When you have a president that lies on average 21 times per DAY (source), what does it matter if an AI does it ? I mean, sure, it's whataboutism, but you can't claim the moral high ground when your high ground is at the bottom of the Mariana trench.

I don't buy that DST is better. In the winter I'd rather the sun comes up as it does now at 9 am than 10 am. In the summer I'd rather the sun go down at 9 pm than 10 pm. It's still light enough to do things outdoors anyway.

Natural gas is dirt cheap in BC and neighbouring Alberta, at times going negative in price. Many places in BC are already trying to ban natural gas heating.

James Lind discovered citrus cured scurvy without knowing how it worked. Should that knowledge have been suppressed?

Yes. But the cool thing about this study is that we can quantify this.

If we model your setup in their calculator (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cl.cam.ac.uk%2Fresearch%2Frainbow%2Fprojects%2Fdisplay_calc%2F) as a 55" display, 6' viewing distance and 4K resolution it predicts that 30% of people can tell a difference between that setting and an ideal display device. This justifies a claim that 8K, in this setting, is unnecessary for most.

However, in your story there is no difference between a 4K display and a 1080p display and that contradicts the study.

Why is there a contradiction? One possible explanation is that 1080p is enough resolution to represent the source material. What I mean is that a 1080p source material can be encoded at 4K and labeled 4K but there is nothing gained by this.

It's like those Cthuluh (sp?) stories where you have cults that worship a destructive god that kills them instantly whenever it manifests. When you read it you think "why would they worship something like that ?!?" And now I'm not surprised anymore.

Yeah. Companies already have so many rights and advantages the people don't (being immortal for example), it's getting crazy that they want to pilfer the few we have. Citizen United has done *so much* damage for democracy and the world at large.

Wrong. Even 50yo models were accurate enough to predict the current (and ongoing) situation: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.science.org%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2Feven-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming. And a recent comparison of 15 models of the 80s recently showed that they were all basically correct. But who am I kidding, you are not gonna read that anyway, as you are confusing weather and climate on purpose as usual.

BC Hydro does use diesel generators in a few locations such as on Haida Gwaii. They also have backup diesel in locations at the end of the line, like Prince Rupert.

Also, BC does not have any nuclear generation.

BC Hydro currently imports a lot of power from Washington as it has insufficient generating capacity from installed hydro.

And I have a hard time believing that Apple (or whomever) can't brick them remotely, even when in China, after they've been reported stolen. As soon as they connect for an update, the IMEI identifies it and bingo, drop a (virtual) brick on it. Why TF NOT ?!?

It used to be that stupid people would get drunk at the local watering hole on saturday night and complain about not being able to sell their turnips at the proper price at the market. But now they make youtube vids or complain at the school board about books they've never read. The stupid have grown global and influential, pushed by billionaires who find it advantageous to sow chaos.

I though most vampires were fluent in latin...?

Yeah, sorry, I'm not really complaining. And yes, I'm not a big fan of huge modern frameworks. gcc all the way, yeah !

;-) It's the 3rd iteration of this project. When I got it 15 years ago, I decided to do just that. Well, not really, I was tasked of writing a test program to see if it could replace part of the old one while the 'official replacement program' was being discussed, and since it worked fine I ended up rewriting the entire thing. The official program never got off the ground, but there is now talk of doing it for the 4th iteration... I want no part of it.
For the curious I work in scientific research

I'm more scared of it than anything, particularly since I've been asked to add something after 10 years !