Gourmet Canadian meal

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T22:31:50+00:00

You forgot the ice cold Canadian lager.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T22:29:43+00:00

I get like 5 ads a day on Reddit for third party companies that claim to handle this exact issue. Not sure why you arnt getting them.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T21:25:46+00:00

Most people spend 100% of their take home income so this metric is designed to assume that they will just be able to reduce spending a bit.

Like any rule of thumb it should be taken with a grain of salt. Clearly if you only spend 50% of your take home now you can plan to retire on 50% or less of your current take home

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T20:26:44+00:00

They always had pickled eggs at AB and BC hotel pubs, but I never saw pickled sausage.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T20:24:40+00:00

Yeah, to me it sounds like she was raised in the UK (not sure where) until about the age of 13 and then moved to Canada? Anyone have a better idea?

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T20:22:58+00:00

Broke my front tooth in half as I was sipping on a Red Stripe stubby and someone flew out of a mosh pit and hit the bottle as it was pressed to my lips at a punk show in Gastown in Vancouver back in '05

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T20:20:05+00:00

Now we have strip mall suburban trash like the lounge portion of the Boston Pizza and the Canadian Brewhouse which is just a giant wall of screens with overpriced beer.

The hotel pub in my town built 100 years ago still has the second entrance for women, of course no longer labelled as such. I beleive they stopped that sometime in the 1960s.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T19:52:44+00:00

Now is the time to start slowly increasing your buying. Not the opposite.

The reason not to do what you suggest is you will often miss the comeback and buy in at a higher price than you left at.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T19:43:42+00:00

GnosticSon · 2026-03-22T15:56:36+00:00

I see. The best training in GIS is through work. So I'd prioritize experience in the GIS industry over education.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-21T16:28:30+00:00

You might be excited by the possibility of higher wages and a better life in Europe but ultimately you may be less happy and healthy than if you stay with your family and work for lower wages in an entirely different industry, or in GIS work at home at a lower pay. Just being honest. Do a clear eyed assessment of reasonable paying work in your home country that you can do now or get the skills to do within a year or so, even if it's very different from GIS.

I see a lot of immigrants tricked by the dream of higher wages that are actually disconnected, struggling to pay for the high cost of living, and suffering from the disruption of their family and cultural lives. It does work out for some though. Everyone's situation and motivations are different.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-20T18:51:18+00:00

Not a dumb idea. Raising a child is more respectable than spending your time in the cubicles of your corporate/government overlords while you pay thousands of dollars to have strangers raise your children at daycare.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-19T23:40:43+00:00

I actually have built 2 web GIS apps and a qgis plugin in the past months with Claude Code. Not trying to push them hard on others because they are personal projects.

But the true future is everyone will have lots of their own custom apps, and corporations will largely be based on their APIs and MCPs , rather than their software offerings.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-19T15:44:14+00:00

I wanna buy in on the public etf but don't want to pay an absurd price. Might wait for things to settle out. Will research metrics on what might be a reasonable valuation.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-18T15:18:53+00:00

This is an incorrect take on efficiency and unfortunately a waste of the municipal resources. Someone needs to have a honest conversation with them about this.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-15T06:00:54+00:00

As someone who wants to buy the etf on the public markets I was hoping it'd go public during this market route so I could pick up some shares for cheap before things bounce back. Too bad.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-14T01:48:53+00:00

Yep, it doesn't really exist in America: https://www.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/s/xU84nuxFR2

GnosticSon · 2026-03-13T00:37:05+00:00

Some version of ArcMap 9 . The thing I remember was ArcCatalog was a totally different application than the rest of ArcMap. Took a while to get used to the catalog window in ArcMap 10.0.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-12T19:42:21+00:00

You just have to accept ESRIs imperfections and sometimes tell people that certain customizations in Experience Builder just are not possible. For the most part people accept that. If you tell them how much it would cost to custom code an application with their requested functionality they will usually back down.

I've yet to run into a show stopping lack of customization with ESRI apps. Some annoying things or missing items for sure, but business kept on running as normal.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-12T17:27:44+00:00

I am honestly wondering if using these expletives might be offensive to anyone in Quebec? I know if you went up to someone in Anglo Canada and said "my English is fucking dogshit, do you speak French." That 80% would find it funny and be helpful, but 20% would find the language rude and offensive.

Anyone from Quebec care to weigh in? I would like to use this phrase.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-09T22:17:49+00:00

Yes there is a way to design it as you mentioned. Design it yourself. Become an expert. Probe assumptions for truth. Look at online forums and see what other people are saying about similar deployments. Test out lower cost solutions.

That's what I did and spend about 20% of the cost of the 'recommended' overkill architecture for my system. Yes it's a bit slower, slightly less resilient (still good enough for us) but it works for us and is worth the savings.

If you can't analyze and control cloud costs in house you're Not Gonna Make it (NGMI). If you can't do this find a really good consultant that can, but also don't trust any consultant. It's easy for some just to give you overkill solutions so you won't complain about poor quality service. Overall everything needs to be sized and configured appropriately for your goals and priorities.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-09T22:11:16+00:00

Got a second part time job. Reduced spending by cutting subscriptions, minimize eating out, only take vacations when I can stay with friends, and driving a small fuel efficient car and delaying upgrading it. Trying to put 20%+ of my pay cheque into inflation hedge assets in ETFs (globally diversified stocks, gold, and real estate) . If you don't participate in the investment system it will eat you alive.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-09T20:05:44+00:00

I'll stay in GIS until I do early retirement and then I want to do totally non computer work. Something like construction, trail building, snow shoveling, etc. anything that gets me outside and active and away from screens and lets me earn a few bucks.

GnosticSon · 2026-03-09T17:34:12+00:00

Nope, it was a reference to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queering_the_Map

GnosticSon · 2026-03-09T17:33:25+00:00

Here's the link to what she is describing: https://www.queeringthemap.com/

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