vulnerable to various other infections for years afterward.

There's a link in the article.

People are learning what knife collectors always knew.

There's no stainless steel. There's stain less steel.

Don't forget Iraq. 6000 civilian dead in the first 2 months of shock and awe.

Compare the rates of civilian death too

https://jalopnik.com/stealing-toyota-prius-batteries-is-now-...

Oh, there is one. It just takes longer with higher risks.

Bull-bars on the front of emergency vehicles? /s

How many are brave enough to challenge it in the face of arrest or worse police violence?

You'd think when Rota, the speaker said that the soldier thought against the Russians in WW2, people would clue in.

We have 338 trained seals up in Parliament.

And they're still saying it's Russian propaganda...

Don't worry, there are plenty of doublethink practitioners who believes that Russia blew up Nord Stream, pipelines that supplies Russian gas to Germany that Russia already turned off the tap at the source.

Look at the incentives and consequences of blowing up TSMC if China uses the military. China would not have access to the high end chips; Taiwan loses a bargaining chip of its own, and would suffer a huge economic cost (a lot of electricity is used up by TSMC alone); and US is the one who gets to point at the big bad PRC throwing weapons at ROC, and know that PRC gets a road block on the semiconductor front.

It's the same old, tired rant about how Python's terrible.

The post is basically a surgeon complaining that a chef's knife is terrible for surgery; or how the F-16 can't loiter in the battlefield and deliver strafing fire; or how carbon fibre tubes don't handle compressive strength under water; or using C to do string manipulation and complex regex.

You're using the wrong tool for the job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepsea_Challenger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cameron#Activism_and_oth...

You were saying?

Cameron is one of the few that went to the Mariana Trench and back, at more than 2x the depth of the Titanic. Before that he's done lots of work to explore the Titanic to make the movie Titanic.

He's not speaking because it's a celebrity. He's speaking because he's been there and done more than the yahoos from OceanGate

Cameron's taken risks in subs that took them to more than 2x the depth and back.

The list of DSVs taking people well past the depth of the Titanic and came back is actually fairly long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-submergence_vehicle#Deepe... Maybe having at least someone familiar with those as an SME would save lives and resource, because OceanGate's going to be sued into oblivion

I was chatting with an engineering student (not finished the Bachelors), and he said that the carbon fibre weave from OceanGate's own video made a 2nd year mistake for not weaving diagonally.

I was chatting with a Masters student in Aerospace, and he said CF is great for tension, sucks for compression. Their use is compression, and in essence had a plastic hull going down to 4000m.

It's not just dangerous things is dangerous. OceanGate flew in the face of basics in engineering, fucked around and found out. If only their CEO didn't flaunt regulations and peddled his shit to naive people and expose them to unnecessary risk and taking 4 people with him.

It's ugly, it's only at 300ft, and it's an equivalent of a leaking valve, so they're not going from inside atmosphere to outside pressure in an instant.

At their depth, where presumably the carbon fibre let go, it's probably a lot faster too. At least they won't be able to even register what's going on.

Yes

It's very doubtful they actually were stuck long enough to even consider that scenario.

Most likely it was lost, i.e. imploded, long ago when they initially lost comms.

They wouldn't have time to even register the event.

Aaron Amick called it.

An engineering student said that in the video of OceanGate wrapping carbon fibre, they were making a 2nd year engineering mistake of not doing a cross weave. It's basically unidirectional and likely to fail when force is applied to the right angle.

Front glass is only rated for 1300m, not 4000m.

CEO seems to think the way to test something like this is to take the thing down to 4000m, hear horrible creaking noise. Came back up, and did it again, only to discard the null when it was creaking on the second time. https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/lawsuit-insufficient-prototy...

I bet the CBS reporter that went down with them in a previous trip is thanking his lucky stars...

You don't.

Look up the Mythbusters test for the old timey dive suit, and/or the Byford Dolphin if you want nightmares.

The MTR in HK heading to Lo Wu / Lok Ma Chau has a first class section: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Rail_line

It doesn't increase public transportation use.

People in North America don't take public transit because: - it doesn't take them to where they need to go; - it doesn't take them to their destination timely relative to a car; and/or - it doesn't have frequent enough service to not get bored to death, baked into heat stroke, or frozen to death in -30C weather, on a Saturday early evening

"Business class" is just a lip stick on a pig.

Boohoo...

Not belonging is very much the experience any immigrant faces. Immigrants into the US are no exception.

And if she's complaining about not belonging for her looks, ask how Muslim Americans and Muslim Canadians feel in the early 2000s, or how a lot of Asian Americans and Canadians feel currently with the geopolitics riling up the racists.