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The way I act, is pretty close to how I'd hope anyone would. It has a cost, so I'm willing to just say that, even though it's a bit of a brag.

The actual impact is still pretty small. I guess I wish I was better at things, so it would matter more.

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    Immediately downwind from a wildfire in a dense forest. At the bottom of an elevator shaft, which has no headroom built in when the car descends. Inside an industrial oven or cooking vat that's starting to heat up.

    I dunno, there's a lot of places out there where you would die, and that are big enough to fit you. You just have to pick one where you'd have enough time to be scared, first.

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    Your basic unit of agricultural land is the quarter-section, which is ~160 acres. Yeah, five or six quarters is appreciable, but not immodest. I know people with a lot more.

    You don't really get to be a farmer unless you inherit it, and then you have the option of selling and just being a normal millionaire. (Doesn't stop farmers from considering themselves hard-working everymen, though)

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    So, after being busy a bit, the story has moved, anyway. There was an existing grass fire, and the range safety officer just decided it was fine to train right beside it, in a famously windy and unpredictable climate.

    There were people saying there's wells on base, and Alberta started using natural gas very early, like possibly before there was a base. Clearly a lot of false rumours were swirling around, though.

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    Yeah, all correct. If sandbags wouldn't work for what you're firing, don't do that there. Somehow, it happened, though. According to Global, anyway.

    I'd be surprised if, just, casual pockets of natural gas still exist near the surface, like that. Those are the first places wells get put in, historically, and a lot of wells are over a kilometer deep now.

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    This part was striking, about a 100% fee (cough tariff cough):

    ANBL applied standard wine markups, saying fees would have been lower had the festival chosen a New Brunswick maker — citing its mandate to support in-province producers.

    So basically, NB has the same trade policy here as America does, with respect to the rest of Canada.

    For all the talk about fixing interprovincial barriers, there's a hell of a ways to go.

     

    Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

    We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

    Edit: Moving to invidious.

    Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

     

    Modern formulations are proprietary and almost certainly require a cleanroom, but the basic concept has existed for a century. I'd assume there's a history out there beyond what little Wikipedia offers.

    Would I be able to DIY a tape that could store tens of megabytes of data, at least?

    Edit: This adjacent wiki might have more to say on it, based on the reply I got. I assume digital data amounts to a much higher frequency of recording, though.

    I do know audio cassette tapes were used repurposed for digital storage in the early PC era. Was there a noticeable difference based on quality and type of tape?

     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41849856

    If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

    It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

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