rbesfe
@rbesfe@lemmy.ca
- Comment on ‘Huge Number’ of Federal Probationary Workers Laid Off, Bigger Cuts Loom 6 days ago:
Putting probationary in the title is so misleading, most people associate probation with bad performance. What it really means is “recently hired”
- Comment on New thermoelectric generator converts vehicle exhaust heat into electricity, boosting fuel efficiency 1 week ago:
Show this to any automotive engineer and count how many seconds before they start laughing
- Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery 2 weeks ago:
What are you running your server on?
- Comment on Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It 3 weeks ago:
The auto industry is absolutely not posting record profits
- Comment on MSAART Thunderstorm Generator, converting CO2 - Alpha prospects introduction 5 weeks ago:
Flagrant disregard for thermodynamics and conservation of mass in this post.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 1 month ago:
This was in Toronto, and to call the ebike courier job market here “oversaturated” would be an understatement.
- Comment on New car buyers driven to white or grey, with bright colours rarer than ever, data shows 4 months ago:
Shallow scratches tend to be more visible on darker cars, deeper scratches are more visible on white cars
- Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 4 months ago:
You think it’s easy to keep track of tens of thousands of relatively small networking devices in a warzone?
- Comment on There you go little guy 4 months ago:
Maybe just drive the speed limit?
- Comment on Dormice 4 months ago:
Lemmy.ca instance checks out
- Comment on Oxygen 4 months ago:
You should present your findings to the queen, this is a very important development in the field of astrological studies
- Comment on 'let me show you the nether before bed' 4 months ago:
gregtech fun
Pick one /s
- Comment on NHS to use drones to fly blood samples around London to avoid traffic in new trial 5 months ago:
at the same level
I have a hard time believing that the decibel level of a drone will come close to that of road noise
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 5 months ago:
Still available on Floatplane!
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 5 months ago:
“both sides are the same” is exactly what republicans want everyone to think
- Comment on Trudeau says Canada will slap big tariffs on Chinese-made EVs 5 months ago:
Trudeau has done more damage to left wing causes than that shithead Pollievre will ever do
- Comment on Valve bans Razer and Wooting’s new keyboard features in Counter-Strike 2 5 months ago:
More like captain obvious troll. Find better bait, this shit is low quality
- Comment on Cheap but reliable external SSD for RPis 5 months ago:
M.2 would technically be the best performance available, but realistically I don’t think you’d notice the difference over a USB SSD. Maybe a few extra seconds on boot.
- Comment on Patreon: adding Apple’s 30 percent tax is the price of staying in the App Store 6 months ago:
If digital platforms didn’t add any value, every android app would just be available for sideloading on the dev’s website. Not that I agree with Apple’s pricing tactics, but running and moderating a marketplace isn’t free
- Comment on How does renouncing citizenship work? 6 months ago:
Renouncing citizenship is a formal process done at the consulate or embassy, so country A almost by definition has to know about it
- Comment on Brat summer is dead RIP 6 months ago:
The couch fucking really exploded when the AP put out a fact check saying he “didn’t have sex with a couch”, but then retracted it because they can’t definitively say that he has never, in private, had sex with a couch
- Comment on Apple Foldable iPhone Launch Faces Delay Until 2026, Faces Design Roadblocks 6 months ago:
But why?
- Comment on I tried to make a phone case. 6 months ago:
But… Why?
- Comment on Nuclear too slow to replace coal, and baseload “simply can’t compete” with wind and solar, AEMO boss says 7 months ago:
Nuclear waste is incredibly safe and disasters simply don’t happen anymore because of how strict safety protocols are
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 7 months ago:
Animals are not morally equivalent to humans, and morality is not rational.
- Comment on Unofficial Reddit API 7 months ago:
This project is stupid and DOA. Find something more productive or fun to work on.
- Comment on Investigation platform Bellingcat warns of ‘censorship’ on X after research on Russian attack on children's hospital in Kyiv is labeled spam 7 months ago:
So tell us, what did you identify it as and what characteristics did you use to make that identification?
- Comment on When was the last time you made Jello? 7 months ago:
Violence and cruelty towards farm animals is always acceptable
- Comment on Borderlands 2 improved on everything I liked from B1 7 months ago:
BL3 is good gameplay-wise, but the awful writing just kept pulling me out of it. If I wanted a meaningless looter-shooter I would go play Destiny.
- Comment on Toyota builds experimental hydrogen-powered pizza oven and grill. 7 months ago:
There is promising research into mixing hydrogen with existing natural gas pipelines at low concentration (<2%). It doesn’t leak any more than gas pipes do already and the low concentration prevents embrittlement. And you don’t have to go through the horrendous efficiency of a fuel cell, you just burn it with the gas