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I get it in the mornings here in Vancouver, BC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfvMU36fgKw

Same effect, Marilyn Monroe / Albert Einstein

My bet is Broken Social Scene.

lcwo.net is a great resource for this... however the best way is to get on the air talking to people.

I just had my first CW contact with someone in Australia from BC - using a 10W radio. It's great fun!

Seems like everyone's shutting down radio services. CHU and Weather radio in Canada too :(

If you want a challenge, try https://lirdle.com/

One letter per line is a lie.

Cold is fine - solar panels perform better the lower the temperature.

That's what makes Calgary ideal for solar.

I just need to know what happens to our 9am standups in Vancouver when the other team is in SF. If I'm doing the math correctly it moves to 10am.

Also, I've often picked a random city in Pacific time when setting timezones on hosts, so I guess it's going to cause me some headaches in the fall.

The dose makes the poison. Warfarin is prescribed as a blood thinner for humans.

After watching Disclosure Day with my kids, we had an interesting conversation on the way home - what would it take for you to believe that aliens are real and visting Earth?

With the advancement of image and video generation, I think I'd have to see one in person!

Niacin works well as an 'active placebo'.

It's my favourite slime mold. Just by the name you can instantly recognize it.

I asked it to use geomorphology to help me find lakes nearby that would have thriving trout populations, and it bumped me down to Opus. :-/

For me it was when Facebook sent the C&D order about the Whopper Sacrifice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whopper_Sacrifice

A modern station list is available here: https://short-wave.info/

I 100% agree with having inspections if you're grid tied. You don't want your system energizing the neighbourhood when the power goes out!

The MPPT solar controller.

MidNite has a sizing tool for this: https://www.midnitesolar.com/sizingTool/

It's fairly easy and there are a lot of forums around with knowledgeable people.

My main issue was ensuring wire gauges were correct. One's intuition about dealing with house wiring @15A changes when you're dealing with 50A circuits. Also you need to pay attention to things like equal cable lengths between battery banks so you don't overcharge one battery in a series.

However, I'm dealing with an off-grid cabin so I don't need to deal with any grid-tie circuitry, which would make it much more difficult and I'd definitely get an electrician for that.

The "Sunshine" Coast of BC.

Right now we're limited by the charging capacity of the inverter/charger. It can only do 50A in from an external solar controller. In hindsight I should have gone with a 48V inverter/charger to get twice the power going in. On a sunny day we're maxing it out at 1200W for several hours at a time.

I just upgraded the solar system at my family's off-grid cabin. It's incredible how much battery technology has improved over the last 10 years.

Everyone is getting tired of me checking the panel to see how many watts we're bringing in.

Next project, install a shunt and get a Raspberry Pi talking to it over USB. And then I'll be able to build a Grafana dashboard. :)

Interesting. In Canada they only accept Mastercard in store.

An example is airbag safety. With modern airbags, they have more sensors, and are able to inflate faster, causing less whiplash, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWmONHipVo

MythBusters have a good BLEVE episode. Apparently Adam Savage's favourite explosion.

There's the trusdx or the QMX.

Other countries are in a Catch-22 situation regarding Cuba - for example in Canada, Canadian law penalizes companies that refuse to trade with Cuba in order to comply with U.S. sanctions, and U.S. law can penalize them if they do trade.

All thanks to a Shakespeare fan, Eugene Schieffelin.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article...

The Warsaw Uprising Museum is an excellent place to visit if you're into WWII history.

My Polish coworkers say that's due to the senior citizens stuck in a Soviet occupation mindset, and they're doing things like burning plastic trash to heat their homes.

I really enjoyed Warsaw in December, the air seemed fine to me.

TIL how the Toyota hybrid system works. That's really cool!

Now I kind of want to use one in a sailboat - hook up MG2 to the propeller and a little diesel to the engine input.