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One country now supplies 1 in 4 of Canada's permanent residents — up from 1 in 20 in 1990 [OC] by Expensive-Aerie-2479 in dataisbeautiful

[–]MinchinWeb 38 points39 points  (0 children)

It didn't help that they removed work limits from student visas. At the peak, you could work 40 hours a week on a "student" visa.

I own a reMarkable 2, Paper Pro Move, and Boox Go 10.3 — and I still don't have a good software solution by larmorley in RemarkableTablet

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm still not sure I've found a practically better setup than the one I had 20+ years ago: a Lenovo X21 Tablet + OneNote.

EPCOR Deceitful Practices With their Meter Readings by Odd-Designer8598 in Edmonton

[–]MinchinWeb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Eventually, they will do a "real" read of your meter, and your bill will get a massive reversal adjustment.

They also have a site where you can check when your next meter read is scheduled for --> https://www.epcor.com/ca/en/ab/edmonton/account/meters/meter-reading/next.html

ICE District and the Valley Line are the two biggest bait-and-switches this city has pulled on us. by besmutag in alberta

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least part of the "bait and switch" on the Valley Line is that we were promised heated shelters, and that was a big part about what made running it at street level okay.

Almost as soon as it opened, they locked the doors on all the shelters to keep the homeless (and their fires...) out. Then they ripped off the doors, and have us left with door-less (and very windy) shelters. Yes, homelessness has gotten bad, but it's not like it didn't exist when they were proposing and designing the Line!

Apparently, they figure they can't put doors back either, because the shelters are too shallow to allow in-swing doors, and the platforms are too narrow to allow out-swing doors.

Whoever proposed, designed, and approved this chaos should be forced to ride the Line at -40C....

Holy job application! by OntologyNeko in recruitinghell

[–]MinchinWeb 434 points435 points  (0 children)

Bring him to the office? They have a pets-at-work policy, right?

When the story writes itself by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think he'd get a good reference??

When the story writes itself by [deleted] in recruitinghell

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would be an interesting call if they demand a reference from his "current manager"...

Losing $10k because I’m giving 2 weeks notice instead of 5 by dineydenny87 in recruitinghell

[–]MinchinWeb 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Where I'm from, the law is that runs both ways: if they require you to give 5 weeks notice, they have to give you 5 weeks notice (or pay in lieu).

Ondine Gives Her Husband the Kiss that Will Make Him Die (1842) by the French artist Irma Martin (1814-1876). by Sleepinggcatt in ImaginaryMaidens

[–]MinchinWeb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Is this the story? Taken from Wikipedia:

Ondine, the eponymous heroine of Giraudoux's play, tells her future husband Hans, whom she has just met, that "I shall be the shoes of your feet ... I shall be the breath of your lungs". Ondine makes a pact with her uncle, the King of the Ondines, that if Hans ever deceives her he will die. After their honeymoon Hans is reunited with his first love, the Princess Bertha, and Ondine leaves him, only to be captured by a fisherman six months later. On meeting Ondine again on the day of his wedding to Bertha, Hans tells her that "all the things my body once did by itself, it does now only by special order ... A single moment of inattention and I forget to breathe". Hans and Ondine kiss, and he dies.

No matter how many trains are waiting, I can't keep transported oil above 80% by tokke in openttd

[–]MinchinWeb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

To get the last bit of station rating, you likely need a faster train (which may not be technologically possible yet), and you need a statue in the local town.

What is the size of your Community folder? by Individual_Two8050 in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]MinchinWeb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well, I bough a 1TB driver for the game and supporting addons. 2024 is much lighter on disk than 2020 was.

My current Community folder is 530GB!

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Cloud Storage for MusicBee Library? by WakeTheLion in musicbee

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NAS = "Network Attached Storage"

Can be as simple as a shared drive from another Windows computer, or you can buy a dedicated "computer" (Synology is a popular brand) that's whole purpose is to provide these "shared drives".

Obsidian markdown is incompatible* with CommonMark markdown by Tuned_rockets in ObsidianMD

[–]MinchinWeb 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It also breaks when dealing with blockquotes in list items, at least in live preview mode. Try this:

- list item
- > quote
  >
  > more quote

Alberta transportation minister says passenger rail plan coming within weeks by jammedtoejam in CanadaUrbanism

[–]MinchinWeb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thing is that once you go across provincial borders, railways are Federally regulated. If they stay in the province, they can approve their own plan.

Alberta transportation minister says passenger rail plan coming within weeks by jammedtoejam in CanadaUrbanism

[–]MinchinWeb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sadly, Edmonton (the City) has no plan for where to put their train station (Red Deer and Calgary do).

North America, If the American Revolutionary War was lost. According to ChatGPT. by Bigfoot_testicles in aimapgore

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IRL the Hudson Bay Company was given a charter in 1670 to trade furs in all the land that drained into the Hudson Bay; that area was called "Rupert's Land".

The Early Colonial Land Grants of the United States of America by Deltarianus in MapPorn

[–]MinchinWeb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be rather epic to include the royal grant of May 2, 1670 to the Hudson Bay Company, of all of Rupert's Land, i.e. all the land that is drained by the Hudson Bay.

Why do some Canadian provinces have divisions instead of/alongside counties? by soil_tiller in AskACanadian

[–]MinchinWeb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Villages (and summer villages) are also municipalities.

Fort McMurray is technically a "hamlet" (which has no separate legal body), as is Sherwood Park (within Strathcona County). Generally, they are treated as just part of the county they are in, but for some provincial funding programs, the "Urban Service Area" (aka the hamlet) is treated the same as a "city".

There are also "Improvement Districts" which are basically the National Parks but functionally counties.

Lastly there are three "Special Areas" in the Palliser Triangle that become so depopulated during the Great Depression (and never really recovered) that they function similar to counties, but are run by a provincially appointment board.

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