nuclearwast

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by nuclearwast 2y ago
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
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by nuclearwast 2y ago
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. Scol
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by nuclearwast 2y ago
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 p
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by nuclearwast 2y ago
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
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by nuclearwast 3y ago
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
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by nuclearwast 3y ago
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 did
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by nuclearwast 4y ago
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.
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by nuclearwast 4y ago
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 beca
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by nuclearwast 4y ago
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.
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by nuclearwast 4y ago
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 wh
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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 ar
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
Bought it in a heartbeat when I saw it mentionned on ars technica. The biggest challenge is taking time to download the whole thing...
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
'ble' in the text probably means blé, which is french for wheat. not sure why translator would chose corn (maïs in french).
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
That is beyond crazy. I am at loss for words.
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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:
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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.
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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 l
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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).
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
It's 2011 again... It took ~7 years before price went back to what they were.
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by nuclearwast 5y ago
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 wa