Scoundreller

then they learned how to pick/shim locks

that's why I said "kept on the lower G". If a new lower one pops up, that's a different story.

700MHz is a mixed bag for rural coverage. Great for punching through trees, but need very tall towers to overcome destructive fresnel lens losses. Higher frequencies are usually better here + more gain!

There’s always a gradual refarming of the spectrum into the next G. Usually the most penetrating frequencies (ie lowest) are kept on the lower G to maximize legacy support.

For a while I had my phone stick to 3G, which doesn’t support emergency alerts, because my jurisdiction kept sending them out for joint custody disputes at 3AM 1000km away. It was fine But the 3G became unbearable and they tightened up the alert criteria.

A lot of the “savings” in US get eaten up through poor economy, poor driving strategy and dependence on traffic lights + stop signs instead of roundabouts + “traffic from the left/right gets priority” yield-by-default junctions.

I think cost per kilometre/lightyear/rod is close

Probably doesn’t help that the ethanol that gets (increasingly) blended with gas is pretty cheap while the seed oils blended with diesel aren’t.

And the ethanol makes the fuel less valuable (energy reduction per litre) moreso than biodiesel.

Isn’t that sulfur more valuable than ever now?

> The raw cost of gas excluding pipeline and connection costs

In Ontario Canada; your gas hookup is CAD$29/month (~US$21) every month of the year, on top of a per m3 charge for delivery to you before the gas cost itself. So on a smaller or well insulated residence, capping that pipe really helps push the economics in favour of heat pumps.

https://www.enbridgegas.com/-/media/Extranet-Pages/ontario/r...

I set up a shortcut to put me into low-battery mode once I hit 95%. Works a treat.

> I think a dual modem would be really cool, maybe with some features targeting users in poor cell coverage/ spotty service areas.

Can already do iMessage over satellite. Most “data” is download and I predict some satellite service that sends basic broadcasts (traffic, news, Text-to-speech podcasts) squeezed into a few mbps by pointing your phone at the sky (or a small cabled antenna for around the clock use). Would love to go carrier-less.

How many years away are we from a cheap drone that will takeoff, land, solar recharge, repeat until it returns to you a few weeks later with a few tb of SD cards of high res imagery?

> China’s cut out amounts to 13% percent

It’s a legally selected sample too: you face restrictions/bans on enrolment in schools there unless permitted. Residing there isn’t enough.

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

So this means those products will drop in price in Canada, right?

More complete article here: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/canada...

I’m still confused about where this Canadian tequila and mescal is being made

Hard to get a gps fix indoors. My guess is to infer it from OTA tv channel IDs and relative signal strengths. Wouldn’t need a big database and the transmitters don’t move much.

See “datacasting” for data side. Would be 1-way so hard to know how many eye/ear balls get the noise; I mean; ad.

More like CAD$90 for a 4mg pen

Took wayyyy too many hours of tech support to find someone that clued in that I had an 8250 uart. A surprisingly crappy piece of hardware on an 486. and that’s why my $$$ 33.6k performed like garbage until I bought a 16550 card.

I also only learned like 5 years ago that crossover cables are unnecessary nowadays. The 10mbit one I made with a bad soldering iron worked surprisingly well.

Does the bot include the rider when identifying bicycles? When is an ebike a motorcycle/no longer a bicycle? The support structure for a traffic light or just the coloured light bits?

the bug-a-salt salt gun will never fail

or people that lived 5km from the airport and mostly stayed at home or nearby shops, but lived under a flightpath: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9027149/

or 2km away: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4318208/

Similar story from an academic that developed symptoms upon return to the US. First hospital brushed him off. Second one, got the right infectious disease doctor/professor to diagnose and treat it. Professor had as many med students/residents as he could come by to see what someone with malaria looks like. "See this man? He has malaria, don't miss it" was burned into his mind by the end.

big GLP-1 has gone a bit too far

there were other dumb factors pushing people to do border runs, like your paperwork says "expired" but your status still being valid while being processed.

Except you had zero paperwork to show to an employer and they had no way to verify themselves. Even if an employer understood the process and accepted some proof that you submitted an application, they would have no idea if you were rejected and became out-of-status.

> It's strictly better for the government to make getting benefits as hard as possible.

iunno, even when they bother to do means-testing in my jurisdiction, they exclude any slightly illiquid assets, regardless of size.

Have a paid off house (any value), paid off motor vehicle (any value) and a corporate pension plan you can start collecting in X years? No problem! You still qualify for long-term social assistance if your income is low as long as your on-paper deposits/investments are also low.

No vehicle/home/pension but your main asset is your self-funded retirement account? You gotta cash that out first. What could you possibly need that for?

I'd get it in the short-term, but the government seems to make it easiest for itself.

I'm going to get a lot of packages packed in a cat box, aren't I?

nonono, it's 3 Euro per tariff classification.

a 0.05 EUR spring, a 0.05 EUR bolt and a 0.05 EUR LED in the same package = 9 EUR fee

https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/ensuring-fa...

As a small-time Canadian ebay seller trying to pivot to not-US... it's not a good time.

What I find funny is that all of my packaging is re-used. I guess it's still "bad" that I'm sending non-EU packaging to EU, but at a global level, I'm way ahead. Re-using >>> re-cycling.

For a while (like a year+ ago), the shares were trading around cash value. But they were burning through cash. Happy it’s worked out for them!

Also in Canada. Ontario would blast the province for technically “abducted” children that were typically joint custody disputes.

There was one exception case where children were actively harmed, but already murdered by the time the alert went out. I suspect police couldn’t kick down the door where they were murdered because they didn’t have a warrant/sufficient cause yet: right to peace and privacy in your home but not on your phones!

The alerts are 4G/5G only, so for a while I had a shortcut that would downgrade me to 3G at night.

Despite everyone questioning the system being labelled as “with the child abductors”, there are far fewer of these alerts. Either abductions are way down, or they’ve tightened up the criteria to blast the province.

We need louder sirens to counteract the hearing damage caused by our old sirens.

That interpretation would require me to believe that a Canadian pays, on average, only 12% less out of pocket than an American. $2483/yr vs $2186/yr.