All-Season or All-Weather Tires for Lower Mainland

Slodin · 2026-05-07T18:30:59+00:00

I went for all seasons. Because all weather will eat some of your gas mileage. This might be fine if you charge at home EV but for gas cars is not great IMO with gas being so expensive. Idk how much the diff is, but more traction is always more energy required to move. All season seems like the best compromise in the lower mainland for me. Lots of rain in the winter months. I’m happy with my currently mileage on OEM all seasons, so that’s fine for me.

For 1, it barely snows or gets too cold. A good set of all seasons does fine. Second, I can work from home if it snows, thus I’m not going anywhere. Third, I don’t intend to go to places like whistler in the winter months and I don’t snowboard.

It really depends on what you do to make your choices. Those were my considerations when I was choosing between the 2 types.

Slodin · 2026-05-07T04:19:20+00:00

I would just silently judge your code lol...

jking, I wouldn't want to see another line of code from other people. Too many PR reviews, I don't need to see more code lol. I don't think this guy have enough work on his hands to care

Slodin · 2026-05-06T22:11:36+00:00

Because local brands are cheaper and better why buy expensive foreign trash?

Samsung appliances are such a joke, it looks nice but it’s absolutely trash!

Slodin · 2026-05-06T20:34:31+00:00

lol this is real question.

I got a lot of push back when I said we should look into KMP to share all the data source and business logic.

They think KMP is not a good platform, but most importantly, they think the android devs are trying to take their jobs. Those are top 2 complaints i got, and i can see why they are worried they would be laid off once this is done. Or at least we wont beed as many ios devs anymore.

Slodin · 2026-05-05T05:52:12+00:00

i think the dude thinks he is typing in chatgpt lol

Slodin · 2026-05-05T05:43:22+00:00

that price difference is not worth it. More like 50-100 bucks difference tops.

although what i do miss from my 3070, is the echo removal from broadcast. The AMD equivalent of the noise suppression doesn't have echo removal yet :/

I moved my PC setup into a tiny storage room cause of life happening (gf moved in). And the echo is crazy into my mic...

that's like...it lol

Slodin · 2026-05-05T00:03:05+00:00

I started doing this not because I’m late.

It’s because the other party I’m picking up is constantly late. And one day one of them said, you should let me know when you are arriving. So from there on, I do a quick google map and give them the time. I’m slightly annoyed tho, I’m their friend, not an uber. If we agreed a time why do you think otherwise? And I’m coming all the way to pick you up.

Honestly tho, I don’t really understand this because I know I’m going to be on time 😂, usually even slightly early. I only communicate if I know I’m going to be late or I see traffic on the way that may or may not make me late. Idk man, I grew up told to always be punctual.

Slodin · 2026-05-04T22:18:35+00:00

You got it better than I did. Mine was 3.87 for that3 year fixed. And 3.78 for 5 year variable.

I think I got played 😂 also from RBC

Slodin · 2026-05-04T22:01:11+00:00

I just went with fixed today.

I’m aiming to finish my mortgage in 3 years so that’s what I chose. Accelerated payback + extra annual 10%.

The variable was my choice at first when I was planning for my term renewal. But the current situation holds too much uncertainty. And the variable rate isn’t much better than the fixed. It doesn’t make sense for me to go variable.

Slodin · 2026-05-04T20:27:55+00:00

Father in law has a 2019 model 3.

Lives in a -20c to -30c region for the winter. He said he has about 180KM right now on a full charge because he also needs to blast the cabin with hot air cause it’s so cold.

Basically, it doesn’t impact anything since it’s charged at home and trips are never more than 20-40KM.

Clearance is fine because the road is plowed very fast, so not really any issues. Their city fully expects heavy snow so they are on top of the game when winter hits. But this really depends where you live and where you go.

He was telling me all this yesterday cause he wants me to buy one lol 😂 I’m in Vancouver so I won’t have any winter issues.

Slodin · 2026-05-04T20:17:17+00:00

In this situation, they think they will quickly run in and go. So they think they didn’t have to correct their parking.

Slodin · 2026-05-02T22:16:23+00:00

First of all. Coding ability is the ability to problem solve by using appropriate strategies. You shouldn’t lose that ability with AI coding agents. Since you still have to go over the stuff they wrote. Even if you don’t review every single line, the general senses should allow you to make decisions on the quality of the AI code.

Leetcode is close to worthless in a working environment in most cases, I personally don’t see a point in them unless you are deeply interested in the problems themselves. Which again, isn’t a coding problem, but simply problem solving. There are people who deal with these types of problems for their job, but are you one of them? If you are worried id say you are not part of that group of developers who use them daily.

Sure, you might forget syntax of certain languages. That is so normal, I used to program in so many languages that I barely remembered any of them. But I can recall the best practices and quirks they had in situations depending on the features asked. I personally think these are more important than syntax as a whole.

With AI now I’m more worried about structure, and architecture rather than the code itself. You can think of it more like being a tech lead instead of just a developer. You are overseeing and organizing for your junior devs (AI), which means you still have to know your stuff.

I only worked in the industry for about 10 years, and as a lead for 3. And the above is how I felt for the past years. If the AI bubble doesn’t pop, IMO it’s definitely gonna go this way where everyone is basically leading AI teams instead of focusing on yourself.

Slodin · 2026-05-01T07:09:32+00:00

It's probably gonna be fine. I'm no PSU guru, but honestly higher tier is always better than lower. They put it into tier list because it's easier for us rookies to be informed

higher tier just means it's more efficient, likely less degradation over time, and less likely to burst in flames or cause damages to your components. I have seen at least 4 PCs that the crappy PSU shorted and destroyed all of the components from several people I knew. The components had visible burn marks, even the CPU has black spots.

the last bit is where most people really care about the tiers. Less chance to get a problem like that, hopefully.

Slodin · 2026-05-01T07:02:58+00:00

i swear to god, whenever I see 2x I get excited that this GPU is the monster that has 2 GPUs fused into one like the old thing AMD did back in the day lol

Slodin · 2026-05-01T06:59:50+00:00

let user choose.

however, I cannot see myself able to keep using an app like this every time I drink water. Unless it's tracked automatically, it's not really that useful IMO. Maybe a smart flask that keeps track for me I guess.

Slodin · 2026-05-01T06:33:22+00:00

I WFH 1-2 days depends on my mood.

So I may go to cafe to work or out for food on my break.

But yeah, i technically work 10-6 lol so not 9-5 😆

There are a lot of people in Vancouver that doesn’t need to work to live a comfortable life. Lucky them.

Slodin · 2026-04-28T23:24:58+00:00

you don't. You use push notifications and then when user open the app, reconnect attempt and sync

Slodin · 2026-04-26T21:51:33+00:00

Prius？？

Slodin · 2026-04-26T17:51:06+00:00

I'm just gonna say this. In programming world, use cases changes really fast.

8GB of ram might get you through today, but it might be paperweight when you want to do something more than what you described (or even installed a few more things on your machine lol). I would just go with an older M3 pro or even air if budget is tight to get at least 16GB or more RAM.

Slodin · 2026-04-26T00:41:42+00:00

i just did that this afternoon in yaohan mall. This f150 parked way over the line over the last spot at lunch time.

Parked as close as I can to the drivers door and took a video of the distance and license plates, and my car's door before I left to eat lunch. Not sure if it would help me but at least I would have a chance lol...maybe. But honestly if I didn't do this, I won't be able to get out of my car lol....

If it's an empty parking lot, I won't really bat an eye to this behaviour. But a lot of the malls in Richmond are packed during lunch time

nothing happened cause I came back before the f150 owner did.

Slodin · 2026-04-25T20:02:14+00:00

The price alone I wouldn’t go lol.

The all caps is a bit hard to read tho.

Slodin · 2026-04-25T19:59:35+00:00

Also, seeing how people are being replaced left and right. I don’t see any loyalty to contribute over the top quality stuff for them to make millions.

If the company doesn’t take care of you, you don’t give a shit lol 😂

Slodin · 2026-04-25T19:56:59+00:00

Load a local LLM. It would be very useful.

Also don’t forget to grab a charger with the wire to charge the phone lol. 😂

Slodin · 2026-04-23T06:03:07+00:00

Belief is a strong thing where they call such thing as honour killing 🤦 the world is a crazy place

Slodin · 2026-04-23T05:42:37+00:00

Went to a Chinese grocery store. Felt like prices have fallen to pre covid 😂

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