Notices by Canageek (canageek@cybre.space), page 16

@Jssra AND the government eventually granted a temporary licence to bring up their main competitor from the US and sell it here to fill the gap, even through it hadn't fully finished its Canadian licensing.

So yeah, sometimes chemistry is hard.

@Jssra Ug. I wonder why? I figured the shortage of epipens in Canada was due to price gouging, but it turns out the company licensed to make them in Canada (separate from the one in the US) was having them made at a factory in China, and they kept failing safety inspections, and no one could figure out WHY.

I'm sure the company was pissed as it went on and on, as the price was the same, they where not able to sell many as they didn't have them to sell.

@gemlog Ok, weird: Another of those mouse freezing bits, again when I started rendering again. Not when I was playing a graphically intensive game for a bit.

Note: I don't have any way set up to see if you've donated, so just send me a message saying how much and if you are on team clean shaven or team keep it. I'll trust you not to cheat.

Why am I doing the weird shave it off bit? Well, @DialMforMara can't stand how I feel with facial hair, so if I still have it in a week when she gets here, I'm getting glared at every time we kiss. So if you want her to not have to put up with a moustache, you should donate for me to stop growing it. Remember, I need at least $50 donated to stop.

However, I'll keep collecting money for the rest of the month of course.

I'm doing this as part of the SFU Chemistry Graduate Caucus effort. However, I am fond of the Canadian Cancer Society https://www.cancer.ca/en/donate and would like people to donate there.

've decided to try and raise some money for cancer research this year by trying Movember and growing a moustache. My twist is that I am going to have people choose keep growing it or stop growing it when they donate, and if the "Stop growing it" vote ever gets twice the money of the 'keep growing it" vote (and is at least $50 more) then I'll shave it off.

@mdhughes Oh true, and sometimes the ideal values aren't the physically real ones (Look at Mario's jump). I just think it is a neat idea that very few people are perusing. (He says this isn't how game physics engines currently work, and given he wrote most of the idTechEngine I'd assume he knows what he is talking about?)

@Sargoth You forgot "Sure this person is going to be my peer reviewer and don't want to slight them" and "Scared if I don't show I know the literature well people will think I'm a fake"

@gemlog Unless of course they used flash memory on one of the boards.... BISO saw the router fine (that is how I learned that the BIOS can tell how long the ethernet cable is! I even swapped the cable and made sure it guessed right)

@mdhughes Well, that is one approach. John Carmack has talked about how he wants to make a library of actual physics parameters for use in games, so when you want to build a level you just go 'this table is made of oak with a number three varnish' and the game already knows all its physical properties accurately.

@gemlog But anyway, it was a HUGE problem as Ubuntu was so slow as to be almost unusuable as a LiveKey. Been wondering what the modern version of Knoppix is, or is Knoppix still being updated? You know, what distros have put lots of time into optimizing their live versions to run fast.

@gemlog I did that once with Ubuntu to test a network issue. (Strangest thing: booting the computer with Linux is what fixed it. I don't even.... My ONLY guess is that some bit of hardware got a value stuck into its circuits somewhere that booting to LInux cleared?)

@gemlog I used to really like Fluxbox for livecd work with Knoppix. So light and fast vs everything else. Wonder if it is still around.

@gemlog Have you tried any of the newer ones that are also more Windows-like, such as LXDE or such?

@gemlog I've not used KDE since v3.X. I tried 4 at one of the few times I used Linux daily, when I was with a nuclear science lab, and it was too slow to run on the Pentium 4 I was using. Since then I've mostly been using Pis or running off liveCDs so mostly using stuff like XFCE for how lightweight they are. I really liked KDE3 though, since it was like WIndows but supercharged.

@gemlog If you read the linked post, this isn't news: KDE was surprised to learn RHEL supported them at all, as historically the two of them haven't been friends. Fedora will still support them: https://jriddell.org/2018/11/02/red-hat-and-kde/