alsimoneau

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm not sure how it is in the middle of nowhere but as far as I know you don't have to be connected either. You won't have an electricity bill (since that's provincial), but the rest is handled by municipal taxes and I don't know if you can opt out of those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Fortran is still widely used. I want a rockstar virus.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)

No, the city handles all of that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's a public utility here. Like electricity and garbage collection.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (7 children)

The concept of a water company is so weird...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Science says winter. If you want to wake up earlier to compensate you can just do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's a problem of definitions.

Is a chicken egg an egg layed by a chicken, or an egg from witch a chicken will hatch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

People are afraid of the dark, and the more they chase it away the more afraid they become.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Light pollution is also a big contributor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So I did some digging and the use of 1-second pendulum as a unit of length predates the metre by about a century. It's very possible it informed the choice of ratio to use when defining it properly, like we did with the recent definition change.

It's all on Wikipedia if you want to dive in yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The mass cancels out.

I don't know if it's purely a coincidence. The meter comes from the Earth's circumference (1/10 000 000 of the pole-equator distance) and I believe the second is much older, which points to a coincidence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I went from a 750M (my laptop, that I still have) to a RX580. It's starting to show its age but I haven't encountered a game that's unplayable yet.

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