made us work

So, you didn’t draw the line there either?

I think Canada has next to zero in marijuana exports, because it’s illegal to import it in most places. It does contribute billions to Canada’s GDP, but that’s production and consumption that never leaves the country.

IMO, it’s more “aboat” not “aboot”.

But, Americans say “abawt” instead of “about” so we’re even.

25 years ago this was a bit silly, but these days it’s like saying: “Look, I’m not on the Epstein List!”

Yeah, some of the key Canadian words are missing, eh?

Like which ones?

It’s having grown up on sci-fi that has allowed me to see that LLMs are not “AI”, so there’s no surprise I’m against “imitation AI”.

“Ok, I was lying / exaggerating”?

Are there distros where you can’t do that? I mean, maybe Debian?

I have had only a few issues with nVidia on Linux for a few years. But, I am using an old card. I’d like to live in the nice sunny castle, not the scary one with bad weather. But, at least I have mostly working shelter while I play my games.

Considering their stock price has grown by 27,557% in those 10 years, I don’t think too many people at the company are concerned with their “falling”

https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/NVDA/performance/total-return

It sucks that they abandoned us, and it’s awful that they’re a huge part of the AI bubble,. But, this is like an artist who used to play on Tuesday evenings at your local live music venues “selling out” and now playing stadiums.

Same, I’ve been saying I’ll upgrade when the prices become sane since shortly before the asteroid hit and killed off the dinosaurs.

But, it’s amazing how well the 1080 has aged. I can still play most of the games I want to at 1440p while still keeping the frame rate at at least 60 fps average, and only rarely dipping below 40. Admittedly, I sometimes do have to turn down the graphics settings, but not so they’re immersionly-breakingly-bad.

My next card will definitely be AMD, but I want to make it a good one. So, I’m annoyed that the 9000 series didn’t even have an “enthusiast” tier.

$1.35/day to eat? No expenses for entertainment? I guess you’re posting this from the public library, because your expenses don’t include internet or a cell phone. The library must also be where you get your entertainment.

In addition: no laundromat or new clothing for a month and a half? Your clothes must reek. Speaking of which, no gym membership or hotel days, so is that 1.5 months without a bath or shower?

Also, 1.5 months and no insurance payments, so does that mean the vehicle is uninsured? I hope (assuming this is USA) that you have some kind of health insurance, despite not making any health insurance payments.

Something about this just doesn’t seem plausible.

So, don’t fund the larger projects. Fund the smaller ones, they’re the ones that probably need support anyhow.

Besides, I would bet that if you asked Mr. Torvalds, he’d have a list of kernel contributors who live in the EU and would love to be paid for their work.

For number 2, require that the people doing the open source work live and pay taxes in the EU. That way you’re keeping the money in the union, and you’re investing in local knowledge and skills.

As opposed to proprietary software where you’re basically handing dollars over to American companies (or to supposedly “Irish” companies that just so happen to be named almost identically to American companies, but somehow are magically based out of Ireland and don’t pay proper taxes anywhere).

Two economists are walking down the street and pass by a pile of dog shit. One of them (a sadist) turns to the other and says “I’ll pay you $1000 if you eat that dog shit”.

The other performs an internal utility calculation and eats the dog shit.

Continuing their walk, the second economist sees another pile of dog shit and makes the same offer to the first. The first economist also agrees, and eats the dog shit. They walk on.

After a while the second economist says to the first “I can’t help thinking we’re worse off than when we started this walk. We both have the same amount of money we started with, but we both had to eat shit.”

The first economist replies “Worse off?! We’ve just engaged in 2000 dollars worth of trade!”.

Look, by certain ways of calculating GDP growth and trade, it’s probably true that if the money isn’t being spent on software licenses and so on, it means there’s less economic activity going on.

The whole point of open source / free software is that you’re not locked into someone’s proprietary software ecosystem. You don’t have to continue paying license fees. So, if the governments simply stop paying for software licenses, it’s probably true that their GDP will technically shrink. But, that assumes the money won’t be spent on something more useful.

I wonder what society has the smallest difference between men and women. We’ll have achieved true gender equality when women are just as willing to torture someone as men.

That also makes me wonder about game theory thought experiments. The prisoner’s dilemma is really just a sort of logic puzzle. Original (male) researchers gave it the name “prisoner’s dilemma” because that was a situation where they could imagine people choosing “cooperate” or “compete” or whatever. It makes me wonder what the dilemma would be called if the original researchers had been female. Maybe there is a relatable situation for women where there’s a realistic “cooperate” / “compete” table you could make. Maybe a situation where your best outfit is one your friend also has, and you don’t both want to wear the same thing, so do you risk showing up in the same outfit, or wear something slightly less fashionable to avoid that situation?

So, a fair estimate for a human body’s resistance is about 1000 Ω. That’s a case when the hands are sweaty, or there’s an open wound, or other cases where the skin isn’t acting as a massive resistor and blocking any current from flowing.

According to this chart, a 16 gauge sheet of metal is about 1.5 mm thick. A 22 gauge is about 0.76 mm thick. I’m going to go in metric since everything is so much more straightforward.

So, 9 feet long is about 3m long. Apparently stripper poles typically come in 38, 45 and 50mm diameters, so, let’s go for the smallest one to have the highest possible resistance. So, 38mm diameter means a circumference of 0.038 * Pi = 0.12m. So, the area of the pole is its circumference multiplied by its thickness, or about 0.12 * 0.00076 = approx 0.00009 m^2 (9*10^-5 m^2).

To calculate the resistance of something you need its resistivity. This table gives resistivities for common materials. Aluminum is listed at 2.82×10−8 Ωm. To calculate the resistance given the resistivity, cross-sectional area and length you plug the values into:

R = ρL / A

R = 3E-8Ωm * 3m / 0.00009m^2 = 3E-8 * 3 / 9E-5 = 0.333 E-3 = 3E-4Ω

Or, about 0.3 milliohms, or 300 microohms.

As a check, you can compare it to the resistance of a wire. Another chart gives the resistance of wires of various gauges at 1000 ft, or approx 300m. So, a 3m length of wire is going to be roughly 1/100th of that resistance. The values in the chart are on the order of 1 ohm at 300m, so 0.01 ohms (10 milliohms) at 3m. Of course, wires are much thinner than a whole pole, but wires are also designed to be good conductors, but 0.3 milliohms vs. 10 milliohms seems like we’re in the right ballpark. So, even if the neighbour was dangling from a length of AWG 14 wire, and it was somehow not breaking, even then she’d be in no danger of electrocution.

This is all just back of the envelope estimation, but we’re talking 6 orders of magnitude difference in resistance. No matter what the pole is made of, or how thin it is, it’s still metal, and metal has much lower resistance than flesh. The current is going to stay in the pole, and the pole dancer is in no danger.

I’ll answer that for you, but first tell me what the (typical, average, ballpark) resistance of a human body is.

Ok, you’re still failing here. The water content of a human body is irrelevant. A large contact area is irrelevant.

Let me make it easier for you. As I’m sure you know, to be electrocuted an electrical current needs to flow through someone’s body. What part of the neighbour’s body is the current going to enter, and which part is it going to leave?

I don’t need to, because I know how electrical circuits work. I don’t think you do. But, go on, explain why I’m wrong.