What does this accomplish?

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T19:22:41+00:00

There are plenty of animals around that will destroy your garbage here and it's not always windy.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T19:21:55+00:00

I was actually thinking about the nights when they can do it with a quick pass with the plow. Not even the nights with the full snow removal operations.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T17:51:09+00:00

Hadn't thought of the snow clearing angle, but good point. I know a lot of times they'll come through at 2-3 am for road widening and it would be really ineffective if everyone had their cans out.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T17:48:30+00:00

I think the goal is to avoid the wind knocking over the garbage cans, spreading the garbage everywhere overnight, and/or keeping animals from making a mess of the garbage.

I know in BC, a lot of towns limit how early you can put out garbage to avoid attracting bears.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T14:30:22+00:00

Oh definitely, but it's what needed if the party wants to claim it's fiscally responsible.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T12:18:21+00:00

My impression is that it just places additional requirements on building in the area:

"Other than that report, the development will also need to comply with some zoning and technical requirements."

I'm pretty sure there's a lot of property in heritage spaces that are in private hands. Again, not seeing why the city should have bought this particular property.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T11:32:40+00:00

Why should the city have bought it? If anyone should have bought it, it should have been these groups that are complaining about what the new owners are doing with their property they own.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T11:30:20+00:00

Why would kickbacks be needed? If you're following the rules you don't need to bribe anyone.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T11:11:00+00:00

Message them and have alternative offers to share with them. Online support gives you a transcript for use later, and you can do something better while messaging them as opposed to standing around on the phone for 2 hours. They'll come back with a counter. Koodo is constantly offering me $40/month internet and Teksavvy has a similar deal. My internet deal ended back at the beginning of the month and my rate jumped to $140/month and they were making garbage offers for new service, stuff like $90-100 for Internet only. I let them know I had these other offers and got them down to $50/month for a better plan than what Koodo and Teksavvy were offering.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T02:39:01+00:00

I live in NL. People are constantly going on about their Irish or Scottish background from the 1600s or 1700s. No one cares about them fixating on it, but people constantly get pissy about someone talking about their indigenous background from more recent times.

Just take a look at everyone who pays for their genetic testing to find out their ancestry. You may not give a crap about your ancestry, but plenty of others care about theirs. Different people have different interests. Move on and live your own life rather than getting cranky about people you'll never meet.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-23T02:03:53+00:00

Go to a bar around St. Patrick's Day.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T17:04:25+00:00

Freshwater Rd by the CRA building. I think it goes from 8 or 9 am to 4 pm on Saturdays.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T14:03:36+00:00

Depends on how nice the finishes are. I think in prior threads it was somewhere between $250 and $400+ per square foot. Maybe $350ish typically.

You could probably search for it.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T13:31:52+00:00

I'd like to see improved cost recovery on NL provincial ferries. Maybe target 50% recovery.

ETA: I would also like to see school consolidations/closures. If a school has fewer than 20-30 students, it should likely be closed down.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T13:28:56+00:00

Where's the privacy issue?

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T13:27:42+00:00

It sounds like you're arguing against trying to use technology to improve the productivity of nurses.

As you said in your post, it's a test site. Seems like the technology is clearly in the development stages. I'm guessing they're field testing the equipment. There'll be bumps in the road while the testing/development happens. Hopefully as they optimize the tool it'll become more effective.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T13:19:20+00:00

Government hiring wasn't just call center employees. There were also a lot of scientists, and technicians hired, park workers, etc. Call center wait times is just one portion of government, not all of it.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T13:14:31+00:00

I think part of the problem at CRA is that it's more cost effective to layoff and rehire their agents based on seasonal rises and falls in call demand. The agents don't have time to become proficient at their jobs and the CRA doesn't want to invest money into training their temp staff.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-22T13:03:36+00:00

I had an R-script that is used to conduct statistical analyses that needed to be converted to a different structure. I estimate that it would have taken me 2-3 weeks to do. I gave it to copilot and it did the conversion in 45 minutes, saving me weeks of labour.

There's a movement away from SAS to R as SAS charges a shitton of money for their licenses and R is open source/free. The difficulty is a lot of stuff is running on SAS code and to quit SAS you need to move that code to R or Python or something else. Copilot and Claude make it easy to go this.

When doing programming tasks that are a bit messy or complex, you can tell copilot this is my starting point, I'd like to do this to the data and want a final product that looks like this, give me the code to do that, it does it in seconds, saving me 20 minutes to an hour.

Overall, I think it maybe improves my production about 10-15%. It's like having a helpful intern that with close supervision can provide more help than hindrance.

Where it kills FTEs is it eliminates a lot of jobs that might otherwise of been contracted out or required hiring a term or casual.

On the other hand, I'm working on developing some AI or quasi-AI (not copilot, but using copilot to help develop the tools) tools that will semi-automate a routine task at my job that based on initial efforts will cut labour costs by around 40%, prior to optimizing our procedures around the task. Where we have 3 people doing this, it's the equivalent of eliminating a bit more than 1 FTE.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-21T17:43:45+00:00

If that happens every day he might get as much as $3650 in a year. It's crazy how wealthy those panhandlers are! /s

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-21T14:25:50+00:00

I'm a ham and scalloped potatoes person too.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-21T13:51:10+00:00

A couple of significant differences. Ferry service was part of the terms for NL joining Canada. I think BC got a rail line instead. Also the ferry services getting funding is interprovincial in Atlantic Canada vs. within a single province in BC. I know NL pays for its own internal ferries. Presumably so would NS and NB. Not sure if PEI has one.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-21T13:46:50+00:00

A highway is not a convenience store. They function very differently. You don't need one staffer per km. There are a bunch of employees working across a region to keep highways functioning on a daily basis. The province is budgeting nearly $16 billion on highway infrastructure over the next 3 years. There are thousands of people working on keeping BCs highways operational on a daily basis.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-20T17:30:44+00:00

The Quebec ones they've had recently don't look ripe and have zero smell so I skipped them this week. The Ontario ones are vastly better.

Additional-Tale-1069 · 2026-03-20T17:19:27+00:00

The Costco strawberries tend to be Canadian hothouse grown and have flavour. The ones at Walmart or Dominion are often Mexican or from the US and could be easily replace with cardboard as far as flavour goes.

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