cranky908canuck

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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
This doesn't seem to be getting the exposure it deserves --- please give links, I'd like to see! You seem to be implying that "the featured article" [1] is not giving that exposure (which is my sense as well). [1] looki
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
So this is where the right leaning (and quite reasonable, in the long term) observation should be: there's a business opportunity to build and deploy storage capacity with grid stabilization the top feature. That takes vision (which is
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
When I look at the photo, I see many old people. When I think about the photo, I see many old people who have given their professional lives to this project. I am both envious of them, and grateful to them.
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by cranky908canuck 2y ago
I have harped on this before. Say you have a million dollars. It's not hard to spend that on solar so that you have a million dollars of productive capacity. If you spend it on a nuclear plant, you have a deposit on a feasibility st
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
All good, thought that's how you'd posed it... has more weight as an onion!
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
When I look at the IA terms-and-conditions, I do not see an outcome different from what the original article ('TFA', correct me!) was complaining about. begin-quote>> Items donated to the Internet Archive become the property
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Ok, so I got downvoted on this one. Fair enough. I would concede that it's probably not that reasonable for a consumer (mostly) to handle this sort of thing. I reckon there there is some combination of: - surprise factor for the tena
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
The headline is clickbait. The tenant wasn't paying the taxes, just withholding them and paying them to government instead. Exactly the same as an employer.
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
You are correct! Not a technology, I'd just give them a list (eg. Shostakovich Piano Cto 2), maybe in the when 'when you read this I am gone' letter, though I would like to make it happen before then, so we can talk! ... an
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
'Lerc' comment speaks to the key thing here: there was a miscommunication: Donor: I would like to charge you with care and control of this archival material. Recipient: Thank you for the containers and fuel. What happened then is
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
With a large (at least in kilograms) collection of vinyl and shellac records, I have looked into the 'what happens next (ie., what should my executor do)' issue. The most memorable comment was in the blog of a buyer of collections
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
check out 'bits about money'
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Seems like an April 01 post, but that's not the date...?
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Want to ask, are you looking for a cheap printer, or really asking about why there isn't a low end printer brand? A lot of replies (including mine) are responding to the former question, not the latter.
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Digression: "What's 2023's word of the year..." I agree with the concept but I wish there was another word for it. The s-word annoys me in a way that the f word doesn't. Also, if you want to explain this to young
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
We have a colour inkjet, it actually does seem to mostly work even though it's only used sporadically. Generally agree with your assessment though: cheap used laser. Make sure you know about the consumables, but I'm happy with k
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
(re: lasers...) Also, don't ignore the used market. The price of a used printer can be low enough (if you are somewhat patient) that new printers are either an impulse buy or a very carefully researched one. (ie., not in the middle).
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Want to comment explicitly, though I upvoted a similar comment ... a gas turbine in a consumer car will be a maintainability nightmare (where do you find the technicians that can do anything with it?), at least in the current automotive eco
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Specific to the welfare/UBI/public benefits subthread of this (with a digression): I saw the phrase "middle class solution to lower class problem ['MCSLCP']" applied to stuff like this years ago; that character
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
The cliff might be a political feature: you save paying out the benefit (that you took credit for funding) since people who blow the cliff lose the money, but if they complain can be characterized as (some variation of) "welfare cheats
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
FWIW, I found and played a youtube sound+score of the Quodlibet. I have not figured out if it breaks the magic or increases the understanding or even intimacy with the work. Leaning to the latter.
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
I loved the record with "Iphigenia in Brooklyn" (including and especially the Schickele 'Quodlibet' --- need to listen again, I expect to discover new jokes there). A couple of years ago, I found at a thrift shop a bunch
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Might be useful for this: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/dog-eats-cash-1.7075889
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
This could also work as a benefit --- for example, the 'heat island' effect of (sub)urban areas. True, the panels are black, but now A/C (and other sources of waste heat) is running on local energy, not energy fed in from fa
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Fundamentally misses the original notion behind company bonuses. The idea was, a base salary, plus a bonus based on company performance. So, participate in corporate profit (theoretically in a transparent way) without locking that into sa
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
It sure would be!
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
Missing from both the cited news item and the discussion is: As an engineer, you are required to maintain a duty of care that overrides employer/client relationships. As in, even if the boss says "seal it" on an inadequate b
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
The comment that "this is the worst time of the year" hits it on the head. How about the "New Years Resolutions of Code" instead?
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by cranky908canuck 3y ago
My notion was, conventional mining often doesn't bother to clean up after itself (eg., orphan wells), whereas landfill mining will likely be held to a higher standard.

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