sn0wf1re (u/sn0wf1re)

sn0wf1re commented on MAID in Canada nathansnelgrove.com/2025/... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

jsbg · 4 days ago

according to chatgpt, 25% of people die of cancer in canada; presumably dying of cancer is a lot worse than MAID so one might expect this number to grow beyond 5% unless there are just that many people that object to it for themselves on philosophical grounds

sn0wf1re · 4 days ago

According to StatsCan it is actually a bit more, but varying year-to-year. Pre-Covid it looks like it was closer to 27% or 28%, now closer to 26%. So a lot of room to grow, if we made the assumption that all those dying of cancer would prefer to choose their date of passing. Personally, I think the more immediate source of growth in the number of MAID administrations should come from those who died after requesting MAID but before MAID was able to be administered, which would give an increase of 19% in administrations.

Statistics Canada. Table 13-10-0392-01 Deaths and age-specific mortality rates, by selected grouped causes https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=131003...

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/publications...

sn0wf1re commented on Show HN: Bracket – selfhosted tournament system github.com/evroon/bracket... · Posted by u/tripleseven

tripleseven · 4 months ago

Thanks for your reply!

> does this support players signing themselves up? Or do they have to show up in person and the tournament director signs them up?

Ah this isn't implemented yet as I haven't really come up with this idea yet, but it would be great to have this feature so I created an issue for it :) https://github.com/evroon/bracket/issues/1200. Feel free to leave more feedback there as well.

> I'm also curious whether you've considered integrating this with Twilio or something similar, to send text messages

Interesting idea as well! I haven't implemented any kind of notifications so far yet either. But it seems very useful, also from my experience with hosting these kind of tournaments. I'll think about what the best way to implement this is that would be easy (and free/cheap) to selfhost. Maybe it can be done using javascript serviceworkers that just send web notifications. That would be free. AFAIK text messages would always cost money to send.

sn0wf1re · 4 months ago

You could always just implement an interface such as apprise or webhooks and leave the complexity of SMS (cost) or other types of notifications up to the selfhoster.

sn0wf1re commented on Why Canada Should Join the EU economist.com/europe/2025... · Posted by u/gpi

titanomachy · 8 months ago

Justin Trudeau, maybe the "e" was an accident. He's about to receive a no-confidence vote from the opposition parties in parliament, which will force an election.

sn0wf1re · 8 months ago

"Justine" is what some people who disapprove of him are calling him. It's a mocking conspiracy theory that JT's wife left him due to him being transexual.

sn0wf1re commented on A room temperature Li2O-based lithium-air battery enabled by a solid electrolyte science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/fs_tab

lukevp · 9 months ago

Is there a similar volumetric equivalent measurement or is it all about energy density by weight? Like, if the batteries are lightweight but massive, that would also be a bit of a problem since the structure to safely transport a large volume could be expensive and heavy.

sn0wf1re · 9 months ago

Looks like the created cell is 614 Wh/L from the above comment. Gasoline is ~2.2kWh/L [0]. So my take is that even with the created cell the density is not going to be an issue with car or grid batteries -- only <4 times the size even at this non-theoretical cell. Who knows how the packs will be configured though as I am sure airflow will be a design consideration when making larger packs.

[0] This uses the 3kWh/kg that was provided above and a density of gasoline of .75g/mL

    units
    You have: 0.7429 g/mL * 3 kWh/kg
    You want: kWh/L
 * 2.2287

sn0wf1re commented on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths bbc.com/news/articles/c0j... · Posted by u/vinni2

renewiltord · 9 months ago

Demographics in 75+ age group. It’s late here or I would have looked up in Stat Can before posting. But that’s where you should check.

sn0wf1re · 9 months ago

Looks like 66% of people 75+ identify as European Origins

     math 1_710_255/2_595_470
    0.658938

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=981003...

sn0wf1re commented on Instant macOS install on Proxmox including AMD patches github.com/luchina-gabrie... · Posted by u/goodburb

sn0wf1re · 9 months ago

Neat, but this looks very specialized for a single person's config. I wouldn't want to run this on my machine seeing as it removes apt sources and does a bunch of other system changes unrelated to installing a macOS guest.

https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX/blob/7ca3dc81...https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX/blob/7ca3dc81...https://github.com/luchina-gabriel/OSX-PROXMOX/blob/7ca3dc81...

sn0wf1re commented on The withering dream of a cheap American electric car wsj.com/business/autos/th... · Posted by u/voisin

eddd-ddde · 9 months ago

The average car in the US? Or the average daily driver car?

Cars just don't disappear, so all vehicles would "polute" the statistics right?

sn0wf1re · 9 months ago

From what I have gathered, I assume average age of registered vehicles. I would also assume that collector cars would "pollute" the statistics, unless they are filtered out -- the details of the research are not stated.

https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/avera...

sn0wf1re commented on BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability insideevs.com/news/738606... · Posted by u/segasaturn

Panzer04 · 10 months ago

I'm confused. Are they more or less expensive?

My presumption is you meant cheaper?

sn0wf1re · 10 months ago

Screens are more expensive than buttons and knobs.

Making the screen into a touch screen with a digitizer is cheaper than buttons and knobs.

So if you already have a screen, making it a touchscreen is indeed cheaper.

sn0wf1re commented on BYD EV teardown in Japan reveals secrets to its affordability insideevs.com/news/738606... · Posted by u/segasaturn

potato3732842 · 10 months ago

Then why don't all the 3rd world cars use touchscreens?

sn0wf1re · 10 months ago

Touchscreens are more expensive than buttons and knobs. But screens are required by law in the USA and EU as they require backup cameras. And a digitizer is a lot cheaper than some buttons and knobs.

sn0wf1re commented on iOS 18.2 Lets EU Users Delete App Store, Safari, Messages, Camera and Photos macrumors.com/2024/10/23/... · Posted by u/sandwichsphinx

gjsman-1000 · 10 months ago

> To play devils advocate, couldn’t that allow a single purchase of a movie to be watched by millions of people? At which point no studio would sell it digitally.

You're not thinking creatively enough. One day, somebody's going to use the law and make the "sales" API-driven. This will then turn it into a rental service where you can "buy" a game for two hours for $37.50 and then "sell" the game back to the mother ship for $36.50 of credit. The mother ship being, of course, whatever VC firm puts millions into having the world's largest Steam account.

I don't have to like the current ecosystem of no-transfers and DRM, to acknowledge breaking all that down would have major economic consequences against studios. Right now is especially not the time to be asking for this, because the whole video game industry is in deep financial trouble at the moment.

sn0wf1re · 10 months ago

Isn't that just a (expensive) library? And libraries are constantly being lobbied against by publishing groups, yet there doesn't seem to be major harm (financial) caused by them.