#SoftwareGore

Sure, he's not Sam Bankman Fried. That said he headed the SEC during a deregulatory period that finished with the 2007-8 crisis.

The collapse is the point. They hope the pain will trigger a regime change.

Barry Eidlin, who studies the history of labour movements, told The Gazette that those interventions have set an expectation that the minister would intervene again, weakening Canada Post’s incentive to bargain with the union.

Yeah, this is what anyone paying attention thinks.

• Zigbee > WiFi
  • Zigbee is a mesh, it's more reliable, it's low power so it allows for battery powered devices
• Z-wave
  • Perhaps even more reliable than Zigbee due to using a different spectrum

Home Assistant can run Zigbee and Z-wave radios simultaneously. I have two. Then you can pick devices from a wider range of vendors and models. When considering smart plugs, keep in mind that most have relays rated for non-inductive loads. Motors are generally inductive loads. I'm not sure if computer power supplies with their big capacitors would cause similar problems or not. If you want to be able to plug anything without thinking, make sure the plug you buy says its rating is valid for inductive loads. I have some units from Zooz which qualify. My IKEA ones definitely do not. Philips don't either but they've survived switching some ductwork fans for a few years.

I landed in Canada a full decade after that and still heard about them.

I'm just baffled by how many multi-billion dollar boondoggles this government has racked up over the years and they just roll off of them. I still remember the screams about the 1 billion dollar gas plants Ontario Liberal scandal for years and years.

This is an improvement, right?

Should have played Black Mesa instead of HL. It's everything HL is but better. It was incredible even having played HL back in 1998. I recommend people who've never played HL to just do BM.

As a lifelong Half-Life fan, I really liked some of Frictional Games' titles. I liked Penumbra a lot and I think Soma was an absolute masterpiece. It's at a level similar to Half-Life for me. If you don't know anything about it, don't read, don't watch. Install and play.

Good luck enforcing that. Delivery riders won't just poof out of existence in a cloud of smoke.

Yeah:

As to who will enforce the ban, Myers said that has not yet been decided. Instead, the TTC says it will focus on public education.

“I know we already have trouble enforcing the bike ban during rush hour, so this will be another layer on top of that,” the chair said, referring to the agency’s bylaw prohibiting bikes on TTC vehicles during peak hours.

https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/2024/12/03/ttc-board-approves-winter-ban-on-e-bikes-and-e-scooters/

Mind you garbage variety ebike lithium batteries are a problem. They're large in capacity and because of that can cause significantly worse fires than your typical laptop battery. Just a simple comparison - a typical laptop battery has 6-9 cells (18650). The typical ebike battery starts at 36 and can go as high as 50-60 of the same cells.

Unfortunately until we stop the unregulated drop shipping from China under LETTERSOUP brands on Amazon and such, we won't be able to solve this. Well executed lithium batteries are extremely safe. Chinese manufacturers make many of those. Unfortunately they cost more so that's typically not what's installed on $1000-1500 LETTERSOUP ebikes. The federal government has to come up with some regulation on what's allowed to be imported. Trying to solve this downstream is more difficult and it puts people who don't know any better or can't afford any better at odds with such measures. It shouldn't be on individual people to avoid buying the expensive fire hazards.

Your reaction makes perfect sense. Been there too many times. It's completely insane that some people feel their car's integrity is somehow equal or more important than the integrity if your body. I'd only keep my mouth shut if I lived in a country / area where guns are prevalent. You don't know whether the psychopath is armed and crazy or not. In either case, I might simply confront them with:

"No, I did not hit your car, you hit me with your car. What's your name and insurance policy? I might need those if the pain gets worse and I need medical attention?"

Greater Canada