I don’t like that the conservative party is using provincial funds to advertise for their political views – especially with advertisements which aren’t rigorously truthful. It feels slimy, but does anyone know if this is legal?

Depends on the income period – I’d do 25% of daily income for a first offence.

I see. Would there also be an arc if you put your hand near the generator while it was running, then?

Does the human body rapidly discharge into air or something?

Okay, so you’re insulated from ground. The generator charges you up. You are at the same charge as the generator. You let go of the generator. Why is there a potential difference?

Thing that confuses me is that when you let go, you should have the same charge as the generator. No charge difference, no arc. Unless I’m wrong about something, which I probably am (hence my confusion).

Why wouldn’t the electrons go to ground through your body while you’re touching it?

That’s not how exploitation works, not really. The rich will exploit as much as they can. Prices are already set to maximize profit. The rich can’t pass higher prices along, because if they could charge more, they already would. Cutting taxes on big companies doesn’t create jobs or lower prices – and raising taxes won’t destroy jobs or raise prices.

They’re condemning microtransaction-based models, so it might not be bad… but I’ll believe it when I see it.

The teacher was selling prints of the art for hundreds of dollars. The article doesn’t say how much profit they made, but it could be substantial. There’s also the privacy violation, and split amongst ten kids it’s $160,000 per victim. Don’t get me wrong, that’s not nothing, but it seems reasonable for such a wilful and knowing violation of copyright, rights to one’s image, and privacy rights. (Assuming all alleged facts are true.)

That seems to be Tynan’s MO. I like it. No hype, no teasers, just quietly works until he has something worth selling.

Typically it does flow better, but I have a little mental stumble every time someone uses “woman” or “women” as an adjective. I know why they’re doing it and I can’t really fault them, it just… feels off.

Yes, but it is a problem. It’s a problem that has no partisan component, which can be fixed without political grandstanding. It’s also a problem which kills people: the 6% increase in car crashes it causes is a lot of easily preventable deaths.

Perfect! We’d have pretty low utilization on those 80 CPUs, though – if we made them smaller, the power draw would be lower and it would be cheaper. We could then get away with adding more CPUs. It would then make sense to put the array of simple CPUs on its own card, dedicated to graphics processing… wait a minute.

If you can’t come into work because your tires are slashed, you should not be fired.

…really? The post was clearly a joke, and if it had any stance at all it was the celebration of modern medicine.

With a name like that I hope it involves nuke-powered spaceships.

Vulnerable workers who need the job and don’t know that this sort of thing is usually illegal.

That may be true, and I’m glad that improvements are being made, but it’s not the display. It’s not the sound. It’s not my keyboard backlight (which got locked on maximum brightness). It’s that with Linux, getting anything working requires hours of troubleshooting. Probably if I understood the system better it would only take minutes of troubleshooting, but developing those skills would take months to years. I don’t want to invest that sort of effort just to write papers, check my email, take notes, do CAD, and play games.

I tried to install Linux on my new laptop, trying multiple different distros.

• Many of them did not work with my 3840x2400 screen, with unreadably tiny UI
• The sound did not always work
• When the sound did work, I either couldn’t change the volume, or figure out how to disable the speakers when I plug in headphones
• Sometimes screen brightness could not be changed

In short, driver problems. So many driver problems. I was sinking too much time into it, and I was basically unable to use my computer. So I gave up and switched back to Windows. Windows has its own annoyances, and I want to use Linux… but Windows mostly works, most of the time. Linux doesn’t, and I have neither the time nor the technical skills to make it work.