m0darn

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

I don't like homeless encampments, tent cities, favelas etc. They are unsafe, unclean and foster destructive behavior.

Let's destroy them by building safe, permanent homes for people.

It's so strange to me that "free market capitalism" lovers can't see that encampments are a market response. There is a large supply of unenclosed space (parks, sidewalks, underpasses) and an unmet demand for shelter. They shouldn't be surprised when market participants convert the former into the latter.

How effective do they think it will be to police every unenclosed space in the region vs building adequate shelter. Building shelter has all sorts of associated benefits too.

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submitted 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by m0darn@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
 

Canadian homeless encampments have become increasingly visible in recent years, and those residing within them have faced a fair bit of variation in how local governments react to their presence. Today, let's look at a remarkable legal case that may change the game regarding how homeless encampments are considered under Canadian law and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah I agree that can't keep him locked up, but could they jail him, because honestly that isn't nothing. Obviously it's career suicide for anyone involved but you know.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago

It seems he bought Twitter and successfully traded twitter's market cap into right wing populist influence (RWPI) [and presumably a capital gains deduction], and now RWPI into governmental influence.

 

I'm not saying that it's likely or that it would have any effects.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Could it be that it's using less power as it charges? ie automatically shuts off power hungry features while charging?

Good data is so hard to get.

What I'd actually care about is how many minutes of usage does 30 minutes of charging get me in both standard and ekeing out as much life as I can mode.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is the level of critical thinking that conservative pundits are exercising.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I'd probably start designing and building a rolling ball clock/ sculpture, then hit some sort of obstacle and switch to making a self recirculating eddy current tube, get frustrated and try to design and build an electronically commutated counter rotating propeller driver, get frustrated and try to build a garage sized 3d printer, get frustrated and try to build a delayed action door closer get frustrated and try to build a co-planar compound cycloidal reducer, get frustrated and then forget my wife's anniversary until 4pm the day before.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Shockingly close

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

The idea behind tariffs is to increase the prices of imports so that domestic production can compete. Higher prices are definitely the point, but the idea is that at least with domestic production the price increases get circulated back into the domestic economy as jobs/wages. But, if the domestic economy can increase production without increasing wage expenditure then the money from the higher prices just goes to the shareholders.

If it's something for which there is no domestic production, it's just a tax, and it should become a question of what does money from the tariffs get used for... probably taxcuts for the rich.

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 24 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Melania Trump too right?

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca -4 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah,

A woman at a party hoping to bag a dying rich husband retains the right not to be groped/assaulted or raped.

I actually wouldn't be surprised if the modeling industry as a whole was proved to be a sex abuse conspiracy from the get go. Like create this image in the media of beautiful women becoming glamorous successful models that marry dying billionaires, tell them that they have to network at fancy parties where the industry moguls are, convince them to ingratiate themselves to the moguls however they can....

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, the percentage of the population that's trans is about 1%. The percentage of trans men that oppose reasonable abortion access is surely vanishingly small (because of largely overlapping bodily autonomy rights concerns).

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imo the article writers probably feel that they are decrying the way people are demeaning her, but it's just adding visibility for the judgemental.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by m0darn@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
 

...and a fact check of the statements made in the interview.

 

I'm trying to achieve variable speed control on two brushed DC motors powered by a 3s or 4s LiPo battery (~12V or 15V). This is for a nerf blaster I'm modifying, which is why I'm not using a pre-made speed control ie I want control over the shape/layout. I'd like to vary projectile speed with a thumb knob.

I just finished watching ElectricMonkeyBrain's YouTube video on the TL494 PWM chip.

I was initially planning to vary the duty cycle with a potentiometer on the chip's control pin, to get a PWM signal and feed that into a MOSFET. But in the video he mentions that the chip has an integrated over current protection function. Ie the chip will

monitor the voltage across a sense resistor in series with the load 

and will

kill the output if the sensed voltage/current goes above a reference voltage

It occured to me that I could actually adjust the reference voltage as a way to control the motor speed.

Would this be a better way to achieve speed control and protect my motors/battery? Or is it a terrible idea altogether.

 

I met a Ukrainian today. He is my age. I met him at school drop off, our sons are in the same kindergarten class.

They recently arrived here from overseas. I welcome them, but I wish we had done more to help Ukraine.

There are numerous places in the world where people are being displaced by state violence, but I don't think there's anywhere that it's being done by a global power so directly. It's similar to Gaza/Palestine & Israel, but Russia can end the war by simply going home.

If we had been meeting our NATO obligations for the last 30 years, would this family have been driven out of their home? I don't know. (I actually know almost nothing about their personal circumstances)

I just feel like we should have done more, and that it's not too late.

 

I know this isn't build a pc, but everything over there is so gaming oriented I thought I might get better advice here.

I'm a noob that wants a home media server for sharing photos of my kids with my family (across the country), video library sharing to some family members, and streaming my music collection to my phone (and maybe my dad's).

But I'm considering ripping my father in laws extensive bluray collection (well seeing it up so he can rip them into my library) so I reckon a full tower is required for HDDs.

I'm imagining unraid, with a big pile of used drives. What I like about that approach is that I can economically add storage as the video library grows as I/we rip. Or are used HDDs a false economy.

I think the only processing intensive thing in the use case list is ripping and video library sharing. I have no concept of what sort of processing is required. Should I get a graphics card?

There's a Lenovo TS-140 (E3-1226 V3) available available used for $80 Canadian. Is that a good place to start?

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The cyclist was riding on the sidewalk, and ran a red light (a bit more justified to flag him down). He fled, eventually ditching the bike and fleeing by foot.

I hope the police didn't screw up by performing an unjustified search.

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