u/Prudent_Situation_29

Grow up.

I was driving on wgp last night and saw a grey Toyota pickup (I think it was a Tacoma) with a dog in the back. The dog was barking at the driver, and was obviously distressed.

This person had an inverted Canadian flag on the tailgate, and a Colt firearms logo. Probably one of those freedom convoy nutjobs.

Not only is it illegal to do this, it's wildly stupid. If you're so precious about the interior of your emotional support truck that you can't have a dog, you have to get rid of one or the other.

Surrender the dog to someone who will care about its safety.

From what I gather, rust happens when an iron atom bonds with an oxygen atom, forming iron oxide. If you get a rain storm and water gets on your steel brake discs, you'll see very rapid formation of surface rust.

Since the oxygen is bound to the hydrogen in water, and from what I gather, rust formation requires free oxygen, how can water cause rust? Are the water molecules breaking down spontaneously some of the time, freeing up the oxygen?

Can anyone point me to information about a train derailment that happened in Hamilton in the 1950s? There is (or used to be) a mural on a building (I think along King St) commemorating it.

My dad was witness to this as a child, he remembers walking past the scene. From what I remember, a switch had flipped, causing the locomotive to take a different track than the cars. Could it have been at King and Ferguson, or in that area?

Any help would be appreciated.

I've been driving for almost thirty years, and I've been watching the whole time, paying attention to how things work.

My daily commute has me driving home on a busy highway, two lanes in either direction at 90 km/h, during rush hour. Every kilometer or so there's an interchange that allows traffic to get on and off the highway, which means merge lanes.

The volume of traffic is high enough that speeds drop dramatically (perhaps 20-30 km/h average). What creates the stop and go however, is people tailgating.

The scenario is this: a line of cars with no space between them approaches a merging lane. The cars on the on ramp are pulling up beside them. At least one of the cars already on the highway has to stop to make space for the merging cars, which stops everyone behind them.

If they kept enough space in front of them for at least one car to merge, then just let off the gas slightly once that happened, they'd recreate that initial space without ever having to stop. You can maintain space in front of you, even in slow traffic. It doesn't change your travel time, and it will almost certainly improve conditions.

They're all still going the same average speed, they're just not having to stop all the time.

To start with, I can't submit the PDF in question due to company policy (IP protection and all that), which I know is just about useless.

The company who prints our manuals for us is having problems doing so. They get a Job Errors window saying "Error: PDF printing failed; conversion failed" at page 50. I'm assuming there's a problem with the way the page is laid out or configured at that spot. I've been looking through the original designer file for errors, but it's a bit of a needle in a haystack.

The original document is created in Corel Designer, then printed as a PDF via a visual basic routine in Microsoft Access. The routine takes many PDFs and combines them into one huge document (over 1100 pages). I'm not sure what service it uses for that either.

I've also been combing through the visual basic code to see if I can find an issue, but I'm a dabbler at best. The person who wrote the code is retired and nobody else has that expertise (I know, it's a bad situation).

I was hoping someone could help me figure out how to look at the underlying structure of the PDF, maybe I can see some error that way. Any other suggestions are welcome too, I'm a bit stuck at the moment.

I was at the center for inland waters in Burlington, ON yesterday, and noticed the flag they have flying is badly faded and a little frayed.

I'm not one to wave flags, I don't want to end up like the americans in that regard. I believe less is more.

Still, I don't think it's acceptable that a (federal?) government building is flying a flag that looks as if it's been abandoned. I know the government is cutting costs, but that's a basic maintenance item in my book.

What do you think? Would you be upset if you saw it?

I write with my left hand, but my right is dominant in a number of tasks too. One thing though: my left has always been stronger. The muscles in that arm are visibly larger and I can lift more weight with it (not by a huge margin, but it's noticeable).

I got this sub in my feed for whatever reason, and after seeing some of the posts, I decided to look up Basilisk Eschaton. From what I can gather, it's a sci-fi universe, but it doesn't seem to originate in books, movies, tv shows or games as I figured it would.

Is this a literary creation without any mainstream media associated with it? I'd love to read a novel based in this universe.

I have to use chmod to allow a program to access the USB port my 3D printer is connected to or it can't communicate with the printer.

The funny thing is that each time I want to run the program, I have to change the permissions again or it won't connect.

My question is: shouldn't that change be permanent, the same as if I had changed permissions on a file?

Some relevant info:

I'm using Cachy OS, the device is /dev/ttyACM0, the printer usually stays powered on and physically plugged in to the USB port, but the machine is shut down every morning and booted up when I get home from work. I run the command using sudo.

I've been seeing a lot of posts about the flock cameras being used by u.s. law enforcement. They seem to be diving in, head first. There are people who are running into serious problems due to being mistakenly identified as criminals.

I'm hoping we're not also jumping on this train. Have you heard of any of these sort of surveillance cameras being used in Canada yet?

This may only apply to things like guessing passwords, but I have a question. I saw a chart that showed how long it would take a computer to crack a password based on its length. Some ended up being quintillions of years.

My question is this: is it possible for a computer to have randomly guessed the correct answer on the first try, just based on sheer chance, even if it's a super long password?

I get that it will take a very long time in the real world, but surely there's the extremely rare chance that it's cracked right away?

I've seen a lot of footage recently of water bombers filling up in lakes and rivers. I'm wondering who they have to get permission from, or what has to be in place.

I can imagine the local government would have some sort of law allowing water bombers to collect from any source they choose, but what about beachgoers, swimmers, boats etc? I guess there's a briefing before each flight, planning this sort of thing in advance (use this lake, from west to east etc). I can even picture local authorities shutting down waterways to accommodate it.

I imagine they would need to be in contact with the local ATC, and the firefighters at the site, but is there another controller at the lake who's there to ensure fillups can happen safely? Surely the local ATC can give them permission, but they can't help them with regulating traffic on the water.

Any details would be welcome.

I'm using Cachy, I used to use Mint. My audio is coming from my GPU via HDMI.

I notice that if I'm playing a game and also have a video playing in the background, I start to get audio artifacts like crackling and cutouts. Same if I'm playing two videos at the same time etc.

I'm assuming this is a result of buffer underruns. In Mint, I manually increased the buffer size, which massively reduced the issue (almost eliminated it).

I have two questions:

1. Is that a valid approach to solving this issue, or should I be doing something else?

2. Why doesn't this sort of thing happen in Windows? Does it dynamically adjust the buffer size as needed?

If I were to design a city bus, I would probably want to optimise it for certain operating regimes. I would want it to be well suited to constant stopping and starting, slow speeds, low sound emissions, potholes. I doubt they need to be efficient at high speeds. I ask this because I saw one of our city buses on our local highway, and wondered how far out of it's comfort zone it was. I'm not saying you can't design it to be happy in both places, but there's always that compromise to be made.

I can imagine their daily lives are incredibly abusive, tons of wear and tear etc. A car might have to be designed for multiple regimes like highway and city, where a city bus might be able to get away with a more focused scope.

So my question is: does a lot of thought get put into optimising a city bus, or is is more like just putting a normal diesel engine in a voluminous chassis and leaving it at that, sort of like a big car?

I will often see this phenomenon when driving on the highway: traffic is sparse and moving at speed, there are a few vehicles in front of me, the one closest to me is tailgating the next one, and their brake lights come on every five or ten seconds, like clockwork. There's tonnes of opportunity to pass, but they insist on riding that bumper.

This person is constantly switching between the gas and the brake to maintain that tiny distance. It's extra ridiculous because there are few other cars on the road.

Imagine someone was walking down the street, and you walked up behind them, close enough that they could feel you exhale on their neck, your nose is a couple of centimeters from the back of their head. There aren't many other people around, and you walk like that for a long distance (several blocks). It would be insane, completely out of the norm.

Yet for some reason, they drive this way. A classic example of how people drive according to their base urges instead of thinking about what they're doing.

I was joining the highway a few days ago, and there was a car on the shoulder with it's hazard lights on. As I approached it, the driver decided to accelerate and enter the lane. They still had their hazards on, which meant no turn signal. I had no idea they were going to do that.

If you're going to re-join traffic after pulling over, turn off your hazards first, and put your turn signal on so other drivers understand what your intentions are.

Using your turn signal to pull away from a curb is a basic skill you're taught in driving school. It's in the handbook too. This is no different.

Not often, and not much, but sometimes I will pour concentrated lemon juice into a cup and sip it.

I'm sitting in the office, wearing a jacket with a blanket over my legs. It's 29 outside, 37 with the humidex. It's supposed to get up to 45 this afternoon. The air-conditioning is cranked right up (down?).

This is the problem. Even in the face of potential disaster, we consume like it's going out of style. It's crazy that I'm wearing cold weather gear on one of the hottest days in recorded history.

The worst part is, I daren't mention it to anyone for fear of being labeled a troublemaker.

I was heading to Brantford and couldn't see the lanes ahead very well, I thought both lanes to Brantford were blocked, but it turns out only the left lane was.

I saw a tow truck pulled over, but I couldn't see a crash. Was this a crash, or is it the start of some construction?

I see a lot of posts asking if X part is ok or if it needs replaced. This is common with brakes and tires.

While people can certainly offer an opinion about how something looks, there are other things we can't do. A brake rotor might look fine, but that's not the only criteria, they have critical dimensions that need to be measured.

All you're going to get here is a best guess because nobody can thoroughly inspect the item. Don't take it as gospel. You probably shouldn't be asking for automotive maintenance advice online in the first place.