[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 6 points 23 hours ago

AFAIK if you spend at least 2 years studying here you automatically qualify for a 3 year work permit. I think rolling that into permanent residency is a lot easier than just applying for a work visa or PR out of the gate

International student tuition is way more expensive here in Canada than it is for citizens, but I'm not sure how it stacks up against normal US tuition.

Grain of salt, everything I've said is based on anecdotes from people I know who went through it

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Glass will absorb and retain more heat for longer;steel will absorb energy and heat up more quickly, and dump it just as fast.

Which was my point - 400g of room temperature ceramic is going to absorb way more heat from 250ml of boiling water than would be lost from the glass-air (or even steel-air) interface during the 2 minutes it takes to do a pourover.

If both cones are preheated thoroughly, yes, the steel cone will shed heat faster, however I feel like this is also negligible compared to evaporative heat loss and subsequent transfer to a cup

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

stainless has ~10x the thermal conductivity of borosilicate glass

Glass has double the heat capacity, and I would assume greater mass due to thicker construction. So unless you are preheating fully to boiling temps first every time, there will be more heat loss to the glass over the course of ~1-3 minutes

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 54 points 3 months ago

lol. Did this in my old building - the dryer was on an improperly rated circuit and the breaker would trip half the time, eating my money and leaving wet clothes.

It was one of the old, "insert coin, push metal chute in" types. Turns out you could bend a coat hanger and fish it through a hole in the back to engage the lever that the push-mechanism was supposed to engage. Showed everyone in the building.

The landlord came by the building a month later and asked why there was no money in the machines, I told him "we all started going to the laundromat down the street because it was cheaper"

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 months ago

And then when you are finally hyped that season 2 is going to be packed with surfing, they announce its cancelled

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 49 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's pretty common in Canada to be able to order fries with sour cream, green onion, tomatoes, and cheese/queso. (It's the best thing on taco bells menu and they don't even have it state-side)

That being said fries are way greasier than a baked potato, and they are better suited to more acidic condiments (ketchup, malt vinegar, etc)

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 104 points 4 months ago

10 days without food hits differently when you are hiking through mountains 16 hours a day vs sitting on your couch

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 53 points 4 months ago

Literally every library with any traction in any field is MIT licensed.

If the scientific python stack was GPL, then industry would have just kept paying for Matlab licenses

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 51 points 5 months ago

For every 1 person who knows how to use the windows command line, there are 50 people struggling because they didn't embed their video into their PowerPoint, or worse, their USB stick only contains a shortcut to their actual .ppt file

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 49 points 6 months ago

English is not my native language, and I don't understand what "Have taken up farming."

It means they aren't developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 64 points 8 months ago

The plastic liners in and on tins and cans - referred to as lacquer in the industry - don't impact recycling. When the tins are heated to thousands of degrees for recycling, what is left of the plastic liner, the inks and UV materials; is separated and basically skimmed off, leaving the metal.

https://ekko.world/plastic-lining-on-beverage-food-cans/226751

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For us, probably 1 in 10-15ish say they never signed up. We also have a double opt in, meaning every single one of them opened an email and clicked a link to confirm they wanted to keep getting marketing emails

About 0.2% of people unsubscribe every time we send something out

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