@tsugumi @union https://reason.com/2023/02/20/brickbats-march-2023/ "Christine Gauthier, a paraplegic former member of the Canadian Army, told members of the House of Commons in December that she contacted Veterans Affairs Canada trying to find out why it was taking so long to get a wheelchair ramp in her home. She said she got a letter back offering her assisted suicide instead. "I have a letter saying that if you're so desperate, madam, we can offer you MAID, medical assistance in dying," said Gauthier. Gauthier said she has been trying to get the ramp for five years."

@pro @Wormwood @mao_yat The rolling shutter is what causes the bending, since it's scanning the image in one line at a time. Just hard to find something that isn't a CCD with a rolling shutter. If you know the RPM, you could probably figure out how fast it's scanning down the image.

@curtis Microsoft tends to do that to things.

@pro @bagder 6502, and 65816 are commonly used like that. Ben Eater on youtube did a series with the 6502, and the 8-bit guy made his computer with the 65816, IIRC. Both are still manufactured as far as I know. I think there's still people building computers with Z80's as well. I follow one person at @rc2014

@union True, recycling is quite advanced in the steel industry. We don't make much of the input iron ourselves, so that little bit of new iron we use ends up being largely imported, even if it's far less than our steel output totals.

@union US makes a lot of steel, but the US imports most of the raw materials, we don't make enough of the pig iron that goes into the steel and we have to compete with the rest of the world for that.

US also tends to make the high value, high quality steel and import the lower quality stuff for tasks that don't need higher quality.

@TechConnectify Yeah, It's probably entirely fine to do that. It's still one of those things that would get me to go to the "if you have 2 of something, you only have 1" school of planning for disasters. I'd probably go ahead and plug the refrigerator and freezer into it even if it was the only transportation form, but I'd probably live off something that didn't need cooking if it was my only car. I kept my old car in working order just to have a backup for emergencies.

@TechConnectify Nobody said fears or anxieties had to be grounded in reality. ;)

@TechConnectify Interesting, but it really tweaks my fears of using up too much of a vital battery resource. This is why I don't play games on my phone as well and instead use dedicated gaming handhelds, I'd be too worried about running it out of batteries and not being able to contact people. If I wanted to use electric cooking appliances in a power outage, I'd probably want to get a separate battery bank for the house. Though, if I had two cars I might consider it.

@pro Maybe it's trying to tile some window to that side and hasn't completed the task.

@benjedwards @clive Shortly before the Spice wars.

@pro That's usually by convention of the people using it, the one used to reply there is officially labeled as "tired" by the emoji system, but a lot of them are used for purposes other than their label, like the "pray/bless" one is used in a discord server I'm in as a "high five" icon in that server.

@zaitcev They probably came from places like Discord, where it's an easy way to just respond to a post without actually making a formal response. They don't get notifications over there either.

@hackaday I just bought a A1200 replica case when I wanted to build a wedge all-in-keyboard computer.

@anime In a later chapter, it talks about how her father was the one who introduced her to gaming, so there's one point in favor of "if you have kids, you can get them into gaming too."

@RobbieT @Johncdvorak I imagine someone might have done it to show a size comparison, then someone else inexperienced with firearms thought it was something else when putting it into the article.

@Johncdvorak It is actually in their article. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k8yjx/el-chapos-son-ovidio-guzman-house-raid

@moh_kohn Well, it's not so much pouring oil on the fire, but because you're interacting with something, it assumes that other people who interact with those people will have other connections you would like to interact with. The tenor of the interaction matters less, the fact that you created content in response is the key. You ignore them, they assume it's useless to show you similar things. So, interact positively with things you like, don't interact with what you hate.

@anime @hfaust Yeah, they've been making a number of manga you've talked about into anime, I wonder if we'll ever get a Isekai Tensei Soudouki anime.

@anime Not yet, I'm only 14 episodes in, but it's definitely trying to get game nerds to talk to girls, which could lead to other things. It's a step in the direction.