nik282000

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[–] nik282000 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That will NEVER happen in Canada. There is too much of the american delusion in Canadians that they are all temporarily poor millionaires.

If we start throwing rich people in jail maybe I'll be next!

And yet no one seems to care that being poor is punishable by law even though most of us are a few paychecks away from being homeless.

[–] nik282000 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've been using KeePass with a my kdbx in a webdav share, 10/10. Super simple, and with KeeWeb (also selfhosted) I always have access to my passwords.

[–] nik282000 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Have a list of alternatives? Proton is end to end encrypted (so they say) which means regardless of what they are up to, at a minimum your e-mails are can't be read or sold.

[–] nik282000 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They aren't paying their fair share of taxes. The wealthy pay politicians both monetary and non-monetary bribes a significantly smaller sum than the taxes they avoid. If the bribes were more than the taxes they would just pay the taxes.

[–] nik282000 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you think any business that takes debit and credit has not cooked their books I have a bridge to sell you.

[–] nik282000 7 points 2 weeks ago

Shopify can suck the ugliest part of my taint. Anyone of any value has long since jumped from that ship.

[–] nik282000 1 points 2 weeks ago

TIL, the conservative plan to destroy the education system was an outstanding success!

[–] nik282000 3 points 2 weeks ago

Too late, when your neighbour threatens to burn down your house you don't wait until you smell smoke to grab a hose. For the next four years, fuck em. Canada has enough problems internally without having to play footsies with a geriatric moron and his billionaire owner.

[–] nik282000 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://newrepublic.com/article/180263/epa-tailpipe-emissions-loophole

long-standing special treatment for big trucks and SUVs, which exempt larger cars from more stringent emissions standards

A small pickup had to meet the same standards as a small car but a large pickup is lumped in with vehicles as large as a towtruck. So despite a small Ranger consuming less than half the fuel of an F-350, it was in a more strict emissions category. Though as per the article the EPA (however long they last) is working on fixing this issue.

[–] nik282000 5 points 2 weeks ago

Hey would you look at that! Businesses that have the same insane, right wing views as our provincial government. It would be a shame if they all got bad reviews about it.

We're not anti-cycling, we just don't want bikes in front of our businesses and we want a $10M handout.

[–] nik282000 0 points 2 weeks ago

I generally cycle at night and in the burbs where there is no walking traffic. On the off chance that I do see a pedestrian I just ride on the lawn for 100 feet.

[–] nik282000 21 points 2 weeks ago

Trump threatening tariffs once was enough. If your neighbour threatens to shoot you, it doesn't matter if he's holding a gun, you put on a bullet proof vest.

 

Totally unrelated to the Boeing that lost a wheel last week or the Boeing that had "a strong movement" today, injuring 50.

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Outback Rule (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by nik282000 to c/19777
 

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submitted 1 year ago by nik282000 to c/nostalgia
 

So many CRTs.

 

$40M that came of a Conservative motion which was backed by the NDP.

 

London, Ont., police officers participating in a competition in Dubai alongside a Chechen group accused of committing atrocities in the conflict with Ukraine

 

When it comes to preventing your plate from being duplicated, Sgt. Schmidt said "there's really nothing you can do," because by the time a driver gets a bill or ticket, their plate has already been cloned.

"You have to clear your name and prevent this from continuing," he said.

A clear and concise "get bent" from the OPP when asked how they intend to address crime.

 

I made this 'fix' about 7 years ago and the device is still in use today. I know which one it is because my 5ohm resistor came out around 4.9 so the device always runs 2% out of spec.

 
  • 1/3 Whole wheat flour
  • 2/3 White bread flour (all purpose works as well)
  • 70% Mill Street Organic Lager (any light lager works)
  • 2% Salt
  • 1.5% Yeast

Bulk ferment for 2 hrs with one or two folds at 20min and 40min. Proof for 2 hrs then bake in an oven that was preheated with a cookie sheet full of water (careful of the scalding steam when you open the door). As soon as the bread is in the oven spray it down with way too much water (careful of your oven window) then close the door to trap all the steam. You should get some good spring and that nice crunchy/speckled crust.

Protip: 500g of flour is the perfect amount for a 355ml can of beer.

 

"Not every item within [the plastic manufactured items category] has the potential to create a reasonable apprehension of harm"

As long as we agree not to be apprehensive about the harms resulting from the use and manufacture of all plastics, they are ok. Got it, bring back the straws and stir sticks!

The challenge to the federal government’s proposed ban was brought last year by the Responsible Plastic Use Coalition (RPUC) and several chemical companies. They argued that the federal government had failed to demonstrate that it had enough scientific evidence to justify the regulations. RPUC was formed in 2021 in response to the “toxic” designation, and currently includes more than 30 processors and resin makers, including Berry Global Group Inc., CCC Plastics, Dow Inc., Ingenia Polymers, IPL, LyondellBasell Industries, and Nova Chemicals Corp.

https://www.canplastics.com/canplastics/judge-quashes-cabinet-order-underlying-canadas-single-use-plastic-ban/1003462513/

 

TL;DR This is a drop of the solvent from pen ink dissolving into water and filmed at 1500fps, played back at 30fps, the field of view is 5-7mm ish.

Phenoxyethanol is the solvent in ball point pens that gives the ink it's distinct smell. It is just barely soluble in water and saturates at a very low concentration, it is more dense than water but small droplets will float unless the water is already saturated. It also has a significantly lower surface tension than water.

On first contact with water the droplet of phenoxyethanol spreads out and is supported on the surface. Soon after the edge of the droplet starts to split into dendrites that wave violently and send out extremely high speed ripples across the water. As the droplet shrinks and breaks up smaller arms form on the larger ones until the droplet wiggles itself into non-existence. What the hell is going on?

When the droplet first contacts the water it begins to dissolve and immediately saturates the area directly below the drop, at the edges of the drop the saturated solution is pulled away by the surface tension gradient around the drop. This gradient sets up a flow of unsaturated water up from below the drop and away, across the surface, both supporting the droplet and pulling it out wider and thinner. Tiny inconsistencies lead to the formation of of the dendrites, as the area between two arms becomes saturated they are pulled apart (and closer to other arms) leading to the rapid back and forth wiggling. This continues at all scales forming similar shapes on the scale of several mm down to fractions of a mm.

It took me weeks of messing around with the camera and reading about fluid dynamics to figure this out. I even spoke with a couple of fluid dynamics experts who both told me "hey, that's really weird, why does it do that?"

For a more detailed view I have a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npkv8gspVO0

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submitted 1 year ago by nik282000 to c/bread
 

It took me a whole summer but I'm finally getting consistent results from the pizza oven.

 

After messing around for the summer I've settled on a favorite dough. It works just as well in the electric oven as in the wood oven and has a great flavour thanks to the use of beer. I was worried that the alcohol and carbonation might interfere with the yeast but it doesn't seem to slow things down at all. At 70% hydration it's super sticky and a hassle to kneed but it only takes a couple minutes to get all the flour incorporated, then I let it proof for a little longer. After proofing and dividing I give it a serious stretch and fold before shaping and that makes up for my half-ass kneed.

TL;DR

  • 2/3 ap flour, 1/3 whole wheat
  • 70% hydration with 2/3 of that being room temp lager
  • 2% salt
  • 1.5% yeast
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