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Quebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company

No. I imagine they are less sensitive and generally stay online and are only de-energized if the utility has an outage

They taxes vacancies so vacancies went down - but that doesn’t mean that someone who was happy keeping their property empty put it on the market and found some random tenants with all of the hassles that entails - you can never get rid of them as the laws strongly favour tenants. So you lose control of your “property”

Instead they find someone in their network, like a friend or friends adult child that is studying who can stay there and they pay a trivial rent to “take care of the house”

Prices in the condo market have fallen.

Some buyers that bought pre sale say at 700k maybe put down 120k and now the units are worth 600k and can only get a mortgage for 600k, have to come up with the extra 100k.

Lots of the supply is tiny condos that are not as desirable as a house for having a family.

the clamp down on Airbnb has also hurt the market for these tiny condos.

Also canada reduced the rate of immigration so demand isn’t increasing as quickly. The population of British Columbia decreased.

A hotel in Vancouver for a night in the summer is $400+

Patents expire

Patents are difficult to enforce internationally

Where would coke be if the recipe was patented instead of trade secret ?

Hydro electric as a resource is probably mostly exploited - are there a lot of big hydro projects left to build? If there are they must be difficult or expensive or they would have already been built.

Do you have a source for this? I constantly point out that several cloudy days in a row often happens but am rebutted with graphs of the declining costs of solar modules and batteries

Seems crazy to build an expensive factory and then cheap out on the power source so it can only run when it is sunny out

They certainly turned away from socialism and towards capitalism though, I think as part of embracing capitalism. What parts of the economy are not capitalist? State owned companies? In Canada and the US there are many protected or subsidized companies as well. Genuinely curious on the differences on owning a company in China vs canada

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10 year warranty on appliances instead of 1 would show the manufacturer was serious about quality !

Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive

Power generation is largely automated !

A partly cloudy or partly sunny day produces some insane changes in output without a battery system to smooth them out

There is a limit to the size of the instantaneous increases and decreases in generation that the other generators on the grid can compensate for

It is a tax efficient way to return profits to share holders

In Toronto there is only daylight for 9 hours in winter

Yes surely some days are cloudy

So some days you get 5% capacity factor, and need some other energy source as well

So it harms the economics of the venture

Look at the profitability of companies building utility scale solar farms, they cost 100 million and the company hopes to get a 10% return and pay a 3% dividend.

They still have to contend with moving parts for tracking the angle of the sun, fans on inverters, contactors, clearing snow, mowing grass, site drainage, tornadoes etc, so sometimes it is not as easy as it sounds

All for a 7%? Why shouldn’t they just buy the s&p 500 and call it a day

I am sure Elon can launch some type of space based directed energy beam and use it to intercept missiles and drones.

What country will you go to? I’m leaning towards mexico

By default, all devices hit your main gateway through the wildcard CNAME. But you can override any individual device by creating a specific A record. Need to debug a misbehaving unit? Point it to your local development gateway. Rolling out to a new region? Route EU devices to Frankfurt without touching the firmware. Moving a customer to a dedicated cluster? Update one DNS record

Great idea !

As for what's causing the gains, there have been a lot of low-level optimizations and enhancements to various Linux kernel data structures and the like this cycle. Offhand that's perhaps the possible explanation but will be interesting to test on more hardware and other configurations as time allows. In any case, with every PostgreSQL read/write workload tested there were decisive performance gains for Linux 7.0 on this AMD EPYC 9755 server.

The article says it was a mechanical issue that forced the gear up landing?

I’ve had to add more confirmations as people connect remotely using VNC and accidentally click buttons which then have real world actions.

To catch them all it logs the user out so buttons which affect the process are disabled, but now it can be annoying to be logged out after x minutes and always logging in.

Transformers and turbines of any significance are not off the shelf parts and can have lead times of years

Where is that?

I still have two 2013 era t430s, one with windows 7 and one with windows 10. When browsing the web they barely feel any slower than my corporate supplied t14 gen 2 or p1 gen 6 both with windows 11 now. I guess that’s the price of security.

Is your windows 11 home edition or managed by corporate IT?

What model laptop, how much, and where did you buy from? I’m looking for a Linux laptop

Everybody learned somehow. I wonder what % of programmers actually have relevant training and education in programming vs just taught themselves with online resources.

Maybe the amateurs aren’t going to be writing a new distributed database but CRUD apps must be easier than ever

They’re not all going to get their own boat and captain hat

Why not? Anyone can load up Claude code and start trial and erroring until they get something that works and has similar reliability to accepted software … what is the stat about 1 bug per 10 lines of code on average?

I am meeting a lot of non coders telling me about their projects they are getting AI to do for them, stuff to help land title something or other, stuff to work on avalanche forecast, whatever their area of expertise they are unchained and writing programs using AI that they couldn’t before.

Everyone is the captain now

Where in Canada?

Allegedly hackers were pilfering Nortel starting around year 2000

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/nortel-hit-by-suspected-chi...