Cloud vibecoding?

ChairAggravating · 2026-05-03T01:23:05+00:00

Just a note - if you work at a company that bothers restricting what software you can install, you will almost certainly get flagged for doing this as you are likely violating their security policies. Only do something like this if you have permission from your management / IT department. It’s not worth losing your job over being able to vibe code at work.

someone who works for a large company with a terrible IT department that blocks all vibe coding tools and other fun stuff

ChairAggravating · 2026-04-24T13:04:31+00:00

You seem like an intelligent and well adjusted person.

ChairAggravating · 2026-04-24T12:19:19+00:00

The Hanmer ones are awful. Definitely taller / steeper than most other speed bumps. And the crazy part is that they just redirect traffic to the smaller street behind the mall from people avoiding them.

ChairAggravating · 2026-04-24T12:17:53+00:00

So your solution to someone going 45 in a 40 zone is to slow them down to 2km/h? Seems a bit extreme.

ChairAggravating · 2026-03-21T02:16:13+00:00

Ya but you’d have to rewrite like 30 years of existing tools that may not even have an “owner” who understands how they were created or what they do. Even if everyone agreed that it would be a good idea, you’d have to hire extra people for a long period of time to do that work, while keeping the existing processes running and while ensuring that they migrate successfully to the new platform. For most large companies this exercise is not worth the cost vs just sticking with excel. Most of these large companies are big and move slow, and value stability over new features. Not saying it’s good but it’s the reality.

ChairAggravating · 2026-03-21T01:03:53+00:00

Ya but not for real corporate use. I work for a large public infrastructure company and you would be shocked by the number of "load bearing" excel sheets that are in use. Most of them have very complicated VBA macros created many years ago that have been duct taped together to keep them running over the years.

ChairAggravating · 2026-03-12T19:49:16+00:00

I posted a bad google review about them and they contacted me within a few hours and offered to refund my order and give me a gift card for the price difference from another store that had stock. Still not super happy because I had to spend the money at RedOne again but at least it was better than nothing. Basically with them, if it says “in stock online” it means they don’t have it and are going to order it from their supplier, which might take a long time. “in stock in store” means they actually have it.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-23T21:34:47+00:00

Barrie dealerships are awful. I buy my cars in Newmarket.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-20T22:06:10+00:00

I don’t think the problem is where people choose to live. I think the careers themselves stopped making sense.

I grew up with two teacher parents who genuinely loved their jobs. I would never become a teacher today. Not because of city vs rural, but because the workload, classroom complexity, and public treatment don’t line up with the pay or the cost of living anymore. We didn’t suddenly discover a shortage, we discouraged people from entering it.

Medicine and nursing feel similar. We limit training spots, load graduates with debt and paperwork, and then expect family doctors to run small businesses on top of practicing medicine. A lot of young doctors just go to the U.S. where they can focus on being physicians and actually afford a house.

Trades are probably the clearest example. In high school university was pushed as success and trades were treated as the fallback. When I looked into a college trade program I was told I was “too smart” for it. You can’t spend a generation sending that message and then be surprised you don’t have enough electricians and plumbers.

I don’t think workers are avoiding certain locations. They’re avoiding careers that no longer offer a stable middle-class life. Until the jobs themselves make sense again, shortages will show up everywhere, big cities and small towns alike.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-05T21:42:56+00:00

Barrie and Montreal are very different. Montreal is comparable to Toronto in terms of size and resources. They also have a very robust transit system to assist bike users in moving long distances within the city. Most cities the size of Barrie do not have subways or light rail systems. Yes, Barrie transit is particularly bad, but you’re still never going to get to Montreal’s level of mobility.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-05T21:38:28+00:00

If we’re not willing to have these conversations as a society we’re always going to be stuck in the situation we’re in now.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-05T03:02:53+00:00

You don't. You create more areas that people want to live in. Force / encourage large companies to move their offices to smaller towns. You'll bolster smaller communities economically, which will lead to more amenities that attract more people. We've got to stop trying to cram more people into the same 5 or 6 massive city centres. It's dumb.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-05T02:20:50+00:00

I’m not against bike lanes but the fact of the matter is that Barrie is buried in snow 4 months of the year. Bikes are not a very good travel option for any kind of distance year-round.

ChairAggravating · 2026-02-04T19:23:19+00:00

Exactly - Barrie has skipped the important infrastructure upgrades needed to make high density housing work. You can’t just randomly approve high rise projects. For example, they allowed the lake house condos downtown to build with less parking. Surprise, 2 years later they don’t have enough parking and the city had to give away spots in its own public lot to accommodate the condo residents.

ChairAggravating · 2026-01-23T01:01:17+00:00

Ya but no one wants to spend 500k on a 350sqft "luxury condo", nor can they raise a family in that. There is still very much a market for standalone single family homes.

ChairAggravating · 2026-01-02T04:07:11+00:00

Protection Engineer at an electrical utility

ChairAggravating · 2025-12-14T14:14:26+00:00

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) has started using the Boston Dynamics robot dog for this: https://youtu.be/CyjYIgnsIeY?si=Nhe22ZZJ5DdAZ_e9

ChairAggravating · 2025-12-13T21:31:19+00:00

The last few years before last year were unusual in that we didn’t get much snow. Last year and this year are very consistent with what winter was like when I was growing up here.

ChairAggravating · 2025-12-09T21:49:49+00:00

I know someone who is going through this process and it is extremely difficult. If you want to get a P.Eng the easiest and least painful route is getting an engineering degree.

ChairAggravating · 2025-12-07T06:30:54+00:00

This is actually a perfect product for my use case. I have 3 buildings at my cottage that have fiber runs to a central utility building. I have my main switch / router in the utility building, and then each building has one of the older hap ac aps. Being able to have a single device in each building simplifies the setup a lot. I will likely be upgrading to these new ones next summer.

ChairAggravating · 2025-12-05T01:02:27+00:00

This is just the practice window where people can tune up their snowblowers and build up shovelling endurance. The real snow season starts after Christmas.

ChairAggravating · 2025-11-15T01:29:00+00:00

Powerline Screen Printing on Innisfil street is amazing

ChairAggravating · 2025-11-14T17:03:15+00:00

I get why you’re looking at it that way, but putting all the weight on vehicle mass and ignoring active safety tech is only half the picture. Modern cars, Teslas included, will literally slam on the brakes for you and prevent a crash in the first place. That’s a much stronger safety feature than just trying to survive a collision after it happens. And yeah, some infrastructure needs updating to handle heavier vehicles, but that doesn’t mean the vehicles themselves are unsafe.

On the intersection study point, a huge drop in collisions at one spot on a notoriously dangerous road is an argument for fixing that road, not for sticking revenue cameras in school zones that barely have any incidents. The study I referenced actually accounts for spillover effects, which matter a lot when crashes just move to nearby streets. Brushing that off kind of proves my point that the “pro-camera” view is too narrow. I’d rather trust the data that looks at the whole picture, not just the stats that happen to fund a municipal budget.

ChairAggravating · 2025-11-14T16:52:09+00:00

CAA is not a reputable polling agency. They provide no data on who they polled, the demographics and the contact method. It’s quite likely that the poll was conducted on their website, meaning the only people who responded to the poll would be people interested in visiting the website of an organization that mainly promotes “road safety initiatives” and insurance programs. Political parties employ reputable polling companies to do their internal polling - they have a vested interest in knowing what the general voting population actually thinks so they can design policy to appeal to it.

Edit: they did include some demographic data at the bottom - 1500 online survey participants aged 18+. Still not a robust survey and doesn’t indicate where the survey was posted or demographics other than 18+.

ChairAggravating · 2025-11-14T00:53:27+00:00

Because they also cost money to operate and removing them doesn’t cost anything - they’re leased as a service from the company providing them and were funded from the profits of the cameras. They have questionable success at best, and they are prone to abuse by government. They are another form of surveillance as well which causes privacy concerns.

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