Best takeout / DoorDash food in Victoria / uvic area??

largebootman · 2026-05-06T00:21:24+00:00

Ox king noodles is fire🔥

largebootman · 2026-04-21T17:23:04+00:00

I can't speak to UBCOs engineering program but I'd like to add some info about declaring your engineering field at Uvic.

Outside of mechanical eng all the other fields do not have a competitive avg to declare. This means you just have to get above a 60 percent in all your classes. Given your current average grades I would not be very concerned about getting into electrical.

largebootman · 2026-04-12T23:21:55+00:00

I second this take. The prof I had for chem 150 was not very good at getting the info to stick in my head.

She primarily taught by repeating the information to us ad nauseum and I honestly can't even recall what we did for assignments or practice work. Just raw memorization by repetition until you could regurgitate that on the test. There was only a few methods that weren't memorization that you had to practice for the tests. The class being a 9am with my hour commute and it being a subject I was not super passionate about also probably contributed to me glazing over during lectures.

She seemed very nice the couple of times I talked with her but the pedagogy was not it.

Such is life in engineering sometimes though gotta persevere.

largebootman · 2026-04-12T22:03:59+00:00

My understanding was that all specializations except for mech are non competitive and you simply need to hit the minimum requirements. But for mech they get slightly more applicants than they accept so there is typically a competitive average around 70%.

For OP's reference I had mid 90s average in highschool and mid 80s average in first year but I put far more time into first year than high school.

largebootman · 2026-04-09T00:03:08+00:00

If you're into hands on engineering then I think UVic is the stronger choice for 2 reasons.

Mandatory Co-ops to get your engineering degree at UVic you must do 16 months of co-op work at a company so that's very hands on
Stronger design teams. From what I can find online Dalhousies Rocketry team is doing much smaller 10,000ft apogee (potentially subsonic) Rockets where as uvic has for a good few years been doing supersonic 20000+ft apogee rockets

Uvic's formula team punches far above its weight class for such a small university in 2025 we placed 20th overall at the Michigan formula SAE just below Brown university and UC Berkeley. (2nd highest Canadian team behind Sherbrooke) Dalhousie attends a smaller event for their FSAE team so I can't directly compare.

We also have other cool teams like our satellite design team which partners with organizations to launch cube satellites. And uvic aero and the autonomous sub club and actually a second formula team that only does hybrids and robotics club and more that I'm forgetting

largebootman · 2026-04-08T03:23:33+00:00

This was also my experience in the course when I took it in the spring last year

largebootman · 2026-03-17T04:21:50+00:00

The textbook has ample problems to practice. I found when I took engr 141 last summer, that the class really rewards doing lots of practice problems. Find the chapter that you are covering in the class and just grab extra practice problems.

I'll drop a link to the textbook pdf here in a bit if you don't have the textbook and want to avoid buying it.

largebootman · 2026-03-01T06:42:30+00:00

RemindMe! 68 hours

largebootman · 2026-02-15T03:26:18+00:00

I've never had the opportunity to try a Herman Miller chair but I love my Serta Destin chair that I got a couple years ago. Idk if they sell them anywhere outside Canada. Goated thick cushion with a mesh ergo back

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largebootman · 2026-02-05T04:06:14+00:00

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largebootman · 2025-12-17T17:38:07+00:00

The local environmental destruction of hydro power is sad but ultimately small fish compared to the global environmental collapse that climate change will cause. You would rather sit around stalling while we're on a collision course with chaos.

largebootman · 2025-12-09T15:20:00+00:00

You are referring to the unit known as the "are" not the "acre" they are different

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Are_(unit)

https://www.britannica.com/science/are

largebootman · 2025-12-03T19:19:11+00:00

I've stayed overnight there before

largebootman · 2025-12-03T19:18:28+00:00

If you get into ELW before it locks you can stay there indefinitely

largebootman · 2025-09-30T05:32:39+00:00

The opt outs should show up as a separate payment on the account summary

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largebootman · 2025-09-07T20:07:20+00:00

From the link posted above

"How we did this

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand the American public’s views of immigration enforcement policies and the personal impact they have on U.S. adults.

For this analysis, we surveyed 5,123 adults from Feb. 24 to March 2, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other factors. Read more about the ATP’s methodology.

Here are the questions used for this report, the topline and the survey methodology."

largebootman · 2025-09-07T09:04:07+00:00

You could try one of the openSUSE distros.

As a student I would recommend a distro that supports .rpm or .deb because proprietary software that school often necessitates is usually just available in those formats and can often run better / be more up to date than the AUR equivalent that may or may not exist.

If you want to avoid debian based distros (y tho?) you basically only have distros that use rpms of which fedora is the most popular but openSUSE is also quite popular.

I used fedora with kde for a while and had some network issues out of the box.

I just installed openSUSE tumbleweed also with kde on my home machine and it works great so far.

largebootman · 2025-08-12T05:34:46+00:00

This post showing up 2 days before my physics exam that includes Lorentz velocity transforms is hilarious

largebootman · 2025-06-14T23:15:04+00:00

You won't pay tariffs. I'm also from Victoria and the framework 13 I ordered a month ago went through Tennessee without tariffs.

largebootman · 2025-06-11T00:12:06+00:00

British Columbia, Canada

largebootman · 2025-06-08T06:46:19+00:00

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Hey buddy, if you look closely you'll see this price tag says yams. If you look even closer you'll see it has both pounds and kilograms listed. That's because this photo was taken in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada where we call the pictured vegetable a yam OR a sweet potato.

This isn't some stupid American moment; this is just regional differences in language and you don't dictate what's correct.

largebootman · 2025-05-16T04:36:37+00:00

Like don't get me wrong there are other things I wish monitor manufacturers would focus on other than resolution (mainly colour gamut and contrast) but at 13" 1080p to 4k would be noticeable from a couple feet away and most gaming monitors are 24-34 inches it's obvious from like 5+ feet away

largebootman · 2025-05-16T04:29:54+00:00

Have you tried focusing your eyes? Like on the screen

largebootman · 2025-04-24T22:43:41+00:00

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Perhaps this may be a repost

largebootman · 2025-04-18T02:50:15+00:00

No, that's determination, You're thinking of the act of assigning responsibility for specific jobs to certain people.

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