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This is an exception. It's in canada, Québec of all place where cost of living is lower. 1- he should have stayed at home with his parent. 2- his parent should have help him with his debt. 3- he should have worked while studying: this is super rare. 4- university is much cheaper there like 2000$ per semester.

Should I go on?

Pre-pandemic 100k$ is an insane amount. 10k is common, so is 20k, but above that? pretty rare, yet he claims most of his friends had a similar situation.

HEC is one of the best finance school in canada, guy stay there 8 years, seems to have zero knowledge of money.

Then uber eats? That's weird. Most hec diploma will land you a 100k/years, after a few years. 400/month is not that much. Don't quit your job and become homeless for that!

Lots of bad choices here.

Maybe it was mostly a Québec thing. In 2012, premier of quebec, jean charest (know him? He lost the conservative parti race to polievre) anounced he would increase university tuition fee many times over, to reach canada's average. Scolarship would be changed to loan. Students were not happy with this and went on strike.It was pretty eventful. After a few month it did start to look like OWS. It ended in fall, costing charest his re election.

It really was eye opening in many ways. The media sucking up to the gouverment, the gourverment not giving shit about what end up being a large chuck of the population, forgetting they were in a democracy. Trucker were err. Well see for yourself.

Hmm it looks like all protest are being dealt very softly now. Natives? We don't want another 1990 oka. Students? Don't want another 2012 printemps érable. Truckers? Well I'm not sure about that one. Was the majority of the police on the protester's side? A bunch sure. But most? Nah. Wasn't there like only 1% of all truckers there? They had the means but not the number. Also if freezing bank account ended it without any police lifting a finger, it's best no?

Spring 2012. Montréal.

It was left leaning and Police were quite happy to handle it with all they got. Many hundreds or thounsands of protester everyday (or nights) for over 100 days. 17 years-old students being hit with Baton, pepper spray, , tears gas, rubber bullets, flashbang etc. It was so chaotic that vladimir fucking putin even call canada to sort its shit (!!!). Since then police really has dialed it back in the protest.

One random comment: The book on the photo, Trois fois par jour #2 (Three times a day #2)

Is a great cookbook for mere mortal with cooking skill juste above beginner. A few recipes became once a week classic and helped me improve my cooking skill and taste. Highly recommanded! #1 is good too.

Duolingo is kind of garbage. As a native french, for fun, I tried to quickly finish the whole french course. I quit well before halfway. Duolingo would refuse perfectly fine sentences. The accepted answers aren't flexible enough.

I didn't try english though.

Esperanto is super easy if you speak both french and english. But man there is less content on the internet than klingon...

this was installed in my home to replace a oil furnace (air heating)

https://www.gree.ca/products/ducted-central-heat-pump?varian...

I am not sure if it's available outside of canada though.

Please dont recommand dell. They are easily bricked (for an average user). I use many model daily and a new 13' xps pro was bricked by... splitting the main partition in two. "Oh so the efi was borked and could no longer boot because it was choosing the wrong partition?" Nope the bios would NOT allow me to reach the F12 so I could boot to a usb drive or anything to fix this. I had to open the laptop then format the nvme drive (and they are not making it easy). Extremely dumb.

Well that's lame. There was 0 increase in electricity here, neither did the salaries. They could have use this fact to be more competitive.

This is something I never understood. Why so many bike theft? a regular new one is 3-4 hundred$ and cannot be sold that easily (Say vs electronic goods). Why theft is so popular?

I mean thief can steal one for their own purpose, but then what? He steal another one every weeks?

I dont get it.

racket:nx is the one VR game that everyone like.

Some games easily trigger VR sickness, other can be scary for the (younger) player for various reasons (fear of height, monster, etc.) not this one.

Racketnx is basically the vr version of arcanoid.

The strong point of the game is that the learning curve is extremely low. Almost anyone can pick the remote, put on the helmet and start hitting the ball.

Someone mentionned there is no feedback. There is very natural and well done haptic feedback. Speed of the swing matter in game. That is of course tracked in game (has to be).

Bought it in a heartbeat when I saw it mentionned on ars technica.

The biggest challenge is taking time to download the whole thing...

'ble' in the text probably means blé, which is french for wheat. not sure why translator would chose corn (maïs in french).

That is beyond crazy. I am at loss for words.

To be fair it's not even your leader's fault. Most of the people are against doing anything about green energy. Hydro quebec produce TWh of green electricity but failed to bring it sucessfully anywhere.

here is the lastest failure.

https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/baker-hydro-corridor...

IMO they will fail in new york as well.

Well, in other electronic device, say one type of temperature sensor, let's say microchip's MCP9701A you can have accuracy of +/-2 Celcius with a precision of 0,01V per Celcius.

In this case Accuracy mean the reference as in: this device reads 10C but could actual temperature could be 8 or 12. Because it drift according to multiple factors.

Precision means the linearity or if you prefer resolution (I think). Datasheet for the device says +/-0,5C meaning you can't have a reading more precise than 1C with that device. I think the term linearity apply if you try to mesure below that value: the reading may become non-linear because of fluctuaction, noise or other errors in the device.

This is the plot of the movie "The Man from Earth" It's well rated, I would say it's worth at least a watch.

I always wondered why this did not receive more attention in the physic field. I remember reading that it could be produce with just water ultrasonic device to cause cavitation of bubble to get this effect.

It generates very fast flash of light,

Abnormally high heat.

Those are not easy thing thing to do with low power devices.

I'm guessing it doesn't scale up, but I don't think billions were spend to try (looking at you tokamak)

I feel california should massively invest in desalination plant. It wouldn't solve everything, but at least they would have something to drink (not sure if it would be profitable for most plantation and cultures).

It's 2011 again... It took ~7 years before price went back to what they were.

It is almost certain that some unknown phenomenon is happening with palladium/nickel and hydrogen/deuterium.

I first heard of the 1989 pons and fleischmann experiment in late '90 but didn't know what to think of it, I was in high-school, information was scarce. Then in 2008 or 2009' I found a memoir from a science historian about it. It spoke in great detail about the pressure to publish quickly before any rival the vested interest of the hugely influencal MIT in "hot fusion" (billions in funding). They they didn't even try to half-ass an experiment, then dragged pons and fleischmann in the mud so deeply they had to quit academic life and anyone who tried to follow their track would have their funding cut. Because most other physicist ( Pons & Fleischman were actualy electro-chemist) were not able to acheive the same results. Which was kind of to be expected: no peer review article was published they just "announced" their finding. Then everyone rush to blindly replicate months of hard work from a field they barely knew. Then it became a fraud, then fake science. Anyone trying the "forbidden" experiment would lose his reputation and any hope of a career. It doesn't get more anti science then cold fusion. Only then I realised wikipedia was full of censorship and could not be relied upon for anything remontly controversal.

Then came 2011, andrea rossi and the e-cat. Andrea rossi has a ph in... philosphy, convicted frauster in italy and inventor of a new cold fusion device. Even then it sparked ton of interest in cold fusion (LENR for low energy nuclear reaction, because it's not fusion that is happening: no hard radiation, no instant huge release of energy, etc.) and the next decade is a cycle of trying to debunk rossi, him promising a "working plant" next year, mistery client and feeding crumbs of evidence, proof and information over a decade. And it's not finished yet.

You can follow most of it on https://e-catworld.com/ . People there are not quite QAnon level of crazy but they will mention ufo various free energy stuff of regular basis. I remember reading news about navy SPAWAR research on cold fusion there.

But yeah in a nutshell huge claims, little results (but SOME result that is the annoying part).