The time products spend on the shelves of a 'Canadian' Tire is just a layover on the way to the landfill.
nik282000
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China is building >30 new reactors, as many as all other countries combined, because coal is more suited to metallurgical applications than electrical production. Canada should be doing the same, build a baseload of nuclear and hydro with variable demands covered by renewables. If you want to pick a fossil fuel boogieman look at the US, Russia, and the middle east.
Canada has a stupid problem, the willfully stupid are not only tolerated but encouraged. Being stupid by choice should be publicly embarrassing, expensive and painful.
Only noticed because a place I support stopped responding to pings and I got a message. Thanks again bell for having lower standards than a hobby admin.
Feelings man weak, oil cowboy strong!
The majority of asshole pickup truck owners are men, and Poilievre ran political ads that looked like they were selling an F150. This isn't a mystery, the conservatives appeal to men who think they are being oppressed by "The Woke," and that is not a message that is going to ring true with a lot of women.
The new buildings will be north of the existing neighbourhood, this is just NIMBY.
It's on the north side of the houses and will between the neighbourhood and a highway. If anything it will be quieter after the towers go in.
It's been going on for years. Tim Hortons, with some of the loudest "Canadian" branding, had been owned by Pepsi (via Restaurant Brands International) for over a decade.
This is already the case. Canadian media corps do not help Canadian artists, Like every other media corp their job is to siphon wealth away from talented people, except in Canada they hide behind fake national pride.
There are loads of Canadian movies and TV shows that are not available to stream or even buy on disk. If you're lucky you can get a used DVD on eBay. This media is lost, no one will get to enjoy it and paying Bell more will not bring it back.
Or, I can continue to use the internet in such a way that neither our, nor the US government, can track or limit my media consumption.
Warning there are some tall-ass images in this post.
A few years ago I got mad enough at the temperature gradient in my town house that I designed and build a bunch of ESP8266 sensors to feed data into an RRD so that I could have some pretty graphs to be angry about as well. (As of this week I have also started logging stats from my UPS and server.) Using the minimum of HTML and CSS I threw those graphs, a map of the previous day's incoming network traffic, and some convenient links onto a homepage that I use on all of my devices. At a glance this tells me if the furnace/AC is working, if my server is having a fit for unknown reasons, and if the local power grid is playing it fast and loose with the voltage and frequency (which I suspect they do).
Clicking the temperature/humidity data leads to a long term data page covering 2 years of data in varying resolution. The gap last fall was when the garage sensor failed and I was waiting for Aliexpress.
There are also long term trends for the server load and UPS but they have only been logging for a few days so there is not much to look at.
Clicking the map on the home page leads to a text file containing a summary of all incoming traffic to apache and ssh. The ssh server is on a high port number and doesn't see much traffic but occasionally a persistent bot will find it.
Everything but my landing page (this animation in p5.js https://old.reddit.com/r/cellular_automata/comments/1djwjbu/waves_processingorg/ with the text "Hey this isn't where I parked my car" overlayed) is behind basic auth or better and I have push notifications set up for every ssh login (even my own), in 5 years I have never had a successful login from an attacker, this is not an invitation, have mercy.
All the data is gathered with python scripts and stored in RoundRobinDatabases or, in the case of network data, digested down into a CSV. The climate sensors respond to requests on port 80 with the temperature and humidity separated by a comma to allow for easy polling. The map is generated by looking up the IPs' information on Shodan then plotting the location data if it was present.
Absolutely none of this is the ideal solution, there are existing projects that cover literally every aspect plus a dozen extra features I could never hope to implement. I wrote as much as I could from scratch just to see if I could, it's more fun to drive a shitty car that you built than one you bought from the dealer.
Aaaand I accidentally made the UPS database only 24hrs instead of the 10years I had intended. Lucky for me rrdtool has a function to expand an rrd without wiping out the data!
Using a vinyl cutter and mini-sand blaster I made some alternate universe corporate schwag! I like the idea that someone might have swiped these during an interview before both companies had their 'accidents.'
I was given an Ender 3 Pro last week and after a few bumps managed to successfully CAD, slice and print a booster seat for my phone. The caddy as it was would grab the volume down button on my phone, this little wedge solves the issue!
I found a box of CD-Roms and floppy disks in my mum's basement and damnit, I want to play them! I could use emulators, DosBox or VMs but it's never quite the same as having the real thing, so between an eBay mobo and a box of old parts I managed to build my new gaming rig to cover 1990-2005.
Its running a P3 at 1GHz, 512MB of ram, and an ATI Xpert98 with 8MB of memory. As I didn't want to run an old IDE drive with a million hours on it, I tried an SATA-IDE adapter, it caused some issues during the install but that just felt like the standard Windows experience.
Though unpopular, I went with ME for 2 reasons, the first was Dos support, the second is that I went from W95 to ME as a kid, 98 wouldn't have felt the same. The install bricked twice with video drivers but I finally got it up and running with the default drivers and an 18" Samsung flat CRT (runs up to 1600x1200 at a nauseating 60hz).
So what were your favorite games from the 90's and early 2000s?
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Management doesn't want to pay more people.