Mean daily temperature range (min to max): Cochrane -19c to +24c, Edmonton -15 to +23

Growing season: Cochrane 155 days, Edmonton 123 days

Frost free days: Cochrane 99 days, Edmonton 135 days

Precipitation: Cochrane 90cm, Edmonton 42cm

Around the first world war when the area was being settled, wikipedia quotes "7 months of snow, two months of rain, and the rest black flies and mosquitos. If I had to describe Edmonton, it would be 6 months of winter, one month of rain (June), 2 months of mosquitos, and 10 months of sun.

If I had to guess, the frost free days is a big factor. Even though Edmonton is further north, we benefit from the jet stream coming over the mountains and largely keeping the arctic air mass away from us. The jet stream tilts further south into the US by the time you get over to Ontario so Manitoba and Northern Ontario can get some bitterly cold winds.

For a machine like a 3d printer, I would choose 80/20. For some lightweight shelves, EMT conduit or wood. So I see this product almost as a wood replacement rather than a 80/20 replacement.

Will Prowse on youtube I think has some videos comparing and contrasting the different units for this purpose.

Running is a much quicker way to burn calories. I hate running. :)

I agree, there's probably a good reason I'm not dictator of Alberta. Several reasons, actually. Something something dehumanizing people something..

What works for monitoring in other basins is obviously insufficient for the oil sands, so it's good to see the federal government funding these sorts of studies. It will likely lead to better monitoring and reporting regulations, but the Alberta government will likely scream that a Trudeau is trying to f** us over once again. The last time in the 80s was plain protectionism, while this is protectionism for a much better reason.

I love my province, but man, are we stupid sometimes.

The oil produced mostly gets shipped to the US, where we sell it at a discount because it's crappy quality. This in turns helps the US pollute more but save dollars in the process. Oil sands oil makes up about 14% of US oil consumption.

If I was dictator of Alberta, I wouldn't do anything to stop production, I would just make a law that any production energy has to come from renewable, non-carbon sources. It would generate a frenzy of research and development that hasn't been seen since the industrial revolution as people pant and salivate at all that money sitting in the ground. :)

I eventually decided I wouldn't work for oil companies any longer. If they want to do it, they'll have to do it without me. It has led me down a fun career path of working for companies I only dreamed about working for when I was in school.

Energy statistics by a partisan group, so numbers might be biased: https://sustainablesociety.com/research-material/oil-sands/

Energy stats worldwide: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

It's a wild read: https://zaufanatrzeciastrona.pl/post/o-trzech-takich-co-zhak...

It appears to be malicious code included by the manufacturer to prevent third party repair that at one point included geolocation for triggering. Given that the train operator had to reduce train schedules for this which impacted service and income, it might end up as evidence in a lawsuit against the manufacturer at some point.

The electrician may have been referring to the 16 amp connector specifically being too close to the charging current.

https://cirosantilli.com/feynman-was-a-huge-womanizer-during...

You could add some smarts to the server or reverse proxy that delays starting work in case a cancellation request quickly arrives. This is probably part of the mitigation work they refer to in the article.

X and Wayland has had fractional scaling for a long time, but getting apps updated to pay attention to it is moving at the speed of Open Source.

edit: found an updated tariff document https://www.sainthelena.gov.sh/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/ST... . I don't see anything special for commonwealth countries so it's probably a thing of the past.

It seems like AWS spent time, people and money to migrate customers off EC2 classic. They made a fairly good effort to automate the process and make it less painful for customers. For example: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/ssm-migrate-ec2classic-v...

The original network was from an everyone-on-the-same-subnet model to a you get your own subnet, so yes, customer applications could break in the process. People do all sorts of non-smart things for good reasons, like hardcoding an ip address in /etc/hosts when a nameserver is down. And then they forget to change it back. To do these sorts of migrations well requires a sort of stick and carrot approach. The stick, which is we want to shut down this service and will eventually refuse you service, and the carrot, which includes automation, reminders that people need maintenance windows for their applications, clear directions, and above all, willingness to deal with people and actually talk to them.

"The guests feel struck with awe in that dining-room, and solemnly bolt their food as quickly as they can. You hear less noise in an American hotel dining-room containing five hundred people, than you do at a French table d’hôte accommodating fifty people, at a German one containing a dozen guests, or at a table where two Italians are dining tête-à-tête."

The author clearly has a ranking of how much each nationality speaks while eating :)